Originally posted by nightshift:

pointing that we do not know his other components and those might not fall into the recommended category. This is now a better argument, however it is highly unlikely that with a gpu that came out in 2019, he has gear that's from further beyond the past. For anything stated in the recommended field, I assume it is able to run the game at 60-75 fps on 1440p.

On a similar note, my AMD Ryzen 5 2600, with 40GB RAM, and 8GB MSI RX 570 GPU runs 'better', than my wife's older computer using AMD FX 6300, with 24GB RAM, and 4GB ASUS Windforce, in the sense I could see better stuff. However, FPS-wise, mine goes from 24-ish to 62-ish, where as she's barely lower from 21-ish to 57-ish. Both of us run at 1080p.

In short, Valheim isn't optimized and the developers will tweak it in small bits as the updates come.