Has anyone recently upgraded their system and have a decent graphics card up for deals?

Currently doing a budget gaming PC build so looking at something maybe from a 750 Ti upwards.  Just thought I'd put it out there before I go throwing money at TradeMe. 

Spent the last week trying to get all 8 of the cave Artifacts on the island "Solo" which was an interesting experience to say the least lol.
Just completed the final and hardest one tonight - Snow Cave after attempt #4. 

Go caving they said, it'll be fun they said lol yeah right, sure was exciting though.  Mounted on the back of a 125k HP 7.6k melee Rex all the way to the artifact with two high level dimorphs.  Barely managed to make it back with 10k HP left on Rex and both birds almost dead.  Certainly the hardest cave by far, especially with the high dino level difficulty.  Rex lost 30k HP in under a minute from the first mob of Yeti's - they sure pack a hard punch 

Game update at 5am. Then mod update at 6.
It's seperate because of past updates overlapping and was never right.

Auto updating of mods seems to be working really well

Server is back up and running fine this morning, and the current Auto-updating of mods seems to be working flawlessly lately mate thanks again.

Was the Valentines Xtras mod removed from the mod-list?  Just noticed this morning that a few things like couches beds etc. aren't there anymore.

I will change the xtras mods to the new xtra mod, its got them all in one pack. hopefully that doesnt kill your placements

Thanks mate, I haven't built anything that heavily relies on the Xtra's packs so far so will be no biggie for me if those structures are killed during the change-over.  If the new Xtras mod has more structures I'll actually be looking forward to it.  I was beginning to run out of ideas using the currently available structures for things to put into my bar & brewery lol

Hi Gutty have you run the manual update yet? I still cant get on. Apparently im the only one who has allowed the 239.2 update to run on my system. pretty sure everyone who can get on is still running 239.0

I can get on the server just fine today but your right im still using the previous update 239.0 (have yet to update to the latest version).

Seems to also be an issue with not being able to place any of the modded structures.

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I haven't been able to get back in since the 6pm restart.  Seems my client updated itself again and server needs to update to v239.0 looking forward to the update flying manta rays 

Do they fly??

They don't "fly" per se lol but they do breach the water surface and hover briefly according to the spotlight video anyway.  In any case I am going to try and find one today and do some testing.

Says server is offline on Arkservers.net

Gutty still workin on the problem mate,  the server restarted and mods updated but I don't think the server updated to the latest game version as it was still showing 237.4 when I last checked it on arkservers and was still inaccessible from the in-game server browser.  Give it another 20min then I'll check again.

Sweet though it will give me some time to shoot down the road to pickup some gaming "supplies" lol

Yes please, we're all unable to login (mod mismatch) except for Von.  He is once again the only person able to connect since the mod updated as he doesn't let the automatic game updates run (he updates manually and only when they are mandatory).

v238.1 just released too (major update 700mb - 3 new dino's and a server startup crash fix)

Looks like the server didn't quite catch the update today as its still running version 237.4

I had to completely reinstall in the weekend due to full hard drive and once I free'd up some space, it wouldn't carry on.

The reason I haven't done anything to the server since you reported this sin, is because people are on the server. so i'm assuming its client side.

Heya Gutty, as far as I'm aware (and I've been monitoring the server very closely this week) Von has been the only person able to connect to and play on the server since I logged out early hours of the morning on the 22nd March.  Also the 22nd (which would have been the 21st overseas) incidentally coincides with the most recently released update for the advanced architecture mod which my client wouldn't have downloaded until I started the game later that morning and since doing so I and others have not been able to connect. 

It can't be an isolated incident as I have been asking some of the other regulars to try and connect (not just from different computers at my home address but across the country) and they have all said they are getting the same mod mismatch error and unable to connect.  I've been through exhaustive tests on my pc, reinstalled ARK/Steam and even Windows multiple times, trawled through pages of forums to research similar issues and nothing they've suggested has worked.

The only thing that Von has done differently is withheld from downloading the most recent official ARK non-mandatory updates.

Prior to all this I was the only person able to connect to the server successfully for approx. 2 days and Von was having the same issue.  I could tell there were plenty of others "trying" to join as I could see their steamID's attempting to connect to the server and then within seconds drop connection. 

Von eventually managed to fix his issue by unsubscribing from all mods, manual deletion of all mod related files, and then letting the game/server subscribe to the mods.  Those of us who I know have been having issues have all tried to repeat Von's process exactly (many times) without any success, not even a complete reformat of my PC fixed the issue. 

I thought it could be a bad HDD or dodgy ram causing the game files to corrupt but I have tested both extensively and they came back clear on all results.  Even if failing PC components were found to be the problem on my end, that wouldn't explain why the others are having the same mod mismatch issue.

I know your probably extremely busy this week so I'm not going to sit here and harass you to fix the server right now or anything (that wasn't the point of me creating this thread) I only wanted to bring it to your attention that the server almost certainly requires a closer look.  I'll be off for the weekend so its not going to affect me as much, but there are probably quite a few regulars out there who would be looking forward to a weekend of gaming ARK and having to look elsewhere to play.

Instead of subscribing manually maybe let the game do it?

Did that as well, tried to verify the game cache which was fine even rebooted and tried to let the game resubscribe but still getting the same mod mismatch again.

I'm trying it again for the second time since I rebooted we'll see if it works this time, only problem is I keep getting a connection timeout from the server when trying to connect which interrupts the mods downloading.

Just tried to get back in but still getting mod mismatch error.  I just deleted the mod folder contents and am currently reinstalling the mods will see if that works.

lol Shit happens.  Don't stress, Lots more Rex's round.

Sweet as man I just wanted to let ya's know how it went down lol.

Also, I think (though I'm not 100% sure) Razer (from decepticonz too I think?) dino's got wiped by a lvl 300 wild Giga that was hanging around the snow biome.  Went past his base earlier in the night and there were no fences around his base either.  Came back past a couple hours later and all his dino's were gone and a wild giga was stomping around his base.

Myr are you having trouble connecting to server again?  I was just playing now and saw you having trouble logging in, few mins later ARK froze on me and haven't been able to log back in since game continually freezes at loading screen and crash to desktop.  Was just wondering if you were having a similar issue.