Even though ARK: Survival Ascended is a massive upgrade to graphics and performance over ARK: Survival Evolved, it’s not without its own issues. One of the common issues involves floating rocks that can appear while playing. It’s not game-breaking, but it’s certainly an annoying eyesore when trying to explore The Island. Thankfully we’ve figured out how to fix floating rocks bug in ARK: Survival Ascenceded, which we will detail for you below.
ARK: Survival Ascended floating rocks bug fix
First, you want to take a look at our optimization guide and make sure you’ve optimized your settings to ensure you’re getting the best FPS and performance you can. How to fix floating rocks bug in ARK: Survival Ascended
Now it’s time to fix the floating rocks issue. You will want to follow these steps in order:
- Hit the Escape key
- Click on Settings
- Click on Video
- On the right side, scroll down and make sure Enable Foliage and Enable Fluid Interaction are both set to ON.
- Set the Foliage Interaction Distance Multiplier to 1. If you notice your game is laggy, you can change this to 0.5. But no matter what, do not go under 0.5.
- Click Save.
- Restart ARK: Survival Ascended.
This is how to fix floating rocks bug in ARK: Survival Ascended. After reloading your game you should no longer see rocks, pebbles, and trees floating in the sky.
What causes floating rocks bug in ARK: Survival Ascended?
Even though you may think the floating rocks bug may be something on your end, like your hardware or maybe even a driver, that is not the case. It’s simply some technical cosmetic error currently existing in ARK: Survival Ascended. I assume Studio Wildcard will fix this issue eventually, but as it is nothing game-breaking, other bugs probably take priority.
However, this fix will remedy the issue until the bug is fixed properly by the developers.
