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r/playark•
EnterSidMode

Crashing while mounted a carrying flyer

Looking for some help as me and my friends have been crashing randomly while mounted on a flyer when it is carrying either a player or a dino. Happens randomly but is almost guaranteed on a argentavis, especially when the player being carried starts shooting big dinos i.e. T-rex or bronto.

Tends to result in a straight up UE4 engine error and game crashes to desktop. All our drivers are up to date and nothing else is behaving wierd, our server is even set to allow flyers carry in pve using bAllowFlyersCarryPVE=True.

If this just a bug that devs does not know about then can someone point me to a site where I can tell them?

Thanks beforehand.

Posted Jan 8, 2016, 9:40 AM UTC

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Galendof•

We figured this one out a couple weeks ago on our private server. The cause is due to network latency between client computers. My wife and I play together on the same internet connection. Our server is remotely hosted. When I pick up my wife's character I can fly around all day/night with her and have no issues with crashing. When I pickup my friend who is on a different internet connection, or he picks up either me or my wife, whomever is on the flying creature receives the crash screen, usually within about 20 - 30 seconds.

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jmknsd•

Does it happen if the bird is not sprinting or is stationary?

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Galendof•

We were always flying and sprinting when it happened, however, I do not know if it works while not sprinting or being stationary. I can test this out when I get home tonight but unfortunately that won't be for a few more hours. It's definitely an interesting thought though.

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papatango69•

We were just stationary but was experiencing some graphics/lag and moved to a safe spot when it all went down.

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criticalheat•

can confirm, this happens also sometimes when i start to carry tribe mates or other people.

Bird starts to bug out, some visual fx glitches and then crashes to desktop.

Edit: Someone said only weaker FX Cards get the error, this is not true. Tested with a friends GTX 970 and my 980TI. Still happens alot.

Also got a Nvidia Card

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EnterSidModeOP•

Hmm, might it be that using low quality VFX is casuing these issues?

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criticalheat•

i dont think so because we both run a mixture of high/epic settings.

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criticalheat•

i can reproduce it at any given time as soon as i grab another player, be it friend or enemy. its wierd

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EnterSidModeOP•

Yea, same here and I'm on a mildly edited scalability.ini with most things on low/off.

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The_Arbiter_50Do a barrel roll!•

This has happened to me and I'm running a 980 ti with all on epic

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drip_monkey•

It's a very random occurrence. Three of my 4 tribe members have no issues what so ever and the fourth has no issues flying or being carried by us with a flyer. The second someone else grabs him and carries him for more than 10 seconds or so he crashes every time, but never when we carry him or when he flies.

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Ghostmuffin•

I have crashed 3 times while playing ark. All of those times I was carrying someone on my pteranodon.

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Reflexus•

I can confirm that happening. However it seems as if it only affects low and medium performance graphics cards. I have a gtx 780TI and have not experienced such a crash but 2 of my friends who have weaker hardware experience it almost every time they fly an argent that is carrying me or someone else.

However when the argent is carrying them then the crash does not happen.

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Crozzerz•

Not sure about this bud, I've got 980ti and while i don't get it as oftern as my firends it still happens.

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criticalheat•

said it in another reply.. i dont think thats the case. Friend of mine gets it as often as i do. He has a 970 and i have a 980ti

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EnterSidModeOP•

Yea, there could be some truth in this. Some of us are 760 or lower but one has a 960 and he's experiencing most crashes alone.

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Reflexus•

well If people are experiencing it with 980TI cards I'll probably have to take back the statement "only affects low and medium performance graphics cards".

In that case I wonder if the root of the problem perhaps starts from the CPU or did I just got lucky with my card.

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BlackThenWhite•

I have a r9 390 and I get these crashes a bit.

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Ldkiki•

I'm running a Titan X and it happens to me fairly often when a buddy and I are trying to tranq Rexes. I've carried him plenty of places, but we've noticed it only happens in the area just south of the volcano.

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Ghetto_Blaster•

I have a 980ti and crashed while carrying my tribe mate on a quetzal two days ago. Just about to hover over a giga to knock it out and crashed. My tribe mate was killed, and when I logged back in I was on the giga's back and was instantly killed.

I crashed a lot more before I upgraded cards. This was the first time in weeks the game crashed at all, and I think first crash on 980ti.

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Devil_In_The_Flesh•

I haven't crashed while flying but two of my friends have and it sucked because their gear fell through the map.

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thecotton•

I had that happen twice. Once while I was carrying 4 fridges and an air conditioner. That was the last time I ever not put all my shit in my bird before taking off.

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ProtatoZ•

Noone of my server/tribe encountered this yet. Is this an official server that u play on?
Xbox or PC? What specs if PC?

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EnterSidModeOP•

PC, rented unofficial Nitrado server. Same was happening while home-hosting aswell.

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Teeque87•

did you skill points into movement speed?

my tribemate and I found out that it might be related to that stat.

also do you get some flickering on your screen right before the crash appears? we both do. hope this gets fixed soon.

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Synapse7777•

I crashed for the first time I can ever remember last week. I was carrying someone in my argent to help them retriever one of their flyers.

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flipf17FzB•

Same here, except my friend was carrying me. Has happened about three times already.

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papatango69•

Yes this has happened to my son and I on a friends server.. never happened before must be in the last few up dates. Luckily we took no fall damage and upon logging back in my bird was still there.

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Technonorm•

When this happens to me I log back on and I am unconscious. I have to then relog, only to fall to my death. I cannot even deploy my parachute when I come back on...Most infuriating bug ever.

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