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Ark Survival Ascended – Best Settings for Ragnarok – RTX 4080

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

Use these settings for Ark: Ragnarok Ascended on your RTX 4080 to play the game at decent visuals without performance issues.

Ark Survival Ascended - Best Settings for Ragnarok - RTX 4080
Image from within the game (Image via Snail Games USA)

Studio Wildcard built Ark Survival Ascended, an open-world survival game using Unreal Engine 5. It’s a visually stunning upgrade over the previous game, Ark: Survival Evolved. But it comes with a lot of performance issues. Since 2023, the developers have continued to update the game, despite severe backlash and negative reviews. The developers updated the game to Unreal Engine 5.5 on June 5, 2025, showcasing their hard work. With that, performance degraded, but VRAM utilization improved. There are several other improvements as well, including lighting, ambient occlusion, and more; the most significant one is the mitigation of in-game traversal stutters.

That said, here are the settings you should adjust to ensure the game runs smoothly and maintains the UE5 visual appeal.

Note – The RTX 4080 can run at 1440p, thanks to its advantage over the RTX 4070 Ti Super, which likely stems from its full 48MB L2 cache. Upscaling is mandatory; otherwise, the game will run very poorly. As for native resolution, UE5 and the current state of Ark’s optimization punish even the RTX 5090, which is the fastest GPU on the planet (period).

Ark: Ragnarok Ascended – Best Settings for RTX 4080 (1440p Optimized)

Ark Ascended Settings page (Image via Snail Games USA)

A few keynotes to consider:

  • Frame Generation is forcefully enabled in this game. To disable it, press Tab and type r.FidelityFX.FI.Enabled 0.
  • Ragnarok has huge forests, snowy mountains, and all these parameters can take a toll on your FPS. Switching to the DLSS 4 Transformer model is highly recommended. You can easily achieve good image quality using the Performance profile.
  • Volumetrics and the Ark Ascended are the real eye candy, though the 4080 can tackle these, but if you are looking for more FPS, you can simply go ahead and disable them. Just follow the usual process: press Tab and type r.VolumetricFog 0, r.VolumetricCloud 0, r.Fog 0. 
  • If you are running a dedicated server, use these commands bDisableVolumetricClouds=True and bDisableVolumetricFog=True. Depending on your game version, it may or may not work. 

Best Settings Explored

Setting CategoryOption/Value
Resolution2560 x 1440
Custom Resolution2560 x 1440
Window ModeFullscreen
Max Frame Rate(Uncapped)
Upscaler & AADLSS
QualityBalanced
Resolution Scale100
VSync ModeOff
Graphics PresetCustom
Advanced GraphicsHigh
View DistanceHigh
TexturesHigh
Post ProcessingMedium
General ShadowsMedium
Global IlluminationMedium
Effects QualityMedium
Foliage QualityMedium
Motion BlurOff
Light BloomOff
Light ShaftsOff
Low-Light EnhancementOn
Foliage & Fluid InteractionOff
Foliage Interaction Distance Multiplier4
Foliage Interaction Distance Limit4
Foliage Interaction Quantity Limit3
Enable Footstep ParticlesOff
Enable Footstep DecalsOff
Disable HLODOn
GUI 3D Widget Quality0.5
Cinematic Lighting ModeOff

Verdict

That concludes the recommendation for the RTX 4080 and Ark: Ragnarok Ascended. Use monitoring tools like Afterburner (RTSS) to track your 1% and 0.1% lows. If necessary, make adjustments on the fly to prevent performance from falling into unplayable territory.

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