Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord vs ARK: Survival Ascended

• The Falcon (Companion Title): Excels in Tactics and Leadership, serving as an autonomous party leader to command secondary armies in the field.
  Human Companion (Tactician)
• The Wanderer / Scholar: Possesses master-level Medicine skills, drastically reducing troop death rates and accelerating post-battle wound recovery.
  Human Companion (Surgeon)

• Otter: Can be carried on the player's shoulder. It provides massive insulation against freezing temperatures and is the only creature capable of carrying multiple Artifacts at once.
  Mammalian Utility Mount
• Sinomacrops: A shoulder-mounted companion that functions as a living jetpack and parachute, allowing the player to glide across massive gaps and safely descend from great heights.
  Small Pterosaur

• Pieces of the Dragon Banner of Calradia: Hidden across regional bandit strongholds; assembling all three pieces unlocks the ability to declare a legitimate royal kingdom.
• Tournament Masterpiece Trophies: Won by placing first in grand city arena tournaments; includes named masterwork blades, gilded armor pieces, and prize warhorses.
• Ancient Clan Heirloom Swords: Awarded by faction monarchs for exceptional wartime loyalty or forged in settlement smithies using high-tier Damascus steel.

• Explorer Notes: Hidden in ancient ruins, broken chests, and hollowed trees across the map. Finding one grants a significant, temporary multiplier to earned experience.
• Artifacts: Glowing, alien relics located at the deepest, most dangerous points of the island's natural cave systems, defended by deadly swarms of insects and bats.
• Element: A highly radioactive, advanced alien resource strictly obtained by defeating the colossal end-game bosses, used to power the futuristic Tek technology tier.

• Medieval Sandbox
• Feudal Politics
• Large-Scale Warfare
• Siege Combat
• Directional Melee
• Calradic Empire
• Dynastic Lineage

• Prehistoric Survival
• Dinosaur Taming
• Sci-Fi Mystery
• Sandbox Building
• Tribe Warfare
• Ecosystem Simulation

• Crafted Masterwork Two-Handed Falx: Two-Handed Cleaving Sword
  A devastating curved Battanian blade capable of bypassing shield guards and cutting down unarmored infantry with sweeping overhead swings.
• Imperial Heavy Cataphract Lance: Cavalry Couched Lance
  A massive steel-tipped lance that locks into a couched position during high-speed horse charges, delivering lethal momentum-based thrusts.
• Battanian Noble Longbow: Heavy Composite Warbow
  The supreme archery weapon of Calradia, firing high-velocity bodkin arrows with pinpoint precision from extreme distances.
• Vlandian Heavy Arbalest: Mechanical Siege Crossbow
  A high-tension steel crossbow that discharges heavy steel bolts capable of penetrating thick plate armor and unhorsing riders.
• Sturgian Heavy Round Shield & Broadsword: Infantry Shield & Arming Sword Combo
  A thick rawhide-bound wooden round shield paired with a forged steel arming sword, ideal for locking into impenetrable defensive shield walls.

• Fabricated Sniper Rifle: Long-Range Firearm
  An advanced, scope-equipped rifle crucial for picking off enemy tribe members during base raids or safely aggroing dangerous predators from a distance.
• Pump-Action Shotgun: Close-Quarters Firearm
  A devastatingly powerful weapon at short range, practically mandatory for surviving the tight, claustrophobic caverns filled with aggressive arthropods.
• Crossbow: Utility / Ranged
  An early-game staple that remains useful forever, largely due to its ability to fire under water and deliver potent tranquilizer arrows to knock out dinosaurs.
• Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG): Explosive Weapon
  The primary tool of destruction in PvP, used to blow open heavily fortified metal base walls and destroy automated auto-turrets.
• Tek Rifle: Sci-Fi Energy Weapon
  An end-game rifle unlocked by defeating bosses; it fires explosive plasma rounds that require the rare resource 'Element' for ammunition, capable of leveling structures and melting armor.

• Imperial Gilded Cataphract Lamellar Plate: Body Armor +56, Arm Armor +18, Leg Armor +18; heavy steel and brass lamellar cuirass worn by elite imperial generals and cataphracts.
• Vlandian Full Plate Mail Coat of Plates: Body Armor +52, Arm Armor +16; overlapping forged steel plates riveted to heavy boiled leather, providing superior slashing defense.
• Sturgian Crowned Spangenhelm with Faceguard: Head Armor +54; ornate conical steel helmet fitted with chainmail aventail and an intimidating steel visor mask.

• Flak Armor: High Physical Defense, Low Thermal Resistance; The standard mid-game combat armor crafted from metal ingots, essential for surviving direct confrontations.
• Fur Armor: Low Defense, Massive Cold Resistance; Bulky pelts stitched together, strictly required to survive the freezing temperatures of the northern Snow Biome.
• Tek Armor: Maximum Defense, Special Abilities; Powered by Element, this end-game sci-fi suit features a jetpack, night vision helmet, and super-speed leggings, completely transforming how players traverse the map.

• Imperial Aristocratic Tunic & Gold Brocade: Fine purple and crimson silk garments embroidered with imperial eagle crests, worn during court diplomacy.
• Vlandian Padded Gambeson & Cloak: Heavy quilted wool undergarment bound with leather belts and a woolen shoulder cloak fastened with a bronze brooch.
• Battanian Tartan Kilt & Fur Mantle: Traditional patterned highland woolen wrap paired with cured wolf pelt shoulders for forest warmth.

• Cloth Set: Basic woven fibers providing minimal protection but crucial heat dissipation for surviving the sweltering tropical beaches.
• Ghillie Suit: Crafted from organic polymer and leaves, this suit provides excellent heat resistance and reduces the aggression radius of wild predators, perfect for stealthy taming.
• Scuba Gear: Includes an oxygen tank and flippers, granting the player vastly increased swim speed and unlimited underwater breathing to explore the ocean depths.

Character progression is driven by an organic 'learn by doing' skill system featuring 18 distinct competencies grouped under six core attributes: Vigor (One-Handed, Two-Handed, Polearm), Control (Bow, Crossbow, Throwing), Endurance (Riding, Athletics, Smithing), Cunning (Scouting, Tactics, Roguery), Social (Charm, Leadership, Trade), and Intelligence (Steward, Medicine, Engineering). Earning skill levels unlocks powerful perk choices every 25 levels, granting tactical bonuses such as increased movement speed, troop wage reductions, improved siege construction speeds, or devastating decapitating strikes in melee.

Progression in ARK relies on an RPG leveling system where survivors earn experience over time and through actions like crafting, hunting, and harvesting. Leveling up grants Engram Points, which are used to unlock crafting recipes ranging from primitive stone tools to advanced sci-fi Tek armor and laser rifles. Players can invest points into core stats such as Health, Stamina, Oxygen, Weight Capacity, Melee Damage, and Movement Speed. Tamed creatures also level up and possess unique skill trees, allowing players to breed generations of dinosaurs with mutated, super-powered stats for specialized roles like tanking, resource gathering, or aerial combat.

The campaign map encompasses an enormous geographic landmass spanning several climatic zones and over 200 settlements (including fortified capital towns, stone castles, and rural villages). The continent includes: The Calradic Heartland (temperate fertile plains dotted with classical amphitheaters and stone aqueducts), The Vlandian Coast (lush oceanic hills and sprawling feudal baronies), The Sturgian Taiga (frozen snowfields, pine forests, and icy northern fjords), The Battanian Highlands (misty, dense ancient woodlands and craggy hillforts), The Nahasa Desert (blistering sand dunes, palm oases, and rocky canyons ruled by the Aserai), and The Steppes (boundless eastern grasslands ideal for nomadic cavalry maneuvers).

The iconic base map, 'The Island,' features approximately 48 square kilometers of traversable terrain, meticulously remastered in Unreal Engine 5. It features distinct biomes ranging from dense tropical jungles, redwood forests with massive climbable trees, deadly irradiated swamplands, and freezing, snow-capped mountains. The map also includes complex underwater ecosystems and deep, hazardous cave systems filled with rare artifacts, leading to massive instanced boss arenas. Future DLC maps scale even larger, offering distinct environmental hazards like volcanic eruptions and aberrant radiation.

• Battering Ram & Siege Tower: Heavy Siege Engine
  Constructed on the siege camp frontlines to roll toward enemy fortifications, smashing reinforced gates and bridging castle parapets.
• Heavy Counterweight Trebuchet: Field Artillery Siege Engine
  Massive siege weapon built to bombard stone battlements, shatter defensive catapults, and collapse castle walls prior to infantry assaults.

• Wooden Raft: Aquatic Transport
  A player-crafted wooden platform that can be sailed across the oceans. Players can snap structures onto it, turning it into a mobile, floating base.
• Motorboat: Advanced Aquatic Transport
  An upgraded, gasoline-powered metal boat that moves significantly faster than the wooden raft and can support heavier, more fortified base structures.

• Pureblood Calradic Warhorse: Equine (Equus caballus)
  Premier armored combat mount boasting elite speed, charge damage, and health, ridden into battle by imperial lords.
• Highland Pack Mule: Equine (Equus asinus x caballus)
  Hardy pack animal essential for expanding caravan carrying capacity and transporting bulky grain, iron, and timber across mountains.
• Aserai Camel: Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius)
  Desert-adapted mount providing elevated melee reach for desert skirmishers and high endurance across the Nahasa sands.
• Calradic Steppe Horse: Nomadic Steppe Pony
  Fast, agile horse bred by the Khuzait Khanate, excelling in rapid direction changes for mounted horse archers.

• Giganotosaurus: Apex Theropod
  The largest and deadliest predator on the map. It is primarily tamed as the ultimate PvP siege engine, boasting an enrage mechanic that massively increases its damage output when hurt.
• Brontosaurus: Massive Sauropod
  A gargantuan herbivore that can be equipped with a 'Platform Saddle', allowing players to build mobile, walking fortresses on its back.
• Fasolasuchus: Prehistoric Archosaur
  A newly introduced creature for Ascended that 'swims' through the sand dunes of Scorched Earth, utilized for ambushing enemies and rapidly traversing deserts.

• Empress Rhagaea: Ruler of the Southern Empire
  Widow of the late Emperor Arenicos, leading the loyalist faction to preserve the imperial dynasty for her young daughter Ira.
• King Derthert: Monarch of Vlandia
  A weary feudal king ruling over ambitious western barons, striving to maintain control over his knights and expand his borders.
• High King Caladog: High King of Battania
  A fierce and opportunistic warlord who ascended to the throne of Battania, defending his ancient Celtic highland forests with deadly longbowmen.
• Monchug Khan: Khan of the Khuzaits
  The ambitious steppe conqueror who united the eastern nomadic horse clans under his banner to pillage the crumbling Empire.

• The Survivor: Player Character
  A customizable, blank-slate human cloned and dropped onto the Ark with a mysterious diamond-shaped implant embedded in their wrist.
• Helena Walker: Lore Biologist
  An Australian biologist from the modern era who meticulously documented the artificial ecosystems of the Arks, eventually ascending to become a higher-dimensional being.
• Sir Edmund Rockwell: Antagonist / Lore Chemist
  A brilliant 19th-century scientist who became obsessed with the power of 'Element', mutating himself into a horrifying, god-like monster to dominate the Arks.

• Neretzes' Folly & The Dragon Banner: Main Campaign Lore Quest
  Travel across Calradia to question ten noble lords about the fateful battle of Neretzes' Folly and recover the lost Dragon Banner pieces.
• Siege Assault on a Capital Fief: Grand Siege Warfare
  Construct siege camps, build trebuchets to breach fortress walls, and lead the infantry breach to claim ownership of the city.
• Uniting or Destroying the Calradic Empire: Endgame Kingdom Conquest
  Align with an imperial claimant or elevate a sovereign kingdom to conquer Calradia, triggering massive multi-front world wars.

• Establish a Base: Core Survival Objective
  Gather fundamental resources (wood, thatch, stone) to construct a secure shelter with a bed, providing a safe respawn point and protection from nocturnal predators.
• Breeding Mutations: End-Game Preparation
  Capture high-level wild creatures and breed generations of offspring to stack stat mutations (Health, Melee), creating a super-powered army capable of fighting bosses.
• Defeat the Overseer: Story Finale / Ascension
  Gather all artifacts, defeat the three planetary guardians (Broodmother, Megapithecus, Dragon), and brave the volcanic Tek Cave to fight the AI controlling the Ark.

The game features robust PvP multiplayer modes supporting up to 120 players on dedicated servers: Captain Mode (commanding a squad of AI soldiers alongside team members in tactical objective control), Skirmish Mode (intense round-based 6v6 tactical elimination with limited respawn points), Siege Mode (massive assault on fortified castles involving battering rams, ladders, and siege towers), and Team Deathmatch / Free-for-All Duel Arenas.

The core experience is defined by Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) servers holding up to 70-100 players. These servers are split strictly into Player vs. Environment (PvE), where tribes cooperate to build and defeat bosses without fear of raiding, and ruthless Player vs. Player (PvP), where massive wars are fought over territory, resources, and alpha status. Players can also host private dedicated servers, run non-dedicated co-op sessions with friends, or play entirely offline in single-player mode.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is available globally across PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S at a base price of $49.99 USD. Available bundles include the 'Seafarer Edition' and 'Sealord Edition' featuring the official digital soundtrack and digital companion art book, as well as the major expansion 'War Sails' which introduces open-ocean naval warfare, maritime trading fleets, coastal raiding, and naval boardings.

ARK: Survival Ascended launched into Early Access in late 2023 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. The base purchase serves as a complete package that entitles players to all previously released DLC content (such as Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis) as they are visually overhauled and released into the UE5 ecosystem over time. Additional optional paid content exists in the form of 'Bob's Tall Tales' and specific 'Fantastic Tames' creature packs which introduce new story-driven missions, structures, and mythical beasts.

TaleWorlds Entertainment supported Bannerlord with extensive post-launch patches introducing kingdom destruction mechanics, stealth and disguise infiltrations, weather gameplay effects, alleyway criminal gangs, and diplomacy alliances. The landmark expansion 'War Sails' expanded the map with maritime gameplay, naval fleet command, ship-to-ship boardings, coastal bombardments, and sea trade routes.

The game follows a massive content roadmap, systematically recreating and releasing all expansion maps from the original game (Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis 1 & 2, plus community maps like Ragnarok and The Center) for free to owners of Ascended. Alongside these massive map drops, the developers introduce entirely new DLCs such as 'Bob's Tall Tales', providing narrative-driven missions voiced by Karl Urban, and premium creature packs that add unique fantasy and utility tames into the wild.

• Q: What is Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
  A: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a medieval action-RPG and sandbox strategy simulator developed by TaleWorlds Entertainment, featuring large-scale real-time battles and kingdom management.
• Q: Is Bannerlord a prequel or sequel to Warband?
  A: Bannerlord is a prequel set 200 years before Mount & Blade: Warband, during the collapse of the Calradic Empire.
• Q: What is the maximum battle size in Bannerlord?
  A: The PC version natively supports up to 1,000 active combatants on the battlefield simultaneously.
• Q: Does Bannerlord feature multiplayer?
  A: Yes, it features competitive PvP multiplayer modes including Captain Mode (squad tactics), Siege, Skirmish, and Team Deathmatch on dedicated servers.
• Q: Does Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord support modding?
  A: Yes, on PC it features extensive modding capabilities with full Steam Workshop integration and official development modding kits.

• Q: Do I have to buy ARK: Survival Ascended if I already own Survival Evolved?
  A: Yes. ARK: Survival Ascended is a complete, ground-up remake in Unreal Engine 5, meaning it is a separate, full-priced purchase. However, it includes all previously released DLC maps for free.
• Q: Is there crossplay?
  A: Yes, it features full cross-platform multiplayer between PC (Steam and Windows), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, including cross-platform mod support via CurseForge.
• Q: Can I play solo or with just my friends?
  A: Absolutely. You can play completely offline in single-player mode, host a non-dedicated session for a few friends, or rent a private dedicated server where you control the passwords and server rates.
• Q: Why is the performance so demanding?
  A: The game utilizes bleeding-edge Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite (which renders millions of polygons dynamically) and Lumen (real-time global illumination). These advanced lighting and geometry systems require modern, high-end hardware and heavily rely on upscaling tech like DLSS.

Running on TaleWorlds' proprietary engine, Bannerlord renders breathtaking medieval vistas. The lighting model casts realistic sunbeams through castle battlements, morning mist across river valleys, and swirling blizzard snow across Sturgian pine groves. Detailed armor rendering highlights individually modeled mail rings, polished lamellar plates, heraldic crests, and dynamic blood splatters that accumulate across warriors' bodies and weapons during prolonged skirmishes.

Visually, ARK: Survival Ascended is a generational leap. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it utilizes Nanite to render millions of polygons for incredibly detailed rocks, trees, and dinosaur scales without traditional LOD pop-in. Lumen global illumination provides realistic lighting that dynamically bounces off water and reacts to the changing day/night cycle. Water simulation physics realistically deform as massive creatures wade through rivers, and dense, interactive foliage parts realistically as players run through the brush.

The auditory presentation is renowned for its immersive historical authenticity. The musical score features ethnic medieval instrumentation—including hurdy-gurdies, lutes, bagpipes, and thundering war drums—composed by Periscope Studio and Finn Seliger, dynamically adapting between cultural regions and battle intensity. Combat audio delivers bone-crunching shield impacts, visceral flesh cleaves, echoing battle cries, and the deafening rumble of cavalry hooves.

The soundscape is a major component of survival. The audio engine has been overhauled to provide realistic directional audio, meaning players can hear the terrifying, heavy footsteps of an approaching Tyrannosaurus Rex echoing through the jungle canopy before they see it. The game features an iconic, soaring orchestral soundtrack composed by Gareth Coker, which dynamically swells during intense combat encounters or when sunrise breaks over the prehistoric horizon.

Bannerlord's UI balances grand strategy overheads with real-time battlefield clarity. The campaign map features a sleek bottom panel tracking party speed, morale, food varieties, and gold. In battle, an intuitive tactical command overlay allows commanders to issue orders to specific formations (Infantry, Ranged, Cavalry, Horse Archers) with function keys or radial controller menus, including Shield Wall, Square, Loose, and Circle formations.

The UI received a significant modernization in Ascended, moving away from the clunky menus of the original game to a sleek, transparent, and highly customizable HUD. It features a hotbar for quick item access, dynamic crosshairs, and cleaner inventory management systems that make sorting thousands of resources significantly easier. The tracking menu for tamed dinosaurs has been vastly improved, allowing players to set waypoints, track lost tames via a map UI, and easily manage massive breeding operations.

Comprehensive gameplay accessibility options include: customizable combat difficulty sliders (allowing players to adjust received damage to 1/3, 2/3, or full), auto-blocking directional options, adjustable combat AI difficulty, scalable battle size limits (from 200 to 1,000 units), customizable crosshairs, UI scaling, colorblind-friendly faction map overlays, and full controller button remapping.

The game includes various accessibility options such as scalable UI elements, fully customizable keybinds and controller layouts, adjustable field of view (FOV), and toggles for head bobbing and camera shake to prevent motion sickness. Additionally, players can heavily modify server settings in single-player or private servers, allowing them to drastically increase taming speeds, harvest rates, or decrease difficulty, tailoring the gruelling survival experience to their personal preferences.

• Powered by TaleWorlds' custom-built multi-threaded engine optimized for simulating up to 1,000 distinct AI combatants, individual ragdoll physics, and destructible siege fortifications simultaneously. Solid State Drive (SSD) installation is strongly recommended to eliminate loading stutter during campaign map encounters and large siege scene transitions.
• Laptop Performance Note: Simulating hundreds of individual pathfinding soldier AIs, projectile physics, and dynamic cavalry collision concurrently places heavy, sustained stress on mobile CPU threads. Gaming laptops should maintain at least 75W to 105W sustained GPU TGP and operate on a cooling pad or elevated surface to prevent thermal CPU downclocking during 500+ unit siege battles.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: Ensure mobile GeForce GTX/RTX or Radeon RX GPUs sustain at least 75W-95W+ TGP to maintain fluid 60+ FPS during large cavalry clashes and castle assaults.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: Large battle calculations keep both CPU cores and GPU running near peak utilization; ensure laptop fan exhausts remain unobstructed.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: Set Windows power plan to High Performance to provide consistent high clock speeds for real-time soldier decision-making and collision checks.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: Enable discrete GPU mode via internal MUX switch or Advanced Optimus to minimize input latency during precision directional blocking and chambering.
• Optimization Detail: Upscaling Tech: Supports NVIDIA DLSS 2, AMD FSR 1/2, and dynamic resolution scaling.
• Optimization Detail: Key Settings Impact: Battle Size (Number of Troops on Field), Shadow Quality, Cloth Simulation, and Particle Detail have the largest impact on framerates.
• Game Name: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

• ARK: Survival Ascended utilizes Unreal Engine 5 to deliver incredibly dense foliage, Nanite virtualized geometry, and Lumen dynamic global illumination, making it exceptionally demanding on both modern desktop and mobile hardware.
• Laptop Performance Note: Because of the game's heavy reliance on advanced dynamic lighting and massive open-world rendering, mobile GPUs will face extreme VRAM and compute workloads. High continuous thermal limits will be pushed, so effective cooling is mandatory to prevent thermal throttling.
• Laptop Consideration: G P U T G P: A minimum of 85W TGP is required for entry-level 1080p rendering (RTX 4050/4060). To push stable 60 FPS on higher settings or 1440p, a 130W+ TGP (RTX 4080 Mobile) is highly recommended.
• Laptop Consideration: Cooling Thermals: The dense jungles and chaotic dinosaur raids will stress the CPU and GPU simultaneously. A high-performance laptop cooling pad is strongly advised to maintain clock speeds over long taming sessions.
• Laptop Consideration: C P U Power Limits: Set Windows and OEM control centers to 'Performance' or 'Turbo' mode. Constraining CPU power limits will cause severe stuttering when the game attempts to stream in massive base structures and dozens of creatures.
• Laptop Consideration: M U X Switch Optimus: Bypassing Optimus via a hardware MUX switch is practically mandatory to reduce render latency and maximize frame output when fighting large boss dinos.
• Optimization Detail: Upscaling Tech: DLSS, FSR, and XeSS are heavily supported and essentially required for maintaining a stable 60 FPS, even on high-end hardware.
• Optimization Detail: Key Settings Impact: Global Illumination, Volumetric Clouds, and Advanced Shadows will severely impact performance. Lowering volumetric clouds yields the highest FPS boost for struggling GPUs.
• Game Name: ARK: Survival Ascended

• Upscaling Tech: Supports NVIDIA DLSS 2, AMD FSR 1/2, and dynamic resolution scaling.
• Key Settings Impact: Battle Size (Number of Troops on Field), Shadow Quality, Cloth Simulation, and Particle Detail have the largest impact on framerates.

• Upscaling Tech: DLSS, FSR, and XeSS are heavily supported and essentially required for maintaining a stable 60 FPS, even on high-end hardware.
• Key Settings Impact: Global Illumination, Volumetric Clouds, and Advanced Shadows will severely impact performance. Lowering volumetric clouds yields the highest FPS boost for struggling GPUs.

• G P U T G P: Ensure mobile GeForce GTX/RTX or Radeon RX GPUs sustain at least 75W-95W+ TGP to maintain fluid 60+ FPS during large cavalry clashes and castle assaults.
• Cooling Thermals: Large battle calculations keep both CPU cores and GPU running near peak utilization; ensure laptop fan exhausts remain unobstructed.
• C P U Power Limits: Set Windows power plan to High Performance to provide consistent high clock speeds for real-time soldier decision-making and collision checks.
• M U X Switch Optimus: Enable discrete GPU mode via internal MUX switch or Advanced Optimus to minimize input latency during precision directional blocking and chambering.

• G P U T G P: A minimum of 85W TGP is required for entry-level 1080p rendering (RTX 4050/4060). To push stable 60 FPS on higher settings or 1440p, a 130W+ TGP (RTX 4080 Mobile) is highly recommended.
• Cooling Thermals: The dense jungles and chaotic dinosaur raids will stress the CPU and GPU simultaneously. A high-performance laptop cooling pad is strongly advised to maintain clock speeds over long taming sessions.
• C P U Power Limits: Set Windows and OEM control centers to 'Performance' or 'Turbo' mode. Constraining CPU power limits will cause severe stuttering when the game attempts to stream in massive base structures and dozens of creatures.
• M U X Switch Optimus: Bypassing Optimus via a hardware MUX switch is practically mandatory to reduce render latency and maximize frame output when fighting large boss dinos.