
Now make a separate directory where you want to store your ARK: Survival Evolved server files at, in this guide we will use the C:/ark directory. Once you've connected to Remote Desktop on your Windows server, download the SteamCMD application below, we will extract the. If you have lower, the server won't start properly and let you connect. ** You must allow traffic to port 27015 and port 7777 in Windows Firewall (TCP/UDP).

For best performance, use a dedicated server instead of a virtual private server when hosting an ARK: Survival Evolved server so processing power and memory is dedicated to you only. We recommend having at least 30GB disk space and 6GB RAM, as the game and server files and Windows operating system together take around 36GB.

In this guide our VPS has 10GB RAM, 60GB SSD space, and 4 CPU cores.

We are installing this on a fresh installation of one of our VPS with the Windows Server 2012 trial installation. This guide will show you how to successfully setup an ARK: Survival Evovled game server on Windows Server 2012.
