and it wouldn't be a laptop either

richard was a QT faggot

you wish you were as metal

@SchloppyDoggo Ark is terribly optimized, so I'm not surprised

@Wayne dont know when you stopped following ARK development but the game has been optimized. the problem is that current gpu's are not fully capable of running the game in the highest settings without utilizing crossfire. its a hardware issue, not a software issue.

how many ppl still play ark

@SchloppyDoggo The demand of the game at lowest and highest settings is WAY out of wack. Always has been, the UE can be optimized much better, but they did shitty development from the base of that game. It isn't really hardware. Yes, better hardware makes it perform better, but it's the game's fault for being so inefficient, wherein the shitty graphics and render distance on low settings should be easily rendered by even a 1050ti, but is unplayable ona GPU like that

I've had the game for over 2 years now, they have done jack to really benefit performance

Youre bullshitting.

gg

I'm not bullshitting, lol

I have the game

Well then you don't know shit about optimization or the game then.

still, gg

When I first got the game, I still had my GTX 760 SLI

no SLI optimization back then, but I ciould average like 40 FPS

lowest settings obv

Now with my 1070, I can barely get consistent 90fps last time I tried it (lowest settings)

last time I tested was dec 29th 2017

Okay heres the deal, i realize theres a lot of poorfags crying about ARK not doing so well on their shitty graphics cards. And this is mainly the argument ppl have that the game isnt optimized. You cant use literal shit hardware and expect ARK to perform great. The game is too complex to be played on a potato.

The point is, ARK is too advanced for the hardware.

4.3GHz 4820k 4c8t, GTX 1070, 32gb 11ms @2400mhz qc, RAID 0 2x3TB HDD and 250GB Samsung 850EVO

that hardware isn't low end lol

it is for ARK

you need 2 1080tis on crossfire to play ARK at 60fps on all epic settings

Because it has shit optimization. For how shitty the game looks at low settings, and what's being rendered, it should perform much better.

yeah

because the optimization sucks, there isn't all that much to actually render

the Titan V is barely 10% better than a GTX 1080Ti, but one can render in real-time nearly cinematic RTX scenes

I know for a fact that the optimization sucks. You can defend it, but that doesn't mean you're right/.

ARK is known for shitty optimization

The GTX 1070 is almost equivalent to the GTX 980Ti, which you needed 2 of in SLI to run ARK proficiently when I first got the game

that's ABSURD

They did a massive optization update several months ago.

you still get shit performance with 2xGTX 1080Ti's in that game

tbf SLI is getting less and less effective

The game on max settings looks nice, but what's being rendered shouldn't have THAT demand

SLI sucks ass

Yee

It's only practical for flagship, even then a bit of a waste

Yep