Originally posted by Dinnerbone:

Game looked fun i didn't expect it to perform really bad.

That videocard is more than enough to max out Valheim's performance. That means, something else in your hardware is bottlenecking.

Having anything less performant than DDR4 makes your videocard useless. Also, CPUs slower than 4ghz, and less than ~6 cores are also barely performant for modern games.

Lets not forget that Valheim is a dynamic game with a real time physics.

Originally posted by zxmuffin:

I have RTX 2060 too and I play on ultra with group of 3-4 ppl, no troubles so far. Try using Vulkan, it perform better. But it's just how I feel towards it, I did no actual benchmarks.

Depend what you do in the game. We had a decently sized village (Pub, forge, marina and 4 houses) and my 2080 drops to 15-20 FPS when walking about.

Originally posted by HAHAHuH?:

GPU isn't enough information.
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Actually it is for ballpark non-driver specific issues. Nobody is installing a 3090 with a i4 2400 and 8 gigs of ram for example. It's fair to assume at least average tier hardware for the GPU in question.

Drop the game on a SSD, have a modern cpu and enough ram.

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Actually it is for ballpark non-driver specific issues. Nobody is installing a 3090 with a i4 2400 and 8 gigs of ram for example. It's fair to assume at least average tier hardware for the GPU in question.

Except that it caused a whole bunch of extra unnecessary posts speculating about bottlenecks. So i respectfully disagree.
If people want an expedient solution to their issue, more information > less.

Try completely removing your drivers with something like DDU, then reinstalling. Could be a bad driver setting or file.

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Depend what you do in the game. We had a decently sized village (Pub, forge, marina and 4 houses) and my 2080 drops to 15-20 FPS when walking about.

We have main 3 level building, forge, brewery and warehouse. I had performance drop at this point so I separately ran dedicated server (on same machine) and switched to Vulkan. Now I'm good.

A really strong video card wont help you here.

The game is very CPU intensive.

Hopefully they they can squeeze more performance out of Unity down the road but just the nature of the game itself having a dynamic environment with the sheer amount of individual things happening will eat up your CPU cores.

A lot of the GPU driven stuff wont even make your card "sweat" probably at all.


With Valheim popularity and whatnot, its possible that Unity Technologies will actually go out of their way to try and help them optimize it more. Valheim success using Unity reflects on them too, at least a little.

I have a 2060 also. Acer Nitro 5 laptop and have no issues at all.

Originally posted by leion44:

I have a 2060 also. Acer Nitro 5 laptop and have no issues at all.

Well, some people nowadays have different definitions on what is "good or poor" performance.

They expect 144+ fps all the time, out of every game because they bought a really nice video card. When in reality most games are designed for 60 fps in mind.

The whole exception of 144 fps combined with 144hz+ monitors is relativity new for gaming and has been taken for granted and unrealistically expected out of every scenario, or the game is "poorly optimized". People want like "workstation level performance" out of their consumer PC.

This might help:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3105766250720411010/

esp. the changes in boot.config
gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1

I have RTX 2060 too and I play on ultra with group of 3-4 ppl, no troubles so far. Try using Vulkan, it perform better. But it's just how I feel towards it, I did no actual benchmarks.

Originally posted by zxmuffin:

I have RTX 2060 too and I play on ultra with group of 3-4 ppl, no troubles so far. Try using Vulkan, it perform better. But it's just how I feel towards it, I did no actual benchmarks.

I tried vulkan still performs badly.

Might be another issue aside from the GPU, what is your RAM situation? Bottle necking your pc is likley the culprit, first make sure you have no hardware issues.

I feel your pain. I have a 2070, i9, 16gb ram, and I'm playing the game like a pilgrim at 720p with everything turned off except vsync to get decent framerate.

GPU isn't enough information.

CPU:
GPU:
RAM (type/gigs):
OS:

If you are finding it hard to locate this information, there is a free utility tool called Speccy i recommend.

Please remember in future for all games when posting about performance issues that this basic information is required for people to even have a means to help.

Judging that you don't have a mouse next to your name, you've refunded it.... or sailed the high seas. Really hope it was the former given how cheap this game is.