Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

if you don't understand how ONLY USING THE CPU can cause the game to lag in FPS when coming near massive builds then you don't have any business commenting on the thread.

like i said, i had the SAME issues before i fixed the problem.

Yeah, I experienced a similar issue a few years ago with my wife's $1500 ASUS RoG notebook getting 4 FPS while playing Minecraft because it was using the wrong GPU. Not "a dip in FPS", not "minor issues in some areas"... 4 FPS as soon as she joined the world.

This was because the system was erroneously using the wrong render device, and taxing the CPU instead of using the dedicated GPU. A lot of people who have experienced the issue the OP is describing are using Ryzen CPUs... which don't have a built-in graphics device.

Stop trying so hard to be right, and read about the actual problem. You're being a jerk for no good reason, which makes anything accurate you might spew fade right into the rest of the verbal diarrhea.

Originally posted by charl25033:

Despite having an RTX 4070 ti, a ryzen 9

ryzen doesn't have anything to do with it, he's using a 4070ti which is an NVIDIA product, which is where the issue is persisting with windows based operating systems.

windows did an update that overruled the NVIDIA control panels selection of the dedicated GPU.

this is in FACT the reason behind valheims issue the OP is talking about.

because IF YOU actually read what they said, you would note that it runs fine UNTIL they get to their base where it has to load in all the peices.

that's literally a GPU issue, and if they ran their task manager i would put money on the fact that it would say "0% gpu usage" in the performance tab.

Originally posted by charl25033:

This doesn't happen if I'm somewhere else, just home.

- literally an issue with the game overloading the CPU

and to clarify why your minecraft had a massive loss in fps on MINECRAFT, that's because minecraft is a voxel game and needs to load hundreds of thousands of blocks via THE CPU.

so if you start running things that are meant to be ran on the GPU through your CPU, IT WILL OVERLOAD AND BOG DOWN.

this game doesn't use so much stuff on the CPU like minecraft does, the build pieces are the major cpu heavy part of the game.

so when you're running EVERYTHING on the CPU that the GPU should do, and it's running fine when you're out in the open and not around buildings, but when you enter your base it starts bogging down.

it starts to make sense right?

its overloading the CPU, and losing frames because of it.

our CPUs are totally capable of running valheim without a gpu, but the second they get stressed from things like massive builds, you see the results.

this is why we have gpus to begin with, so that we can offload some of the graphical work to the gpu while the cpu works on the harder things like where each object goes and such.

windows just decided to take over the selection choice and broke it for all of us.

luckily, the fix is as simple as going into the NVIDIA control panel and selecting your GPU manually.