Download ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam.

You can find the download link and instructions here (it only takes 2 minutes): Unlike 99% of Intel-based games that can run on M1 Macs out of the box, ARK: Survival Evolved has a problem that you’ll need to resolve.įear not, however, as Reddit user u/tombob51 created a patcher that just works. How to run ARK: Survival Evolved on M1 Mac What is Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 is a translation process that enables an M1 Mac with Apple silicon to use apps built for Intel-based Macs. Also, It's not like the game runs great under windows either, according the the endless complaints I read here.ARK: Survival Evolved M1 support (using Rosetta 2 and OpenGL)Īs you can see below, the game is still written for Intel-based Macs, but thanks to Rosetta 2, ARK: Survival Evolved can nonetheless run great on M1 Macs. I get it, that's not their primary concern, but the bottom line is that the developers should be honest and state that the game is no longer compatible with most mac OS users, so people don't waste their money. They made some major changes to the game but didn't bother to test how it effected mac users. Also the game runs with no probs under windows emulation in bootcamp, so drivers have nothing to do with it. I am convinced that the issues I encountered had nothing to do with the GPU which surpass the claimed minimum requirements.

I contacted support, which was the worst I have ever experienced for any game. I spent hours upon hours researching, reinstalling, eliminating all mods, etc., etc. Usually if your game worked flawlessly before up until now, you should check for obsolete mods and outdated driver. Originally posted by Riisho:The radeon pro vega 64x 16gb ram video card it comes with is claimed to handle 99% of games out there.Maybe ark is the 1%.

For apple instal ARK: Survival Evolved