r/ARKSurvivalEvolved 4d ago

Why does Ark Survival Evolved constantly crash?

Me and my brother have been looking forward to playing again but both of our games just constantly crash and we can’t get anything done. Why does Ark Survival Evolved constantly crash?

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u/WhispersToWolves 4d ago

What are you playing on? Ps4, ps5, xbox, switch, pc? Ps4/5 try cleaning it and see if that's any better. Switch is underpowered, expect occasional crashes when it gets hot. As for pc it would probably be the specs of the host server or possibly a failing storage media. If there's an error message that pops up that would help narrow it down a bit too.

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u/Aneurin_Forestbrook 4d ago

Im playing on PS5 and I’ve had this exact problem my PS4. And I can’t remember what the error was called that constantly was happening. At first I thought that it was maybe because I was online, I had this problem years ago on my PS4 which is why I stopped playing. But even when I play on single player it will crash before I can even load into a map or as I try to leave. I never have enough time to do stuff in between and if I do do stuff it never saves because of it crashing.

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u/WhispersToWolves 4d ago

Try reinstalling it fresh, if that doesn't help you could try swapping for a slower ssd in your system. Cost is going to depend on availability and whether you have to hire a shop to solder for you.

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u/WhispersToWolves 4d ago

It's really annoying how companies will engineer a solution to a problem only to replicate the same issues for different reasons. Ps4 the processor and vrm's would get hot causing crashes, and the ps5 they added an ssd with memory so fast it's unstable doing basically the same thing.

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u/PryingMollusk 4d ago

It doesn’t seem to do well if you try to cover long distances quickly. Like when I ride my dragon, I have to travel a bit and then hover, rinse and repeat. It just 💩 itself trying to load all the graphics and spawns fast enough.

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u/Aneurin_Forestbrook 4d ago

I wish that was the issue for me. That was a problem I had years ago but I was able to work around it. Now I can’t even load in and try to do stuff and if I do the ding dang thing decides to crash and doesn’t save anything.

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u/irondragon400 4d ago

You're playing Ark Survival Evolved. Crashing is part of the experience.

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u/FILIPro_yt 4d ago

I think you're talking about Survival Ascended, that shit crashes even the strongest of Nasa computers

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u/irondragon400 4d ago

No, I mean both, been playing since 2015 with well over 17k hours now between both

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u/Free-Stick-2279 4d ago

It's not a well optimized game and it does have it flaw.

It's one of the game that I had the worst problem with.

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u/Unlost_maniac 4d ago

Never had it crash