Performance – With these graphics settings the game runs more smoothly

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If you don’t have a high-end PC, the performance of ARK: Survival Ascended will probably be modest for you. We’ll show you how you can get more FPS.

Studio Wildcard has surprisingly released ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam and scores with fans with really beautiful graphics. A big point of criticism of the survival game is the performance, because it is currently anything but good.

We want to show you some graphics settings that will keep ARK: Survival Ascended looking good and running significantly better.

ARK: Survival Ascended is shown for the first time in the trailer

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ARK: Survival Ascended: Graphics settings

Below we will go through the graphics settings of ARK: Survival Ascended with you and show you what should be set and how so that you can achieve more FPS in the dinosaur adventure. We have shown you the settings that are particularly important according to the YouTuber “Kephren” in bold.

General – Video

  • Resolution: native or 1920×1080 (depending on what gives you more FPS)
  • Window mode: fullscreen
  • Advanced Graphics: Medium
  • Anti Aliasing: Low to Medium
  • View Distance: Medium
  • Textures: Epic
  • Post Processing: Medium
  • General Shadows: Low
  • Global Illumination Quality: Medium
  • Effects Quality: Medium
  • Foliage Quality: Medium
  • Motion blur: off
  • Light Bloom: off
  • Light Shafts: off
  • Low light enhancement: off
  • Enable Foliage & Fluid Interaction: off
  • Foliage Interaction Distance Multiplier: 2
  • Foliage Interaction Distance Limit: 1.5
  • Foliage Interaction Quantity Limit: 1
  • Enable Footsteps Particles: off
  • Enable Footsteps Decals: On
  • GUI 3D Widget Quality: 0.5

    • General – RTX

    If you have an “Nvidia GeForce RTX” graphics card, you can also set the following:

  • Nvidia DLSS: on
  • Frame generation: on (only available for the 40 series)
  • Super Resolution: Quality

    • ARK: Survival Ascended isn’t the only new game to suffer from performance issues. The recently released city building simulation Cities: Skylines 2 also struggles with weak performance and few FPS.

    Even the developers of Cities: Skylines 2 are rather skeptical:

    Sounds like the developers don’t want you to play the hot new building game when it’s released

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