Ark: Survival Evolved – DirectX12 to bring 20% performance improvement + new patch

The survival game Ark: Survival Evolved received new patches with version numbers 263.0 and 262.0 earlier this week.

There are no major new features this week; the folks at Studio Wildcard have mainly focused on a whole series of bug fixes.

A complete listing of the patch notes can be found here: Click me

However, these patch notes also provided a glimpse into the near future of Ark: Survival Evolved. In addition to boss fights, DirectX12 support for Windows 10 is expected in the near future, promising up to 20% more performance! There are rumors that this DX12 mode may be ready by the official release of the game on 08/08/2017.

All future outlooks:

• "Boss wars"
• More creatures, equipment, armor, weapons & structures!
• DirectX12 mode for Windows 10! Approximately +20% performance
• Fix for a random GPU driver crash: Truesky
• GPU & CPU render optimizations

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