Ieldra
I Promise to RTFM
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Rough edges and performance aside this is one of the most interesting games of recent times
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What settings are you guys playing on to maximize eye candy and performance? This game has insanely bad performance or it is just incredibly good looking...I suspect it is a bit of both. For one, SLI is not supported...and at 1440p I still get around 30 FPS! My settings are below - any tips?
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EDIT: and I am using the "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES" launch option...it didn't change anything for me, performance-wise.
For good SLI feel free to try:
Nvidia Inspector with SLI bit 0x080000F1
I put about 80 hours into ARK then got bored due to no one to play with.
True, it does shine on a local server with a buddy PvE or "friendly" PvP...I have not played much on public servers...I think there are some 'bot' mods to make bot tribes to fight but I have no idea if they are any good. Anybody try those?
"Friendly" PVP is the way to go. Sure - sometimes you get raped and just have to start over - but sometimes you meet cool peeps and it is fun as hell, too. I can't imagine PVE. Too basic.
Primitive tech only can make PvE cool...bunch of friends around a t-rex with spears...
custom servers have different tame ratesThat does sound cool.
I tried taming a dino yesterday, wow...what a time suck. Pop berries into it for hours. Ended up just killing it.
What settings are you guys playing on to maximize eye candy and performance? This game has insanely bad performance or it is just incredibly good looking...I suspect it is a bit of both. For one, SLI is not supported...and at 1440p I still get around 30 FPS! My settings are below - any tips?
[click to enlarge]
EDIT: and I am using the "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES" launch option...it didn't change anything for me, performance-wise.
custom servers have different tame rates
I play on a single card and it rarely dips to 30fps
1440p, render scale 100%
everything on EPIC except
terrain shadows medium
general shadows high
view distance high
distance field AO off, motion blur off
ingame press tab to open console
type
'r.bloom 0'
'r.lightshafts 0'
Thank you, thank you. This is HUGE! Along with schoenda's SLI tip I now get around 70 FPS and it looks about the same.
RE: custom servers - my next guy will definitely be on a custom server. Now I am just on OfficialServer32 so it's vanilla.
random but amusing, on one of the custom servers I met this tribe and they gave me a gift; a quetzal
so i started being an enormous troll, airlifting titanboas and dropping them inside people's buildings xD
That's so awesome. Exactly something I would do haha.
I had my first flight experience a couple of days ago when a high level dude dropped by to say hi. He took me to some mountains for some crystal so I could make a spyglass. I got a bit too greedy and ran off from him a bit and ended up getting killed by some high level insects. He felt bad so he gave me a bunch of gear including a pistol. Next day some dude named "THE INCREDIBLE HULK" who was level 200 just bowled over me and jacked my shit. Left my house alone though at least. Ah ARK.
Another funny anecdote, I started playing on the global pvp severs.
I noticed almost all the English speaking players hated the Chinese.
Turns out Chinese players were super aggressive and had become infamous for their raids.
Turns out they all made black characters so they were camouflaged at night.
Me and my tribe ended up attacking black people on sight, assuming they were Chinese.
10/10 would be racist again xD
ha hilarious. i heard some rumblings about the Chinese on my server (OfficialServer32) - they seem to be pretty against them. the nature of PVP, I guess!!
that bloom is too strong
add me on steam, same user and picture as here, i can join you
I can play, but I'm in eu, send me the name of your server I'll check my latency on itanybody playing today?