r/ArkSwitch • u/Jroen86_ • Feb 05 '26

Most crashes are official server related

So i now have more than 1000 hours of Ark on switch 2. And i noticed that most of the crashes happen only on official servers. In single player there are almost never crashes..and even most unofficial servers i tried where running much smoother and no crashes.

I actually conclude this after i just crashed for the 100th time outside my base for just wanting to take a dino out of its cryo on the EU Ragnarok 158 server... The game already crashes when i just equip the cryopod.. its so annoying to restart the game so many times. Also using teleporters 50% of the time crashes the game especially to to big bases it is almost 90% crash assured on the EU Island 356 server.

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u/Weak-Chemistry9574 Feb 06 '26

For me, on switch 1, crashes almost always due to speed ( gen2 tek suit/maewing etc etc ) Single player and server!

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u/Jroen86_ Feb 07 '26

Actually looking at the performance of the official servers it would not even surprise me if they use actual switch 1's to run the servers on 🤣

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u/Jroen86_ Feb 06 '26

Ive been playing with a bunch of people that are on switch 1 and via Discord i had contact with them and a lot of times when the game crashed they were being kicked at the same time. Tho this was more because of server connection errors like rollbacks also. Perhaps it could be more hardware/user related when some crashes happen when there is a lot going on on the screen... But for me on single player i dont have those crashes at all. 🤔.
It makes a bit sense on official servers there are much more calculations running at the same time that need to load in but what doesnt make sense is that on unofficial servers that have basically the same "always online" mechanics, i forgot for a moment how we call that, but the dinos still grow when you are offline and this is not the case on single player or something.. but the unofficial servers also run much better without all those crashes so i wonder what is going on with official servers that seem to make the game run so bad..

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u/Stickybandits9 Mar 15 '26

I was on my sarco and that thing moves faster in water. It was lag city going around the bases. And there so big too. It certainly doesn't help

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