ARKhas always been a visually pleasing experience. However, bothARK: Survival Evolvedand the newly releasedARK: Survival Ascendedhave had some performance issues due to their massive scope. With the switch to Unreal Engine 5, a lot of those issues have been resolved. But even still, the new HD assets can cause some issues. We’ve put together anARK: Survival Ascendedoptimization guide to help increase your FPS and limit the performance issues you may encounter.
Steam Launch Arguments and Console Commands to optimizeARK: Survival Ascended
The first step for optimizingARK: Survival Ascendedis to enable the use of all of your CPU cores via Steam Launch Arguments. In Steam, right-click onARK: Survival Ascendedin your Library and then go to Properties. Under the General tab, scroll down to where it says Launch Options and input the following command:
-USEALLAVAILABLECORES
LaunchARK: Survival Ascended, and load in a map. Once in, you want to input a couple of Console commands. Open the console by hitting the tilda (~) key on your keyboard. Then enter the following console commands and hit enter after each one:
These two commands alone should increase your FPS by 10-20 without changing much. It just changes a general volumetric cloud and fog effect in the world.
If you want to increase your FPS even further, there are a few console commands that can do so. However, these commands can have a more noticeable effect on the visual appearance of the game, so you may want to revert them if the FPS increase does not feel worth the trade off.
ARK: Survival Ascendedvideo optimization settings
Now it’s time to change your video settings inARK: Survival Ascendedto further increase your FPS. Keep in mind these settings are intended to increase your FPS and optimize your game. If you are running on a more powerful computer, you may be able to change some of these settings to still have viable FPS.
InARK: Survival Ascendedhit Escape then go to Settings and then Video. First, make sure your resolution matches your screen resolution. Set the Resolution Scale to somewhere between 70-100 depending on how powerful your PC is.
From here, you want to set the following settings:
Then, on the right side, you want to change to the following settings as well:
This is a nice mix of keeping the visuals clean looking, while also optimizing and enhancing your FPS. If you followed thisARK: Survival Ascendedoptimization guide, you should know how to increase FPS.
