Best PC settings for ARK Survival Ascended: High FPS, graphics, more
Studio WildcardARK Survival Ascended is the latest title from Studio Wildcard, which rebuilds the original ARK game from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5. If you’re wondering about the game running on your system, here are the best PC settings to run ARK Survival Ascended optimally.
You can play ARK Survival Ascended in early access to try your hand at the new survival game on the market. However, the game’s performance on PC may have left you displeased and the demanding system requirements do little to help.
Since the game is just in early access as of now, you can expect the performance to be optimized with a future patch. However, you can still make certain changes in your settings to make your game look stunning as well as perform reasonably well.
On that note, here are the best PC settings for ARK Survival Ascended.
- Best PC settings for high FPS in ARK Survival Ascended
- Best PC settings for graphics in ARK Survival Ascended
- ARK Survival Ascended system requirements
Studio WildcardBest PC settings for high FPS in ARK Survival Ascended
It is difficult to get extremely high FPS in ARK Survival Ascended due to its optimization, but using DLSS, and turning down major settings like Bloom and Global Illumination can boost your FPS by a lot.
Here are the best PC settings for high FPS in the game:
- Advanced Graphics: Low
- View Distance: Low
- Textures: Low
- Post Processing: Low
- General Shadows: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Effects Quality: Low
- Foilage Quality: Low
- Motion Blur: Off
- Light Bloom: Off
- Light Shafts: Off
- Low-Light Enhancement: Off
- Enable Foliage & Fluid Interaction: Off
- Foilage Interaction Distance Multiplier: 0.01
- Foilage Interaction Distance Limit: 1
- Enable Footstep Particles: Off
- Enable Footstep Decals: Off
- GUI 3D Widget Quality: 0.5
These are the lowest settings possible that you can use in the game but keep in mind that you will still need a high-end graphics card such as the RTX 3080 or 4070 to achieve this.
Studio WildcardBest PC settings for graphics in ARK Survival Ascended
Although using the Epic preset in ARK Survival Ascended might sound tempting if you have a beefy GPU like the RTX 4090, we do not recommend using it. With the game still in early access, you should turn down a few settings even with an RTX 4090.
Here are the best PC settings for graphics in the game:
- Advanced Graphics: Low
- View Distance: Medium
- Textures: High
- Post Processing: High
- General Shadows: High
- Global Illumination Quality: Medium
- Effects Quality: Medium
- Foilage Quality: High
- Motion Blur: Off
- Light Bloom: On
- Light Shafts: On
- Low-Light Enhancement: On
- Enable Foliage & Fluid Interaction: On
- Foilage Interaction Distance Multiplier: 0.5
- Foilage Interaction Distance Limit: 1
- Enable Footstep Particles: On
- Enable Footstep Decals: On
- GUI 3D Widget Quality: 0.5
Alongside this, playing the early access in 1440p is recommended instead of 4K if you have an RTX 4090, and 1080p if anything lower than an RTX 4080.
ARK Survival Ascended system requirements
Here are the minimum and recommended system requirements to run ARK Survival Ascended on a PC:
| Minimum specifications | Recommended specifications | |
|---|---|---|
| OS: | Windows 10/11 64-bit | Windows 10/11 64-bit |
| CPU: | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-6800K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X or Intel Core i5-10600K |
| GPU: | AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT or Nvidia GeForce 1080, 6 GB VRAM | AMD Radeon RX 6800 or Nvidia RTX 3080, 12 GB |
| Memory: | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| Storage: | 70 GB | 70 GB |
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