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seanas94

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Ive been looking into buying a gaming pc but now more so that ARK survival evolved is at a playable state but i want to buy one that can play ark decently without costing a small fortune as i plan to build on it later the minimum requirements are
MINIMUM: 
OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows 8 
Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU 
Memory: 4000 MB RAM 
Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM 
DirectX: Version 10 
Hard Drive: 20000 MB available space

Any advice ??
 
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James Mason
ARK is any extremely demanding game, and even vastly superior computers don't run it that well.
"Decently" playable is debatable, but you can run it on a $500-600 computer at medium-low settings and get about 45 FPS at 1080p.
The game itself recommends a GTX 660 for LOW settings.
And it's a very weird game in that nearly requires AA to be high or maxed or it really looks like garbage, like some early 2000s era 3D (it's wierd)

And the $500-600 computer is gonna be like 2x as strong as those minimum settings.
Here's an album of what the presets look like, but even the low preset has AA set to Epic.
http://imgur.com/a/tMckc
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If you love a game or games so much that you build a rig for it, then go by the recommended spec if you can, not the minimum spec.

Sometimes minimum required spec works OK, but often times it results in annoying lag, stutter, frame drops, etc.

My advice is if you plan to build on it later, minimize your losses by either waiting until you can afford better spec, or at least wait for feedback from players to see how well it runs on minimum spec.
 
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ARK is any extremely demanding game, and even vastly superior computers don't run it that well.
"Decently" playable is debatable, but you can run it on a $500-600 computer at medium-low settings and get about 45 FPS at 1080p.
The game itself recommends a GTX 660 for LOW settings.
And it's a very weird game in that nearly requires AA to be high or maxed or it really looks like garbage, like some early 2000s era 3D (it's wierd)

And the $500-600 computer is gonna be like 2x as strong as those minimum settings.
Here's an album of what the presets look like, but even the low preset has AA set to Epic.
http://imgur.com/a/tMckc
 
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