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Check the steam workshop for mods you don’t use any more and remove them.

It limits you, how spontaneously you can switch between servers and maps, but rather being limited than not being able to play at all. This way you can already reduce the installation size of your game by a lot.

Uninstall every map that you don’t play on.

There are a few methods you can look into to reduce the size of the installation of ARK on your PC. How can I reduce the size of ARK on my PC? This means that those textures are the reason you have to download massive patches and DLCs.

They do get slightly compressed but not by a lot.

good fast storages have the biggest effectĪRKs filesizes are mainly textures.

Users need stronger machines for smooth gameplay.

Files need to be loaded, uncompressed permanently.

Both options and some options in-between exist.

So the thing here is that you can have compressed files and therefore a small game, and you can have preferred uncompressed files and a bigger game. While there is no official statement on why filesizes are so big in ARK, I have researched a little within the Unreal Forums and documentation about the issue of having fairly big games. So my full installation of ARK is give and take about 500 GB big, installed on a 1 TB SSD. But the mod folder does not only contain mods but also assets for the Community maps like Ragnarok, Valguero and Fjordur which are several GB big. I have a few mods installed and my Mod folder is about 100 GB big.

This is my ARK Folder on my SSD that I exclusively bought for ARK Survival Evolved. How big is ARK Survival Evolved fully installed with all maps? Let’s have a look. If you want to download ARK Survival Evolved with all content to your PC, there is a chance that you experience a bit of a shock when it comes to the size of the game.