Knowing the Best or optimum graphics settings for ARK: Survival Evolved can help you with a smooth gaming experience. This game, in particular, is pretty demanding regarding the Graphics requirements needed to run it.
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ARK: Survival Evolved Best Graphics Settings for FPS⇓
If you can fine-tune the Graphics Settings, the game will look good and run at a decent FPS. With new DLCs being added now and then, knowing these tweaks can help you sustain a good gaming experience which we will show in this guide.
These would be the best ARK: Survival evolved graphics settings to make the game look good and gain decent FPS:
Best ARK Standard Graphics Settings⇓
These are the best standard graphics settings for ARK: Survival Evolved:
Resolution
Native (keep this default)
Windowed mode
Fullscreen (Use fullscreen for the best experience)
Graphics Quality
Custom (You can freely tweak settings to your liking with the custom option)
Resolution scale
Maximum (Maximum for best-looking visuals)
World Tile Buffer
Medium/High
View Distance
Medium/high (Medium for decent fps gain and quality)
Anti-Aliasing
Off (If facing jagged edges, keep this on)
Post Processing
Low – A game as demanding as ARK Survival Evolved takes up a lot of resources. Keeping post-processing low helps with saving resources.
General Shadows
Low (Shadows should be kept low for the gain in fps since these can take up resources)
Terrain Shadows
Low/Medium
Textures
Medium/High (For > 3GB VRAM); otherwise, Low
Sky Quality
Maximum
Ground Clutter Density and Distance
3/4 of the slider (75%)
Mesh Level of Detail
80% of the slider
Best ARK Advanced Graphics Settings⇓
These are the best Advanced graphics settings for ARK: Survival Evolved:
High-Quality Anisotropic Filtering
ON
Motion Blur
OFF (can take up some fps if this setting is turned on)
Film Grain
OFF – I do not like visual noise so I keep Film Grain OFF for most survival games that have this option.
Distance Field Ambient Occlusion
OFF (Occlusion should be set to OFF)
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
OFF (Occlusion should be set to OFF)
Dynamic Tessellation
OFF (Quality of lighting for the game. OFF for some fps gain)
Distance Field Shadowing
OFF (ON for high-end GPU)
High-Quality Materials
OFF (ON for 16GB or higher RAM)
Sub Surface Scattering
ON – Makes the reflections good to look at.
High-Quality VFX
OFF
Simple Distance Character Movement
ON (Typically useful for 3rd person view)
High-Quality LODs
ON
Extra Level Streaming Distance
ON (OFF if < 3GB VRAM)
Color Grading
ON
Light Bloom
ON (Does not take up many resources so keep these ON)
Light Shafts
ON (Does not take up many resources so keep these ON)
Low-Quality Level Streaming
OFF – You will not need this option if you have a medium end system like mine as mentioned in the guide.
Make sure you meet the minimum system requirements
Minimum system requirements for ARK: Survival Evolved⇓
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10/7
- CPU: AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570
- RAM: 6 GB
- GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7970 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2 GB DX 11
- Space: 75 GB
Recommended system requirements for ARK: Survival Evolved⇓
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10/7
- CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 2600 or Intel i7-4770
- RAM: 16 GB
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 590 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB DX 12
- Space: 75 GB
Our system specifications used to test⇓
These are the system settings to test ARK: Survival Evolved for the given settings above:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600
- RAM: 16 GB DDR4
- GPU: GTX 1660 6GB DX 12
- HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm
The above settings should fetch you a decent FPS to Enjoy the game. It will also improve the overall performance of the game. If you face any lags, try turning down the View Distance and Shadow Settings on the lower side.
That will make the game dull, but the overall FPS will improve. That will be all for this ARK: Survival Evolved best graphics settings guide.
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Last Updated on November 5, 2024
