Studio Wildcard has launched ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam Early Access. The team has also shared the PC system requirements for this official remake of ARK: Survival Evolved, which is now powered by Unreal Engine 5.
For those curious, the Early Access version of the game includes The Island and Official Mod support. The developers also claimed that ARK: Survival Ascended will remain in Early Access until the end of 2024.
In the full version of ARK: Survival Ascended, you can expect to find Survival of the Fittest (Battle Royale), Scorched Earth, Aberration Extinction, Genesis Part 1, and Genesis Part 2. Studio Wildcard will also remake all the free DLC that came out for ARK: Survival Evolved.
As we mentioned before, ARK: Survival Ascended will make use of UE5’s Nanite and Lumen. Lumen makes the light in the game bounce off things realistically, giving us realistic reflections. Meanwhile, Nanite does advanced mesh streaming, allowing for super-detailed objects with hundreds of millions of triangles.
We’ve already bought the game, and this weekend, we’ll be sharing our first thoughts on how well it runs. In the meantime, you can check out the official PC system requirements.
ARK: Survival Ascended PC Requirements
MINIMUM:
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- OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
RECOMMENDED:
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- OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 70 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
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How do they keep making games that nobody can run?
A 3080 is now for 720p gaming and you’re lucky to get 1080p with a 4090. Who the hell is this aimed at?
3080 is a 4k medium card with DLSS.
People have to stop running a game at 4k no upscaling ultra and complain it is too demanding.
Learn to adjust settings ffs, or else buy a PS5 and be done with
Clearly got it all backwards somehow:
-PS5 outputs its games at 1440p, not 4K
-I don’t own a 3080
-Putting settings on low or on high in UE 5 games doesn’t do anything (eg. Aveum, Fort Solis)
But yeah keep spewing nonsense eventhough you yourself don’t even believe the baloney you’re saying. That much is obvious.
Did you play those games or you say a benchmark somewhere?
Because I played remnant 2 on my 2080 at 4k60 DLSS up medium settings, when all sites including this were saying you need a 4080
Reading is hard bro, where did I mention Remnant II?
And yeah I played Remnant 2 as well.
Ok ok keep on crying and b*ching.
This makes me glad I never purchased any of the DLC for the original ARK. I don’t want to support studios that make crap like this. The original game was reasonably fun, but this remake is a sh*tshow with system requirements like those.
RTX 3080 is a midrange card.
The minimum is a GTX 1080. In a world where two of the top 3 most popular video cards are the GTX 1060 and the GTX 1650 that’s not acceptable. I’m not even certain if an RTX 3060 would technically meet that requirement (it doesn’t come close to a GTX 1080 Ti but I don’t usually see the vanilla GTX 1080 in benchmark comparisons). I’m also pretty certain that most of the RTX 20 series doesn’t meet that requirement either.
Even if my RTX 3070 Ti would play the game just fine, I still don’t want to support a studio that would make such a bad decision when it comes to minimum system requirements, especially since they wanted to shut down the online services for the original so that people would have to buy this garbage to continue playing.
So you gave the devs 40$ after they said early this year that it would be a free upgrade for the owners of the original. Good call supporting greedy liars devs of a junky buged game.
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wow, imagine a game actually requiring modern hardware to play it. Do people really expect to still be using their gtx 1060 in 2023 ?
Seeing as most PC gamers will either play CounterStrike 2 or Modern Warfare 3… yes.
PC paupers. Then they cry about consoles holding us back.
Requires SSD as in optimized and really utilize fast SSD or just because they can’t code i/o properly… that’s the question!
SSDs are now so cheap there is no excuse for trying to run games off a HDD.
Amusing to see peeps cry when raster that tries to be close to raytracing fidelity wise by trickery end up zapping performance… how odd 🙂 And imo… a good coder/designer can make the game scale insanely well – Shame so few are really game dev’s, rather easy does it monkeys tha glue together api’s made by others in an engine they barely understand… and then utilize dlss/fsr to save the day. How pathetic gaming have become nowadays.
SSD because they released in the same unoptimised mess that the original did. Thankfully the original was improved upon over the years, although they did prioritise content before fixing the code on the original.