ARK: Survival Evolved - DX12 Renderer Delayed, Performs Worse Than DX11

Studio Wildcard has confirmed that the DX12 patch for ARK: Survival Evolved has been delayed indefinitely.

[Cobain19]

Really curious whether NVIDIA is preventing them from releasing a beta version of the DX12 patch

[RedDeadLB]

Why would they. It's not like the game runs well on any hardware. At all.

[Arty84]

its funny how the game crashes on every tubers or streamers channel

[Mithan]

Ive put about 100 hours into that game (great game) but it runs like crap.

[IrishSt0ner]

I just think Studio Wildcard doesn't want to publically out NVIDIAs BS.

The gap between AMD and NVIDIA must be so huge that it would be really damaging.

I really wish Studio Wildcard would just release as is and allow AMD GPUs to shine, I'm sick of NVIDIAs underhand tactics.. I say that as a NIVIDA owner.

[XhiXExtreme]

stable 37fps on epic with my 980. fucking seriously shit 3-17fps with my R9 390X
AMD is a budget company and will always be...

[IrishSt0ner]

All that confirms is NVIDIA DX11 drivers are in a whole different league than AMD.

DX12 supports Asynchronous Compute, AMDs GCN cards support Asynchronous Compute on the hardware, Nvidia cards do not... so they need to emulate it via drivers.

DX12 is delayed 2 days from release (after SW clearly hyping it's gains), the following day we find out maxwell cards do not support a-sync on a hardware level.

Few weeks later NVIDIA release their next driver update, SW come out THAT DAY (after being totally silent on the the matter since the delay) and say driver support is coming too slow.

The only public DX12 benchmark we have shows:

GTX 980 DX11 1080p - 57fps
GTX 980 DX12 1080p - 50.3fps

R9 390X DX11 1080p - 36.6fps
R9 390X DX12 1080p - 53.8fps

Doesn't that sound familiar, 'doing worse than DX11', it even ties into your own personal experience on DX11 with the 980 vs 390X.

AMD being a 'budget company' is a meaningless argument, on the only DX12 game benchmark we have shows AMD getting massive gains and NVIDIA going backwards.

It's as clear as day to me whats going on.

[TheCommentator]

This shows that patched-in DX12 may not always be a fair or accurate representation of the benefits of native DX12. As we can see, some code may even be worse.

[donthate]

It isn't magical plug and play upgrade from DX11 to DX12.

To take advantage of DX12, you have to code for using parallelism to the max.

Unfortunately, people don't understand that.

[TheCommentator]

Yep.

OT: I'm curious though, what MS will be doing with 1st party patches on games like Halo 5, Forza 6, and Quantum Break. Heck, even DICE may patch in DX12 support to Battlefront for XB1, given their recent DX12 announcement. Ark, on the other hand...

[bluebenjamin]

I just rollback to windows 8.1, windows 10 was giving me to many issues gaming wise.I mean yeah and some games my frames went up really high but an other games I couldn't even get to launch, forget that got to have launch, launch is important!

[uth11]

Blasphemy! /s

[Grap]

the game runs like poop on dx11.