Originally posted by hazelrah:

i was having similar behavior last week. turns out my vid card was failing.

yes video drivers and specs are a huge drain on resources.. if you running off a laptop.. make sure the video for game is from the High performance video not the default video normally an intel thing of zero ability . not so much failing but not being setup,not being optimized,et al... try launching game from within geforce... or whatever video app is installed...also window graphics options has ability to force game to use certain graphics adaptors ..for example nvidia control panel/3d settings/ choose program settings. and make a template for valheim app as you see fit