FPS Drop issues,

[Party Phoenix]

Hey guys, anyone knows why my frames went down every minute or two? I run the game at the lowest possible graphic settings. I have a decent PC, but I really can't make out why the game decides to drop the FPS periodically.

Any solution if possible?

[Gog]

I have some tweaks you can try.

In your video cards control panel, make sure you have Threaded Optimization Enabled. I believe the Unity Engine takes advantage of this option.


Then ight click on Valheim in your Steam library and go to 'Manage' and then 'Browse local files.'

That should bring up a window of Valheim's game files. 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" as a separate line at the very top.

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


So the file 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

Then save it.

You can also add "gfx-disable-mt-rendering=0" to the file. Unity should have this set by default, but just to make sure you can add that command to make sure Multi Threaded Rendering is enabled.

I had a pretty substantial performance increase from doing this.

[Sasquatch]

pretty common, our base in the game runs so badly now its down to 15-20fps and really hope theres some sort of fix coming to resolve it. Done all of the usual known tweaks / reddit ideas.

[Gog]

Also, don't go overboard on modifying the terrain. Like, flattening a huge area to build a structure.

Every time you modify an area it will save as a 'Instance' in the world. When the instances start to pile up from too much terraforming, it will make even the best computers crawl.

You can the hit "F2 key" to few how many instances you're loading in your area. Once it starts going above 8,000 instances, you will start to feel it.

[Pisaro]

First of all, what is your decent PC? Without knowing your hardware we can't really help I guess.

[woodsguide]

I have a decent PC

my decent and your decent are probably not the same ;o)

[luponix]

excellent mod if you want to reset some terraforming https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/BlueAmulet/TerrainTools/

[BGratz]

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

First of all, what is your decent PC? Without knowing your hardware we can't really help I guess.

Amiga

[Party Phoenix]

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

First of all, what is your decent PC? Without knowing your hardware we can't really help I guess.

Oops I forgot to give out the specs in the original thread.

My bad. First, it's a gaming laptop, I must clear that out first.

GeForce GTX 1650 (8GB)
Rhyzen-5 3550H
8GB RAM

I can run almost all games with the best graphics on 50fps constantly. That's ok enough spec for me. I'm quite scared that this game takes too much toll on my GPU to handle.

[woodsguide]

Amiga is decent for sure.. but i still have a soft spot for my Commadore+4

[woodsguide]

that 8GB of ram is gonna have some struggles...
i passed on my 12yr old "gaming laptop" to my buddy... he CAN run most games.. but constant stutters and all that..
gtx460
8GB RAM
i tell ya.. that 460 hurts ;o)

[Party Phoenix]

Originally posted by Crafty:

I have some tweaks you can try.

In your video cards control panel, make sure you have Threaded Optimization Enabled. I believe the Unity Engine takes advantage of this option.


Then ight click on Valheim in your Steam library and go to 'Manage' and then 'Browse local files.'

That should bring up a window of Valheim's game files. 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" as a separate line at the very top.

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


So the file 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

Then save it.

You can also add "gfx-disable-mt-rendering=0" to the file. Unity should have this set by default, but just to make sure you can add that command to make sure Multi Threaded Rendering is enabled.

I had a pretty substantial performance increase from doing this.

Holy moly. I don't know what this does essentially. But I have not gotten any frame drops and played at constant 40-50 fps.

Thanks mate. This really worked for me.

[Gog]

Originally posted by Yasha:

Holy moly. I don't know what this does essentially. But I have not gotten any frame drops and played at constant 40-50 fps.

Thanks mate. This really worked for me.

Awesome, good to hear.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Crafty:

Originally posted by Yasha:

Holy moly. I don't know what this does essentially. But I have not gotten any frame drops and played at constant 40-50 fps.

Thanks mate. This really worked for me.

Awesome, good to hear.

Decided to try those settings. It caused some strange graphics glitches I've never seen before and didn't seem to help my FPS at all. If anything the FPS was worse than usual.

[Gog]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by Crafty:

Awesome, good to hear.

Decided to try those settings. It caused some strange graphics glitches I've never seen before and didn't seem to help my FPS at all. If anything the FPS was worse than usual.

could be acting weird with your hardware, just disable it then.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Crafty:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Decided to try those settings. It caused some strange graphics glitches I've never seen before and didn't seem to help my FPS at all. If anything the FPS was worse than usual.

could be acting weird with your hardware, just disable it then.

I did that before I made the post about it! :)