I just started playing Ark with a friend, it's an amazing game and I'd like to make a general thread about it, but unfortunately my friend is experiencing tons of crashes. I don't have any problems at all, but he crashes every 10 to 15 minutes without an error message. I've googled and found many people with the same problem, under different OSes and vaeious GPUs. Overheating doesn't seem to be the problem. The game is also freshly installed.
If any of you play this game and know of a fix for these crashes, I'd be glad to know!
I just started playing Ark with a friend, it's an amazing game and I'd like to make a general thread about it, but unfortunately my friend is experiencing tons of crashes. I don't have any problems at all, but he crashes every 10 to 15 minutes without an error message. I've googled and found many people with the same problem, under different OSes and vaeious GPUs. Overheating doesn't seem to be the problem. The game is also freshly installed.
If any of you play this game and know of a fix for these crashes, I'd be glad to know!
why are you asking here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/playark
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/
Because I've read 20 reddit and ark forums threads on this already that were all unhelpful and I know this community not to be dogshit, so perhaps someone knows the issue and will help.
Because I've read 20 reddit and ark forums threads on this already that were all unhelpful and I know this community not to be dogshit, so perhaps someone knows the issue and will help.
I'll bump this just once in hope someone here knows the problem. It's an nvidia driver crash btw, he uses a gtx 570 and (afaik) his drivers are recent. We ruled out overheating. Also, the crashes seem to be random really, yesterday there was none for over an hour but then (playing in the same area) there was one after 5 minutes.
If no one knows, I'll head over to reddit
I'll bump this just once in hope someone here knows the problem. It's an nvidia driver crash btw, he uses a gtx 570 and (afaik) his drivers are recent. We ruled out overheating. Also, the crashes seem to be random really, yesterday there was none for over an hour but then (playing in the same area) there was one after 5 minutes.
If no one knows, I'll head over to reddit
has he tried the various launch options ark comes with? lower memory etc?
the game itself is pretty badly optimized in it's stage
has he tried the various launch options ark comes with? lower memory etc?
the game itself is pretty badly optimized in it's stage
He used -nomansky -useallavailablecores and these ini additions, but there were crashes before he added them. He's not running out of ram; he might be running out of vram as he only has 1.5 GB, I can't check now because he's gone until tuesday, but I don't see how running out of vram would crash his driver, shouldn't it just lower gpu usage and make his game run badly? But his game didn't run any worse prior to the crashes. Also this would make no sense in light of the fact that he went an hour without crash once and after a restart crashed after 5 minutes in the same area.
The randomness of the crashes is the weird thing. The only plausible cause I can think of is overheating, but he turned his gfx fans to 100% using afterburner before playing and his cpu and ram temperatures were normal. Not sure about his gpu temp, maybe it overheated despite full fans but that would be weird since it's a custom asus 570 with good coolers, but I'll check that tuesday if there's no better explanation.
He used -nomansky -useallavailablecores and [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/38g04t/optimized_config_for_midend_cards_boots_fps/]these[/url] ini additions, but there were crashes before he added them. He's not running out of ram; he might be running out of vram as he only has 1.5 GB, I can't check now because he's gone until tuesday, but I don't see how running out of vram would crash his driver, shouldn't it just lower gpu usage and make his game run badly? But his game didn't run any worse prior to the crashes. Also this would make no sense in light of the fact that he went an hour without crash once and after a restart crashed after 5 minutes in the same area.
The randomness of the crashes is the weird thing. The only plausible cause I can think of is overheating, but he turned his gfx fans to 100% using afterburner before playing and his cpu and ram temperatures were normal. Not sure about his gpu temp, maybe it overheated despite full fans but that would be weird since it's a custom asus 570 with good coolers, but I'll check that tuesday if there's no better explanation.