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Ark: Survival Ascended - Known Bugs, Crashes & Community Fixes

25 October 2023
Ark: Survival Ascended

About this game

Ark: Survival Ascended is an action adventure survival game that rebuilds Ark: Survival Evolved in Unreal Engine 5, delivering a next generation dinosaur survival experience with advanced lighting, detailed environments, dynamic water, and fully interactive foliage. You awaken on a mysterious island and must design your survivor, manage hunger, thirst, temperature, and weather, then form tribes to tame, train, breed, and ride hundreds of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures within a living ecosystem. The game includes Survival of the Fittest and grants access to all remastered Ark worlds and DLC maps over time, with new creatures and story content, plus extensive quality of life improvements such as revamped interfaces, new camera and map systems, a tracking system, new structures, items, and creatures. Cross platform modding lets you download maps, creatures, items, and modes from a dedicated in game collection, while cross platform multiplayer supports large public servers, private sessions, and local split screen.

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Bugs, Crashes & Solutions

  • From the Ark: Survival Ascended start screen for single-player or non-dedicated, select your map.
  • If prompted with a message such as "Save file may be corrupt, use backup?", choose to load the backup.
  • If no prompt appears, exit to the menu, load a different save slot first, then return to the affected slot and try again.
Lower graphics settings, cap frame rate, and monitor CPU and GPU temperatures to reduce the chance of full system shutdowns after ASA updates.
Update GPU drivers and system firmware, then verify ASA game files and avoid running heavy background applications while playing to help prevent shutdowns triggered by the latest update.
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Adjust the Ark configuration INI files so that any frame generation multiplier or related setting is correctly defined, then save the changes before relaunching the game.
Verify the integrity of Ark: Survival Ascended game files in Steam to repair missing or corrupted files that may cause crashes on startup.
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Reset Ark-related settings in the NVIDIA control panel to their defaults, then launch the game again to eliminate problematic custom profiles that can trigger crashes.
Use the DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) to check for missing or corrupted DirectX files and repair them, then relaunch the game to see if crashes are resolved.

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Known issues (no solution listed yet)

These are community-reported issues we don’t have a listed fix for yet. If something worked for you, share it.

  • Cannot join servers due to repeated crash loop despite good hardware

    Last reported: August 27, 2026

  • Official server missing from server list after update

    Last reported: August 27, 2026

  • Tamed creatures near base suddenly low on health and have incorrect melee stats

    Last reported: August 25, 2026

System requirements

Minimum

  • OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 180 GB available space

Recommended

  • OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
  • Memory: 32 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 180 GB available space
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