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: 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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holy crap! ..finally i dont have to go to that shitty big picture mode.
that is so good :)

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been waiting for this quite some time :) hope this time it will really make it

#GoMeatEaters
#Steam

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and done.. completed
5.5 hours (minus the food and drink breaks)

short review without spoilers (doesnt say anything about the story)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/xpander69/recommended/383870 [External Link]

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and like always :)

Gameplay:

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: TheBoss@xpander, you're using a beta though arent you frome what I saw in the IRC?

ohh yes...that might explain

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ha.. it actually made perf worse for me.
dropped from 30 fps to 20 in the mothership (command hub)

AMD FX8320@4,4ghz, GTX 970.

didn't check into battle because was turned off by the perf drop in the command hub.

so i probably wont need this tweak, for me it runs solid 40-70 without those tweaks also, everything set to high, AO tiled, depth of field off, bloom off, 1080p

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performance is pretty good with the beta branch, which sadly isnt made to public yet. though loading times are bigger with that.
i can enjoy everything on high, with the exception of Ambient Occlusion at Tiled.
seems to run 40-70fps most of the time, with times where it goes down to 35 area and rare cases where it drops to 25.
thats with AMD FX-8320@4,4ghz, GTX 970 at 1080p

7 hours into the game and only completed 3 missions (without counting the tutorial one) .. i want to make it perfect so i have to start all over many times :D played first mission after tutorial like 12 time i think :)

anyway im sure feral will push the beta branch to public soon.

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"release shouldn't be too far" might hint that they already have the port in some stage and it just needs some final touches and fixing up?

anyway great news!

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