Fix low FPS on high end hardware

Comments: 90

• 10 Feb, '21
  Mike

  i7-10750H CPU, RTX 2070, 32gigs.... Game is running at 1920x1080. My FPS is between 12-20.

• 10 Feb, '21
  Thomas

  Stock 20 Fps on Fullscreen with a rtx 3090.
  Windowed between 50 Fps in base and 200 Fps on Ozean.

• 11 Feb, '21
  York

  While this may not help everyone, if you're having low FPS drops and your CPU and GPU usage is low try the following:
  
  in /steamapps/common/Valheim/Valheim_Data folder
  open the boot.config file and add the following 2 lines to the top:
  
  gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
  gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
  
  This should increase your CPU and GPU usage and as a result increase/stabilize FPS.
  
  source:
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3106890881980133597/
  
  To devs: possibly consider updating the boot.config to include those 2 options via a patch?

• 11 Feb, '21
  liket

  2700x and 1080Ti here with 25-60 fps.
  I like the level of graphics in the game but the FPS doesn't reflect the visuals.

• 11 Feb, '21
  way777

  Low-level systems also need optimization, for example, my system is in the middle between the "minimum requirements and maximum" listed on Steam. i3 2.8GHz, GTX 750 (2gb) and 8gb ram, I have wild system overloads, the video card heats up constantly, from 40 degrees the temperature rises to 70, the video card uses 700 MB, but the load is up to 99%.
  I understand that my system is not the newest, but it falls between the "minimum and recommended" requirements of Steam. We look forward to and hope that the game will be optimized

• 11 Feb, '21
  Jake

  If possible, people who have upvoted this please comment your specifications so we can see if there is a correlation, it may be an issue with a certain type of CPU, GPU or Drivers.
  
  RAM: 15.9GB
  GPU: Radeon RX 570
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-core Processor
  
  * running the game in 1920x1080 and I struggle to get above 40 frames

• 11 Feb, '21
  Ricardo Miguel Pereira Mendes

  Ive been looking for this. My PC handles Tarkov/Rust/etc with max graphics but Im getting huge lag on Valheim all of a sudden. Until 20h of playtime it ran smoothly. Now its unplayable lag unless I change to a secondary map. And even then it doesnt seem optimal

• 12 Feb, '21
  VipeNess

  Launching the game, will sit around 70-50fps but after 10 minutes pass, the frames start to gradually drop to the low 40's, mid 30's. As more time progresses, it will drop to low/mid 20 fps. Also, there are moments when the game will pause (can't move) for a few seconds. Restarting the game will resolve the slowdown but will start to come back. I also tried adding the 2 lines to the boot.config files and did not resolve the issue.
  
  Running at 1440p max all settings
  
  Here's my system specs:
  CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K
  Motherboard: ASUS - ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING Socket 1200 USB 3.2 Intel Motherboard
  Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600)
  Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X 24G Graphics Card, 24GB 384-Bit GDDR6X
  Hard Drive: Samsung (MZ-V7E1T0BW) 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe
  Power Supply: ASUS Rog Thor 1200 Certified 1200W

• 12 Feb, '21
  Jake

  Yorks suggestion of editing the config file improved my performance!
  
  In my native resolution of 3440x2440 fullscreen, it brought my average FPS from 15 to 30
  
  in 1920x1080 windowed it brought my FPS from 30 FPS average to 60!
  
  This simple edit is an improvement but the game is still running worse than id expect it to with my hardware.
  
  It speaks volumes for the game that I am hooked even though it runs poorly, thanks for being the first early access game to do early access right! I wish you luck with ironing out all the bugs!

• 13 Feb, '21
  Robin

  Hello there !
  I've been experiencing issues about my FPS, and it's only in Valheim !
  
  I run the game at 60FPS in very high, I can play it for 5 min, and then I have several FPS drop for like 5 secondes (2/3 FPS), and then it goes back to 60FPS during 30 secondes, then go back to 2/3 FPS etc. Changing the graphics to low doesn't change anything.. and it's only in this game, Kingdom Come run constantly at 60 FPS with no drop..
  
  RAM: 16 GB
  GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060S
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H

• 14 Feb, '21
  Doc

  Between 20-40 frames
  RAM:16gb
  CPU: i7 7th gen
  GPU: GTX 1060 (mobile)

• 15 Feb, '21
  Klyx

  I have no problems in areas without player-built structures. Ocean is 170fps, a black forest or swamp is 100-120fps, but go to our player-built village and it drops to 20-40fps. We're not doing anything insane either, like rows and rows of campfires or smelters. A few houses, stacked chests for our stuff, 2 common smelters, etc.
  CPU and GPU utilization both under 50%, not even a single core ever maxes out (which I usually find is the case with games like Minecraft). Clearly there are unused resources.
  
  GPU: RTX 3090
  CPU: Ryzen 7 2800X
  RAM: 16GB 3200

• 15 Feb, '21
  rodrigo

  RTX3070
  Ryzen 5800X
  32GB 3200MHZ
  
  Lots of FPS drops making the game stutters a lot.

• 15 Feb, '21
  RevR

  Between 8-12 frames
  RAM: 6GB
  CPU: i-5 3210m 2.5Ghz
  GPU: GT630m 2GB
  Windows 10
  min settings

• 16 Feb, '21
  Fuze

  Average FPS is 43. GPU is all up to date as well.
  RAM: 16GB
  CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
  GPU: RX 5700XT

• 16 Feb, '21
  Jason

  Getting 20-30 fps. On fresh world without having built anything I was running at a stable 60.
  It is early access so its acceptable however some optimization is probably needed, I Believe its CPU Related cap.
  Asus Rog GL503
  GPU: Nvidia GTX 1650m
  Cpu: Quad Core 2.2Ghz (Boosted to 3.5)
  Ram: 32gb

• 16 Feb, '21
  Blake Bateman

  in /steamapps/common/Valheim/Valheim_Data folder
  open the boot.config file and add the following 2 lines to the top:
  
  gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
  gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
  
  This should increase your CPU and GPU usage and as a result increase/stabilize FPS.
  
  Worked wonders on 1080ti

• 17 Feb, '21
  Ismael

  For me the game run from 15 to 30 fps in 1080p, lowering the resolution doesn't seen to change the average, but if I raise it to 4k then it drops to less than 5 fps.
  
  RAM:16gb
  CPU: i7 7700 3.60Hz
  GPU: Geforce GTX 660

• 17 Feb, '21
  Mcsneezy

  The game updated the morning of 2/17/2021. Now the framerate is super low. It stays between 1 and 17 fps. Yesterday, it was fine, 60+ fps.
  
  Specs:
  16GB RAM
  AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core CPU
  NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super

• 18 Feb, '21
  LezOU

  i7-8700k, 32Go, RTX2080
  Running 50-70fps
  3440x1440x100Hz
  max details except low vegetation (to see loot) and no Vsync

• 18 Feb, '21
  TomB

  Having the same problem. 30-50 FPS on a 3070 with 3700x. Lowered all settings and turned all effects off and fps only went up to 60 or lower average fps.
  
  EDIT: Already tried all fix I can find on reddit and YouTube. Including boot.config. Nothing helped.
  
  CPU: 3700x
  GPU: RTX 3070
  RAM: 16GB 3600mhz

• 19 Feb, '21
  Ketinex

  I have similar problem, i run game smoothly about 70 fps but every minute, no matter what am i doing, game drops to 4 Fps and runs like that around 5-10 seconds every single minute. i turned everything off, doesn´t matter which settings im using, still same, it happens in single and multiplayer

• 19 Feb, '21
  p-himik

  FWIW, on Linux the game runs much better if run with OpenGL. Perhaps running the game on OpenGL could also be introduced on Windows.

• 19 Feb, '21
  ICVRXS

  Upon startup in singleplayer, the game will run relatively well. In the settlement that I've built up with friends, it will usually dip around 35-40FPS while in any other environment, it typically runs anywhere from 60-90FPS. As I play longer the FPS will begin to drop but only in the vicinity of our settlement. It typically remains strong when exploring. Once another player joins, the FPS in our settlement will drop to around 25-35, while still remaining pretty solid in any other areas. Again, as we play longer, the FPS begins to drop in the town, to the point that it's at around 15-20 FPS max. My friends share the same experience.
  Our theory is that either there is a memory leak or the game is not utilizing resources efficiently, only using 15% CPU and 30% GPU.
  
  Resolution: 3440x1440
  GPU: RTX 2018 Super
  CPU: i9 9900K
  RAM: 32GB 3200MHz
  
  Performance in CAM and Task Manager:
  https://i.imgur.com/luDVfHZ.png

• 19 Feb, '21
  Peter

  Rtx 3070 + R7 3700x getting around 80fps with drops to even 50 and a lot of stuttering happens.
  My gf pc is having more issues. It is 1050ti 4gb + R5 1600af and its runming at 30 fps with drop even below 20 sometimes. Changing graphic settings doesn't make any difference. Both running in exclusive full screen mode. I will try today change that boot file and see the results. Who would have though an high end pc scores only 70 fps with drops and stutterings and the game is Just 500mb to download lmao

• 19 Feb, '21
  Dolapex

  Between 40 to 60fps on Max details without bloom and shadows on medium.
  
  CPU: I7 Serie 8k
  RAM: 8gb
  SSD M.2 Black edition
  GPU:Gforce 1080

• 19 Feb, '21
  Emerus

  I am having the same issue. Framerate is super low. It stays between 1 and 7 fps.
  
  Intel Core i5-4460 @3.20GHz
  12gb RAM
  NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

• 19 Feb, '21
  JT

  All low settings. Lodbias set at 5. I get 40-60fps. I have done the exclusive screen launch option and boot.config lines.
  
  CPU: i7-8700k
  GPU: 1050ti
  RAM: 16gb 3600mhz
  
  PS - i know my pc is bottlnecked by specs but i run rust 90+ FPS and EFT 75 average fps on medium to high

• 19 Feb, '21
  Compizfox

  Same issue.
  
  I have between 20 and 65 fps (it varies a lot depending on where I am / lighting) on 1080p.
  
  Specs:
  
  Ryzen 2600
  RX480 (Mesa, RADV)
  16 GB RAM
  Linux (Vulkan renderer)

• 19 Feb, '21
  Groostav

  I'm a software developer but not a developer for this game, and I think its worth explaining something here:
  
  Having high-end hardware does not fix procedural/algorithmic difficulties. In many cases there is little difference between an old single-core CPU and a super high-end core i9. The key thing is that an 'oopsie' in algorithmic terms can often mean your code is _thousands_ of times too slow for moderate amount of game-state/data but having high-end hardware will only accelerate you by a factor of 2x (or maybe 10x).
  
  These kinds of performance bugs are often very difficult to isolate and even more difficult to fix. If you want to help the developers stop posting your system specs and start trying to isolate the problem. "my FPS was slow so I deleted all my buildings/structures and I noticed my framerate went up" or "I deleted all my torches and tried to remove any other sources of particle effects and my framerate didn't change" is actionable info.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Waldo

  I have a fx-6100 and an HD 7770 2gb with 16gb of ram. OS: Manjaro. Kernel: 5.10.15-1
  
  My fps are stable enough (around 40) as soon as I load the game, but the more of the map I load in the more it struggles, till eventually I'm sitting at a cool 5fps with severe input lag. Structures are harder to load than empty map.
  
  The Issue got better after the last update, but it's still bad.
  Also important to note is that graphics settings have very little impact on this. I can switch between high to low draw distance and low to medium vegetation without any visible impact on performance.
  
  I also noticed that my CPU usage refuses to go above 50% while in game. I have 6 cores, it would be nice if they could all be used.
  
  Using the hack method of editing those boot options made the game run smoother for a little bit (looked like 60fpsish)
  Buuuttt, I got severe ghosting and frame desyncing. The screen would flash white rapidly when moving my view.

• 19 Feb, '21
  Groostav

  But it is also the case that I suspect these guys are more focused on feature-completeness right now than they are on performance.
  
  When making software a typical approach is to try and build all your features first and worry about performance later. Once feature-complete we let QA discover how/when things get slow (which for a game like this is likely going to involve building a lot of game state; IE a lot of buildings, bosses, character progression, etc), then attempt to reproduce the slowness under profiling tools (eg developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-visual-profiler, or docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/profiling-feature-tour).
  
  Once a particularly hot piece of code has been identified, after a bunch hand-wringing a serious re-implementation will begin, typically by trying to identify which body of performance bugs you're in (search, realloc, thrashing...), and finding the paper (typically from the 70's) who solved that problem elegantly, and re-implementing accordingly.

• 20 Feb, '21
  Filip Ondrek

  Same problem 1050ti and i7-7700HQ 16gb ram and even on SSD...

• 20 Feb, '21
  Craftal

  Yeah my GPU is running waaay too hot and only hitting ~30-40fps. With Vsync off it never dips below 84% usage and nearly 80°. Turning Vsync on seemed to fix it, but then I started getting stuttery black frames.
  
  CPU: Intel 10900K
  GPU: Radeon RX Vega 64
  RAM: 32GB 3200mHz

• 20 Feb, '21
  Mertcan

  I have a 2 gb graphics card which is above the minimum requirement but i still get 6-8 fps in the game and it gets even lower when there is an animation like fire. Please make the game compatible and playable for everyone. Thanks
  CPU: i7-3630QM 2.40 ghz
  GPU: Amd Radeon HD 7600m 2gb
  RAM: 8 gb

• 20 Feb, '21
  Kort

  9600k, 2080 Ti, 16mb RAM - 30 FPS in town with 4-5 buildings, a crafting area and a few boats/walls. 60-70 FPS everywhere else, maybe 150 max on the ocean, low GPU/Memory/CPU utilisation, seems horribly optimised for my hardware. Great game though loving it!

• 21 Feb, '21
  pvatans

  CPU: i9 9900
  GPU: 2070 super
  RAM: 16GB 2993mhz
  
  monitor 1440p 144hz
  
  fps is 40-70

• 21 Feb, '21
  Thomas Mogensen

  Lenovo thinkpad L340 Gamin
  Lenovo think pad L340 Gaming i5-9300H cpu
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
  8gb ram
  
  I can never get above 8 fps, no matter what fix i try

• 21 Feb, '21
  MotoFckr9k

  Not sure if this is helpful, but on Linux Mint 19.3 with Nvidia GTX 1080 and an i7-7800x the game runs fine. Never drops below 60fps (which feels fine for a game like this). Mostly it is running between 65 and 130 fps.
  This is on highest settings, with the weird stuff like screenshake, DoF and Sun beams disabled.

• 21 Feb, '21
  Zeltarius

  I have the same issue, but it only seems to be really bad around the area that i built my base. I did kinda build a very large castle, but the fps drop is like less then 10fps sometimes. It gets bad. And its over time. I start the game, even at my base with perfect fps, then after about 10-20 mins it just starts to drop. Im running AMD FX 8350 4.0GHZ Eight core processor and Geforce gtx 1660 w 6gb vram, and 16gbs of ram. I dont feel like i should be getting the fps drops i am.

• 21 Feb, '21
  MobIk1337

  _
  GPU: RTX 2070 (not maxQ)
  CPU: i7 9750H
  RAM: 32GB
  
  Settings: 1080p (Max)
  FPS: 25-30fps
  
  It's not funny. RUST works at maximum settings in 45-70fps 1080p.

• 21 Feb, '21
  SBarrett

  Most of the time I run 100 FPS no issue. However, back at our base it drops to 50.
  
  Core i9-10850k
  32GB RAM
  nVidia RTX 3080

• 21 Feb, '21
  Victor

  CPU: Intel i7 6700
  GPU: Radeon RX 580
  RAM: 16GB 3200
  
  Average fps at 1080p is 30, maybe 40 with all settings turned down. Seems like an obvious optimization issue. I'm patient though, love the game and am excited to see its future!

• 22 Feb, '21
  AJ Otto

  I do believe this is not a CPU load / GPU load issue, but either an optimization or physics bug.
  
  Ryzen 1700x @ 3.8ghz, 32gb ram, RX480 8gb gpu, 50Mb down 5Mb up fiber line
  
  100fps in Plains, take portal to Storage area with ~ 80 chests (~20% full), the building isn't complete because during construction the area became unplayable.
  
  4 player server, main base ~30-50fps, being in the `storage` area knocks the game down to 12-24fps, it feels like garbage.
  
  Either it's due to complex 'building support' calculations (cpu load is 22%, GPU @30%) or there's some Chests overlapping causing an issue / syncing chest contents is an issue.
  
  ~ 4fps difference between 800x600@60hz (with lowest possible settings) and 2160x1440@144hz (max settings minus AA), with no difference in CPU or GPU load, and the RAM usage looks good at 2-2.3gb.
  Not using Vsync.
  
  Frustrating, but hopefully just a bug

• 22 Feb, '21
  Zachary

  Over 50+ hours of playtime at a solid 10/15/20 FPS. It's hard to always be looking past this. I can't wait until this is fixed! It should be a number one issue and hopefully fixed ASAP.
  Ryzen 5 2600
  GTX 1660
  16 GB RAM

• 22 Feb, '21
  Feekar

  10-15 fps on a 3070
  Lowering settings doesnt help much
  
  CPU: i7-7700
  GPU: RTX 3070
  RAM: 16gb

• 22 Feb, '21
  ChaosAtom

  I have an i9 9900k and 2060super 32gb ram and 165hz monitor still have to use low to medium settings when 3 or more people are on the same server in the same area or if we have a few buildings in one area as low fps is killing my fun sometimes hope there's a fix

• 22 Feb, '21
  Daivuk

  For me, i9, RTX 2070, 32 Gig, installed on SSD, constant 60 FPS with no drop at max graphics.
  My system is not far from the initial post, which claims his FPS drops a lot. Weird. It could be something else than raw power. Could it be HDD vs SSD?
  
  For those complaining about over-heating, make sure to enable VSync in the settings. I had this happen to me in various other games which default to VSync Off. Unless you have good cooling, your GPU will overheat at full capacity.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Evan

  30-50 FPS 1440p most of the time with 2600, 5700XT, and 32GB RAM 3000 MHz. Biggest issue is FPS drops because I've noticed my clock speed will just bounce around and never be stable over 90% usage.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Oskero

  i5 7400 gtx 1060 16gb ram. Max graphic 20-40fps, Low graphic 20-40fps. Idk why the settings do not affect the fps

• 22 Feb, '21
  Sean

  I have the issue as well.
  My specs are as follows:
  AMD 5600x
  64(4x16gb) DDR3200
  3070
  gen4 ssd
  However on a local server with just me playing I get a rock solid 130fps maxed at 1080p, on our server I get crazy latency, stuttering and fps issues after about 15 minutes of playing. FPS in various areas : Our town 30-60 ; ocean 40-80; mountains 50-70. But at times I'll get fps drops to 15-20 and its completely random
  Server Specs
  Ryzen7 1800x
  16gb ddr4
  500/150 dl/ul fiber connections
  We never see memory usage go above 1-2 gb, and cpu usage is only about 30-40% at peak.
  
  I wonder if there is a hard cap on upload speeds which could be causing stuttering on servers

• 22 Feb, '21
  didyouexpectthat

  CPU: Ryzen 3900X
  GPU: RTX 2080 Ti
  RAM: 64 GB 3600mhz
  
  I don't seem to have slow FPS, at least from starting the game to actually sitting in a cabin. I cap out at 60 FPS during the launch screen, the game loads at 120-ish FPS, and then when I was in the Plains in one of my cabins, I was getting 95 FPS just standing there.
  Game doesn't show up in GeForce Experience. I mostly play with SteamLink which maximizes the resolution automatically. I've changed the resolution settings several times but every time I restart the client, it seems to go back to 4k (I am on 1080p laptop playing over the LAN with hardware and I can't read the map, and haven't tried scaling up yet in-game). Randomly, but briefly, I experience some graphic tears mid-game but nothing constant; I want to blame SteamLink for that though.

• 22 Feb, '21
  Xaker_Two

  I have suggestions to dev about settings, that may help a bit with that
  
  shadow settings:
  - add turn off option - yes 2021 and no shadows
  - shadows of local light sources only on high - i can't stand in area with smelter/kiln/campfire/forge/etc if it's more than one - i have 5 in radius of 4 std floor
  
  add shaders quality setting or either fog disabling/density - it's very annoying when you mining and can't see what you mining!
  
  "fullscreen" rename to "borderless window" and add real fullscreen that will require restart(to launch with " -window-mode exclusive" arg, not sure how it will work on Linux)
  
  Also AFAIK on latest versions of Unity it's hard to achieve FPS more that 60 - one frame with empty scene on hi-end build take ~17ms (1 second is 1000ms)

• 23 Feb, '21
  bulli

  I have bad performance in our home town only. It has to do with many tarrain modifications. See: https://valheimbugs.featureupvote.com/suggestions/159300/stabilize-mass-flattening-of-land

• 23 Feb, '21
  AndyT

  Rig:
  CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x
  GPU: RTX 3080 (latest drivers as of yet 461.40)
  RAM: 32 GB DDR4 4000 MHz
  
  Getting 30 - 50 fps in our main base. Up to 100 in areas with fewer constructions.
  
  Might be the physics engine running constant structural integrity checks when there are many constructions?

• 23 Feb, '21
  Rob

  i5 7400
  GTX 1050ti
  16gb ram
  M.2 SSD
  Running the game on medium settings at 1920x1080 resolution around 40-45 FPS, 99% GPU usage while CPU sitting around 20-30%

• 23 Feb, '21
  DanielM

  I've done all the steps listed in the Valheim FPS guides.
  Here are some additional tweaks that I've done in NVIDIA Control Panel:
  
  Low Latency mode : Ultra
  Texture filtering quality - High performance
  Trilinear optimization - On
  Anisotropic sample optimization - On
  Optimise for compute performance - On
  Force VSync OFF in-game and control panel
  Lock FPS to 60 preferably in control panel
  
  After applying those I've had the most stable and smooth session yet

• 23 Feb, '21
  Starney

  Problem with 5-year-old Mobile Workstation (Lenovo ThinkPad P50):
  
  CPU: i7 6700MQ @ 2.6-3.5 GHz
  GPU: Quadro M100M 2GB
  RAM: 32 GB DDR4-2133
  
  In our base (near to various buildings/structures, FPS drop to 2-4 at times even - when exploring the Ocean, for example, easily have 30-35). I can easily take a drop, but 2-4 is really flip-book style only. And my hardware should be able to cope with this game (at least according to official hardware recommendations).

• 23 Feb, '21
  John

  I am at TOPS around 30-35 FPS with all settings set to low and all boxes unchecked. Somtimes down to around 5 FPS.
  Running the following setup
  CPU: i7-6700
  GPU: RTX 2060 SUPER
  RAM: 16GB
  3440x1440 @144hz (I have tried lowering as well, no effect).
  
  I have tried multiple things, from editing the boot.config, adding variables to steam and also changing the windows and NVIDIA behaviours. Little to non effect

• 24 Feb, '21
  Ironbard

  """
  in /steamapps/common/Valheim/Valheim_Data folder
  open the boot.config file and add the following 2 lines to the top:
  
  gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
  gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
  
  This should increase your CPU and GPU usage and as a result increase/stabilize FPS.
  
  Worked wonders on 1080ti
  """
  Just tried this on a standard 1080, went from sub 30 to mostly 60 fps : D

• 24 Feb, '21
  Lussuria

  Same issue here. Out of 10 players only 3 of us can move around in the player made village without extreme fps drop (one person is getting 6fps).
  
  Issue started after the most recent update.

• 24 Feb, '21
  navane

  35-45FPS 2070 3600X, running at 4k everything max

• 24 Feb, '21
  Little Biggy

  When I first load in, I'm easily above 60 FPS default settings @ 1080p, but after about 5 minutes of play it starts dropping, and never recovers. Lowering settings doesn't make any difference. It's smooth as butter for literally just five minutes even in a rather large base, but after that it's choppy & very laggy. I also noticed that camp fires seem to be really hard on the overall performance.
  
  CPU: i5 3570k
  GPU: GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6
  RAM: 16GB DDR3

• 24 Feb, '21
  XiCynx

  CPU: Ryzen 5900X @ 4.9GHz
  RAM: 32GB @ 3200Mhz
  GPU: AMD RX 6800 XT @ 2.8GHz
  RESOLUTION: 2560x1440 or 5120x1440 (drops FPS to about mid 40's with still <60% GPU utilization)
  FPS: 60-80 at best
  GPU Utilization is at only around 30-40% and CPU is only at 20%
  
  Notes: Already tried all the "fixes" online and it only seemed to grant me 5-10 more fps.
  Settings are Maxed with no DOF or Motion Blur.

• 24 Feb, '21
  Felix

  I5 4th generations
  8 gb dd4 ram
  820 M graphic card
  I know my system is not good but I just wonder Why I getting 7 fps

• 24 Feb, '21
  Austin

  Saw this thread on Reddit speculating that the issue is related to landscaping, thought it would be worth mentioning here: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lqcr88/reason_behind_low_fps_and_huge_instance_numbers/
  
  While I haven't gotten huge lag yet, I feel like my game is starting to run slower as my base becomes developed with more buildings and my friends and I have gradually started to get more desync issues. I don't know if this is related or just a coincidence.
  
  Performance issues feel lessened when we are away from our base in a swamp or forest.
  
  CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
  GPU: RTX 2060
  RAM: 16 GB 3600 MHz

• 25 Feb, '21
  Finn

  Running 60-75fps.
  Ryzen 3 3200g
  1650 super
  16gb ram
  I should get much more fps because in other games that are more demanding I get well over 100 on medium settings.

• 25 Feb, '21
  LahEn

  Laptop user here. Only getting about 24 FPS with everything set to minimum and 720p.
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
  GPU: Integrated Vega 8
  Ram 16GB

• 25 Feb, '21
  SpiderJerusalem

  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 64 GB Memory, NVIDIA GTX 1080 * VRAMM
  ...AND...
  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 12 GB Memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
  OS: Win10 Pro 64bit
  
  best rate has been 12-15 fps / 60-100 ms. The last day or so it has degraded further to 3-4 fps 333 ms. I bought a copy for my son and he runs an older machine. The game runs flawlessly. I setup a dedicated server as an experiment. My performance was unchanged... and the game ran flawlessly for my son over IP Join. I do not play online but our home speed is 1 GBit down, 42 up.
  
  I have stripped everything out of memory and tried every online suggestion incl the run bat script to auto set the game to have High priority. No other system issues and I have never had this occur -- I tend to own high end machines because I develop, build 3d animations and content and more. On my main desk side PC the system shows usage:
  CPU: 6%, Memory: 12%, Disk: 1%, Network: 0%, GPU: 9%, Power use: Low

• 25 Feb, '21
  Dozer

  Buddy of mine having similar issue. Less than 10 FPS no matter settings. He can play more demanding games at a way higher FPS but Valheim just tanks everything. His current setup is:
  
  amd ryzen 5 3600
  16 gig ram
  AMD Radeon RX 580.
  
  EDIT: I did get him to try the current workarounds being talked about like Task Manager priority and all that. No change in performance.

• 25 Feb, '21
  Peter R

  low fps have to do when building mutch or big stuff. but it needs to be more optimized

• 25 Feb, '21
  PJK

  Before I used boot config fix I had barely 30fps on 1920x1080 144hz (no way to play this in 2k res).
  
  CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
  GPU: RX 570 Nitro+
  RAM: 12GB 2133mhz

• 25 Feb, '21
  shakalak

  CPU: i7-8700k
  GPU: 1080 Ti
  RAM: 16gb 3600mhz
  
  We have a very large village compound type base with lots of structures and our average FPS will range 35-40 fps and will drop to 15-20 overtime. FPS improves when we leave to go out on expeditions

• 25 Feb, '21
  Nighthawkx00

  FPS 20 to 50 fps
  RAM 32GB not sure with speed
  
  CPU: Ryzen 1700x ingame ussage ~10 to 20%
  GPU RTX 2080 ingaeme ussage about 50%

• 27 Feb, '21
  Quick559

  CPU: Ryzen 9 3950x
  RAM: 32G
  GPU: Nvidia 2070 Super
  OS: Linux Mint
  
  This, I cannot say feels like fps loss as it does more of hitching. I notice it happen on multiplayer and single. It seems to happen over time too and if I logout the game I am playing and go back in (not quit), it seems to be fixed and stays fixed longer though I will test more as I have not been in the game a significant amount of time ofter relogging.
  
  It seems to happen when a large bunch of events happen like chain reaction with multiple trees and items falling and breaking. That can trigger it fast. Or over time when fighting and woodcutting. I notice it begins to happen when I am building and breaking stuff. Almost want to say it feels like a leak but when I remember I will monitor memory usage to confirm. But it does resolve if you logoff the map and go back in.

• 27 Feb, '21
  Badgerino

  Ive a got a new Lenovo Legion 5i
  intel i5 10300
  nVidia RTX2060
  8gb Ram
  i get between 5-15 fps regardless of in-game settings, boot file lines, TaskMgr Priority settings, Steam Launch option for fullscreen. nothing changes the FPS at all.

• 27 Feb, '21
  HansMoleman

  Getting 19-28 FPS
  Did not have this issue before the patches.
  
  Things I attempted that resulted in no change or improvement:
  Boot config "fix"
  Setting valheim to high priority
  Adding "-refresh 144 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -malloc=system -window-mode exclusive" to launch options
  
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X @ 4.174 Ghz
  GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra
  Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB 3600mhz CL18
  
  There is absolutely no reason this should be running this bad with the setup I have, especially when less powerful hardware is able to run it way above 60FPS.

• 28 Feb, '21
  Mark Simpson

  Ryz 3600x
  32gb 3200
  Msi rtx 2080 super
  Everything mixed out
  Minus
  chromatic aberration
  Motion blur
  Depth of field
  
  3440×1440p
  Running pretty stable
  80-100fps
  Cpu around 40%
  Gpu around 60-70%
  Stutters during the auto saving process for maybe a second.

• 28 Feb, '21
  Deno

  FPS from 30 in base up to 120~ when at sea with nothing nearby.
  
  Ram: 16GB
  CPU: i5-9600kf - Usage CPU 1: 50%~ - CPU 2: 80%~ All other 4 CPUs at about 20%-30%
  GPU: RTX 2070 - Usage at almost perfectly stable 30%

• 01 Mar, '21
  Kromede

  79 fps Average
  Cpu: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X 8-Core / 16 Threads 3.8 GHz
  Gpu: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GAMING 08G-P4-5670-KR
  Ram: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (8 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600)
  If I terraform alot I drop to 60fps and have massive stuttering, but it has to be a huge area flattened

• 03 Mar, '21
  Frank

  I’ve been studying. One thing I can say for certain is that terra-forming is one of the main culprits. Every single difference in the landscape from the original seed, every building piece placed, every item on the ground, etc. becomes an “instance”. As you move, the game seems to load the original seed and THEN apply these instances (check with F2). It’s not terribly slow with buildings, but the LAND that has been CHANGED causes terrible FPS drops and stutters as the instance count piles up. Needs optimization. I wish it would just save the new instances as a pseudo-seed and not have to apply changes to the original constantly. It’s wonky. Homies and I started a new huge base on flat land and our FPS is smooth. Also done 3 things for smoother performance:
  - added the two config lines
  - forced steam to run exclusive fullscreen
  - started playing with Vulcan
  
  Here’s how to do the first 2:
  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pcgamer.com/amp/valheim-increase-fps-performance/

• 04 Mar, '21
  Michael

  10989xe + Evga 3090 getting around 30 frames dipping into 15 frames, on the water i run 175 to 200 frames/

• 04 Aug, '21
  Hemul GM

  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700KF CPU @ 4.90GHz
  RAM: DDR4 32Gb
  Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8,0 Gb
  
  FPS: 40-190
  
  40 FPS in the area of own buildings. Over a thousand elements and dozens of light sources.

• 14 Sep, '21
  AndyTrunks

  Hey all!
  
  I've been enjoying Valheim a lot since launch, built a great old base and done a ton of coop with friends and i'm super stoked about Hearth & Home this week.
  
  So of course this weekend, Valheim drops from a steady 60-90 FPS with everything maxed, to 3 FPS in my base and 30 FPS at the most in a brand new world in the meadows.
  
  Load times have also increased by 10-20 seconds on average
  
  The only thing that I can come up with that might have caused this change is updating to the newest drivers for Nvidia. I've tried rolling back but nothing has worked so far, here are my specs:
  
  Current GPU Driver Version: 471,96
  GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
  RAM: 16 gigs
  
  Has anyone else had any new issues along these lines? This close to the update I would really appreciate any help/tips/suggestions and info you guys would have.
  
  - A fellow Viking.

• 28 Sep, '21
  Conraire

  I'm getting similar FPS to others, anywhere between 30-90 on land, more at sea. Doesn't seem to matter whether I use regular or Vulkan mode.
  I haven't been monitoring GPU/CPU Usage, I can do that also if necessary.
  
  CPU: Ryzen 7 3800X
  RAM: 32GB, 3600M/T speed (2x16GB)
  GPU: RTX 2070 Super
  Game Running on NVMe SSD.

• 16 Oct, '21
  Melissa

  Same basic problem. Brand new high end hardware and intermittently I have very low FPS. Mostly this seems to happen after I take down a huge stone monolith (lots of stone flying everywhere, so lots of things happening very quickly). Our slightly older second computer has no problems processing the same game events, decent hardware in it but nowhere near as good as the brand new one, and it's doing just fine.

• 25 Oct, '21
  Mads

  I have no problems in areas without player-built structures, like 100fps or more. but when I'm near base i drop to 30-50 FPS.. does'nt matter if it's big or small bases.. even the draugr villages drops me to those FPS.
  CPU and GPU utilization both under 30%
  
  GPU: RTX 3080
  CPU: Ryzen 9 3900XT
  RAM: 32GB 3600 Mhz

• 19 Nov, '21
  Daniel

  Intel i5-8600K @4.6
  RTX 3070 TUF OC
  16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM
  
  My game used to play beautifully (120+ fps) on my 1070Ti, but I recently "upgraded" my rig for a 3070.
  I wasn't expecting major improvements in Valheim and I'm most likely CPU bound now, but the game doesn't even move above 5-10% utilization on my CPU (and GPU), which wasn't the case before.
  
  My game starts out fine (150+ fps on a fresh world), but then suddenly drops after a couple of minutes to around ~5-25 fps and never returns.
  it doesn't matter of it's an old world filled with buildings (from when I could play the game with old GFX card) or a completely new world. MP or SP makes no difference either.
  
  What I've tried;
  - Changing in-game settings does close to NOTHING.
  - I've added some of the suggestions people have had such as boot.config additions, fullscreen launch options ect.
  - I've removed every trace of the game ever being on my PC, including removal of all registry values and reinstalled it.
  - Tested with Vulkan.

• 20 Nov, '21
  Daniel

  Some additions to my previous post that might give some extra insight;
  
  I just realized after another hour of trying to fix my issue that after loading a world, the GPU utilization (using HWMonitor) is running at a good 80+% but then quickly drops to 0-10% and never returns.
  
  So I'm wondering if my GPU is getting throttled in Valheim somehow - not from high temperatures though, they run just fine while game is open on both the CPU (~55C) and GPU (~45C).
  
  When GPU utilization drops my entire pc starts to lag and will even take a few seconds just to minimize the game, background videos on Youtube will stutter - but as soon as I close the game everything goes back to normal and I can reproduce the issue once again. This issue has only ever occurred in this game for me.
  
  New things I've tried with no changes;
  - I've installed the game on three different drives.
  - Turned off Anti-Virus.
  - Closed all unnecessary services and programs.
  - Reinstalled GPU drivers.
  - Installed older GPU drivers.

• 23 Nov, '21
  Daniel

  Hi, I wrote a couple of posts here (still awaiting approval) a couple of days ago with low fps issues.
  I thought I'd done pretty much everything possible to fix it and ended up with the conclusion that it must be some poor game optimization ect.
  
  Today I found out that MSI Dragon Center have a "gaming mode" feature that for some reason was turned on for Valheim, and Valheim only - This would result in me having a good 150+ fps for the first minute of loading a world, but then for some reason this "gaming mode" would then go ahead and throttle my GPU to 0-5% utilization, which in turn would wreck my fps (5-25 fps) and never return to normal.
  I've gone ahead and uninstalled MSI Dragon Center, and have had no in-game issues whatsoever for ~2 hours now.
  
  I hope this can help someone with similar issues.