Can I Run Ark: Survival Evolved?
Studio Wildcard released Ark: Survival Evolved in 2017. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. At 9 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam lists support for 21 languages. Completionists have 32 achievements to work through. With more than 582 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Metacritic places it at 70. Cloud saves are enabled. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB |
| OS | Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions) |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
Ark: Survival Evolved places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through hostile territory. Play is presented from a first person view. The publisher supplies 23 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Ark: Survival Evolved is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 60 GB. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Ark: Survival Evolved needs only 2 GB of video memory. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Ark: Survival Evolved?
Ark: Survival Evolved targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Ark: Survival Evolved?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Ark: Survival Evolved?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions).
How much storage does Ark: Survival Evolved need?
Ark: Survival Evolved needs about 60 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Ark: Survival Evolved?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Ark: Survival Evolved is the CPU.