ARK: Survival Evolved System Requirements

The ARK Survival Evolved minimum requirements are a minimum of 8 GB of RAM, a CPU equivalent to an Intel Core i5-2400, and at least an AMD Radeon HD 7870 graphics card. You will need at least 60 GB of free disk space to install ARK: Survival Evolved. The developers do not give a recommended hardware setup but just a minimum - if you are going to be running the game in 4K resolution, we'd recommend a graphics card much better than the minimum graphics card that the developers recommend. ARK has an 'Epic' graphics settings mode which is extremely demanding even for the highest-end PCs.

There are frequent ARK Survival Evolved patches, with gameplay and performance improvements, with almost 250 patches to date.

There is no ARK Survival Evolved Free edition, the game is available as a paid model only. As well as an ARK Survival Evolved Steam release there is also an ARK Survival Evolved Game Pass release, so you can play the game as part of Microsoft's monthly game subscription service.

ARK Survival Evolved Performance Guide

ARK Survival Evolved FPS and stuttering issues may be fixed by trying the following steps.

• Firstly make sure you meet the minimum system requirements and ensure you have the latest AMD Drivers or NVIDIA Drivers for your graphics card. 
• The game allows third party mods to be installed, these may also cause performance issues during gameplay.
• Disable intensive background applications such as Windows Game DVR and GeForce Experience
• Try turning down Anti-Aliasing and View Distance for a start to see the largest FPS increase.

ARK: Survival Evolved will run on PC system with Windows 7 64-Bit and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.

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