The important thing is that for the most part, things will scale equally across the various GPUs.įirst up, we have the normally tame 1080p medium, which is usually where the budget cards shine. If you're part of a tribe with a huge base and lots of dinosaurs, performance can drop below what I show-or in some areas of the game, performance may be better. I did do a few spot checks of performance on public servers as well, and found that in general the single-player benchmarks match up to what you'll see in less populated areas. I cleared out a nice beachfront property, built a humble starting shack with a bed and a few chests, and then got busy testing. To avoid these, I've elected to run in single-player mode, with a static time of day (6:59am). While in theory it would be best to test Ark on public servers, in practice that introduces a ton of variables that are difficult to account for-server performance, number of players, time of day, and performance altering adjustments to the environment-not to mention the ever-present possibility of getting clobbered by other players.
ARK 2 GRAPHICS PRO
In addition to the Aegis Ti3, I have the X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC for Skylake-X testing, Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon for additional Core i3/i5/i7 Kaby Lake CPU testing, X370 Gaming Pro Carbon for high-end Ryzen 7 builds, and the B350 Tomahawk for budget-friendly Ryzen 3/5 builds.įor the benchmark settings, I've used the medium and epic presets (with resolutions scaling set to 100), but because Epic is so demanding I've also included some minimum quality 4K testing for reference. For CPU testing, MSI also provided several different motherboards. Note that the GE63VR has replaced the GT62VR as the 1070 offering, with a sleeker, nicer looking build and a few updated components. MSI also provided three of its gaming notebooks for testing, the GS63VR with GTX 1060, GE63VR with GTX 1070, and GT73VR with GTX 1080. There's a 2TB hard drive for additional storage, custom lighting, and more. Our main test system is MSI's Aegis Ti3, a custom case and motherboard with an overclocked 4.8GHz i7-7700K, 64GB DDR4-2400 RAM, and a pair of 512GB Plextor M8Pe M.2 NVMe solid-state drives in RAID0. These cards are designed to be fast but quiet, and the fans will shut off completely when the graphics card isn't being used. MSI provided all of the hardware for this testing, mostly consisting of its Gaming/Gaming X graphics cards. Thankfully, with some judicious tweaks you can get decent performance on midrange and above GPUs without making the game look too ugly. The good news is that the lead isn't quite so pronounced as I've seen in other games, but the bad news is that anything short of the GTX 1080 Ti will fail to break 60 fps at 1080p epic-and even the 1080 Ti falls well below that mark at 1440p epic. I would also disable motion blur purely out of principle-I don't like games adding extra blur.Īs has been the case with many of our recent performance analysis articles, Nvidia hardware leads AMD across most of the product spectrum. Some of the biggest items you might want to turn down include post processing, all forms of shadows (including ambient occlusion), view distance, and high quality LODs. I cover these in detail below, but basically you can nearly triple performance by going from the epic preset to minimum quality-with an equally severe drop in image fidelity, naturally. Unlike some other games, many of the individual settings have a pretty sizeable impact on performance. If you want to render at a lower resolution, of course that can improve performance quite a bit. I've set the resolution scale to 100 for all the testing that follows. It's not clear precisely how the scaling affects performance, since the range is 0-100, but basically anything below 100 will render at a lower resolution. There are four presets that define most of the individual items (low, medium, high, and epic), but one thing to note is that the presets adjust the resolution scale by default-94 at epic, 82 at high, 73 at medium, and 55 at low. Thanks, MSI!Īrk comes with a slew of graphical settings as well-27 to be precise, not including a few additional options like resolution scaling.
ARK 2 GRAPHICS FULL
Full details of our test equipment and methodology are detailed in our Performance Analysis 101 article. As our partner for these detailed performance analyses, MSI provided the hardware we needed to test Ark: Survival Evolved on a bunch of different AMD and Nvidia GPUs, multiple CPUs, and several laptops-see below for the full details.
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