One of the worst ports ever is now a good-looking, playable experience.
It’s one of the most infamous Digital Foundry stories of all-time.
It’s been rebuilt from the ground up and addresses virtually every criticism we had of the original game.
Nothing of the original version has been brought over to this new edition.
Either way, it holds up well.
The engine is also used intelligently to mitigate the technological limitations of the Switch’s mobile chipsets.
Meanwhile, adaptable scalable texture compression reduces the data footprint overall to around two-thirds the size.
In similar tests with the new version, loading completed in around 24-25 seconds.
Frame-rates are also improved but it’s worth adding an asterisk to this.
Ark: Survival Evolved has never been a particularly performant game on any platform.
In terms of both CPU and GPU, it pushes host hardware to an often unreasonable degree.
Everyone loves a good redemption story - and this one is up there with the best.
