Originally posted by minefield:

This thread is dumb and so are you.

It's a multiplayer game with a recent release date. Imagine it was your brother with a different opinion. Just tell the guy the truth, Hearth & Home has optimization updates without trying to bring him/her down.

its an early release game, give them time. 2 ya 2 gb on the vram is a bit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ just saying

First of all the graphics are gorgeous in this game if you take two seconds to look beyond the pixelated art style, they just have a particular style that doesn't appeal to everyone. It's hard to argue about how awesome the forest can look with the sun shining through, but if you're worried about slightly fuzzy pixelated textures then you're missing the beauty.

Second - if you've got 8 gig of RAM you're at the minimum for this game. If your system is eating up a significant amount of RAM for anything else then you're going to have a bad time running Valheim.

2 gig of video RAM is low these days. Does your card meet or exceed the minimums noted below? Amount of VRAM isn't the only thing you have to think about.

MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 or later
Processor: 2.6 GHz Quad Core or similar
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space

RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7 or later
Processor: i5 3GHz or Ryzen 5 3GHz
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available space

Have you tried double alt-enter? Seems to help with FPS by forcing fullscreen mode. Have you tweaked your shadows setting down a few notches? Turned off some of the special graphics enhancements to see if that helps? Tried to keep terraforming to a minimum? Stopped putting 100 torches all over your base? Verified your game files? Made sure the game is in your anti-virus and firewall exceptions? Just a few suggestions that could help boost performance. I was having some issues, but Vulkan seems to help, double alt-enter helped, turning down shadows helped. Now I usually have 60 fps, which is my vsync limit.

Originally posted by Kalysm:

How are so many people having trouble playing this game? I have a mid to low end graphics card and an aging computer overall and I play it just fine.

I can think of a couple reasons. The game's not finished yet so not fully optimized for every system setup under the sun. Some people can run it with no problems, some can't.

Some people THINK they have a good system but they actually don't. I've been involved in some troubleshooting for several players and in a few cases once they gave their full system specs it turned out they were trying to play with a very low end graphics card that wasn't even close to the minimum listed cards.

Some people complain about the game's performance without searching the forums, without using the numerous performance tweaks that exist, and without really giving any of the helpful geeks and nerds anything to work with other than "It should work.. why doesn't it work?!?!?"

Originally posted by Macdallan:

.... and without really giving any of the helpful geeks and nerds anything to work with other than "It should work.. why doesn't it work?!?!?"

Not even that.
Questions asked by the OP:
1. "Performance is poop, pls hire someone better?"
2. "To think I cant make constant 30 fps with 8 gb ram and 2 gb vram... How can they screw up like this?"
3. "Was it on purpose???"

Answers:
1. They have hired new people.
2. Your specifications barely meet minimum requirements, if they do at all. I don't think it's the devs that screwed anything up.
3. They probably set this minimum requirement on purpose, yes.

Originally posted by loppantorkel:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

.... and without really giving any of the helpful geeks and nerds anything to work with other than "It should work.. why doesn't it work?!?!?"

Not even that.
Questions asked by the OP:
1. "Performance is poop, pls hire someone better?"
2. "To think I cant make constant 30 fps with 8 gb ram and 2 gb vram... How can they screw up like this?"
3. "Was it on purpose???"

Answers:
1. They have hired new people.
2. Your specifications barely meet minimum requirements, if they do at all. I don't think it's the devs that screwed anything up.
3. They probably set this minimum requirement on purpose, yes.

Good point.

My PC is mid-spec (maybe even low-spec for today's standards) and I can run it just fine. 8 GB of RAM, 4 VRAM (GTX 1050ti), an i5 and no SSD.

I know you're frustrated, but no, the developers did not do it on purpose. The game tends to lag when you have a lot of things going on at once and why some players can't even get it to run right, I cannot answer. It runs fine for me, but there's times the frame rate will drop a bit in certain areas. Game definitely needs more work, but overall I give it a 8/10 so far. I just really hate how powerful some enemies are like the Fulings and giant mosquitos.

The game looks nothing like an early 2010s game. Texture resolution does not equal graphics quality/demand.
8gb ram and a gpu with only 2gb vram means at most you have the bare minimum to actually play the game on its lowest settings, as per the minimum settings on the store page.
But..the point of your post is clearly just to troll.

Originally posted by Kalysm:

How are so many people having trouble playing this game? I have a mid to low end graphics card and an aging computer overall and I play it just fine.

Same here.

*Edit : The GPU RAM is real, if you have 2 gb or less you will suffer. I have an i7, solid state, 16gb 2666 gddr4, and a 2 gb gddr5 nvidia. and it's pretty rough. 14-22 fps

This thread is dumb and so are you.

How are so many people having trouble playing this game? I have a mid to low end graphics card and an aging computer overall and I play it just fine.