Fatal Error (Shader).

Development Modding ARK: Survival Evolved
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Hi all,
I’ve been looking around trying to find an answer to this issue with no luck, the suggestions that we’re around seem to have done nothing to help as I still get this same error.
This happens in the initial launch, regardless of a clean install.

What I’ve tried so far,
-updating the batch file to include -sm4

  • updating via the google drive to version 271.9 (Currently the epic games launcher installs version 257.5)
  • Fresh install of both epic games launcher and the dev kit itself
  • verifying both the actual ark game files (which was just a cautionary measure, as im pretty sure the files aren’t tied together) and also verifying the arkdevkit files

If anyone has any idea, or suggestions please let me know, I am at a loss!

This is the error:
Fatal error: [File:H:\SVN_Ark\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\GlobalShader.cpp] [Line: 635]
Failed to compile global shader TGenerateClutterCS<false>

VERSION: 0.0
KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffef4fd9e08) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec9ce8b5d) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec9bcdb1f) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffea99770ff) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffeaa4d1071) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-Engine.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffeaa4cfc25) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec196cd04) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec195356d) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec193ac03) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec1c1247d) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec196469a) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec196437b) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec1c79613) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffec1c0dde0) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00007ff77dfbf80d) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00007ff77dfbf93a) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00007ff77dfcc0e0) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00007ff77dfcd009) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffef5802774) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffef8010d51) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]
ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00007ffef8010d51) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0]

I’ve also attached the .txt version if thats easier.

Please let me know what other information I can provide! thank you so much.

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Your system specs? OS?
Did you have this issue prior?
Have you launched ADK before successfully?
Can you load your mod? are you getting the error on just launching ADK?

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When does this error occur? Launching the DevKit or trying out your mod/map ingame? I used to run into a similiar Error. At the end it was a mesh I used for my clutterlayer, that i simply had to delete

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ugh when i was doing maps, nothing annoyed me more than that stupid clutter layer. It would work then not … god forbid i changed the size of the mesh … the worst … lol

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Did you ever Find the answer to this? I just downloaded THE ADK and am getting the same error.

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Figured out my issue. I had chrome running at the same time and there wasn’t enough memory for the shader compilers to run. I have 16GB Memory and it was still being used up to 87% with background processes + ADK startup and nothing else. So I guess run Task Manager and make sure your not running out of memory for the compilers to use.