BEST Optimization Guide | MAX FPS | Ark: Survival Evolved

Playing ARK: Survival Evolved now that it was free? Want to optimize the game for the best performance and visuals? Want more FPS out of your game? Don't worry, there are a lot of small changes and tips you can use to get the most out of your game. By the end, you should have a high, smooth FPS with this best settings optimization guide!
Nvidia Drivers: www.nvidia.com/Download/index...
AMD Drivers: www.amd.com/en/support
-high -useallavailablecores
Depends: -preferredprocessor 16 (Set to max threads -- check Task Manager (Logical Processors))
Optional: -sm4 -dx10 -lowmemory
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Explanation
0:25 - General Windows Optimization tips
1:08 - Launch Arguments
3:07 - ARK Best In-game Settings
7:11 - Extra optimization - CFG Optimization
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Everything in this video is my personal opinion and experience, and should not be considered professional advice. Always do your own research and make sure what you're doing is safe.

[@yassine0152]

Bro there is no way i did everything u said in the video and now i have sooo smooth fps first i had like so much fps drops and stuff and now everything is so smooth ur a live saver THANK YOU SO MUCH! this deservs a like and a sub

[@josephh7448]

Well done man, you've payed a lot of attention to detail while making this, awesome job thanks a ton✌

[@melvinrouwhorst962]

Thanks a lot man!!! it was a great guide!!

[@alphatitan6854]

Went from 7fps in my base to 30 thanks so much

[@olivere5318]

Ark moment haha

[@Brot777]

Nice bro

[@crpticred6992]

You can’t turn off Dino’s tag when in your base by doing it in your settings or by pressing end on keyboard

[@Frankthemannn]

bro gaming on a moshchops

[@user-mp7ux5nc1s]

How were u playing😢

[@oooh_the_bank]

this helped me so much, i bought ark a week ago on my laptop and i had very bad performance but after this video my game was smooth and not 400 pixels wide

[@jeremynachtman4626]

Very well explained, best I've seen by far 👍

[@bL4ckSalamander]

Pretty decent explanation but I would add some sort of before n after or benchmark for people some like to see the difference visually on your machine with said changes applied and the before ones also.

[@parvdeepdeswal9407]

I mean his pc is amazing so I doubt we would see much of a difference lol

[@cosmix1829]

AMAZING! My ark was running at a solid 10-15 FPS while looking at anywhere other than the sky, however after this guide it is a SMOOTH 40-60! actually amazing, thank you so much!!!

[@cosmix1829]

@mermoudechakal9926 are you talking about the new one or the old one?

[@Every1luvsali]

old one new one is literally a headache have spent 5k hours on ark evolved and it's definitely a masterpiece the new one doesn't have any optimization 😂 i have a 3080 and it gives me 32-26 fps on 1440p high and 1080 medium is 60-50 fps that's just wild ​@@cosmix1829

[@Duonic]

Thanks! I can't believe the coincidence! I just installed a bunch of games and ARK was one of them.

[@nickgaming4869]

ive had ark for 7 years now and it still one of the best games ive played hope you are enjoying it

[@djthashock]

No §hit Talking straight to the Point!! If you had a Settings Drop menu i will put it to EPIC!

[@konghugo6534]

yo after these i got up to 150-165 instead of the 30-60 before, thanks so much best vid so far

[@user-ht8dq5zp3k]

Thank you mate !!! Really good job !!! Well done !!!👍

[@cesaramaral7007]

Thank you! I was getting sub 30fps using a R7 2700X + 3070TI. Only thing I changed was having Screen Space Ambient Occlusion on, and I'm getting 65-70fps, without lowering the resolution scale.

[@gyno123]

Where is ambient occlusions

[@cyathoris7530]

@@gyno123 in the in game graphics setting on the right column

[@JDGaming977]

Thank you just got a victus and it has a RX 6400(I will upgrade soon). This video plus the windows 11 optimization got me up to 100 fps. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@Frogman1967]

Thank you, I'll give it a try :D

[@Arkiplayerrr]

Love this Thank you so much i went to 20 to 104!! Thank you so so so so much

[@mrmladic8784]

Thank you my man you helped a lot

[@SlaniXD]

Thank you so much man!

[@portman8909]

I don't recommend turning them all off if you can. Otherwise your game looks like shit. Here's what I'd go with: World Tile Buffers: Epic to High View Distance: Epic to High Anti aliasing: Medium to Low Post Processing: Medium to Low General Shadows: Medium to Low Terrain Shadows: Low Textures: Epic to High Ground clutter destiny and distance: To the lowest option slider all the way to left Mesh level detail: Lowest option, slider all the way to left. The only boxes I'd tick are: High Quality Antistrophic Filtering, screen space ambient occlusion, distance field shadowing, sub surface scattering, high quality LOD's, and color grading

[@andrejdavidovic8935]

I play on lowest graphics for 20 fps

[@veervaishnav2876]

That's actually pretty nice bro Thanks a bunch!

[@veervaishnav2876]

@@andrejdavidovic8935 Sed life man

[@arthuraslan]

still using the same settings?

[@starboy5am639]

My friend got me super into this game but i have a cheap pc from amazon, it works super well with most games including payday and modded mc with high end shaders, but it struggled a bit with arc, im hoping this helps and ill bve looking at your pc optimization video! thank you alot!

[@aymanchtourou8358]

It helped?

[@Alex-gf5xn]

Wtf i have a gtx1080 and can't play modded minecraft with good shaders smoothly i get like ~50-60 fps that doesn't even look like 50-60 fps because of minecrafts bad optimization

[@starboy5am639]

@@Alex-gf5xn L

[@Superoeli]

​@@Alex-gf5xn Use Sodium :D

[@feherdaniel2010]

Going from almost everything on epic to doing everything in this video including -sm4 and -dx10, I went from 42 to 49 fps on crystal isles on an rtx2070s/ryzen 5 5600x. Amazing.

[@Xurety]

Play on high and turn off terrain shadows decrease ground clutter change your nvidia panel to performance

[@feherdaniel2010]

@@Xurety I did do all that, sadly nothing really helps. Crystal Isles is just like that I guess

[@Unknown_Number]

@@feherdaniel2010 nah i get alot higher fps on lesser parts you are definitely messing something up ci is not just like that

[@LawIsNotGay]

@@feherdaniel2010 same dude ;-; crystal isles is fr annoying

[@HellexTRU]

crystal isles is just a big map thats why content creators mostly play the map in a server because it removes a ton of load their pc

[@DoggoKindaHigh]

Bro this guy is a giga chad. I was around 60 fps pretty bad pc and graphics and went to 200 fps with good graphics! If you have time do try this!

[@DARK_R3AP3R]

Bro you changed how I play now I would get 50 70 and now I get up to 110 fps thank you

[@rulius7853]

For everyone that is on steam and still is having issues, delete all ur mods and clean ur files, after that u can re-install them

[@TabiTheCat]

pssst. world tile buffers LITERALLY HELPS PERFORMANCE BECAUSE IT BUFFERS LOAD ZONES. just incase you thought he looked it up or something

[@xxvaporlogicxx3051]

@TheGamblerman yeah

[@defnotmylo]

@Gogi Poggers hell no man

[@zanteriia]

@Gogi Poggersno

[@zanteriia]

@Gogi Poggers ok?

[@JackOLanternnn]

My fps just jumped from 30 to 60

[@scorpion5280]

very good video, works for me

[@7kortos7]

what exactly does the high- command do? edit: is that the priority for the game?

[@Eren_Dark]

nice came from 30 fps down to 13! Thx for the help!

[@datle235]

nice bro, im from 30fps to 100 fps, thanks you so much

[@nikopolflemmings9062]

Ty so much! Worked like a charm!

[@wes3d]

we still can do this changes on INI after the INI patch?

[@Brot777]

Very good guide my fps 30->100

[@hazmipatria5473]

It's even playable with intel iris xe 96eu with this guide. Thank you 🎉

[@doritoemperor2802]

Went from 16 to 57 thanks bro ❤

[@MetalSniperHD]

Me watching this in basically 2024 for my rtx3060ti, foolish of me even thinking i could handle ASA

[@bekobbe]

Thanks, My Ark So Much Smooth Now.

[@OceanShark384]

Thank you!

[@motosoul35]

THANK YOU!!!

[@ogSilvio]

when i walk away from structures they look worse, i tried fixing it but now they are looking worse from lower distance, Any idea how to fix it?

[@BarcaTactics]

textures and render distance

[@reaperpiko2777]

Omg thank you before my shadowmanes were looking like plastic toys whit operas optimisation, your a legend

[@4rk4L1f3]

Great video.... Got a fix for the BattlEye bullshit? I cant run ARK with steam. I have to browse to local files and run the .exe from there... Thanks

[@xwF4T4L1TYwx]

I need to know where you got that wallpaper at the beginning!!!

[@randomgames9025]

I have a problem i play at 1920x1200 and it looks really bad my monitor is 16:10 i tried to use DSR to improve quality but it didn't make better

[@GetDisciplined612]

Is it just me or what because when i search for ark at the library i don t show up but when i do this at the store then yes

[@ElGuacamoleMunchers]

THANKS I WENT FROM 14 TO 37-45 FPS❤❤❤

[@Corsa1r130]

Thank you so much i went from 6fps in my fibercraft base to 20

[@jorgefernando7340]

very good my friend

[@demirbaykul]

thanks bro went from 40 to 70 thank you

[@lykos3516]

where do you go for epic games settings?

[@foaduk9118]

i managed to get ARK for free. My pc specs are I3-3220 cpu AMD radeon HD 7700(1GB Vram) GPU 8GB of RAM These are below the steam minimum listed requirements and im supprised i can even run the game at 1960x1080 resolution on lowest settings with a solid 30-60 fps. From what ive heared the game is really unoptimised but from my experiecne its been runny very well even better than minecraft somehow

[@damithviduranga7111]

all the mods and general settings keep changing after re log to the game. why is that?

[@MistixMC]

I LOVE YOU BRO! from 7 in my non dedicated to 30!

[@uchihasira8262]

I play ark through Xbox what should i do for launch options there's no launch option in xbox app

[@buckoludak6969]

Thanks so much

[@H4_555]

thx bro❤ my fps increase about 15 fps from 20 to 35

[@k1ng953]

Ive been playing with i5-4th gen, integrated graphics, 8gb ram, and a 240gb ssd

[@reggarf6876]

I wanted to know that is this you original voice or you have edited it?

[@TroubleChute]

My actual voice for the most part

[@DannyFromBG]

Wallpaper?

[@itsmine5373]

I played 440 hours in 30-40 fps and I got sick of it.I will say right away my PC is:CPU-xeon e5-2660v2,GPU-1070,ram-16gb,ssd-512gb,ddr-1tb.I have deleted the game several times because of my 30 fps.I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles and even asked people around, but nothing helped.I tried to play on the official server, but there are 15-20fps.I am very disappointed with your fps. I hope I will find help here thank you in advance

[@AdonisGaming93]

im getting severe stuttering everytime I turn around or look around...which did not happen when I played the game a year ago.... it's worse now that I have a newer graphics card and better PC and cpu.... what a game...

[@yixuan7043]

Thanks the developers for thier "amazing" optimizations

[@winterdragon275]

I only have 4 logical processors.... how bad is that?

[@dragonboy-gx9lx]

thx so much

[@twojstary5407]

this is the best guide for real my game looks better and i got more fps thanks for that

[@hennypuur6363]

how can i change the font of all names etc.

[@Josoni122]

what is your wallpaper?

[@CDuff86]

While this worked, you're essentially running the game on potato mode. I have a 5900x and 3080 Ti. I SHOULDN'T need to drop this game to ultra low just to see 70-90 FPS. Wildcard is such hot garbage. I really hope this level of optimization isn't needed to run ARK 2. Thanks for the walkthrough.

[@Pooka_]

Something is wrong with your pc lmao, my gtx 1650 laptop gets more than 100 fps even without running it with these optimizations...

[@CDuff86]

@@Pooka_ no you don't. I assure you my system is fine. I hold a #1 spot in 3DMark and other games run just fine. I expect 4k quality and WELL over 60FPS. At 1440p, I expect over 100

[@ALEX-WTF-ds4pe]

Это глупость, в этой игре хоть 4090 поставь, ничего не даст, у кого там хорошо всё это хорошо в определённом месте, при пустой застройке, в зонах где просадка просадка сильная у абсолютно любого железа. с 1080 на 3080ti пересел фпс еле вырос

[@jstrength4421]

@@CDuff86 So oddly im running a 3070 16gb ram, on a fairly new intel cpu, ark is located on a ssd. I play single player with 30 mods, mainly mods adding new content dinosaurs/ect. I have 144hz monitor 1080p but was upscaling to 4k, for a long time I was hitting 60+ fps, then after about 20 hours of gameplay the game literally dropped frames everywhere, and was really stressing the temps on my cpu. I am going to agree I think this and an engine issue, not a PC issue.

[@CDuff86]

@@jstrength4421 the Devs all but gave up on this game and it shows. It shouldn't be so sporadic, ya know?

[@releasekraken7759]

Can you help me? I’m on steam and no matter what I do I can’t go above 60fps. My cpu and gpu are crazy good so where is the cap of my FPS located so I can turn it off lol?

[@Yousaneim]

Is your monitor 60hz

[@Xurety]

Nvidia control panel

[@dracobluz3041]

My device wont let me edit using notepad why? I can't edit it

[@karadesorkakuda]

i dont know my ark is just broken i do everything but nothing happens a few days ago i have tons of fps but now 15. i dont know whats wrong with it i have a ryzen 5 cpu 32gb ram and a gtx 1650 im disappointed :(

[@LegacyGaming_youtube]

Can i use this on settiñg on any steam game

[@bossprime5798]

Went from 60 fps to 120 thanks

[@Kjolyy]

i got ark on pc gamepass how can i do the first part?

[@exoduss6334]

my game wont start now I dont know what I did wrong

[@bojandjedovic9910]

How do i restart for settings that nead it

[@Asilovelowendgamezz]

I tried ark on my low end laptop it's dual core and 4gb I was getting 12 to 20 fps then I upgrade it to 8gb of ram I got 29 to 40 highest 60

[@keineahnungdikka8517]

wtf are y’all talking about i’m having a ryzen 5 5600x 8gb ram and gtx 1080 ti play on epic and with mods and still have 55-60fps

[@Deenio]

-high doesn’t work in 2023, still need to manually do it

[@ShmanTheMan]

seeing your audio settings scares me....

[@notdaniics]

Hi. I did all of this, but when i play like 1-2 hours, maybe a little more, my pc freezes sometimes even turns off, and idk why because i have RTX 3050 and i7-10700K with 16 RAM. I really wanna play Ark and complete it, but it scares me that it turns off my pc and freezes.

[@reefer6587]

Try checking your temps. Your components are probably running too hot

[@notdaniics]

@Reefer Yeah, that was the problem, and Idk how to stop overheating. I can only play like 1 hour and a half staying in the base, and if I wanna fly somewhere, it will crash even faster. So I have no idea how i can normally complete ark relaxed and not think that i have to leave ark so my pc can cool down

[@reefer6587]

@@notdaniics temporary solution would be to keep your case open while playing ark. If that isn't enough, put a fan in front of your pc. You might have to get a better cpu cooler and add more system fans. Try asking people you know, they might have a better input on your overheating problem.

[@chester0711]

Traduce esto: Eso que te sucede es debido a que ARK no tiene una opción para limitar la frecuencia de actualización a 60 fps, y por esta razón tu GPU se encuentra trabajando siempre al 100% de su capacidad, la solución es configurar un archivo del juego para limitar los fps a 60 (hay videos de eso) para que tu tarjeta no se sobre carge.

[@notdaniics]

@Chester07 Thanks. But I have already fixed the problem by resettingmy pc

[@Iwuwuwh]

I don't need FPS, but I have a different problem, I did every setting to high but the game still looks bad, and I have no idea why.

[@yixuan7043]

Because ark just looks bad the game has shitty and messy code,their is no fix

[@PyXee.]

My map is blurry can someone help?

[@alsobe3D]

i have an rtx 4070 but my cpu only has 4 cores...

[@BildiARK]

Tell me with this assembly there will be at least a small FPS at low? I5-6500 Geforce 1030 GT 4 gb 16 gb ram 2666MHz?

[@crabdonut868]

Old graphic cards? I have q gtx 775M not that good can someone tell me if I should put dx10?

[@yixuan7043]

Yes is old

[@bensalmon2949]

I’m getting a 4090 so I can play 60fps at 1080p high settings

[@pavlepetrovic9529]

I have 3060 ti and about 100hps at 1080p

[@pavlepetrovic9529]

All epic

[@bodorerik9014]

bro with a 4090 you can play on 4k epic settings and you will have 70-80 fps

[@ohhkennny766]

I have a OC 6600 xt and I get around 100-120fps on all max settings, so yes you'll definitely be able to get insane FPS with a 4090 lol you'd probably get like 200+ fps on all max settings if your GPU is well optimized

[@brunosalvatore890]

YOUR VOICE IS CRAZY

[@edgarsantos7782]

Hi, thanks for the guide. I've been playing with my wife on a dedicated server that I have setup on my machine. We've been playing for days, when suddendly while playing she got kicked out with a timeout error, and we tried public official server as well, and same result. The map is fjordur. Her computer has 16Gb of ram, and a 1080gtx cpu - i7-7700 Would this be a problem with the computer not handling the map? I thought the timeout error was due to networking. That been said, I will try these settings to see if it fixed the problem.

[@TabsAnDabs]

It sounds more to me like her pc is dropping connection breifly. I'd check her motherboard website under the support tab for updated wif and Lan drivers. I was dealing with something similar the other day with Battlefield and it turned out when I setup dns settings on my router, I forgot to take the same dns settings off from windows within the network adapter - causing my game to drop connection.

[@edgarsantos7782]

@@TabsAnDabs Thanks for the reply, I don't think that was the problem. As she was only crashing on the new map - fjordur - in our private dedicated server, or public servers. We decided to serve "the island" and we have been playing for 20+ hours, and not one crash. Could it be fjordur is a resource hog and a 7700HQ+1080mobile can't deal with? I won't think it's the difference port I used for our dedicates server, and I said she would crash on the public servers as well after some minutes in the fjordur map. Maybe the i7-7700HQ can't really work well with it?

[@Xurety]

@@edgarsantos7782 This was 2 months ago hope you’ve fixed it but all i know is that its not your CPU since i have a i5-6500 and i do not crash on fjordur 1080 and i7-7700 is really good and should run ark just fine it probably has something to do with your connection i would even try a fresh install of windows and see if that fixes things

[@Glock19GT]

I mean i was playing with a 1060 on it without problems

[@Unknown_Number]

this is a glitch if you are still dealing with it theres vids online on how to fix it has nothing to do with specs hope i could help even though im late

[@dominik8711]

Bro i Went from 60fps to 110fps plus i incresed graphics quality i wish i had some money to donate you

[@BandE99]

Thanks I got 30 fps to 60 thanks

[@TheRealMichaelJonesJr]

Zhong Xina 30.3 hrs played recently

[@stratosphere2493]

My game takes 40 min to open and after this it went to 2 hours

[@darkstorm3974]

i have a question, is 4 logical proccesors bad?

[@konniesmitt8268]

not a very strong cpu by my standards, but im still learning.

[@IBimmsJohn]

uh yes

[@PaffDaddyTR]

How can I enable DLSS for arc? Anyone knows?

[@operatorzito]

I dont think ark has dlss, there's only a set amount of games that have it.

[@Tipsyfr]

doesnt save

[@ZookeeperJim]

Hey man, this video would be more useful if you showed what in game looked like after. This is WAY too ugly for me to be willing to play it.

[@LightnixBH]

frl

[@Carnados]

it vary much did not work...

[@granvillesteele4655]

I did this and went down to a range of 0.36-1.2 fps. Why?

[@ken6056]

Just stick to older games if it's running that badly lol

[@hunterouni]

we want raft the last update

[@rudep3222]

I dont need a video to tell me to turn most graphics settings on low, bruh

[@Bobjaan12]

When i did it it looked like ark mobile and i did it on a good pc