Quoting: TheBossReally?

I just tried it on my 980ti and I still consider the performance to be pretty bad. On High at 1920x1080 it still struggles to stay at 60FPS, and utterly kills the FPS at any higher resolution on Linux.

Medium and below look terrible too.

Yes, boss. At first I played it on an A10-7870K w/ DDR3-2400 on fglrx-updates. I ran ARK at lowest settings, 1280x720 getting ~20 FPS.

I now upgraded that same system with an R9 285 (ASUS Strix) and latest AMD Radeon Crimson and it's perfectly smooth at medium preset, 1600x900. I could probably try turning it up to high preset but I don't want to be back down in 30 FPS territory.

That is why it baffles me whenever I go reading about ARK online and everyone is complaining about performance. I guess I just got lucky with my configuration?

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Those of you complaining about performance probably haven't played ARK in the last few weeks. They've begun optimizations as summer release draws near and I haven't had any performance issues. It can even run rather smoothly on integrated if you turn everything down to console peasant settings.

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Awesome. This could be like a Gone Home with an actual game thrown on top of it.

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I hope this game has a focus on the unsettling and not jump scare tactics. I've been dying for some good media (not just games) that can creep me out without inducing a mini heart attack every five minutes.

I believe that a game (or movie) can only be truly scary when it lingers in your mind long afterward.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalThe reason the game renders as well as it does on AMD right now with both the Crimson and Mesa drivers is down to the work completed during development by our developers and testers, however there are still issues outstanding preventing support.

As with all our other games we'll keep you all updated if/when AMD support is announced in the future as the issues above are closed off.

Do you see AMD GPUopen initiative influencing this stance in the future? Or is this simply a manpower issue?

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Quoting: TheBossSupported, counted as a Linux sale and another game on Linux, all things I like to see :).

So long as I don't have to think about the fact that it's wrapped in WINE, the porting method is fine with me for older games. GOG offers Flatout 1 and 2 in this way and the game installs just like any other + is preconfigured so a buyer hardly has to know that it's a WINE port.

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Quoting: GuestThey have discarded and reworked as much of fglrx as they can - as has been mentioned many times before however, they can't get rid of a proprietary part entirely. Particularly with the workstation scene, they will have their own little tweaks in a blob userland, which may be useful for games sometimes as well.

Can we get links for some fireside reading?

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Outside of the really bizzare stuff, there were some fairly common resolutions missing; 1600x900, and was 1366x768 on the options?

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumVoted. :-).

I'll be the one person in the world still using an AMD CPU in the survey :-P.

I wonder how that CPU graph is going to look after Summit Ridge processors release.

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ARK: Survival Evolved devs have also expressed interest in a Vulkan update once UE4 supports it. The Windows build is getting DX12 in a few weeks so it would be nice to keep pace.

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