Hazy Skies
Published
Launch settings of -dx11 is pretty much mandatory in order to play; at least on Linux Mint. Expect many issues still at games current state.
-dx11
I have winetricks and protontricks installed as a requirement for some other games, and may affect why I was able to run this title.
This is likely due to issues relating to resource hogging and FPS loss of the graphics and so not directly related to audio issues.
- Map's 3 obelisks are missing (only their colored glow beam visible). -Flickering rock objects where they may appear or disappear (only visually) depending on the angle they're viewed from.
- Volumetric clouds caused significant FPS loss and had to be turned off in order to be playable
- Very low FPS despite the hardware running the game on lowest settings.
Game would completely freeze during the Character Creation screen, logs show something to do with game thread waiting for render thread:
LowLevelFatalError [File:E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 1274] GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs
CL: 450657 0x000000007b00cdb7 kernelbase.dll!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000143ed3fa7 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000143e81ea0 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x00000001446bad76 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x00000001446baf00 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000140e59609 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000140e4677c ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000140e5c6ea ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000140e5d158 ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x0000000140e5d22b ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x00000001471e06ea ArkAscended.exe!UnknownFunction [] 0x000000007b6146ed kernel32.dll!UnknownFunction []
Hadn't played enough to determine this fully, but there has been many crashes prior to using -dx11 launch options, so I'd consider these frequent.
Technically playable with enough tinkering to settings like r.VolumetricCloud 0 and foliage.MaxTrianglesToRender 300000 to launch within the in-game console. Which must first be enabled in the Advanced settings, the key is tilde (`) by default.
There are many issues relating to objects and effects not being rendered and/or frequently disappearing visually, as well as strong FPS drops even with these tweaks.
