FPS BOOST for ARK: Survival Ascended

This is a guide on how to boost you're FPS on ARK: Survival Ascended.
There is a description on all commands shown here, if you're not happy with how the game looks after using a command replace the "0" with a "1" and it will revert it back to normal.
Some of the said commands will change the game's look drastically, and some of them will be a minor change that will still boost FPS.
Also for the people who don't like commands I will show some settings that boost FPS, but not as much as commands.
Check the keybinding settings, and see on what key you open the console menu where you type the commands.
With that said here are the commands:

COMMANDS

r.VolumetricCloud 0

Removes volumetric clouds so the sky won't look as good, there will still be some coulds but they will be stationary and look more 2D-ish.

r.VolumetricFog 0

Removes fog in the distance and behind trees.

r.Fog 0

Removes all fog from the world.

r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0

Degrades water's quality to only one layer and makes it darker.

r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirectAllow 0

Drastically lowers game's look, use only if you're really looking for FPS and not looks.

Grass.Enable 0

Removes all non gatherable grass from the world.

r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0

Removes some virtual shadows.

r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0

Removes all shadows in distance.

r.ShadowQuality 0

Removes all shadows in the world.

r.MipMapLODBias 15

Makes you're game max performance and 0 looks, use ONLY if you're playing on a potato.

SETTINGS

Advanced Graphics-Medium

Changes overall graphics, but medium is totally enough no need to go higher.

Anti Aliasing-Low

Changes anti aliasing, doesn't change game's look much.

View Distance-Low

Changes view distance, everything around you will load in at a shorter distance.

Textures-High, Medium

Changes textures of units, impacts Vram.
If you have:
6+Vram-Epic or High
4+Vram-Medium
Anything lower-Low

Post Processing-Medium

Changes post processing, doesn't change game's look much.

General Shadows-Medium, Low

Changes looks of shadows, doesn't change FPS much so you're choice.

Global Illumination Quality-Medium

Changes illumination quality, very slight difference so it can go to high too.

Effects Quality-Medium

Changes effects quality, doesn't change game's look much.

Foliage Quality-Low

Changes foliage quality, big impact on FPS at most go to medium.

[johny_c(Karma)]

Danhimanez 24 mars 2024 à 11h39 
@Andy @xOhix There is a mod called Lilly's tweaker that will auto-execute console settings

How do you instal manually that mod in the files???

[TargetOne]

r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable is already set to 0 by default these days. And I find setting it to 1 actually improves my FPS much of the time (if only by a few frames). The game looks better with it on as well, most of the time.

[JustAStooge]

A reason why entire post walls of "lets improve performance" by different authors show up. They need to implement FSR 3 already.

[AlP]

this commands can boost your fps 30 to 120 in little loses

[Danhimanez]

@Andy @xOhix There is a mod called Lilly's tweaker that will auto-execute console settings

[YettimGazi]

@MelonHead use this r.MipMapLODBias 1

[Rowan]

i put these commands in the console and now my items in my inventory have no pictures

[ShidOnMyDic]

I put in all of the commands into the console and then saved the game (my game looked way better). I then got back on later the same day and they were all inactive; however still in my console command center. I couldn't reactivate them by pressing enter or retyping them in. Does anyone know a solution to this?

[Arcterian]

Try using
Grass.sizescale 0
instead.

[Hideous62]

Grass.Enable 0 seems to have stopped working - any idea ?