Water Texture Glitch

[Axios]

This game has got signifnicantly better performance in a very short time and i thank the devs for that but unfortunatly i still get quite an annoying graphics glitch. I have a low-mid system and play the game on medium (on no sky effects mode). Largely the game works pretty good though there is always room for improvement.

However whenever im near water I get strange artifacting from equipped items and objects when looking past them at the water. This isn't their reflections as those show fine. It's almost like a glitchy border around any item I hold in front of the water. This makes looking at water rather ugly and just wondered if this was a common problem?

[Xanarius]

I've the same issue in rust that interesting

[SireDragonChester]

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Sire님이 먼저 게시:

There is a few spots on Center map (near swamps) To where you can go under water and no water is render..

But to rest the subject. Yes Ark Graphics are crap, Even on my GTX 980TI on Epic setting,
Forcing Nvidia control panel to max setting, You still get graphics glitches and bitmap washing out and or not looking correctly.

When they do trailers and put out too the public. Jess and few others dev have said they only record from Titan X (Maxwell ) or 980Ti and just re-render the video. Lol
I think they touch up the videos, Run at 4k and do some minor tweaking to video.

There was tread on this 3-4 months ago but I don't remember what its called..
I do hope they will fix these graphics issues, but Nothing has been said about for awhile now..
I know game is beta and I've been running my own Ark server for 2+ yrs now..

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=745454388

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=745450545

That is best I've been able get ark. But I do hope WC tweak it more or somebody comes up with a mod that helps Ark look better without making performance worst..

-Sire
Game Pc : i7 3770k 3.5 Ghz/16 GB Ram/GTX 980TI SC/2x 240 SSD GB/ Win 7 64bit
Ark Server: i5 4960 3.5 Ghz /16 GB Ram / No GPU /240 GB SDD /Win7 64Bit

Wow you should be getting a bit better than that man. I have an identical system except for the CPU which is an i5 3570K@4GHz and here is a shot near the same area...

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/96095523345044091/E934D899B8ECFF297D60879322186F340DA53536/

Go look at some of my screenshots, I'm runing all on ultra. Out in the wild I get about 40fps but at base that goes down quite a bit. Never understood why structures slow it down but big complex trees and geometry doesn't *shrug*

Still, this whole texture issue is annoying. I hope the devs can work with Epic and get it resolved before official launch.

I can make look a bit better by messing with setting in Nvidia control panel, forcing to dsr 4k bitmap and few others things. But doesn't really do that much. I've seen better games look so much better.
The Devs said they render there videos on 980ti or titan x, unless they upgrade to titan pascal
one. But I do not belive them one bit that they just record the videos they show. Then release to public. There no way in hell, after recording the raw video. They send to some body who fine tuned and tweaks the video too look better. Some kind touch up happens.
Cuz ark does NOT look that good without major tweaks to the video card ( settings )

Too many ppl have posted proof of video, screen shots showing graphics glitchs and issues.
Then you see trailers or new videos of new release Dino's/animals coming soon, even on our high end or decent systems. They never match/look like what WC shows us.

But ya, I can't run on epic setting near my base. It starts to studded or fps drop pretty bad.
Dx 12 has been bust. Not fan of it or win10, I'm still hoping when games does get optimizes.
Will see vulkan support and then maybe some of graphics will get some love too.

For now. Ark quality is pretty meh ATM. But do hope gets better.

[Streaks {tORJ}]

Ya win7/64 ultimate for life here. Can't stand win8+ because it looks like a preschool project made with the bright colored paper and paste. ♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥.

[SireDragonChester]

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Ya win7/64 ultimate for life here. Can't stand win8+ because it looks like a preschool project made with the bright colored paper and paste. ♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥.

+1

Ya totally agree, <3 win7 64 pro here myself. I refused to upgrade. But I know one day I'll have no choice. I'll have either upgrade or change Linux or Mac, I hope by then vulkan API is more used by then. As for ark. I hope they finally give the game some optimation for the grohaics..
But fear they may never do that. . How many times has 4K texture been removed and bridges ? Lol

I hope and pray soon. These graphics get some <3 love or touch ups.
-Sire

[Streaks {tORJ}]

The 4K I don't care about as I only play on a single monitor and it only supports 1680x1050 so I'm good. But yes, I'll be on this OS forever apparently, like a buddy of mine was with XP which he only finally upgraded from this year lol. My problem is that I am no huge fan of linux and crapple will never get my money so I'm kind of stuck hoping and praying :P

[ELK]

4k textures look way better even @ 1680x1050

[Ri0Rdian]

ELK님이 먼저 게시:

4k textures look way better even @ 1680x1050

That's the case for any resolution higher than your native one though! But you are obviously right. xD

[Humpenstilzchen]

same here, I wonder when they will fix it. I see this borders mostly an birds when facing towards the ocean or woods.

You can see what I mean on the following picture:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=840801195

Also medium setting. Resolution 1600 x 900. No Resolution downscale.

[Streaks {tORJ}]

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same here, I wonder when they will fix it. I see this borders mostly an birds when facing towards the ocean or woods.

You can see what I mean on the following picture:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=840801195

Also medium setting. Resolution 1600 x 900. No Resolution downscale.

Yes I'd like to know how to fix that fuzzy aura as well!

[SireDragonChester]

I do like 4k and my PC is capable of 4k, but I do agree that current graphics what we see (on decent or beefy system) compared to what Wild card shows us is like comparing Night to Day. They say they only taking raw footage and then slap on Youtube lol. Don't think so.

I hope WC adress the graphics and glitches currently in game. but fear they won't.. We''ll have another No man sky issue on our hands while they ignore the core game AND add more paid DLC that users/players will have to buy if they wish to contine to play on official and maybe even non offical servers.

They say game suppose release in what less 6 months? lol they need another 2 + yrs to fix what currently broken in game. Ya sorry don't mean sound like broken record but we have to look at current facts. WC history with missed patchs dates and missed launch promises..

As Server admin my self. They can't even seem keep patch notes up to date lately..

My ASM/Ark Server currently loads up as 253.96..
what did they fix in 253.96? lol

Thanks WC??
-Sire

[Max]

Hmm, I came here too because all these visual glitches in Ark are driving me nuts, I have never seen a game with more persistent graphical glitches than this game, from lighting to shadows, outlines, graininess, reflections, flickering etc... its incredible and they are never fixed. The screenshots above and on previous pages are what I see as well, its downright ugly.

Don't forget also that most things look far worse when moving than standing still.

I just found out that reducing post processing effects to low (I was always playing with it on high) removes that horrible grainy specular dithering type reflection you get along many surfaces depending on what angle the camera is at.

The tails moving over water with that fake shadow and the outline of trees over the water and the shadow right under birds wings whenever they are over water among other things just makes everything look ugly.

Am I being harsh, maybe, but, nothing is fixed in this regard in over 1.5 years, performance never improves, all we get are more dinos............

[Wolfofthenyght]

Has there been any progress on this? It's been driving me INSANE. Former Win7/64bit user here..upgraded my OS to Win10 in the hopes DX12 would fix this... no luck. Please, anyone? Help? This happens in all unreal engine games for me except Conan T__T I have an Evga 970 ACXSSC.

[Amelia]

That is... still not fixed?

[Lori37]

Amelia님이 먼저 게시:

That is... still not fixed?

stop necroing

[Wolfofthenyght]

I mean- is it really necro'ing if it's STILL broken? Does anyone have a solution to this? Or has Wildcard made comments on why it's happening?