I just installed Ark Dev Kit in steam, but every time I load it, it just opens a web page : Workshop
and won’t even start. how do I fix this?
I just installed Ark Dev Kit in steam, but every time I load it, it just opens a web page : Workshop
and won’t even start. how do I fix this?
You didn’t read the webpage it sent you to, did you?
Basically, it seems that a little while back, the Devs made the kit available through the Epic Games/Unreal Launcher, and it’s the easiest way to get it going now, after making a (free) Epic Account. That being said, you have to redownload it all if you go that route, which if you have a slow or capped internet, I can understand you doing. If you look around here more there’s instructions on getting the Steam version going, though it’s a little more confusing and annoying.
I did the same as you tbh. It’s pretty annoying, but that’s how it is right now.
Because the Steam DevKit is defunct. The DevKit needs to be obtained from the Epic Games Launcher.
To avoid downloading the entire thing again, download the epic games launcher. Run it and start the install for the ARK Dev Kit, then wait until it starts downloading.
After it has actually started downloading the devkit, pause or stop the installation(I’m not sure which is required here) then exit the launcher and copy over the contents from where you installed the Steam version and start the launcher again and try again.
If it worked, it’ll probably want to verify and update to the latest version(it’ll be a big download).
-WM