ARK: Survival Evolved's Performance Issues Remain After Its Release - Report

ARK: Survival Evolved, the highly successful dinosaur-themed survival game launched by Studio Wildcard a couple years ago on Steam Early Access, finally released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in late August.

The game's performance has e'er been one of the master points of criticism among players. The community had hoped to find major improvements with the game's full release, simply according to Digital Foundry, this is not quite the example.

Focusing on the console versions of ARK: Survival Evolved, they establish out that the game runs at disappointing 640p/720p on the base of operations PlayStation 4, depending on the chosen mode (normal or detail). Owners of a PlayStation iv Pro console can select normal mode and get 720p resolution, while detail way outputs the game at a native 1080p resolution; in all cases at 30 frames per second.

Microsoft's Xbox One port fares even worse. The game runs at 720p with no ability to choose normal or detail mode, and information technology doesn't even have 5-sync which means that ARK: Survival Evolved on Xbox 1 suffers from continuous tearing.

That's non as much every bit a trouble on PlayStation iv, but even there Studio Wildcard's implementation is far from flawless. The frame rate remains always uncapped, which is a problem as information technology can cause vehement. Digital Foundry's advice is to use the adaptive v-sync setting.

And then far your all-time option when it comes to consoles is to play the game on PlayStation 4 Pro, though the Xbox One 10 will accept the edge one time it launches on November 7th with its 1080p/60fps target every bit Studio Wildcard revealed to Wccftech at E3 2017.

Things aren't rosy on PC either, anyway. Russian website GameGPU tested ARK: Survival Evolved and the overall performance is still very much disappointing. At native 4K resolution and 'Ballsy' graphics settings, the mighty GTX 1080Ti can only manage an boilerplate of 25fps, meaning that you lot'd demand to have two of them to run the game smoothly at 4K resolution.

Hopefully, Studio Wildcard can still evangelize further performance improvements via patches.