If you don’t own a high-end PC, the performance of ARK: Survival Ascended is likely modest for you. We show you how to get more FPS.
Studio Wildcard has surprisingly released ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam and can score points with fans due to its really beautiful graphics. A major criticism of the survival game is the performance, as it is currently anything but good.
We want to show you some graphics settings that allow ARK: Survival Ascended to continue looking good while running significantly better.
ARK: Survival Ascended: Graphics Settings
Below, we go through the graphics settings of ARK: Survival Ascended with you and show what should be set how to achieve more FPS in the dino adventure. The settings that are particularly important according to the YouTuber “Kephren” are highlighted for you.
General – Video
- Resolution: native or 1920×1080 (depending on what brings 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 additionally set the following:
- Nvidia DLSS: on
- Frame generation: on (only available for the 40 series)
- Super Resolution: Quality
ARK: Survival Ascended is not the only new game that suffers from performance issues. The recently released city-building simulation Cities: Skylines 2 also struggles with poor performance and low FPS.
Even the developers of Cities: Skylines 2 are rather skeptical:
Sounds like the developers really don’t want you to play the hot new building game at release
