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Ah I see it's not properly "out" yet, still in Early Access.
Oh well, then there's hope for a more polished experience once it's out of beta and ready for launch. :)

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Quoting: peteNothing helped, neither deleting the folders nor choosing a texture quality and restarting the game.

Certain ground textures (grass and earth for me) stay broken...

Anyone send a report to techland yet?

Yes, to quote the article:

QuoteI have sent in a support ticket with all my system information, screenshots and logs. I have also tweeted the developers and the dying light twitter account with this article.

I have tweeted to them again today, and I know they are monitoring it as they are retweeting people loving the DLC.

I have also started a forum topic just for it on their official Steam forum. Please do post there if you have it.

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Looks fun... for a little bit. If there's no micro management, story or something more only ship battles sounds boring.

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Quoting: EikeDoes setting LC_ALL to C solve it as well?

Yes, that works for me. C is a default. It probably fails for any language where the decimal point is a comma (as it is in French, for instance.)
However, it is now recommended to never set LC_ALL, other than for testing purpose (according to the Arch wiki and a Feral developer.)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Xpandermissing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options

Gotcha Xpander, good info.
I guess is a good test case for a benchmark. Not sure if ARK has a running demorec feature.

If UE4 has then it might have.. console is available in ARK.. unless they specially disabled that feature ofc



edit: also if you look closely at that video you linked, you see that windows version has lots of clouds compared to linux version as well as ground is cluttered with more stuff, specially noticable near rocks or on the beach.

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Less talk about vulkan and more games using it!

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Quoting: Xpandermissing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options

Gotcha Xpander, good info.
I guess is a good test case for a benchmark. Not sure if ARK has a running demorec feature.

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looks good. i was so tempted to buy windward but that topdown view really puts me off sometimes :)
Tempest looks great.

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Well, (I haven't played the game on Windows) but the guy was pretty bent on showing every missing SteamOS features and he failed to notice any difference at the same settings, even at a side by side comparison.
So I guess is pretty safe to say that as a general experience the Linux version of ARK is not that bad.

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missing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: dubigrasuI've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483

ARK has less graphical features on Linux, it's not rocket science ;)

You mean features absent from the settings menu?

Just in general, the game looks quite different on Linux than it does on Windows.

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Wow looks very nice.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: dubigrasuI've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483

ARK has less graphical features on Linux, it's not rocket science ;)

You mean features absent from the settings menu?

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Quoting: dubigrasuI've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483

ARK has less graphical features on Linux, it's not rocket science ;)

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Eve online or Elite Dangerous with (non-space)ships and pirates! That's my take away!

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I've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483

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Quoting: zebYes, it seems very likely. But this only applies when LC_ALL is set. Other LC_ do not pose a problem, even if set to a non-English locale.

Does setting LC_ALL to C solve it as well?

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On the Steam forum we could read the perf are not optimised on windows too.
Don't forget it's an anticipated game.

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Quoting: EikeIs it connected with locales that have commas between floats (like "3,14" instead of "3.14" )?
Because that might make a whole bunch of different problems, including 3D rendering.

Yes, it seems very likely. But this only applies when LC_ALL is set. Other LC_ do not pose a problem, even if set to a non-English locale.

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Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?

its still not great, but its a lot better, when you live(ingame, not real life :) ) in snowy areas its really good actually, 50-80 fps and thats pretty much everything maxed except shadows, but other areas are around 30-50 fps and super huge bases make fps drop down to 20.

the strange thing is that i dunno what they use for the ingame HUD but when you turn that off with backspace key, you pretty much just gain +10 fps - reminds me a bit of those flash UIs .. what was it called scaleform?


edit: ok seems that battleye have killed the performance even more.. ~-5 fps

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So now that was fast - those guys at wildcard never fail to surprise me.

Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?

Could still be better but it has improved over time. Especially (OSS-)radeon-performance is much better now... but maybe it's just the drivers that matured.

Quoting: rkfgI suppose not only it still has bad performance but also bad visuals. IIRC, the engine supports OGL 4.5 but they for some reason only support 3.x on Mac/Linux. And the "True Sky" plugin isn't supported on those platforms completely.

Comparing to the windows version it really looks awful. I hope the devs will add OGL > 3.x support when the game is finished. And I hope it ever gets finished at all - unlike rust. At least the devs seem to care much more about their product and have some kind of a roadmap and listen to suggestions from the community.

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Quoting: zebFinally user Brix cracked the problem on Steam forums:

unset LC_ALL

It has been confirmed for many users. How come does this interfere with 3D rendering?

Is it connected with locales that have commas between floats (like "3,14" instead of "3.14" )?
Because that might make a whole bunch of different problems, including 3D rendering.

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I suppose not only it still has bad performance but also bad visuals. IIRC, the engine supports OGL 4.5 but they for some reason only support 3.x on Mac/Linux. And the "True Sky" plugin isn't supported on those platforms completely.

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does someone know if it now works on Arma3 too? <3

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Ok, that was fast :D

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Ah yes, that is very nice to read, another piece of the story on top of the main campaign (which was awesome on its own). HBS is still rocking it, will definitely check their next project.

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[quote=tuubi]

Quoting: XodetaetlCalm down. They're not forcing you to do anything, but in practice using the engine does cost you money if you want to include support for some sort of cloud services. Amazon never said the engine was libre software, and of course it wouldn't even exist if they didn't see any commercial potential in it. You'll just have to come to terms with the fact that corporations want to make money.

I'm reacting to TheBoss saying that a constraining commercial practice is a good idea, details of the commercial practice are off the subject.

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Better be Feral.

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Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?

Still bad.

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How is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?

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