ARK: Survival Ascended

ARK: Survival Ascended

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60+ FPS | BOOST YOUR ASA!
By 123
This guide will show you, how to improve your FPS in ASA!
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Before we gonna start, make sure to know you have to enable console option in ASA settings. Settings>ADVANCED>Console Access turn ON

A quick note for the players who wants to play ASA, make sure to have these specs min for the game.

LOW Settings: i5-10400F or more, GTX 1080 or RTX 2070 with 8x2 total 16 GB Ram as long as with SATA SSD.
MEDIUM Settings: i7-11700K or more, RTX 2080 Ti or 3080 with 16x2 total 32 GB Ram as long as with M2 SSD.
ULTRA Settings: i9-12900K or more, RTX 4070 or more with 16x2 32 GB Ram as long as with M2 SSD.

Even the game have some optimization problems as you guys know. Use these codes to improve your FPS more then 60 in the game!

● 1 - grass.densityScale 0 (First of and all most for the PVP players and improve FPS, minimize leafs all around the world!).
● 2 - grass.enable 0 (Disable most grass particles!).
● 3 - r.VolumetricCloud 0 (This code will turn off your clouds. It will improve your FPS insanely).
● 4 - r.Fog 0 (Get rid of the fog (Disable soggy clouds on ground... xD) ).
● 5 - r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 (Reduce nanite mesh).
● 6 - r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16 (Lumen optimization).
● 7 - r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 (For disable Lumen).
● 8 - r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 (Disable Water reflections).
● 9 - r.ShadowQuality 0 (Disable all shadows, shadow particles).
● 10 - r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 (Most important one! Boost maximum of your GPU VRAM usage for game!).

New options where you can directly copy all of them and paste at the same time in to ASA console while you are in game, server.

Slight boost for FPS
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.VolumetricFog 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 1 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2

Mid FPS with better quality
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 1 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 1 | r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 | r.ReflectionMethod 2 | r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 1 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.DiffuseIntegralMethod 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 1 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 2 | r.AntiAliasingMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.lightshaftquality 1 | r.LightShaftDownSampleFactor 4 | r.BloomQuality 0 | r.contactshadows 1 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0

MAX FPS with potato quality
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 0 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 8 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 3 | r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 | r.ReflectionMethod 0 | r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.DiffuseIntegralMethod 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 1 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 1 | r.AntiAliasingMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.lightshaftquality 0 | r.LightShaftDownSampleFactor 1 | r.BloomQuality 0 | r.shadowquality 0 | r.contactshadows 0 | foliage.DensityScale 0 | grass.enable 0 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0

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20 Comments
Pip-Boy Mar 16 @ 6:52pm 
@Palenor,
I save the file, but how do I open it in the game, just write the name?
I do this, but nothing happens, can you explain in more detail.
bootha195 Dec 21, 2024 @ 9:46am 
the command all in one go would be semi colon;

grass.densityScale 0; grass.enable 0; r.VolumetricCloud 0; r.Fog 0; r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4; r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16; r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2; r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0; r.ShadowQuality 0; r.Streaming.PoolSize 0
Blackbird_73_ Dec 21, 2024 @ 5:55am 
game does not even run? single player... and then freezes when you are setting up player? i think i need a better computer?
Renega Dec 20, 2024 @ 1:02pm 
i can't open console :( there is no change key option in settings
Nah I'd tunnel Dec 10, 2024 @ 11:18pm 
I still suffer, so many games that look better than this and run so much better like Elden Ring with graphic mods. While this looks like a chunk of shit with all those commands and still runs unplayable
CERBERUS Nov 21, 2024 @ 3:32pm 
where do u put these codes?
123  [author] Jul 24, 2024 @ 10:41pm 
@76561197970863426 Great tactic Wayne! I even didn't know it. 👍
Palenor Jul 24, 2024 @ 9:02pm 
Make a new file in notepad, name it what ever you want.
Place all the commands you want, one on each line.
Save it to you Steam folder for the game, mine is
C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Binaries
Save it as a .txt file (I saved mine as FPSBoost.txt)
when you start the game open the console command line and type in your file name. BOOM it loads all the commands at one time.
Your welcome

Here are all the commands I use:
r.Streaming.PoolSize 0
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0
r.grass.DensityQualityLevel 0
grass.sizescale 0.15
grass.densityScale 0
grass.enable 0
foliage.MaxTrianglesToRender 300000
r.Water.SingleLayer 0
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0
r.shadowquality 0
r.LensFlareQuality 0
r.Fog 0
r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0
Stat FPS
Chadamant Jul 16, 2024 @ 3:07pm 
@lagoon no cus that game is dogshit in comparison
123  [author] Apr 8, 2024 @ 2:13am 
@ghostslayer97 Sadly it keeps reset after you close the game, so every time.