Single Player Cluster?

[Distance Of Shadows]

Haven't properly played Ark in over a year because of Uni and stuff, but recently I've been watching Syntac on YouTube and enjoying his cluster series where he can freely travel between maps without dropping his inventory, which is awesome, looks like more fun and a great way to enjoy replaying Ark and everything it has to offer.

Is there a way to do this on single player by changing some settings or installing a mod, or is Ark Cluster a server only thing?

I know I could just put my stuff and any dino's that are following me, into the obelisk, wake up naked and then go to the obelisk to retrieve my stuff but that's tedious and on some maps there's a possibility of death.

[Humpenstilzchen]

This is not possible as far as I know and I would recommend using cryopods, because when you upload dinos at the obelisk in sp they often bug out and you loose them, at least for me this has appened countless times. So put dinos in cryopods and tranfer them just like items.

[Distance Of Shadows]

Ok, and thanks for the advice ;)
Hopefully Single Player Cluster will be possible at some point

[Fluffy Bunny]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

This is not possible as far as I know and I would recommend using cryopods, because when you upload dinos at the obelisk in sp they often bug out and you loose them, at least for me this has appened countless times. So put dinos in cryopods and tranfer them just like items.

But them moment you upload dino in cryopod and download it on different map and toss it out it's level resets to 1.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

This is not possible as far as I know and I would recommend using cryopods, because when you upload dinos at the obelisk in sp they often bug out and you loose them, at least for me this has appened countless times. So put dinos in cryopods and tranfer them just like items.

But them moment you upload dino in cryopod and download it on different map and toss it out it's level resets to 1.

No it doesn´t. Maybe there something wrong in your sp, the lvl DON`T reset. Do you use mods? Maybe there is a conflict.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

Thanks, maybe I'll try out the Dino Storage v2 mod instead of the cryopods

Don´t believe this guy, cryopods are the way to go and they work just fine. Maybe his sp is borked, because they certainly don´t reset the dinos to lvl 1

[Distance Of Shadows]

I did look it up and cryopod dinos resetting their levels seems to be a server/cloud-saving bug.
So playing in Single Player mode should be safe ;)

[MackMack]

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

Haven't properly played Ark in over a year because of Uni and stuff, but recently I've been watching Syntac on YouTube and enjoying his cluster series where he can freely travel between maps without dropping his inventory, which is awesome, looks like more fun and a great way to enjoy replaying Ark and everything it has to offer.

Is there a way to do this on single player by changing some settings or installing a mod, or is Ark Cluster a server only thing?

SP won't provide you with a full genuine experience. Dedi is the only way to go...

Do you happen by any chance to have an old PC around?
You'll need around 4 to 8GB of RAM per map. CI is running with around 8GB while Island is roughly 4GB, Rag ~5.5GB

[Distance Of Shadows]

I have quite a good computer for softwares like Zbrush, Maya and Substance Painter. I have 32 gbs of Ram, AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Cire Processor and today I just got an AMD Radeon RX 6800

Since cluster looks like its server only, I might try to make a single player server if I can work out how

[MackMack]

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

I have quite a good computer for softwares like Zbrush, Maya and Substance Painter. I have 32 gbs of Ram, AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Cire Processor and today I just got an AMD Radeon RX 6800

You should deff be a happy camper with that rig!

I would suggest to install your servers in diferent VMs running headless Linux installations (you don't need GPU and a single core per server is enough)

This way you'll be able to boot up and shut down any maps when needed (you don't need to have everything up in order to have a functionnal cluster).

You'll sure make it :)

**The second most important spec to keep in mind is your disk IO. HDD will just kill your experience (it will feel like playing on official - which is bad). Sata SSD is fine and NVMe is the way to go.

Good luck!

[Alpha]

Originally posted by MackMack:

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

I have quite a good computer for softwares like Zbrush, Maya and Substance Painter. I have 32 gbs of Ram, AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Cire Processor and today I just got an AMD Radeon RX 6800

You should deff be a happy camper with that rig!

I would suggest to install your servers in diferent VMs running headless Linux installations (you don't need GPU and a single core per server is enough)

This way you'll be able to boot up and shut down any maps when needed (you don't need to have everything up in order to have a functionnal cluster).

You'll sure make it :)

**The second most important spec to keep in mind is your disk IO. HDD will just kill your experience (it will feel like playing on official - which is bad). Sata SSD is fine and NVMe is the way to go.

Good luck!

i play singleplayer with a rx 6800 and a ryzen 7 3800x and i get 40 fps on the island max, when i setup my own dedicated server tho i get about 90, so its pain on singleplayer in short

[MackMack]

Originally posted by Alpha:

i play singleplayer with a rx 6800 and a ryzen 7 3800x and i get 40 fps on the island max, when i setup my own dedicated server tho i get about 90, so its pain on singleplayer in short

That could be explained with the resource sharing. In SP you need to run the server along with the client within the same binary execution.

To my understanding;
UE is a single threaded process which means that everything will use the same exact core/thread (the second thread is used for the network stack or something along those lines).

You may get better results by disabling the multithreading (the AMD's Hyperthreading) since your CPU won't need to manage the virtual threads (there is an overhead for managing twice the threads vs the cores)

From one of the Dev (TheRightHand)
This is because the version of Unreal that we built the game on did not support multi-threading/paralellization.

[Alpha]

Originally posted by MackMack:

Originally posted by Alpha:

i play singleplayer with a rx 6800 and a ryzen 7 3800x and i get 40 fps on the island max, when i setup my own dedicated server tho i get about 90, so its pain on singleplayer in short

That could be explained with the resource sharing. In SP you need to run the server along with the client within the same binary execution.

To my understanding;
UE is a single threaded process which means that everything will use the same exact core/thread (the second thread is used for the network stack or something along those lines).

You may get better results by disabling the multithreading (the AMD's Hyperthreading) since your CPU won't need to manage the virtual threads (there is an overhead for managing twice the threads vs the cores)

From one of the Dev (TheRightHand)
This is because the version of Unreal that we built the game on did not support multi-threading/paralellization.

yea man hyperthreading is off, i get 40 fps at max as i already said but its 20 or 25 most the time

[Pappy]

SP cluster will never happen. if you want a multi map cluster, set one up via ASM utilising dedicated server(s)

[Distance Of Shadows]

Originally posted by MackMack:

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

I have quite a good computer for softwares like Zbrush, Maya and Substance Painter. I have 32 gbs of Ram, AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Cire Processor and today I just got an AMD Radeon RX 6800

You should deff be a happy camper with that rig!

I would suggest to install your servers in diferent VMs running headless Linux installations (you don't need GPU and a single core per server is enough)

This way you'll be able to boot up and shut down any maps when needed (you don't need to have everything up in order to have a functionnal cluster).

You'll sure make it :)

**The second most important spec to keep in mind is your disk IO. HDD will just kill your experience (it will feel like playing on official - which is bad). Sata SSD is fine and NVMe is the way to go.

Good luck!

Yep, very happy, especially since I'm an introverted gamer and digital sculptor that would love to spend all day everyday in sculpting in Zbrush, gaming or doing both :)

My Dad got most of the parts as a bundle deal and some other things on sale and we built my PC together, when my previous 9 year old computer he made from high end parts just one day did not switch on a few months before the start of my first year of University. Even though I was playing games on my 9 year old PC with high game settings completely fine the day before.


And thanks, that sounds great and will try that once I've figured out how and my C drive is a NVMe ;) Just learnt what a Virtual Machine is and definitely interested in learning how to set one up ^^

[MackMack]

Originally posted by Distance Of Shadows:

And thanks, that sounds great and will try that once I've figured out how and my C drive is a NVMe ;) Just learnt what a Virtual Machine is and definitely interested in learning how to set one up ^^

VirtualBox should do just fine. Few clicks and you'll have a first VM. Install steamcmd along with ARK.

Once the first VM installed, copy the VM file to some other name like crystal.vdi, island.vdi, extinction.vdi, etc...

Afterward you'll be able to add the new VMs using VirtualBox GUI (each VM pointing to its own vdi file).

Add a shared drive to each VM in order to create the cluster, mount the drive, tweak each ark configuration (changing the map mostly), start everything and you should be good to go.