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I can't even launch the game. I am a developer, as well as a sysadmin, and for this to be the norm for games rolling out nowadays is ridiculous. Probably because they don't hire people like me to be developers, but I'm just speculating at that..... because they never hire people like me to be developers so I can't tell for sure. Incidentally, I can't even launch the game because it crashes while looking for shaders, or for an E: that I don't have, I'm not sure which.

This page appears to be broken: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.survivetheark.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Frequests%2Fnew Is it supposed to be? Or has it been taken down because of the launch of Ark Ascended? When I click on it, nothing happens. I've tried 2 different browsers. Doing a search of the forums, no one else seems to be complaining about it. At first, I thought I might need to be logged in, so that's why I made a forum account and started posting.

Hello! Someone bought me Ark Survival Ascended, and it's been a miserable experience thus far, and I'm not even talking about the game crashing. Of course, it does crash, and I got no traction on my Steam post, unprofessionally rejected by email, and then had to divine artistic nomenclature of which DLC was first in a fragmented multiverse of a timeline. I am quite frustrated. As far as the crash, it happens before the game launches, so I don't have a config file. The error message leads me to believe that it's a hardcoded developer error message, and it seems to be related to shaders, which idk where they would or would not come from. From my steam post: I don't use Steam much, but my friend had me buy this game. Got it downloaded and it complained about drivers, so I updated my nVidia drivers. Now the game crashes on launch. I have not gotten into the game at all. I've seen lots of people complain about the game crashing, but this is crazy. I'm a dev and a sysadmin, and I have SteamGuard turned off, so I can post but not reply, so has Steam decreed. plz talk nerdy to me. I don't have the config file (GameUserSettings) that's outlined here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2399830/discussions/0/3881599433114356712/ ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\Windows Presumably because the game hasn't launched yet. This is part of the file "CrashContext.runtime-xml", which I found in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\Crashes\UECC-Windows-96D9F06F49A6F8371EB51487BA10446A_0000 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <FGenericCrashContext> <RuntimeProperties> <CrashVersion>3</CrashVersion> <ExecutionGuid>12B67A3E4BA9E20D5800FA8B28AF9A79</ExecutionGuid> <CrashGUID>UECC-Windows-96D9F06F49A6F8371EB51487BA10446A_0000</CrashGUID> <IsEnsure>false</IsEnsure> <IsStall>false</IsStall> <IsAssert>true</IsAssert> <CrashType>Assert</CrashType> <ErrorMessage>LowLevelFatalError [File:E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\ShaderResource.cpp] [Line: 681] FShaderMapResource_InlineCode::InitRHI got platform PCD3D_SM6 but it is not compatible with PCD3D_SM5 </ErrorMessage> <CrashReporterMessage></CrashReporterMessage> <ProcessId>12120</ProcessId> <SecondsSinceStart>0</SecondsSinceStart> <IsInternalBuild>false</IsInternalBuild> <IsPerforceBuild>false</IsPerforceBuild> <IsSourceDistribution>false</IsSourceDistribution> <GameName>UE-ShooterGame</GameName> <ExecutableName>ArkAscended</ExecutableName> <BuildConfiguration>Shipping</BuildConfiguration> <GameSessionID></GameSessionID> <PlatformName>Windows</PlatformName> <PlatformNameIni>Windows</PlatformNameIni> <EngineMode>Game</EngineMode> <EngineModeEx>Unset</EngineModeEx> <DeploymentName></DeploymentName> <EngineVersion>5.2.0-0+UE5</EngineVersion> <CommandLine> -VideoReplayEnabled=false</CommandLine> <LanguageLCID>0</LanguageLCID> <AppDefaultLocale>en-US</AppDefaultLocale> <BuildVersion>UE5-CL-0</BuildVersion> <Symbols>UE5-CL-0-Win64-Shipping</Symbols> <IsUERelease>true</IsUERelease> <IsRequestingExit>false</IsRequestingExit> <UserName></UserName> <BaseDir>D:/Games/Steam/steamapps/common/ARK Survival Ascended/ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/</BaseDir> <RootDir>D:/Games/Steam/steamapps/common/ARK Survival Ascended/</RootDir> <MachineId>CCAB530E4F5DA99BB90B32AD58945E5F</MachineId> <LoginId>ccab530e4f5da99bb90b32ad58945e5f</LoginId> <EpicAccountId></EpicAccountId> <SourceContext></SourceContext> <UserDescription></UserDescription> <UserActivityHint></UserActivityHint> <CrashDumpMode>0</CrashDumpMode> <GameStateName></GameStateName> <Misc.NumberOfCores>16</Misc.NumberOfCores> <Misc.NumberOfCoresIncludingHyperthreads>32</Misc.NumberOfCoresIncludingHyperthreads> <Misc.Is64bitOperatingSystem>1</Misc.Is64bitOperatingSystem> <Misc.CPUVendor>AuthenticAMD</Misc.CPUVendor> <Misc.CPUBrand>AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor </Misc.CPUBrand> <Misc.PrimaryGPUBrand>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080</Misc.PrimaryGPUBrand> <Misc.OSVersionMajor>Windows 10 (Release 1909) [10.0.18363.418]</Misc.OSVersionMajor> <Misc.OSVersionMinor></Misc.OSVersionMinor> <MemoryStats.TotalPhysical>68610719744</MemoryStats.TotalPhysical> <MemoryStats.TotalVirtual>78811267072</MemoryStats.TotalVirtual> <MemoryStats.PageSize>4096</MemoryStats.PageSize> <MemoryStats.TotalPhysicalGB>64</MemoryStats.TotalPhysicalGB> <MemoryStats.AvailablePhysical>59997134848</MemoryStats.AvailablePhysical> <MemoryStats.AvailableVirtual>62190374912</MemoryStats.AvailableVirtual> <MemoryStats.UsedPhysical>1145511936</MemoryStats.UsedPhysical> <MemoryStats.PeakUsedPhysical>1145516032</MemoryStats.PeakUsedPhysical> <MemoryStats.UsedVirtual>2501976064</MemoryStats.UsedVirtual> <MemoryStats.PeakUsedVirtual>2501976064</MemoryStats.PeakUsedVirtual> <MemoryStats.bIsOOM>0</MemoryStats.bIsOOM> <MemoryStats.OOMAllocationSize>0</MemoryStats.OOMAllocationSize> <MemoryStats.OOMAllocationAlignment>0</MemoryStats.OOMAllocationAlignment> <NumMinidumpFramesToIgnore>3</NumMinidumpFramesToIgnore> <CallStack></CallStack> <PCallStack> lots of not-human-readable stuff <Thread><CallStack>ntdll 0x00007fffe3820000 + 9c744 KERNELBASE 0x00007fffe0b40000 + 46931 ArkAscended 0x00007ff73fe50000 + 3eedbea ArkAscended 0x00007ff73fe50000 + 65ea9f0 ArkAscended 0x00007ff73fe50000 + 3ef2406 ArkAscended 0x00007ff73fe50000 + 3ef225c KERNEL32 0x00007fffe3520000 + 17bd4 ntdll 0x00007fffe3820000 + 6ced1 </CallStack> <IsCrashed>false</IsCrashed> <Registers></Registers> <ThreadID>14264</ThreadID> <ThreadName>ScreenSaverInhibitor</ThreadName> </Thread> </Threads> </RuntimeProperties> <PlatformProperties> <PlatformIsRunningWindows>1</PlatformIsRunningWindows> <IsRunningOnBattery>false</IsRunningOnBattery> <PlatformCallbackResult>0</PlatformCallbackResult> <CrashTrigger>0</CrashTrigger> </PlatformProperties> <EngineData> <MatchingDPStatus>WindowsNo errors</MatchingDPStatus> <RHI.IntegratedGPU>false</RHI.IntegratedGPU> <RHI.DriverDenylisted>false</RHI.DriverDenylisted> <RHI.D3DDebug>false</RHI.D3DDebug> <RHI.Breadcrumbs>false</RHI.Breadcrumbs> <RHI.DRED>false</RHI.DRED> <RHI.DREDContext>false</RHI.DREDContext> <RHI.Aftermath>false</RHI.Aftermath> <RHI.RHIName>D3D12</RHI.RHIName> <RHI.AdapterName>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080</RHI.AdapterName> <RHI.UserDriverVersion>546.01</RHI.UserDriverVersion> <RHI.InternalDriverVersion>31.0.15.4601</RHI.InternalDriverVersion> <RHI.DriverDate>10-26-2023</RHI.DriverDate> <RHI.FeatureLevel>SM5</RHI.FeatureLevel> <RHI.GPUVendor>NVIDIA</RHI.GPUVendor> <RHI.DeviceId>220A</RHI.DeviceId> <DeviceProfile.Name>Windows</DeviceProfile.Name> </EngineData> <GameData> </GameData> </FGenericCrashContext>