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

Have you even looked at the game files? The core character files are huge along with the environment. There is shit tons of detail to load in. This is why its so demanding on the GPU's

WRONG, couldn't be more wrong

You're so ignorant

I wonder how msrp is going to work for the new line of GPUs

From Nvidia

msrp wont even matter i got a stash just for the new gpus when they hit

if it were texture sizes in question, then the absurdly fast VRAM in the 1080Ti would have no problem with render time, also after they are loaded onto the GPU, they don't need to be deloaded with 11GB

SO even if your VRAM was trash, after rendering you would recover framerate

but in ARK, that ain't true

And if it's because of constant caching, that's the game's optimization's fault for not regulating it logically

You call me ignorant, but you barely understand the hardware itself

"I have GTX 1080Ti's so I totally know what I'm talking about"

GTA V for whatever reason used to perform twice as good as it does now

they didn't improve anything, they just lost something