Thread: DX12 this Friday

If you look at the patch notes I listed at the bottom of this, Friday ARK gets DX12. They have been working on it for awhile it seems like.

So, I am curious, and to those that know more than I do... Will SLI be supported in ARK now? Will it have the support for using two different GPUs? Or will they have to code it specifically to do that?


[Patch Notes] Upcoming Version v203 - ETA: (See Thread) self.playark
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-Patch Notes- Current (v202.2) & Upcoming (v203.0, ETA: 11:30AM EST Thursday)

Current ARK Official Server Network Servers Version: 202.0

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Upcoming Version: v203.0, ETA: 11:30AM EST Thursday

• falling vaults don't float on wires anymore and they can fall multiple times now
• sotf notifications now show up to 4 tribesmates on the tribe eliminated notification, if a sotf server is set to allow 4-player tribes.
• defaulted max tamed dinos to 5000 up from 3700
• blueprint cost overrides now are used correctly for reals.
• spraygun now uses paint up properly
• ptero now drops its carried character if it barrel rolls
• now craft-all is limited to 100 iterations to avoid craft-all spam stalls. convenient enough for now
• a dino that was ridden will now take fall damage once if it was unboarded in mid-air.
• door interaction shouldn't get stuck anymore on client
• player-level-up multipliers are now used properly when respawning
• ptero don't allow barrelrolling when encumbered
• torpored doedicurus will now exit ball-state properly
• glasses now correctly placed on doedicurus
• all mammoth attacks now will harvest properly
• fixed a rare server crash involving pickupable structures (sleeping bags, turrets, etc)
• support for "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!" (Extinction Event)

[MORE NOTES TO COME]

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This Friday:

• New Creature: Mesopithecus
• Smoke Grenades
• DirectX12 Mode for Windows 10! Approximate +20% perf
• "Survival of the Fittest: Unnatural Selection" Event + Tournament

Originally Posted by BrockSamson

Will SLI be supported in ARK now? Will it have the support for using two different GPUs? Or will they have to code it specifically to do that?

SLI Support is based on the Nvidia drivers library of supported games. Of course you can create your own SLI profile for the game but it will not be "optimized"

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Right, so my googling brought that up but... that was with DX11. DX12 SLI is supposed to be an entirely different beast and fundamentally works different (sharing resources as opposed to alternate frame rendering)

Right, SLI/CF is the physical existence of two video cards with a cable link (SLI bridge, crossfire bridge).

I am talking about how the two graphics cards are used in DX11 and earlier (alternate frame rendering?) and in DX12 where you don't need the bridges, you don't even need two similar cards, and all the resources are available to use.

In DX11 if you had two 960 SLI you only had 2gbs of VRAM available despite the cards totaling 4gbs between them.

Edit:
also, I understand what DirectX and OpenGL are... I used to use them on a regular basis 8 years ago. I am just not at all up on the latest features, SLI/CF, how those multi card configurations actually work and what all this talk about DX12 means for users with multi card configurations.

I am curious because ARK is supposed to be the second game ever to release with DX12 support.