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That said:
Go to the steam help menu, click system information and then copy paste all that here so we can see what steam detects for your rig and any potential discrepancies.
Start with that and lets see from there.
You're probably getting a BSOD because it's sucking your resources dry and there's possibly an instability somewhere, but yeah, I don't think it's very well optimized. If it requires a higher end computer to play, the sys reqs definitely don't reflect that. And the size on disk is just ridiculous and sorely misrepresented on the sys reqs.
My PC smokes the minimum sys reqs listed on Steam and it looks horrible on all graphics settings. I have other games in the genre around the same age that are far better in graphics and performance.
My first impression is that it's "one big pile of dinosaur ****", to coin a phrase. I can see why they're giving it away and I'm baffled as to why it's so popular. Had I bought it instead of taking advantage of the current promotion, I would have refunded it.
But I'm still patient...I plan to give it a little more play time and tweaking before I decide to delete it in case I'm missing something.
They've not bothered to state their system info as steam detects it and while that's very possible, we'll really not know until they show accurate info. It just also could very well be that they have hardware getting ready to go on the fritz too. I had that with ram years ago that was brand new and it bsod'd ark. Had to run a ram diagnostic to learn that was the source of the issue.
So it could be various things. But again we'll not know unless they decide to try to provide more info.
If his thread on VRising is partially accurate:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1604030/discussions/0/3383904768758923888/
He's using Win11 which is known to be an issue for Ark since it was built on/for win10 primarily. Other than that he's got a 3060 card so it can play ark just not perhaps in the highest fidelity settings without sacrificing some performance. But whether he's been keeping his driver for the card up to date or other details we dont know but the fact that he's also had problems recently in vrising does make for compelling evidence there are user end issues occurring.
System Information
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Time of this report: 6/18/2022, 13:37:30
Machine name: REEZE
Operating System: Windows 11 Home Single Language 64-bit (10.0, Build 22000) (22000.co_release.210604-1628)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: LENOVO
System Model: 82JD
BIOS: H1CN47WW (type: UEFI)
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz (16 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 13340MB RAM
Page File: 10894MB used, 13196MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)
System DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: UnKnown
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.3.5
DxDiag Version: 10.00.22000.0653 64bit Unicode
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2560&SUBSYS_3E8517AA&REV_A1
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 12692 MB
Dedicated Memory: 6023 MB
Shared Memory: 6669 MB
this one from steam
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Model: 82JD
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x8d
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2304 Mhz
16 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Supported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Supported
AVX512VNNI: Supported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Windows 11 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: Intel(R) UHD Graphics
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 30.0.101.1003
DirectX Driver Version: 30.0.14.7256
Driver Date: 11 1 2021
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 165 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2560
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Desktop Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Primary Display Size: 13.58" x 8.46" (15.98" diag)
34.5cm x 21.5cm (40.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Headset Earphone (Alienware AW9
Memory:
RAM: 13339 MB
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 975483 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 294492 MB
OS Install Date: Feb 22 2022
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: c715fc2c6e155a739679f3be782158bb27d0b805
Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 3b4c502a
Number of SSDs: 0
Number of HDDs: 0
i dont think its my gear tho, its not state of the art but its still better than most
and no other game gave me headache like this, not valhalla, not FF14, not GOW, ONLY ARK, well V rising did give me headache but they patched it and its works well. im still trying tho bcos my friends seems to enjoy the game very much
might tried on my pc when i got home next week but i doubt it would do any good
once i upgraded it was like a whole new game.
ARK is terribly optimised, always has been even back when it was new, i have older games that run and patch at 10x the speed that ARK does. but we do keep coming back....
Make sure you are running on the 3060 and not integrated gpu. Your system info does not detect nvidia driver installed at all. Its intel's own integrated graphics driver listed.
Second, its a laptop so check temps while running.
I've seen all this before with other game developers and their piles of crap that aren't properly optimized.
Plays well for some and not others even though the gear exceeds the posted system requirements.
Then when you post, people that the game plays well for come out of the woodwork to tell you your gear is faulty...same crap, different game.
Guess what kids, if you're supposed to be running a super computer to play a game, the recommended system requirements should reflect that which, yet again, falls to the developer. But that's neither here nor there.
Every time this sort of thing happened to me with a couple of different developers, it turned out to be the devs needing to fix the game. Now the games I've experienced this same scenario with in the past run well for most people proving that it wasn't player's gear in those situations. This looks like the same thing to me.
In my experience, it's far less likely a problem with your gear and far more likely a problem in the game, usually poor optimization.
Blame Valve for that, not Wildcard... if WC was able to update their system requirements along the way, I am sure they would have, but Steam/Valve wouldn't let them
So WC didn't get it right the first time and Valve won't let them update their information and that makes it Valves fault? I think not. Even in the unlikely event that Valve won't allow them to update, it doesn't fall to Valve that WC doesn't have their ducks in a row.
People should stop apologizing for developers that don't have their crap together.
Like I said, that's neither here nor there. Player's gear is always to blame, but not always the problem in these situations...less so than people care to admit.