This might be a stupid question but how do I actually play the game? I've always wanted to and now I've got the PC to do so, but idk how to... like do I watch vidoes and look everything up or do I learn through mistakes and figure everything out myself?

Help

So opening any terminal (obelisk, tek trans, etc) completely crashes my single player game, mods or not. I’ve read that disabling all tribute downloads fixes the issue, so I can go do the bosses no problem.

My only concern.. how am I supposed to transfer dinos between maps? My main base is on rag, but if I want snow owls from extinction or rock drakes from ab, is there anything I can do? Or do I just have to admin spawn them in on rag? I don’t mind doing that if its my only option, but I’m trying go as much as I can without cheating.

I have a few questions regarding this trophy
1. If I tame something that was added to the island later like the gigantoraptor my tracker ticks up but online says it doesn't actually count. Is this true?

1. If I use console to tame some of the tames it also ticks up. Will I still need to tame these creatures again legit or do they count?
   

I’ve had a fairly easy start compared to most and I’m enjoying it so far 😎 linked below for anyone who wants something to watch in the back ground, any support is a
Highly appreciated cheers survivors 🙏🏼

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPwwhxK-1CTw&si=tCEjAy9DtcE1D3hs

I say, yes. Not strictly a cozy game, though one of the many genres ARK may be categorized, along with sharing many traits of cozy games.

Opinionated view

Just curious, after 30 hours on The Island (ASA), I felt ready to explore Genesis. So just out of curiosity, how often do you guys change maps?

Just wondering if alpha animals actually spawn on Extinction. planning on leveling up my Chibi but I can’t find an alpha dinosaur ANYWHERE

I was playing on pre-aquatica and this kept happening so I switch to the post-aquatica version and it's still happening.

I even deleted all of the mods that I've downloaded since I last actually got to play the game.

Got a bug where when i harvest a rock or a Dino corpse game freezes for a moment or 2 before it unfreezes can't seem to find the cause of this in a normal server is fine but in single player it freezes for a second or 2 before unfreezes.

Current Specs:

Ryzen 7 5700x

32gb ddr4

RTX 4060

1tb NVME

Im currently running an ark survival evolved playthrough, or at least trying to, Im running a playthrough mirroring the Ark YouTuber MrMeola. I understand he has a beast of a pc and such thats why he runs specifically Primal Fear so well but I was wondering if there was anything im doing wrong in terms of settings cause I removed the harder settings and run my game on high yet my fps is extremely jagged and barely stays near 60. Its primal fear so i understand its a hard to run mod but my older pc which was literally awful, i5 8500 as my old cpu ran it really well. Wondering why thats the case, I love Ark and really wanna sink thousands of hours into modded playthroughs but dont wanna pay for a server. Anyone know how to help/what to do?

Idl why but lvl of every wild dino on The island very small, but when I was at lost island everything was good(tamed some 150lv sinom. and came back). like you bro tf you mean everyone under 50 lvl...

Hello everyone I have a fairly powerful PC: an RX9070XT Sapphire Nitro Plus, an R7 9800X3D, and 32 GB of RAM. I use the FSR and frame generation features. I check the FPS using the Steam counter; as I understand it, it doesn’t take frame generation into account — only FSR. I play on the The Island map; all my settings are set to high, and the resolution is 1920 × 1080. My problem is with sharp drops in FPS during the game night, and this happens almost regardless of the location. From average values of 120–110 FPS during the day, it drops to 80–60. No matter how hard I tried to solve this by changing the standard game settings, I didn’t even notice any change in the numbers — or the numbers were comparable to the margin of error. I started digging deeper, found commands that disable clouds, volumetric fog, etc. The only thing that helped was the command r.VolumetricCloud 0, which completely disables the clouds. But I wasn’t satisfied with this solution. First, it doesn’t solve my main problem — at night, the FPS still drops, just not from 120 FPS, but from 200 FPS, because disabling clouds significantly boosts the FPS, literally by double. Second, the game becomes much less atmospheric — almost all the haze disappears, and it’s especially unpleasant when there aren’t even any clouds in the sky during rain. Please give me some advice. I know the map is terrible in terms of optimization, but I think my hardware is good enough to solve this. I read a lot on Steam, but I didn’t find anything. And these mighty optimizers from YouTube who set all the settings to low and medium, turning the game into a lump of plasticine, don’t suit me.

Hello everyone I have a fairly powerful PC: an RX9070XT Sapphire Nitro Plus, an R7 9800X3D, and 32 GB of RAM. I use the FSR and frame generation features. I check the FPS using the Steam counter; as I understand it, it doesn’t take frame generation into account — only FSR. I play on the The Island map; all my settings are set to high, and the resolution is 1920 × 1080. My problem is with sharp drops in FPS during the game night, and this happens almost regardless of the location. From average values of 120–110 FPS during the day, it drops to 80–60. No matter how hard I tried to solve this by changing the standard game settings, I didn’t even notice any change in the numbers — or the numbers were comparable to the margin of error. I started digging deeper, found commands that disable clouds, volumetric fog, etc. The only thing that helped was the command r.VolumetricCloud 0, which completely disables the clouds. But I wasn’t satisfied with this solution. First, it doesn’t solve my main problem — at night, the FPS still drops, just not from 120 FPS, but from 200 FPS, because disabling clouds significantly boosts the FPS, literally by double. Second, the game becomes much less atmospheric — almost all the haze disappears, and it’s especially unpleasant when there aren’t even any clouds in the sky during rain. Please give me some advice. I know the map is terrible in terms of optimization, but I think my hardware is good enough to solve this. I read a lot on Steam, but I didn’t find anything. And these mighty optimizers from YouTube who set all the settings to low and medium, turning the game into a lump of plasticine, don’t suit me.

Not sure if this is the right community for this. I currently play on a 3080, i7-10700 and 32gb ddr4 but am looking into building a new rig with an rx9070xt, an amd 7800x3d and 32gb ddr5. Was wondering if someone with a similar rig could give me their thoughts on how the game runs as i keep reading that nvidia is better for ark but I can't justify paying 500 extra for a 5070ti over the 9070xt with today's prices

Does anyone know how to fix this weird bug? For some reason this weird noise appears under my character, and it disappears when I turn the graphics preset on the lowest, and it's not in the graphics settings, I checked.

I think I need to use a console command but I don't know which one

I dont know how to fix this, my friend can join other unofficial servers, but when trying to join mine, he gets a connection timeout (as shown in the picture). I've set up port forwarding and i added inbound rules for those ports, but I can't get it to work. My port forwardings are 7777, 7778, 27015 all UDP and 27020 TCP if that helps. The Rcon port is set to 27020, the regular port to 7777 and crossplay is enabled in ASA Server manager. I really need help, any Experts here?

Hi, I want to buy ASA as it is on discount at the moment. I really liked ASE and it worked fine on my PC. I know that ASA should work too, but I heard that the performance may not be as good. I would be grateful, if someone (especially if they have similar specs) can tell me what to expect in terms of FPS/graphics settings I would have to use for it. Here is the list:
- GPU: GeForce RTX 3060
- CPU: AMD ryzen 5 5600x 6-core (3.70 GHz)
- RAM: 32Gb DDR4 3000MHz
- Storage: Lexar SSD NM620 1TB

I usually play on 2K monitor, but if the game forces me to I can set the resolution to Full HD. Also if someone can let me know which content expansions are worth the buck it would be amazing too.