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Ark Survival Ascended – Best Settings for Ragnarok – RTX 4070

By / ARK Survival Ascended, Tech / June 17, 2025

Dial in these settings and tweaks for Ark: Ragnarok Ascended on your RTX 4070 to play the game without performance issues.

Ark Survival Ascended - Best Settings for Ragnarok - RTX 4070
Image captured from within the game (Image via Snail Games USA)

Ark: Survival Ascended is quite notorious on mid-range hardware. According to the official recommended specifications, the developers recommend an RX 5600 XT or a GTX 1080 to play this game. In reality, the RTX 4070 is the bare minimum required to play this game properly, with all the UE5 features properly utilized, ie. That said, the developers pushed several updates, one of the most significant being the June 5th update, which updated the game to use Unreal Engine 5.5. This update addressed traversal stutters and improved VRAM usage in the process. That said, many gamers have reported performance regressions over the UE 5.5 update.

The developers are likely preparing the game to coincide with the Ragnarok Launch on June 18th. Here are the settings that will help you get a seamless Ark: Ragnarok Ascended experience.

Note – As per observation, 1080p is the optimal resolution to play this game with the 4070, and even the Super, Ti, and Ti Super. Anything beyond this, in terms of current Ark optimizations, will perform poorly on these 70-class Nvidia cards.

Ark: Ragnarok Ascended – Best Settings for RTX 4070 (1080p Optimized)

Ark Ascended Settings page (Image via Snail Games USA)
Ark Ascended Settings page (Image via Snail Games USA)

A few keynotes to consider:

  • By default, the game forces Frame Generation. If you are not okay with it, you can turn it off by pressing the Tab key and typing the following command: r.FidelityFX.FI.Enabled 0.
  • Using the DLSS 4 Transformer model, playing the Ragnarok map with DLSS 4 will produce a higher-quality image output.
  • Disable Volumetrics to gain even more FPS headroom. You can do this by typing the following commands: r.VolumetricFog 0, r.VolumetricCloud 0, r.Fog 0.  One after another, ie.

Best Settings Explored

Setting CategoryOption/Value
Resolution1920 x 1080
Custom Resolution1920 x 1080
Window ModeFullscreen
Max Frame Rate(Uncapped)
Upscaler & AADLSS
QualityPerformance
Resolution Scale100
VSync ModeOff
Graphics PresetCustom
Advanced GraphicsLow
View DistanceMedium
TexturesMedium
Post ProcessingLow
General ShadowsLow
Global IlluminationLow
Effects QualityMedium
Foliage QualityMedium
Motion BlurOff
Light BloomOff
Light ShaftsOff
Low-Light EnhancementOn
Foliage & Fluid InteractionOff
Foliage Interaction Distance Multiplier2
Foliage Interaction Distance Limit2
Foliage Interaction Quantity Limit1
Enable Footstep ParticlesOff
Enable Footstep DecalsOff
Disable HLODOn
GUI 3D Widget Quality0.5
Cinematic Lighting ModeOff

Verdict

That concludes the recommendation. The game initially packed a lot of potential, just like Ark: Survival. Sadly, gameplay-wise, the game is plagued by bugs from the older Ark: Survival Evolved game. Use these settings, enable RTSS (MSI Afterburner), and continue to monitor frame pacing, 1% lows, and 0.1% lows, adjusting the settings accordingly.  From biome to biome, performance metrics differ, and the same applies to day and nighttime.

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