Will ARK run on my computer? Need Pro help.

[don]

Ok guys, so I had recently bought the newest macbook Pro Laptop (touchbar one) and it has surprised me a lot. For a mac i think that the specs are pretty good. I run cs:go, rust, rocket league, and other games too. But one question I had was if it ran ARK. I wanted to know before I bought the game. Here is a link to a pic of my specs. This laptop can run rust pretty well on somewhat low graphics. If low graphics were taken into consideration, then tell me what you think. Thanks.

Graphics Link [gyazo.com]

[Benitus]

You can't. Macs aren't made for gaming.

[Pigeon]

No, ark is horribly optimized compared to rust as well.

[Glerk]

Originally posted by ⇋๖ۣۜTʜᴇ01xвᴏxᴇʀ:

You can't. Macs aren't made for gaming.

^^^

[Sólstafir]

Sorry, but that just isn't going to work.

Macs are a terrible choice for gaming for two key reasons. First of all, a Mac's hardware is designed for rendering and business.entertainment work. It's not designed for gaming and falls far short of meeting the requirements for games like ARK, which has notoriously high hardware requirements.

The other problem is compatbility. Very few games are compatible with Mac OS. And I'm not sure Ark is one of them.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Can you run Ark? Yes.

Will you have a really bad time? Yes.

Why? Because you're trying to play a game that's not well optimized for starters, and this game is very heavily intensive software, which will tax on the hardware badly for your Mac, not only that even if you set it to the lowest setting, the most you're going to get is 5 - 20 FPS depending how many NPC's are around you, and if too many will cause your game to lock up, and/or crash.

Bottomline, you need decent hardware to play Ark in the 1st place, so if you want to play it, if you want help on finding what parts to get to build your own desktop, we will help you, but you need to let us know a few things before we can help, such as budget, do you have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers/headset/headphones already?

[Cathulhu]

Not with integrated graphics. CS:GO, Rust and Rocket League have rather low requirements aka run on a toaster. ARK is very demanding, that it's horribly optimized is not helping either.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Not with integrated graphics. CS:GO, Rust and Rocket League have rather low requirements aka run on a toaster. ARK is very demanding, that it's horribly optimized is not helping either.

ARK stresses a GTX1080 Ti to breaking point before you even apply maximum settings. I seriously doubt a Macbook could even load the game properly.

[Big Boom Boom]

You need the iMac Pro releasing this December, which has AMD Vega 56/64, to effectively play games. MacBook won't, as at best you need an eGPU to play.

Btw, your MacBook has a DUAL CORE mobile i5. It's weaker in spec vs my $450 Alienware R2 with i5-6200U and GTX 960M.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

You need the iMac Pro releasing this December, which has AMD Vega 56/64, to effectively play games. Mac Book won't, as at best you need an eGPU to play.

Finally a MAC with the power to play games. Pity it'll still have nightmarish compatibility problems.

[don]

Thank you all for your input. Helps a lot! :D

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by -hg- Fask:

Thank you all for your input. Helps a lot! :D

TL;DR you're pretty much screwed.

[FeilDOW]

Was on a tribe with a buddy about 2 years ago on official that ran on a older macbook air and it ran like crap but it ran, ark is a lot more optimised then it was.

He could play but had really bad lag loading in big bases and crashed once in awhile, so I would say buy it and try it if it's to bad refund it because like I said it not nearly as bad with optimization as it was.

There are ways with launch options to run it in dx 10 with low quality.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Was on a tribe with a buddy about 2 years ago on official that ran on a older macbook air and it ran like crap but it ran, ark is a lot more optimised then it was.

He could play but had really bad lag loading in big bases and crashed once in awhile, so I would say buy it and try it if it's to bad refund it because like I said it not nearly as bad with optimization as it was.

There are ways with launch options to run it in dx 10 with low quality.

What you've neglected to mention is just how laughable Ark looks with those Launch Options enabled. It literally looks like a PS1 game.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by Wolfıe:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Was on a tribe with a buddy about 2 years ago on official that ran on a older macbook air and it ran like crap but it ran, ark is a lot more optimised then it was.

He could play but had really bad lag loading in big bases and crashed once in awhile, so I would say buy it and try it if it's to bad refund it because like I said it not nearly as bad with optimization as it was.

There are ways with launch options to run it in dx 10 with low quality.

What you've neglected to mention is just how laughable Ark looks with those Launch Options enabled. It literally looks like a PS1 game.

Indeed, but it would likely run not to bad if low graphics where taken into consideration. Look like Play-Doh but likely run and be playable.

I wouldn't suggest playing on officials because they tend to run much worse than unofficials, just look around there is lots with great admins.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

Indeed, but it would likely run not to bad if low graphics where taken into consideration. Look like Play-Doh but likely run and be playable.

Welcome to 1998. The punchline is, these aren't even the lowest available settings!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiZeq7MAYY