Can Ark Be Played with these specs on low?

Saturnity · Sep 25, 2018

Alright so my friend wants to see if she can play ark. I know the startup commands or whatever that make it run better (Like -runallcores or whatever and such) and would it work with all those and on low?

CPU: E5200 (2.5 GHz dual core oof)
RAM: 5GB
GPU: GT 730

gaborbarla · Sep 25, 2018

It will probably run, but it wont run well at all even on low.

I recently configured an OLD first gen I7 with 8 gigs of RAM and a gtx 660 to play ark, so that is my point of reference.
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-660-vs-Nvidia-GeForce-GT-730/2162vsm12582

I spent quite a bit of time tweaking settings to make it not look horrible and still run OK. The GTX 660 is many times better than a GT 730 and it really struggles in ARK.
A GT 730 has 3 different versions which are also significantly different. Do you have the GDDR5 version? 1GB or 2GB? Depending on which one you have you will experience different levels of struggle.
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-730/specifications

In the end it will probably run, but a very large part of playing ARK is to enjoy the scenery, and I would say it is not worth it without upgrading first.
A game like Factorio will probably work quite well though on that system, though obviously it is not ARK but it is an amazing game to play with low specs.

Saturnity · Sep 25, 2018

gaborbarla :

The GPU is a 2GB, no clue which version :/ they don't know much about computers so it's like asking a 12 year old what a flywheel is.

What about using those startup commands I was talking about? For example uses all cores, removes foliage (which screws FPS up majorly) and so on? For example on Ark I have these: -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -sm4 -d3d10 which helps FPS a lot.

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