Nvidia's GeForce Experience not detecting ARK

[Morgan Freefarm]

I hope a developper reads this.

Can you optimize the game/do something/work with Nvidia ( I don't know ) so that the GeForce Experience detects the game when I scan for it ?

I have Intel graphic card and Nvidia graphic card. For the games GFE detects (Like Dota 2, CS:GO, etc...), they run on the NVIDIA GPU. But if the game isn't detected (Like ARK at the moment), it will run on Intel graphic card, which is bad.

I tried playing this game. I failed.
It's impossible to play on even the lowest possible settings. I couldn't even kill a Dodo!

[Morgan Freefarm]

Bump

[Hivisions]

system specs? i am using an old geforce 660 and can run the game fine. also wait to bump your own thread for at least 10 minutes...

[Morgan Freefarm]

Not the best specs, problem is that the nvidia driver isn't detecting ARK, so its running on Intel.
It'd work fine on Nvidia if they fix it.
Sorry for the bump

[W0Z]

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I hope a developper reads this.

Can you optimize the game/do something/work with Nvidia ( I don't know ) so that the GeForce Experience detects the game when I scan for it ?

I have Intel graphic card and Nvidia graphic card. For the games GFE detects (Like Dota 2, CS:GO, etc...), they run on the NVIDIA GPU. But if the game isn't detected (Like ARK at the moment), it will run on Intel graphic card, which is bad.

I tried playing this game. I failed.
It's impossible to play on even the lowest possible settings. I couldn't even kill a Dodo!

Try creating a new game profile by adding Shootergame.exe, you can do this in the Nvidia control panel under Manage 3D settings > Program Settings on the right side of Global Settings. Add Game > Browse to your Steamlibrary/Steamapps/Common/ARK/Shootergame/Binaries/Win64/Shootergame.exe

[Storm's End]

disable your onboard GPU, you shouldn't be using it, like ever. The only situations you'd want to are ones you'd know about

But yeah, you'll never want to run a game with that. you don't need GFE to detect it to do this.

To answer your question though, load GFE, click the preferences tab, then click the + icon next to the list, and add the location of ARK

[BushmanBob]

You can add the game manually. Open up the Nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, go to program settings, and add. You'll have to locate the Ark.exe, which will be in the usual place. Local disk (D) or alternative drive, program files(x86) depending on your version, steam, steam apps, common, ARK, ShooterGame, Binaries, Win64, depending on your version. Just add the Shootergame.exe and you should be good to go. Never used the Nvidia experience myself, but I've manually added 7DTD with no problems. :)

As somebody else has clearly stated. :p Bit slow off the mark today. :D

[Morgan Freefarm]

@Sicknote Hybrid notebooks doesn't allow you to do that.
@Pinworm Same thing, can't disable the onboard GPU because hybrid notebook.
Plus adding the location of ARK just narrows down where GFE will search or something like that. It's still undetectable.

[BushmanBob]

Taking a look at the Nvidia 3D section, and ShooterGame is already on the list, so you shouldn't have a problem.

[Morgan Freefarm]

@BushmanBob ShooterGame has Integrated graphic card set as preferred processor for it and I cannot change that because it's a hybrid notebook, lol.
So the only way it's going to work is if GFE adds ARK to its supported games.

[BushmanBob]

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@BushmanBob ShooterGame has Integrated graphic card set as preferred processor for it and I cannot change that because it's a hybrid notebook, lol.
So the only way it's going to work is if GFE adds ARK to its supported games.

Ok, sorry, not with it today, had a rather heavy night last night. :) You'll have to disable your internal chip via the bios if thats the case. Upon boot, you can enter the bios by pressing either Delete, F1, F2, F5 OR F12. Many variations, and I'm unsure for notebooks, it's delete for my sabertooth. In the bios menu, go to advanced then chipset scroll down to Southbridge configuration and you should see you onboard GPU displayed at the top. Change that to PCIE rather than IGP and that will disable any onboard GPU in favour of the PCIE card. :)

[W0Z]

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@BushmanBob ShooterGame has Integrated graphic card set as preferred processor for it and I cannot change that because it's a hybrid notebook, lol.
So the only way it's going to work is if GFE adds ARK to its supported games.

Is this because the Control Panel is set to use Intergrated as the default GPU? from what I'm reading on a couple of places you can manually set that on a Hybrid, unless you are using seperate software as a controller ( ie : Bumblebee driver )

Try googling " nvidia control panel on hybrid notebook " you should get some help from that, TOMS HARDWARE has a possible fix but without knowing first hand your setup and software controllers it's a bit hard to help.

Oh and Nvidia don't usually parse games to Experience until they are ready for launch although I'm sure I read somewhere that they will be doing a parse for this game soon due to its pupularity.

Hope you get it sorted :)

[Morgan Freefarm]

Thank you for your replies

[voodoo]

The Game is not supported. Here is a list of compatible games:
http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/supported-games

[Madd]

Game isnt good for notebook. I sened request for refund. Games tooooo slow and very often crashed. i have Lenovo i7/8GB RAM / GF 740-2GB RAM. And czech translate isnt good. missing all this characters :-) ěščřžžýáááíé

[Vatch]

All GeForce does is change the graphics settings for the most part. Just adjust them yourself untill you get the performance you want.