How demanding is this game?

[maverickuk]

Hi all

So ive not had a chance to mess around with settings yet, will do later. But installed last night and had a quick look at the game with settings all on low. It ran very very slowly :(

I play 7DTD alot and that runs quite well if thats a comparrision

I will of course have a look at all the various settings and read faqs etc, was just curious to what you guys thought :)

ps I am currently on a laptop so dont expect it to be great, was just hoping to turn around etc without pausing lol

[Grimm]

Kills my 32GB of RAM, 4770K and GTX 980ti

[twitch.tv/TehEmoGurl]

16 cores @ 4.2 GHz with 20mb L3 Cache
64GB DDR4 2666Mhz Gaming RAM (Quad Channel)
SLI GTX 970 G1 Windforce 4GB x2 GDDR5 vRAM + 32GB Shared vRAM

All settings on Epic + 1080p = 24 FPS in high populated areas
All settings on Epic @ 720p = 35FPS
High preset -Motion Blur @ 1080p = 45FPS

Game and server currently running on a 2TB 7200 RPM Mechanical Drive

[His Quivzness]

Why do people persist in saying "i can play this game", or "It runs [XYZ] pretty good"? Post your actual system specs then we can give you some advice.

That being said, while the developers of ARK have made some great strides in improving performance this last month, it is one of the most demanding games I've ever seen. I would not reccomend playing it on a laptop unless its a thoroughbred gaming laptop (ie something with 2 graphics cards in it, that couldn't run on battery for more than about 10 minutes when it was brand new because of how much power the components consume).

[Li Shengshun/Bk-201]

Performance depends for me on the day i dont know why, fx 6100 at 3,3 ghz , gtx 760 and 16 gigs of ram. Lowest settings. On some days i run a solid 20-40 with some dips into the 10´s and on some days i never get higher then 5-10 at all.

[maverickuk]

Thanks guys, looks like having an intergrated graphics card is going to stop me from playing this :(

I just thought as it ran 7 days to die pretty well I could manage to do something here. Oh well never mind, back to desktop in a few weeks anyways

Thanks again for fast responses

[Arya]

Intel i7 3770K @3.9 GHZ (Quadcore)
32 GB DDR3 RAM, unknown speed
Single GTX970

I get a fairly stable 45-60 FPS on High. That being said, I'm using a Launch Option that brings all four CPU cores into play, and that seems to make a huge difference.

[maverickuk]

Oooops just noticed after installing this game I only had 2 gig of harddrive space left :)