Huge lag spike in snowstorms at mountains

[CaioSaradão]

my game runs smoth, always +60 fps, but that thing... that thing scares-me. Im talking about snowstorms that happen in moutains, the fps went from 80 to 15 just by looking to the horizon while inside one, but if i look to the ground the fps goes to 40 or something

theres some huge fps optimization to be made on this storms

[Humpenstilzchen]

Hm weird, I have absolutely no fps drops from storms or snowstorms. No offense I just wonder how the game can run at 60 fps for you and then suddenly the fps drop just because of the storm.

Anyway optimizations are always part of game development and is to be expected but the biggest optimizations will likely only happen at the end of development when all the content is in.

What you can do is put in the following startparameter and config tweaks, it should net you around 10-20 % performance increase and may help mitigating the fps drops that seem to happen sometimes.

In my case it gave me 10 fps more on average.

startparameter :-window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen

then
Click on the valheim_Data folder.

Find the file named 'boot' or 'boot.config' and open it with Notepad.

Add "gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1" at the very top.

Add "gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1" right below the first line.


It should look like this

gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
wait-for-native-debugger=0
vr-enabled=0
hdr-display-enabled=0
gc-max-time-slice=3

save it

[CaioSaradão]

Originally posted by Chilli con Carno:

Hm weird, I have absolutely no fps drops from storms or snowstorms. No offense I just wonder how the game can run at 60 fps for you and then suddenly the fps drop just because of the storm.

Anyway optimizations are always part of game development and is to be expected but the biggest optimizations will likely only happen at the end of development when all the content is in.

What you can do is put in the following startparameter and config tweaks, it should net you around 10-20 % performance increase and may help mitigating the fps drops that seem to happen sometimes.

In my case it gave me 10 fps more on average.

startparameter :-window-mode exclusive -screen-fullscreen

then
Click on the valheim_Data folder.

Find the file named 'boot' or 'boot.config' and open it with Notepad.

Add "gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1" at the very top.

Add "gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1" right below the first line.


It should look like this

gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
wait-for-native-debugger=0
vr-enabled=0
hdr-display-enabled=0
gc-max-time-slice=3

save it

dont know what it did, but it worked. 30 fps on snowstorms. Thanks <3

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Zé:

dont know what it did, but it worked. 30 fps on snowstorms. Thanks <3

Glad to hear it helped =)

[Cohlrox]

Hrm, I have this exact problem too. Snowstorms make my FPS drop to garbage and while fighting a wolf pack and friends = death. I am going to try this out.

EDIT:

Woah, this really works. Instantly makes snowstorms FPS bearable. I am not sure what it did but I think it is making your GPU not draw nor display anything other than the game itself??? I notice all my other monitors are blank with the game focused. Thank you Potato!