Playing Ark on a GTX 1060 with an FX 4300 running on quad-core processor
Playing Ark on a GTX 1060 with an FX 4300 running on quad-core processor
The optimization is terrible. The best chance is using DirectX 12 eventually. Still, up to now, DirectX 12 has been pretty disappointing.
The CPU would describe itself as being at a bottleneck, indicating that its performance is limited by other components or processes.
I was testing today to see if there’s a bottleneck between my CPU and GPU. I saw that my core usage averaged around 60% across all cores, while the GPU’s total load stayed about 45%. The error I encountered previously was based on current percentages at the time of writing, which doesn’t look like it’s causing a single blockage. I also noticed the read percentage on my HDD spiking up to 100% during the test, matching the performance drop. Could it be that a slow hard drive is interfering with smooth operation? I already ran a defrag on the drive just in case, but it wasn’t very fragmented at first. I monitored system resources using HWINFO64 throughout the test. My Toshiba DT01aca100 drive came with the PC and didn’t seem to be causing issues.
It might cause performance issues, crashes, or instability due to inefficient resource use.