FPS Boost Guide ✅

The best methods for improving your FPS in ARK: Survival Ascended 🦖

Launch options

Do you want to make the game playable with more FPS on your PC?

Well
The first thing that you should do is to open the launch options.. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -high -newsaveformat -usestore -noaafonts -norhithread -maxMem=65536 -malloc=system -force-feature-level-11-0 -cpuCount=10 -exThreads=16 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded +fps_max 0 -nojoy -dxlevel 95 -forcenovsync

Console commands

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Go to singleplayer or multiplayer and press " ~ " key to open the console.

Copy and Paste the commands from below as one message to the console and apply:

r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 |
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 |
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16 |
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0 |
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 |
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 |
r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0 |
r.VolumetricCloud 0 |
r.ShadowQuality 0 |
r.VolumetricCloud 0 |
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 |
show InstancedGrass |
show InstancedStaticMeshes |
r.VolumetricFog 0 |
sg.FoliageQuality 0 |
r.ContactShadows 0 |
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 |
r.MipMapLODBias 0 |
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0 |
grass.Enable 0 |

 
 
Commands Info:

COMMAND	DESCRIPTION
r.Streaming.PoolSize 0	Unlocks full GPU videomemory
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4	Less polygons to render for Nanite
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16	Lumen optimization
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0	Lumen optimization
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0	Disables Lumen reflections
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2	Disables Lumen
r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0	No distance field shadowing
r.VolumetricCloud 0	No 3D clouds
r.ShadowQuality 0	No shadows - use this only if you need even more frames, the game will look crappy
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection	No water reflections
show InstancedGrass	Disables grass and small rocks
show InstancedStaticMeshes	Disables distant objects rendering
r.VolumetricFog 0	Disables 3D fog
sg.FoliageQuality 0	Sets the foliage quality to the lowest
r.ContactShadows 0	Disables contact shadows
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0	Disables shadow cascades
r.MipMapLODBias 0	Sets the textures resolution to low
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0	Disables virtual shadows
grass.Enable 0	No grass
foliage.MaxTrianglesToRender 300000	Foliage rendering optimization

That should give you 20-40 FPS boost for sure :D

DLSS Boost (Nvidia RTX Only)

If you got an RTX series graphics card you can use an upscaling feature.

Go to the GAME SETTINGS > GENERAL > RTX

Here you can choose one of these options:
 
And of course you can also choose the other ones (like Balanced) and frames generation if your graphics card is RTX 40 series or higher.

 



I hope this guide was helpful for you. You can rate it and add to the favorites if you want :D

 
 
 
 

[NOLAND3R]

@İNDO ADAM

Image Sharpening Off
Anisotropic Filtering Off
FXAA – Antialiasing Off
Gamma Correction – Antialiasing Off
Mode – Antialiasing Off
Background Max Frame Rate 20
CUDA – GPUS All
Low Latency Mode Ultra
Max Frame Rate Desired Value or Off
OpenGL Rendering GPU Select GPU here
Power Management Mode Prefer Max Performance
Shader Cache Driver Default
Monitor Technology Depends on Monitor
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) Off
Anisotropic Sample Optimization – Texture Filtering On
Negative LOD Bias – Texture Filtering Allow
Quality – Texture Filtering High Performance
Trilinear Optimization – Texture Filtering On
Threaded Optimization Auto
Triple Buffering Off
Vertical Sync Off

[İNDO ADAM]

can you tell me the nvidia settings as well?

[NOLAND3R]

@Ryo11129
You can paste them all to the console as one message. I would recommend to save them in some txt file on your desktop. No autoconfig for now :(

[Ryo11129]

Is there a way to get these commands to stick? Given the amount of crashes atm, it's gettin quiet annoying to put them in everytime.
I mean, in ASE I put the no clouds comman in once, and never had to do that again.

[Fdpulpe]

i juste have of 63 at 65 fps with command launch options after many test

[NOLAND3R]

@Stan
You can see the default settings in the description for some commands in the console

[Keebz]

heads up that the first part of the guide isn't necessary. Those are outdated commands from a bygone era that keep appearing in various places around the net. I don't think they are even made for Unreal engine.

[Hell_Hound_365]

I have a 3060 and am getting 120 FPS, all i did was change the in game FPS setting for 60 to 120, game runs fantastic.

[NOLAND3R]

@UsefulDust after you restart the game all the values of these commands will be set to default

[UsefulDust]

r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 |
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 |
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16 |
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0 |
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 |
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 |
r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0 |
r.VolumetricCloud 0 |
r.ShadowQuality 0 |
r.VolumetricCloud 0 |
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 |
show InstancedGrass |
show InstancedStaticMeshes |
r.VolumetricFog 0 |
sg.FoliageQuality 0 |
r.ContactShadows 0 |
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 |
r.MipMapLODBias -2 |
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0 |
grass.Enable 0 |

What is the default value for each command? Sorry for my english, I speak french