i mean my monitor is set to HDR and 2560x1440 res but i don't think my game is at that resolution.

oh okay, yeah i'm 2560 x 1351 in windowed (it's not 1440 because it's windowed to show the windows start bar so it ends up being a little smaller). even in full screen i would get the same FPS. i just have the 1 building in the area, from my perspective the building isn't that big, maybe on the smaller/medium size and not much going on here, it's not like i'm in a city. it shows 50 fps, but it fluctuates between 40-50 etc. https://i.ibb.co/Stp8PdY/valheim.png

i'm just wondering if this is normal for a 5950x and 3080TI... I've heard other people with similar systems get like 120 FPS. are they BS'ing me? or is something going on?

screenshot of my settings
https://i.ibb.co/RvS82Dy/settings.png

these are settings my game decided to default too... i didn't tamper with them in anyway.

P.S I feel like 100 gig games that bring my processor and GPU to 70 degrees celcius would have slower FPS but my FPS is higher and the GPU/processor work harder. Valheim is like a 2 gig game... and my processor and GPU don't run hot with it at all.