Best Launch Parameters? :D

[Jordan]

I searched discussions but I kept getting different answers, and im not sure what is the best. What would you guys say is the best launch parameters to set to get the most fps boost? I can play fine on high, but I tend to lag in my base a bit, and any extra fps helps. Thanks! :)

[FactionSlayer]

I am using -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -d3d10 -nomansky, however I still lag pretty bad around my base and I think this is just due to the unoptimization issues. I can sit at 40-70 pretty easily outside my base but anywere near it and I'm at 30 or lower no matter what I end up doing.

[Jordan]

Ok thanks! Just copy this exactly and put it in?

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -d3d10 -nomansky

Or should I space it out a little differently?

[Nava]

"-sm4 -d3d10" are the main two, but this question really has to do with the hardware your computer is running. Different machines / video cards run DirectX and Shading slightly differently. Try them, see if you get better fps.

I use "-nomansky" and "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES" also, but not sure how much of a difference (if at all) it does. Probably more useful if running a server or playing single player, but I use it with no ill effects.

[FactionSlayer]

Nope just like that should be it. I am not 100% sure if there's something better to use as I was in the same boat as you and just went with those and they seemed to help me out. And as Eclipsys said I would try them all out, with some different combinations and see what works best for you.

[Jordan]

Ah I see, Thank you guys for the help. I will go ahead and try all of these exactly as you put them, but just incase my hardware does make a difference ill put it below

CPU: Amd FX 6300 6core @ 3.5ghz
GPU: Nvidia Gtx 970 4gb
RAM: 8gb
Operating system is on a ssd

[FactionSlayer]

I am using the same video card and the settings I posted work pretty well for me, my cpu however is a bit more powerful than yours, and I have 16Gigs of ram. Honestly with just 8gigs you may want to run the game in low memory mode as well, i have had this game use upwards of 9gigs of ram before so that could be causing you some issues as well.

[Jordan]

Yeah i agree. well luckily for me (kinda) one of my psus exploded so I'm getting a newegg credit, gonna use that to upgrade the ram :D I think my cpu is okay though, it doesn't ever seem to max it out

[Jordan]

It was a defect btw xp

[HernDiddy]

They suggest you use all of the parameters for best results:
-USEALLAVAILIBLECORES
-sm4 (shader model 4; really important one)
-d3d10
-nomansky

[Jordan]

ugggggggggh im getting the "timeout connection to host" thing again. Ima splode

[FactionSlayer]

Originally posted by jordanp1177:

Yeah i agree. well luckily for me (kinda) one of my psus exploded so I'm getting a newegg credit, gonna use that to upgrade the ram :D I think my cpu is okay though, it doesn't ever seem to max it out

Yeah your cpu should be fine, but with alpha games you never know. With so many games now recommending 8Gigs of ram upgrading to 16 would be a good idea. Also helps out if you have 20+ tabs open in chrome or firefox and don't want to close them everytime you play a game.

[Jordan]

Are these parameters supposed to make gameplay look like a potato? I have it set to high but it looks like low ingame

[Archimodes]

Since this most recent patch on Ultra I'm not dipping below 30fps. Typically hover around 40ish. This is with 2K resolution. I'm rocking a similar video card (actually 2 but that means literally nothing in Ark).

I use -SM4 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

The thing that drives me crazy is if i change my settings in-game, it drops to like 11FPS. I can go from 30-60 FPS on Ultra to 11FPS on low. I have to restart the game for it to give me the actual FPS. This is only since patch V222.

EDIT:

No it doesn't look like a potato (lol), the settings I use make it look absolutely beautiful, but I can't see the moon. Small price to pay, imo.

[FactionSlayer]

They should not make the game look that much worse, however they will lower the quality a little bit. I run my game with everything on High and it looks fine to me, perhaps one of your settings is not saving?

[Nava]

Only the "-nomansky" should produce any kind of visual downgrade... and that just affects the skybox. They rest are just using different more optimized software options instead of newer stuff.