Install Steam
login
|
language
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
ไทย (Thai)
Български (Bulgarian)
Čeština (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Deutsch (German)
Español - España (Spanish - Spain)
Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese - Portugal)
Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil)
Română (Romanian)
Русский (Russian)
Suomi (Finnish)
Svenska (Swedish)
Türkçe (Turkish)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Українська (Ukrainian)
Report a translation problem
Discussions Rules and Guidelines
Report this post
Also, are you using any mods in your game? Listing those in the order that you have them loaded may also help.
1.Copy paste your full error report.
2. Go to the steam help menu, click system information, then copy paste all that here so we can specifically see what steam detects for your rig and any potential discrepancies that may have relevance.
3. If using mods, list all mods by name and in their specific load order.
4. Most of the launch parameters are obsolete and some can contribute to issues so its not recommended to use those with testing/solution considerations.
Start with those very basic diagnostic bits of info and lets see from there.
Windows 10 Professional (x64) * 3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-3770K * 256 kilobyte primary memory cache * 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache * 8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache * Multi-core (4) * Hyper-threaded (8 total) * 12733.97 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity * 4300.40 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
You can designate some of your hard drive as fake memory but that didn’t help me. I still think it may be disk access for me anyway so I’ve order a very inexpensive ssd to move my game over. I use a ton of mods so restarting can take 10 or 15 minutes. Not sure what else would help. I got the warning “out of memory” last time, but because I have so much memory and have increase my memory set aside for paging, I have not been given that warning. Not sure any of this will help but at least you know your not alone. The devs on the other game were aware of the memory leak but not exactly how.
Instead of piggy backing in the same thread as you likely have very different variables contributing to your specific situation, make your own thread and cite the specifically requested information. Saying you have xyz rig stats too btw isnt the same as specifially what -steam- detects for your rig and discrepancies can exist.
Okay I have done what you have asked and at one point I had deleted all my mods to see if it would work then and it hadn't. tell me if it helps
1. You didnt provide all your system info but I'll tell you (and assume in a bad direction as we well due to the info not listed) what I see:
-As already pointed out, you're over 3 years behind on updating your graphic card. That's an embarrassing no no in gaming.
- You are using a 570, which is a pretty low end card even at release date and it basically means playing ark is tough for it.
-Since there's no drive listed information, I'm going to assume in the negative as mentioned that you need to perhaps ensure that both steam and ark are on the same drive and that you have plenty... plenty of open space on that drive to play, and better if its an SSD and not an HDD.
- Due likely your outdated driver for the GPU, steam isnt detecting the cards VRAM. If even after updating the card it doesnt detect it, then you may have a faulty gpu contributing to your issues.
2. You failed to provide your list of mods. I dont pull teeth on asking this multiple times. The reason it is asked for is that poor mod use(and given you've not maintained your rig well too its compelling) be it choice of mods or mod order are significant contributors to issues with ark in many cases either being the sole or the shared reasons for crashes with that of hardware related issues.
Because of this, sometimes removing mods will not rescue a saved game because the mods already corrupted the same beyond fixing too. If you were capable of playing the game on a servers NOT using mods and not crash as a testing control against that of your save, then it would also further potentially indicate the aforementioned likelihood of a corruption.
We'll never know though because you failed to provide that information.
So at any rate you have things at least from the information provided that you can sort on your own but keep in mind you're playing as mentioned a pretty old, rather low end rig for ark considerations and because ark is a demanding game, you're going to need to be mindful of that as well with your maintaining your rig/play choices.
Best of luck.
1. OK so my drivers are currently being updated
2. I have added additional information that might prove useful
3. The reason I don't think its the mods is because I deleted the mods and the mod folders not only that but I also loaded scorched Earth instead of my current save file. And I only have 6-7
4. hey honestly really sorry I didn't add all the information sooner I know it sounds a bit embarassing but my mom bought the computer a long time ago and cant afford a new one so she was against it (she thought you were hackers lol). You seemed pretty sour about it so just wanted to clear things up.
Also I'll report if updating the drivers work.
also thank you so much, even if this doesn't work im still so happy to have someone helping me.
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 120G
Number of HDDs: 2
HDD sizes: 1000G,1000G
I didn't know that they made SSDs that small, but I assume that if it came that way, it's large enough to run the operating system.
if that information is accurate, you should have installed Ark on one of the HDDs, and I'm guessing you didn't. Ark needs a lot more space, the exact amount of which depends on choices you made such as numbers of maps, mods, and how built up the maps are. Probably in the 300-400 GB range is sufficient.
Which you have more than enough, if you had installed Ark on one of the HDDs. I would suggest that you buy an SSD when you can afford to. Ark loads really slowly on an HDD compared to an SSD.
Edited Note: If you don't know what a SSD NVMe means, don't buy one. Buy a SATA one instead. And if you did install Ark on one of the HDDs, it might be failing, so try installing Ark on the other one. Storage drives are finicky of any type, which is why they should be backed up on other drives if their content is important to you.
Eh.... did we end up in 2026 all of a sudden? AFAIK it's still 2023.... *confused*
I made a mistake. Begrudge me those everyone once in a while given the number of these threads I respond to every week and for years and years... as you well know lori :P
March this year (and as you pointed out in your other previous post to say, is still pretty behind as they've missed multiple just this year too.... and still a no no in gaming :P
Moving on.
1. As I suspected/mentioned, is steam and ark on the -----same----- drive since you have 3? If not put them on the same drive.
2. You still didnt bother to list your mods that I can see. Im going to assume you were also using bad mods then. Removing them as you claim doesnt prevent saves from being corrupted always....
Again, I specifically said for you to test if you can play on any unofficial server NOT using mods and default settings (IE a scientific Test Control)
If no crashes on another server, then it means your single player file was corrupted and likely due to mods, your hardware discrepancies already mentioned above, or a combination of both.
If your single player save has been corrupted and unable to be fixed, you'll need to start over with a new save and to be more mindful of staying updated with your rig, steam/ark on the same drive, and better choosing/managing mods.
4. Update your Steam detected system information so we can see that you've rectified properly your driver update and to see what steam shows in regards to detections(or not) in that regard(ie vram etc).
5. Posting more of your error reports in edits to your original post isnt necessary at this point because you're muddling the information to a certain degree. We already can see you've had multiple sources of issues that can be crash prone and until those have been clearly resolved, tested etc, it doesnt make for much relevance.
2/3. Ok here is my list of mods. Also I joined a onofficial sever with NO mods and same problem. Also my bad on the explanation it was a fresh scorched earth game I tested before.
Mod List
Auto Emgrams
automatic Death Recovery
Better Reusables
Dino Tracker
Structures plus (S+)
Ultra stacks
Also I still have to wait to update my drivers until windows realizes I have TPM.