ARK Survival Ascended GTX 1660 Ti BENCHMARK, GAMEPLAY & MAP TOUR

hello my name is Aram and finally after over one year I'm finally back to Ark so this is going to be my very first video on Ark survival ascended I know my voice doesn't appear exciting but trust me I'm having Goosebumps just looking at the Gameplay trailer yesterday and today it's day one I purchased the Early Access version of the game and here we're going to start now before we actually do any kind of gameplay recording I know that this is an Unreal Engine 5 game and we have seen the minimum and recommended system requirements so a GTX 1080 being minimum with 16 GB of RAM but lot of us we are actually using graphics cards that are much weaker than that in fact my own GPU that we're going to Benchmark today is a laptop version of a GTX 1660ti running with 16 GB of ddr4 RAM on a 1 tbte nvme hard disk and with a 10th Generation core i7 so that is the specification we are going to Benchmark this laptop top we're going to Benchmark a 1616 TI laptop with a 10th Generation I i7 and see how well this particular laptop performs this is by the way at Asus Republic of Gamers laptop so it's pretty good and as far as I know this will be the first game that this laptop will have problems on so we're going to test out all of the different Graphics levels of this game and we're going to see what should be the optimal playing if we have to use our laptop that that is below the recommended or below the minimum requirements of the game so I have not done many tweaks to it so currently I was testing out the various requirements so I'm going to start this entire thing of running on full screen and making sure everything is set to low so we're going to go over low then we're going to go over medium high and finally into epic which I know my laptop is not going to be able to support so let's turn everything off I'm not changing these things too much okay let's change these parts to off at least but this is going to be in full HD with resolution scale of 100 and by the way it's a 1660 ti so obviously these things are going to be off but I have Reflex on just in case so this particular uh benchmarking video should be suitable for a lot of you guys who are actually using uh 10 cies or 16 cies uh gpus and and even an RTX I think 2050 should be compatible with the 1660 ti so let's start I'm going to delete my current seeds so it's already deleted choose single player and let's see upgrading my GPU in about a week and I have already selected which GPU I'm going to be using so with that GPU I should be able to play in full HD or even 1440p at all settings done to maximum it is in fact it is in fact slightly above the recommended system settings so you know it's above RTX 380 but for now let's see so this is our player character I'm not going to do anything to it right now because in this video we're going to just do a benchmark so here at the spawn points okay I before this video I have just tested out AR ascended hardly for 10 minutes and I have mostly been watching the different live streams on YouTube so let's are you the one I've been waiting for you might be I hope so it's been so many cycles since I was her do I even still remember hope I wasn't sure you'd ever turn up the odds just kept getting longer I guess I've been losing faith or they've been gaining power you have to reach me everything depends on your survival Master this world make allies of its many creatures grow your strength and skill explore this place place like I did so long ago put the pieces together and find me Survivor you may be the only one who can all right so Ark survival I could play that game at high to Epic settings on my laptop this is the very same laptop in which I recorded all of my videos and I could play everything at maxed out almost maxed out so this is everything set to low as you can see let me do something me come here go to hard layout performance change to Advanced now you can see something look at the GPU utilization it's at 99% the frame rates are around 26 the clock speed everything is tuned to maximum but the GPU is barely consuming any watt so it's an 80 watt TDP but it's only consuming like 50 watts and the CPU utilization is only 24% so right now the GPU is the bottleneck for this game uh again I'm going to be controlling my excitement because even at potato settings the game looks really good so everything is disabled let's go underwater the frame rates are in the 20s it's actually kind of smooth so okay Mega panas so generally if you were to play a game with frame rates like this you would face a lot of stuttering you would face uh in fact it would be very difficult or really impossible to play but I can see right now that this game is still kind of okay but it's the beach there is hardly anything happening it's not night there is no fancy weather effects or anything so uh this frame rate is not good enough so what we're going to do now is come to settings from everything at low we're going to scale it down to 67% so if we had FSR on so this 67% would be equivalent to FSR quality so let's save and with 67% resolution scale now our FPS is touching 30s it's in the lower 30s but it's stable and to be honest if you have a 1660 TI laptop at least for now it does look like you can easily play this game in a very stable way there's hardly any kind of stuttering or anything I can it's very smooth actually it's very smooth in fact this is much smoother than what Ark survival evolved was when I played on my very old GTX 5 5 550 TI VC that is over 10 years old so with 67% resolution scale and everything turned to low a 1660 TI laptop which I would say is uh slightly higher than maybe which is I think slightly lower than a 1070 is easily getting 30 FPS plus so even though you are below the minimum requirements you can still play this game perfectly fine let's do one thing uh this is South Zone one is very peaceful we would like to see how these frames are underwater so let me first give the cheats that's infinite stats then it's C then it's fly now let's go underwater as you can see I'm traveling very fast but it's not stuttering too much in in fact it's it's very stable to be honest it's very stable I'm getting minor stutters but it's okay the streaming aspect of this game seems to be significantly better than Arc survival evolves Unreal Engine 4 so it's very smooth you might see the frame rates becoming low but it's very smooth let's go underwater generally the water areas would cause a FPS drops especially in Genesis part one's ocean biome so let's see okay so with potato mode we are actually um still in the upper 20s and the lower 30s it's possible I know a lot of you guys uh especially on official servers play ARS surv valuable with everything turned to low just to make sure that the graphical effects don't cause problems while you're playing and I think this kind of recreates the same experience obviously the graphics are much better the foliage density is much higher but as you can see even with just barely 30 FPS is very stable let's do one thing can can we get 60 FPS on this game so let's change this 67% [Music] to well 25% so 25% or 1/4 of full HD yes you see the top right hand corner we have 60 FPS we have 60 FPS and and our entire game looks like a really nice uh Instagram filter it looks like an oil painting to be honest just look at how beautiful the graphics is perfect oil painting you even see the Shadows having some kind of a cloaking device so the Shadows are itself disappearing to be honest Jokes Aside this looks uh I mean it looks much less worse than what I had anticipated but at least you're are getting 40 50 55 FPS which is good obviously you won't be playing at this resolution you're going to have a problem with your eyes if you do but still I think this is okay so we would like this to at least be 80 and at 80 this looks pretty nice obviously the flame rate is not good but at least it looks clear okay so that is low and very low settings let's do one thing let's go into the more resource intensive areas how about the red Woods which should have a lot of trees and everything even with 80% you can see frame rates are in the lower and mid 20s and it's stuttering sometimes what about the swamps so I think the swamps are these area now the frame rates are pretty bad when I'm going up right now it's 17 and 15 which means uh the view distance basically the view distance even at low settings is much much higher and the density of foliage is so high that even with 80% it is still causing a lot of problems as you can [Applause] see there are FPS drops the 99% FP PS bar is at1 1890 so it's pretty spad so swamp biome gives us barely around 18 19 20 FPS let's go into our 67% the one that we had said that is FSR quality so FSR quality without actual FSR is giving us lower 20s and by the way this is the Island map we have not gone into I mean right now the more resource intensive Maps like aberation Genesis part one and part two they have not been released so if Island behaves in such a bad way then we can only imagine how bad those other maps are going to be okay let's look at the snow biome so snow biome should have some kind of a fog which should reduce the FPS even more here's the mountain okay I haven't yet seen a giga yet so oddly it's giving higher 30s or even 40s I did expect lower FPS though so contrary to my understanding snow biome is at least for now it's kind of okay swamp biome really hurt a lot in the FPS Department okay so I'm getting hit by multiple animals and even with all the special effects and the blood the FPS is not too bad okay let's do one more thing let's actually go into one of the caves let's go into a cave and see how the FPS holds up and the cave that we're going to go to is the Cave the underwater cave found on uh just close to the green Obelisk the East underwater cave so it should be below this area by the way this is the location where I make my base every single time and in fact this is probably where I'm going to be making my base anyway now let's go below our here is the cave are we going to get a different load or will it be one single thing okay it's one single thing but do you guys notice something there are no dinos in the cave which means that because of how fast I moved the dinos did not spawn which again okay there are some of them but this kind of means that okay okay I believe the spawns are fixed earlier there is these are only like what level 30 level [Music] 40 as you can see inside the cave it is is around 20s and 30s so it's pretty good now let's go up so we have uh tested low and very low and by the way this is how Arc looked in potato settings Arc survival evolved I mean no Shadows nothing so now we have tested uh very low settings let's do one thing let's come here change everything to medium and first we're going to test out medium in 100 settings so everything is at medium Shadows medium this is medium this one Global illumination quality this actually has a very big effect on the lighting and I believe this is where the Lumen thing comes in anual engine 5 special Lumen so for me I'm going to actually enable these things Okay resolution scale is currently at 73 I want it to be 100 okay wait a second I believe it's a bug sort of a bug if you were to set this to any value other than custom then it would lock you out of certain things it's a bug by the way so I just discovered a tiny little bug so this is off on on on on on and on I believe the UI is much better than before so it's very smooth and responsive so now we have everything at medium resolution scale 100 RTX this is on uh let's see oh look at the frame rate it's only 10 FPS is just 10 now I am recording this using Nvidia Shadow play so that might have like hardly might take away one maybe two frames maximum because Shadow play is very good with this regard but still so a GTX 1660 TI laptop version is going to give you just frame rates in single digits even when I'm so far out in the ocean even when I'm just looking at the cloud or at the sun it's only 8 or 9 FPS so if you are watching this you already know you cannot go anything beyond medium or anything beyond low that is let's go into the swamp how bad can it be the graphics looks amazing the frame rates are even better you're only getting 10 to 15 FPS like I would not be able to play this game even if it was a strategy game or or maybe even a turn based game with this these kind of frames if I were to go into the red Woods how bad would it be we are still in the teens we have not even reached 20 yet this is just on medium how about the top of the volcano yay we are now in single digits top of the volcano we only have the lava and it's still in single digits not single digits yeah it has reached 20 yes so if you want FPS above 20 you have to stay close to the volcano and get yourself melt to death now no one in the right mind are going to do this okay before I actually go into that part let's see if I were to do this 67% on medium now it's pretty good to be honest it's pretty good this is stable by the way I have everything on medium and this is stable now you can see the FPS but at least this feels kind of stable let's go into the ground level no it's not stable I believe the density of foliage and the fact that all of these things can be destroyed and everything else is causing the massive frame drops so no you cannot play this game at this kind of frames I mean sure you can run around actually you can I think above 25 FPS you can play at least to some extent but you would only play this at PDM only for the Shadows so the major difference or the most important difference between low and medium is mostly the Shadows so on low so there back the Shadows are just too bad one more thing you can see is the global illumination or Lumen so the Lumen aspect in medium because of the global GI quality makes it look much much better okay next up let's go into the clouds so all right we actually died okay no [Laughter] issues okay now again for experimental purposes let's do ourselves a favor and change everything to high I have actually done one little experiment and converted everything to aepic maxed out just to see how it looks and we will get to that result shortly so this is high but with 67% for now and on high the graphics looks really good look at the Shadows the Shadows look really good think there is some kind of a issue due to which we can actually see the two megalodons as well as this underwater foliage we should not be able to see this though but the difference between medium and high is significant because High looks really good in fact it looks closer to what we saw in the trailer even with 67% but I don't think you would be able to play on high until and unless you have at least RTX 3060 or 3060 TI and even then you might have problems with FPS in some locations who knows [Music] let's go into the MOs beat area so this is the Lagoon so this this is what we call the mosh bit in Arc it looks vastly different now our frames are still around the teens you can see because of the global illumination because of the Lumen the lighting is really really good I know that the texture work is also good and we have so much different particles but it's mainly the lighting which has really improved okay so this was high at 67% ifsr quality just out of curiosity let's let's do something weird okay no one in their right man is going to play like this so I'm going to make it 33% I guess this is what FSR performance or Ultra performance but at least now I mean I don't know if it looks good or I mean it looks pretty okay actually it looks like an oil painting in some areas but it at least the frames are kind of okay or not no definitely you cannot play like this you're going to to have a I8 okay so this area doesn't have much so let's go to some place which actually has a lot of vegetation and a lot of other things to see how the frame rates would look like so with 33% it looks horrible and good at the same time I cannot exactly describe the feeling because of the pixelation as well as the sheer graphical quality but anyways before we wrap up the high part let's make it native now we're going to to see single digit frames yes and I'm hoping with my GPU upgrade I should be able to in fact wait a second with my GPU upgrade I should be able to play this game at Ultra in 1080P so I won't be worried about that too much so you can see this is 100% if you are like me then before you get a GPU upgrade you can at least use high for the photo mode okay let's find some dino or something to take a photo mode on as you can see frame rates are five and by the way this looks beautiful the god R this is photo mode it shows all these nice things focal distance depth of field etc etc etc I don't exactly know what is the key for this so I'm just going to press print screen which is the default one for uh Nvidia okay these are some dinos as you can see we have some major streaming issues most of the textures are not even getting loaded properly on high but it looks really nice now we have been able to lower the frame rates to around 5 FPS now comes the big part the finale we are going to go for epic maxed out settings this is our beautiful island okay go into settings go into videos and it's time for epic now I am not going to complain and say that the graphics I mean the game has a insanely High system requirement because my GPU whether it's 1660 TI or a 1060 it is old it is 6 seven years old and I cannot expect my GPU to give even any kind of on a modern 2023 game which is also supposed to last for at least five to 7 years not 7 years 5 years so in fact yeah so AR survival release in Early Access in 2015 and it ended its official service support in 2022 or 2023 sorry 2023 which is 5 + 3 8 years so going by that logic Arc ascended even if it's going to be 5 to 7 years that's going to come close to 2030 so this is your uh I forgot there was actually a key to hide the hard what is what stage I don't remember there was a key with which you can actually hide the entire hard it looks beautiful the frame rates are even more beautiful only three so if you are in 2023 and you want to play this game then a GPU upgrade to at least an RTX 3060 should be your uh Target and by the way this game supports dlss as well as frame generation so if you're on an Nvidia card then I believe you should be able to take the take leverage of those two capabilities if you have an RTX 3050 or if you have a laptop RTX 4050 so even those two cards should be able to get some good frame rates with the frame generation turned on if you are on AMD I hope I sincerely hope that they in a future update give us FSR 3 because currently we need some kind of FSR support to ensure that mid-range AMD cards at least survive or even the older Nvidia cards as you can see it's 3 FPS is consistent looks really nice but of course no one in their right Minds will play like this let's do one thing go into settings going to videos change this to FSR quality even on FSR quality mode it's still in single digits on Epic settings but the graphics looks amazing I believe the antialiasing used here is very good I think it is TAA but because of how it's implemented the graphics looks really good let's do one more thing let's change this to 50% yes even at 50% resolution ution scale it is still in single digits this is the beauty of this game sorry this is the beauty of Unreal Engine 5 okay these are okay wow so this is how the new ois look it's saying requires level 60 Survivor to open fine and we also got uh double digit FPS let's go to Caro Island [Music] so pretty bad now before we wrap up this video there are couple couple of other things that we can try how about 25 it's an experiment but let's see I know it's going to look like an oil painting or some weird Instagram filter so hey you can at least tell others that you played on Epic settings just don't mention how bad it looked see it almost looks like one of those AI generated painting so you give a painting to some app you tell it to add some pixelation and the AI makes this kind of digital art almost looks like that I can actually fool some of my friends into thinking this is some kind of art I clicked the picture of something and then I used an app to generate this lastly now that we have ch looked into the different features of this we're going to do one more thing set it to 100 low low but we are going to lower the resolution because a lot of you guys may not want even play it at full HD I would rather prefer playing it at full HD with everything turned off because I prefer the sharpness much more than the actual uh uh different graphical features so turned everything to low and now I've changed it to just HD HD resolution scale is 100 by the way and now it kind of looks bright but it looks good I mean if I were to compare this with how my arc server will evolve look with HD this actually looks kind of nice and playable by the way so I'm getting 40 I'm getting FPS in the 40s resolution scale is at 100% so I think this is playable I think a lot of you guys who were thinking about upgrading your gpus or if you have a laptop you might still be able to play this game and this is very stable by the way of course you're going to be playing this in 720p but at least you are getting good graphics what you can do is if you have a Nvidia or a AMD graphics card go into the control panel and increase the sharpness of the graphics that should make sure that the bloodiness is slightly less or you can actually change the ansing to high and make everything else low like this to be honest it doesn't look that bad looks slightly dark but it's not that bad okay so next up I'm going to get a GPU update very soon and it's going to be a very good GPU update and it's going to be above the recommended settings of this game but I'm going to be playing it at at maximum 1440p I have no interest in gaming at 4K 1080p is optimal and 1440p is only for the videos now what settings should I play right now if I were to play this game on my GTX 1660ti laptop with a 10th Generation i7 and 16GB of DDR for Ram so this is would be my recommendations I'm going to play at full HD I'm going to make this 80 okay fairly stable it's not too bad fairly stable now just by looking at these Graphics what is the one thing that I am feeling it causing a bit of a problem that is the Shadows I don't like the Shadows being uh going off and going on I don't like the Poppins of the Shadows so I'll make this medium I would make this also as medium let's see how this goes it looks much better now at least I feel it looks a bit more sharper but it's still okay okay this look at this part this this is an artifact now these things were present in Unreal Engine 4 I think this is because of what you call screen space Reflections or even I don't know I don't think this is Cube map reflection this is mostly screen space Reflections and this this problem uh was there on Arc survival evolved and it has carried over into Arc ascended also I believe if you turn everything to maximum this thing should go away and this is one of the things that uh Ray tracing even at a very limited scale should be able to uh control okay now we are getting 30 FPS so this should be fine but I still don't like the fact that all these things are coming and going like this so next thing I'm going to do is let's see I'll make this as medium medium definitely solves this problem now I cannot do anything to this if I were to change Shadows to high it would really look a lot lot better let me show you I was actually playing out with the Shadows part the most so high Shadows looked really good but not here you won't notice it here but if you look at the general quality it looks much better but the frames have tanked a lot from around 2930 it has now gone to around 22 so better changes to medium next thing I would think about is uh how about these one foliage is mostly CPU bound I'm guessing and next I can I would actually prefer doing these two things because I really like these things I don't know what this thing does but I'll still keep it on just in case now let's see as you can see this alone changed the graph F to making it next change so the moment I turned on Bloom and uh light shafts this entire game's Graphics looks next gen so let's see if I were to turn Bloom off will this change or not I just turned Bloom off not the light shafts see it looks uh very Bland which means even if you were to play Everything At Low I would suggest you put the bloom it on Bloom light shafts and low light enance I don't know what this thing does but at least I think you can put these things to on it will look really good see now unlike our survival evolved this Bloom is much much better and I can actually play this game comfortably at this level I know that no dinos have spawned here let's go into a different part of the map how about at the top of this unless I'm actually using a flyer I will not notice the graphics being this bad for now so this kind of a graphics should be fine for now we are getting around 25 to 30s which should be okay for now or not we just noticed it deep to around 16 17 which means uh it's now around 19 this is not good now it's 20 I believe it's the level of foliage that is causing the biggest problem so if there are too much foliage like this it causes a lot of render problems so ideally and we have this graphical anomalies this is by the way screen space Reflections this thing that you are seeing here only rate racing can solve this and uh you know what R tracing I mean if it if an RTX 38 is a recommended requirements then with the rate racing I don't think even a 4090 can take okay that's a bionic challenging its Big Brother that's fin know anyway be changing foliage to low I'm going to keep this as medium for now I just want to see how it looks I don't exactly know what happened but changing it from medium to low actually made everything much more smoother so I believe foliage quality has some effect on the Shadows also as you can see the moment I changed it from medium to low the Shadows look very bare very weird let me see if I change it to medium what happens okay nothing happens so uh not exactly sure what what exactly happened but my Shadows is still at medium but this thing I changed to low let's do one thing if I were to change this to medium what happens uh to be honest the only thing that changed was the FPS was dropped so after going through the swamps which is the most FPS dense place and then coming to the other areas I can conclude that the best place or the best uh settings to play on a 1660ti laptop by the way if you are on a 1660ti desktop which has the higher power limit of around 120 watts then obviously you should be able to play this with slightly more bells and whistles but on a laptop even with an i7 which is only utilized 2 15% the safe option would be to change everything to low even this thing to low aliasing I think you can keep it at medium or even high because I think it's TAA which doesn't cost too much frames but if you want some some kind of good graphics then Bloom and shafts should be turned on and at best you can change this to maybe 70% below below this it will be just too bloody in fact it's already too bloody let's go to the swamp one more time it's already too bloody if you can play like this then fine but I did myself I don't think I can play in such a manner so I'm going to get my GPU upgraded uh my current GPU from my desktop is a GTX 1060 it has survived for 7 years but 7 years is a long time in the PC gaming market and it's time to finally upgrade so hopefully when I'll be letting you guys see my actual videos then it is hello going to be using the upgraded CPU not these ones so with that being said let's die and end the video thank you for watching and stay tuned for the next one t

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Id: NuZjaWRovzQ

Length: 51min 34sec (3094 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 26 2023