2 fps in game Menu

[Smokey_Rasta]

Hi folks,

Just bought Ark off the store but experiencing horrible lag in the menu, specifically 1-2fps :/:/

I have tried lowering the res and everything to low...even started the game in low mem and reset res but nothing works...

System:

MSI Z97 Gaming 7
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600mhz
intel i7 haswell 4771
Msi gtx 970 gaming 4g
Kingston v300 240gb
Antec HCP 850watt platinum full modular

Any solutions to this ? :(

[Kazemi]

do you get 1-2fps in-Game as well...?
or only at the menu

[Smokey_Rasta]

I just tried to play now and I get that issue ingame to :(

[De Kus]

Are you using recent drivers? Mainboard and GFX especially. The "slowest" component I see is the 8GB of 1666 MHz RAM. But it shouldn't make more than ~2-5% of the total FPS. Also make sure nothing is starting to overheat from the game hogging a lot of resources. Dramatic slowdowns are often caused by hardware to panicly lower the tact to minimum to avoid overheating. Nvidia Inspector is a good tool to verify driver versions, GPU load and temperature. Also check if another application is hogging your system using the Task Manager.

For mainboard drivers, MSI offers a slow (I get download speeds of under 100kb/s sometimes) but decent working tool called "Live Update" to update all mainboard related stuff (even BIOS update!). You might be able to find more recent drivers for audio or network directly from the chip manufacture (usually http://www.realtek.com/downloads/ and http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads), but the versions distributed by MSI should be fine as well and can be more comfortably kept up to date.

[Smokey_Rasta]

I think the issue could be this:

I recently upgraded to 8.1 from 7, I did this straight after Ark Downloaded. Windows took it upon itself to do a clean installl so thus me having to redownload everything...

To cheat the download, I simply started the download then paused it, proceeded to copy the Ark contents from the Windows.old folder to the "Downloading" folder on the new Windows program files. This showed steam the files were there so the download skipped a chunk of time but I think I screwed up the process.

I am thinking a clean install will fix this?

[Uzi [OTG]]

Originally posted by Smokey_Rasta:

Hi folks,

Just bought Ark off the store but experiencing horrible lag in the menu, specifically 1-2fps :/:/

I have tried lowering the res and everything to low...even started the game in low mem and reset res but nothing works...

System:

MSI Z97 Gaming 7
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600mhz
intel i7 haswell 4771
Msi gtx 970 gaming 4g
Kingston v300 240gb
Antec HCP 850watt platinum full modular

Any solutions to this ? :(

Something very wrong there. Exactly what, who knows. Going to have to guess.
You fail to mention which version Windows you use. Mention that in next post please.

Driver issue maybe?

I have GTX970, i7 2600k at 4.4Ghz 16GB RAM, Win7 sp1.
353.06 Nvidia drivers from a month or two ago.

In single offline solo play seeing near 30fps typical max with mostly epic settings
and sky details set to lower 1/5th of scale and scale at no more than 80 percent.
Occlusions on , shadows high, rest epic.

Oh, and menu FPS goes nuts to 200 or sometthing here.

So, i'd start with drivers maybe.

[Uzi [OTG]]

Ah, you postged while I was typing.

Perhaps during upgrade the Nvidia driver install got messed up
Maybe try uninstalling the drivers
Reboot
Make sure windows does not try to find drivers and have
the driver version from nvidia on system you want to install
DO a clean install

[De Kus]

Originally posted by Smokey_Rasta:

To cheat the download, I simply started the download then paused it, proceeded to copy the Ark contents from the Windows.old folder to the "Downloading" folder on the new Windows program files. This showed steam the files were there so the download skipped a chunk of time but I think I screwed up the process.

I am thinking a clean install will fix this?

No, but you could run a "check files" for your ARK installation. The result will be same as if you had downloaded the whole thing anew except for the game settings you have made earlier.

[Paddo]

Your not by chance using a intergrated videocard instead of your MSI GTX?

[Smokey_Rasta]

Thanks guys for the replies,

I have unistalled the Nvidia driver and doing a clean install...

Hopefully I come right...

If that does not work a clean Ark install then?

[Cthuluhoop]

Originally posted by Smokey_Rasta:

Hi folks,

Just bought Ark off the store but experiencing horrible lag in the menu, specifically 1-2fps :/:/

I have tried lowering the res and everything to low...even started the game in low mem and reset res but nothing works...

System:

MSI Z97 Gaming 7
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600mhz
intel i7 haswell 4771
Msi gtx 970 gaming 4g
Kingston v300 240gb
Antec HCP 850watt platinum full modular

Any solutions to this ? :(

I have the same GPU and the same RAM but with an i5 2500K and I get between 50 and 100 fps depending on where I am with no lowered res and a mix of epic/high settings. It's definitely not a system issue.

[Smokey_Rasta]

Originally posted by Zarlak:

Originally posted by Smokey_Rasta:

Hi folks,

Just bought Ark off the store but experiencing horrible lag in the menu, specifically 1-2fps :/:/

I have tried lowering the res and everything to low...even started the game in low mem and reset res but nothing works...

System:

MSI Z97 Gaming 7
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600mhz
intel i7 haswell 4771
Msi gtx 970 gaming 4g
Kingston v300 240gb
Antec HCP 850watt platinum full modular

Any solutions to this ? :(

I have the same GPU and the same RAM but with an i5 2500K and I get between 50 and 100 fps depending on where I am with no lowered res and a mix of epic/high settings. It's definitely not a system issue.

Yea I know lol

Thats why I think me cheating the download screwed up the install...

Doing the fresh driver now so hopefully ill see some results.

How do I check my files on steam?
tried right clicking on Ark and saw nothing

[Smokey_Rasta]

I am reasonably new to Steam so forgive me

[Vendetta]

I would venture a guess that the OS change is your main culprit. TBH i would get everything lined out proper with your drivers under 8.1 and then do a fresh install of Ark.

[cAnnAbisJunk]

sounds like ARK is running with the intel grapic..

[Smokey_Rasta]

Caddy...I am going to sink into the abyss of the earths deepest and darkest sand pits of doom because that was the issue.

I. FEEL. LIKE. AN. IDIOT.

Anyways...thanks folks for assisting...often the simple solution is the correct one...down to the usual driver issue...

THANKS :D