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High-Quality Lods Ark: Graphics Settings Explained Guide
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Updated onDecember 4, 2023
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The full version of ARK: Survival Evolved came as a treat for allaction-survival gamesfans. However, there still are a lot of rough edges and optimization issues. So, to give you the best possible playing experience, we’ve prepared a guide for the bestgraphicssettings for the best gameplay.
How to set ARK: Survival Evolved graphics for seamless gameplay?
1. Minimum and recommended system requirements
First and foremost, you’ll have to be sure your PC can run the game. These are the game’ssystem requirements:
ARK: Survival Evolved minimumsystem requirements:
ARK: Survival Evolved recommendedsystem requirements:
As you can see, the game’s minimum requirements are not hard to achieve. However, remember that with these specs, the game will run at 15-20 FPS — not exactly the most desired experience with an open-world game.
Because of that, we advise you toupgrade your PCin order to play the game with at least 60 FPS. The stronger yourgamingrig is, the better the experience you can expect.
Developers should optimize the game forDX12before the full release, which is one reason to acquire the DX12-compatible card. Until then, you can use your old GPUs to optimize the gameperformance/graphics.
If you’re not sure what your exact system specs are, you can use Steam to check them out.
2. DirectX 10 improves performance but impacts graphics
As developers said, users with older PCs can run the game in DX10 for betterperformance. You can change the DX version ARK is running on by following these instructions:
Keep in mind that even though this command can give you some extra FPS, it can cause various issues. Some users reported GPU crashes and glitches. If you experience some of those, try disabling it.
3. Standard Graphics Setup for Best Quality/Performance
Once you make sure your computer can run the game without FPS issues, move on to its in-game settings. We’ll walk you through every option as many of them can impact FPS or boost/lower overall gameperformance:
If you’re gettinghigh FPS drops inWindows 10, follow this guide to find useful solutions.
4. Advanced Graphic Setup for Best Quality/Performance
This options menu is enabled only for users that play with DX11. It offers many advanced features that let you improve the game looks and immersive nature. These are the options and tips for their use:
Additionally, have in mind that, with the powerful PC you can use any of the features to your liking. On the other hand, for the ones with the older machines, this can be a helpful read.
In order to use Advanced Settings, you’ll have to use the default Launch option without command inputs.
If you’re looking toincrease your FPS, take a look at this step-by-step guide that will help you do just that.
5. Additional tweaks to improve in-game graphics
There are several additional tweaks you can employ to improve FPS and all-aroundperformance. However, there are few drawbacks reported by users.
On some occasions, those tweaks can lead to crashes. So, we advise you to try them out and look for yourself:
You can also try to optimize your PC. This way, you’ll make sure that you get the best chance at a goodgamingexperience. To do that, take a look at this article with thebest optimizer software for Windows 10.
That’s our guide for setting up the ARK: Survival Evolved graphics settings. We hope you’ll find them helpful and manage to improve gameplay while maintaining a decent visual experience at the same time.
These tips can also help with Ark Survival Ascended, the game’s newest version, and help you prevent issues likeservers not showing up; read this guide to learn more.
If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the subject, please tell us in the comments.
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Today he is managing the affiliate revenue for Windows Report, a Reflector Media website and studies the online marketing field.
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