Graphics

[Survivalgaming4life]

So is Valheim not really a graphic heavy game? I mean is there even a difference between medium and high settings? is is above decent? thoughts or comparisons to other games?(graphically)

are the textures in the game not too great or is that just the art style?

[[TTV]digitalpanhandlr]

the style of the game is pixelated.... as far as the difference between medium/high, ultimately it boils down to like...... vegetation density, sunshafts, ect..... there are 'HD' mods that increase the resolution of textures 4x (or removes the pixelated effect) .....

[Survivalgaming4life]

Originally posted by DigitalPanhandlr:

the style of the game is pixelated.... as far as the difference between medium/high, ultimately it boils down to like...... vegetation density, sunshafts, ect..... there are 'HD' mods that increase the resolution of textures 4x (or removes the pixelated effect) .....

cool thanks, the game looks amazing and top end graphics is not really something i look for tbh, but pixelated.... idk.... guess I will give it a shot.

the mods, are they from the game itself or 3rd party like addons?

[pipo.p]

Originally posted by challitajg.12:

So is Valheim not really a graphic heavy game?

As said, the game is not heavy on graphic files and memory usage, but apparently it is on visual effects (light sources, ray effects through foliage, shadow, etc). I guess that lowering down video settings in this case can lessen the stress on your harware.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by challitajg.12:

Originally posted by DigitalPanhandlr:

the style of the game is pixelated.... as far as the difference between medium/high, ultimately it boils down to like...... vegetation density, sunshafts, ect..... there are 'HD' mods that increase the resolution of textures 4x (or removes the pixelated effect) .....

cool thanks, the game looks amazing and top end graphics is not really something i look for tbh, but pixelated.... idk.... guess I will give it a shot.

the mods, are they from the game itself or 3rd party like addons?

When I first started playing the graphics bothered me. That lasted about an half hour before my eyes adjusted and I don't even noticed the pixalated look anymore.

[Grandaddypurple]

It's a bit heavy on cpu/gpu, it can get hot and low end PCs can get low FPS
More info on the second pinned post:

Valheim running CPU/GPU hot
Even though Valheim has lower polygon graphics, it uses raycasting, physical calculations, point light shadows, post processing, particle effects and many other things that other modern games also use. All of these combine into what may make you experience low FPS in a game like Valheim. In the game settings, there is a setting for Vsync. Enabling this limits the FPS to your monitors’ Hertz; this is something we would recommend high-end computers to use so the game doesn't try to produce the maximum number of FPS it can produce just for the sake of a lot of FPS, which in the end just makes your hardware run very warm when it doesn’t really need to.

[jrockless]

Turn off field of view in the graphics settings in game. It will make the visuals much better

[Steve]

Prepare to be pleasantly surprised at the environmentals.

[jonnin]

The rendering and voxel stuff seems fairly GPU intense, but the textures are smaller than photorealistic games.
The look and feel is intentional. The GPU use.. I am not in a good place to comment, my machine is too high end so it takes a lot more than this to lag the GPU.

[Survivalgaming4life]

Thanks for all the replies. Pixelated textures is really game breaking for me, although it’s not all pixelated from what I see it’s also quite beautiful, more the stones, tree trunks, buildings etc… but like I said I’m not looking for crazy realistic graphics, and I can’t ignore all the other amazing features this game has to offer just for that.. I’ll see if I can adjust to it, or maybe try that HD mod someone mentioned. I have a i510400F, GTX 1650 GDDR6 and 16GB ram, so will have to see how it runs with that.

[spamrock2]

I have played about 130 hours with no graphics issues. In the past 2 days I have had extreme graphics lag to the point the game is nearly unplayable. I have no other applications running and checked that nothing is taking up CPU, RAM or graphics card memory. I reduced the quality to low for all graphics settings but the lag continues. What happened?

[joannzod]

Originally posted by spamrock2:

I have played about 130 hours with no graphics issues. In the past 2 days I have had extreme graphics lag to the point the game is nearly unplayable. I have no other applications running and checked that nothing is taking up CPU, RAM or graphics card memory. I reduced the quality to low for all graphics settings but the lag continues. What happened?

same thing! i have no clue what happened

[Survivalgaming4life]

So I bought the game, it looks great and runs super smooth, apart from the pixelated stones, can live with it as the rest looks really nice I like the art.

I noticed that the combination of disabling SSAO, DOF, Motion Blur, Anti-Aliasing, and Vsync on all medium settings 1080P puts me around 70fps (my monitor is 75hz) with those settings switched on I get around 45-50fps, so that’s quite a significant difference.

On all high/very high with the settings disabled I get around 50 fps as opposed to 37fps with those settings enabled.

I would suggest tweaking those settings through trial and error I think it all differs between cards and builds.

[Latcady]

Originally posted by challitajg.12:

I think it all differs between cards and builds.

You're totally right :)

And if anyone is struggling with FPS I found this guide gave me massive gains particularly where I have large buildings - https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/lizxq9/valheim_fps_fix_benchmark_picture_guide_gained_an/

And just for general info, the Irongate team are doing optimization passes along with the rest of the content they're still adding before final release, generally with the milestone updates (some was included in the Hearth & Home update for example). So, we have that to look forward to also

Typically with game dev in general, full optimization is not done till the final release as every time you add new stuff it can mess up previous optimization. As optimization can be a tedious and time consuming task depending on how a game is built, a lot of game studios leave the real optimization till the last phase.

[MasterMind]

Originally posted by challitajg.12:

Thanks for all the replies. Pixelated textures is really game breaking for me, although it’s not all pixelated from what I see it’s also quite beautiful, more the stones, tree trunks, buildings etc… but like I said I’m not looking for crazy realistic graphics, and I can’t ignore all the other amazing features this game has to offer just for that.. I’ll see if I can adjust to it, or maybe try that HD mod someone mentioned. I have a i510400F, GTX 1650 GDDR6 and 16GB ram, so will have to see how it runs with that.

use texture mods, there are some good ones out there that replace 99 percent of the pixelated low res ones, makes the game look way better imo.

[Midas]

The game actually looks pretty nice, honestly. While the art style may be all pixelated and minecraft-ey, the lighting and weather effects are pretty nice. Forests look misty and believable, water looks good.