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ARK: Survival Ascended on NoSpike

What NoSpike does for ARK: Survival Ascended today. Our guide to why it lags and what helps isn't written yet; the guides below cover what every online game has in common.

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Every online game lags for the same few reasons: the PC, the home network, the provider, the route to the game's servers, or the servers themselves. What causes ping spikes shows how to tell which one is yours, and ping, jitter and packet loss what each one does to a game.