With these settings, ARK jerky: Survival Evolved less
In the options of the Games, you can find the graphics settings from the ARK: Survival Evolved. Here you should screw some of the Details down:
- Post-Processing: Here you can change the post-processing. A high value is not necessarily needed to make the game look pretty, but requires a high computing power.
- Anti-Aliasing: anti-aliasing eats like most Play very many FPS. Set the value to no more than medium, on higher settings, almost no optical difference you can perceive.
- View Distance: the view distance can make in the game. Especially on weak PCs, you will notice a significant Performance boost. Play with the Slider until you have found a good balance of speed and view range.
- Motion Blur: This Option you should disable. Motion Blur ensures that the image is blurring when you move your character or look around. Especially in the first ARK-versions required for this effect but a high performance.
- Shadow: you can also reduce the shadow. Just the shadow in the distance not to fall particularly.
- Sky Details: Also with the quality of the sky can improve Performance. The game plays anyway, mainly on the ground. Turn the Knob down so far, as with the weaker sky-textures can play.
- Resolution: The resolution should be set last as an emergency shut down. This brings more FPS, but graphics is of ARKs glory but left with almost nothing.

ARK: Survial Evolved: stuttering
More tips for more FPS and less stuttering in ARK
If the above tips do not help, you can customize the Game more. At the latest, the game should run well on medium computers easily.
- The following startup parameters you can set in Steam, by clicking with the right mouse button on the game and select "properties". Then click "set launch options..." and enter the following Codes:
- "-SM4": So the game will run with Shader models and DirectX 10 instead of DirectX 11. This brings a decent Performance Boost – especially on older graphics cards.
- "-nomansky": The command to remove all the sky effects such as clouds or weather effects. The latter are not yet integrated already in the game, so the graphics are sacrificing to remain in the frame.
- "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES": your CPU cores more evenly and can afford more. You use this Parameter, if you have a processor with multiple cores.
- "-d3d10": with This Option, you should test the last. The game is completely changed from DirectX 11 to DirectX 10. The in some cases can improve the Performance, in other but also deteriorate.
- NVIDIA card owners can also beat the "NVIDIA Control Panel" or "NVIDIA control panel" more FPS out. To do this, click in the Tool on "manage 3D settings" and under "power management mode" setting from "Adaptive" to "prefer Maximum performance".
- If it should come at one of the start parameters to default or errors, you can remove this from the startup options in Steam. The game then starts again with the corresponding standard settings.
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ARK: Survival Evolved Steam
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