Crashing... A Lot of Crashing

[Lily: Destroyer of Your Mom]

Game crashes more and more frequently. I was crashing every hour and now my game is crashing every 5 minutes. Hardware is healthy, game files are healthy, I've tried everything. My girlfriend who has the same hardware as me get no crashing at all.

Hardware:
i5-9600k
RTX 2080 8GB
500GB Intel NVMe SSD
32GB Corsair Trident Z RGB
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Geforce Driver Version 527.56

If anybody has any experience with why I am getting crashing please let me know.

[Segert]

My game crashed once and i lost my world.... i dont know how to recover it. if i cant. i will just quit this game.

[Lily: Destroyer of Your Mom]

Also, in-game settings don't make a bit of difference guys. My game is inert.

[Segert]

Now i just have huge lag spikes. even in solo worlds

[☠Malarky☠]

Originally posted by Tyroil Smoochie Wallace:

Also, in-game settings don't make a bit of difference guys. My game is inert.

Have you tried verifying game files through steam?

[Nick2k]

Make sure your video card is being cooled properly. My buddy had lock ups until I fixed it by replacing the cooling fans and re-pasting the GPU. No more freezes/crashes anymore. The game is not optimized (and is using the Unity engine), so it's going to make the GPU work hard.

[⭐Rodent⭐]

Same!
Already tired of crashing!!!

Intel Core i9-13900K
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
Samsung 980 Pro
32 Corsair Vengeance LED

[Lil Puppy]

If the game is crashing, there are crash logs.
%localappdata%\Temp\IronGate\Valheim
Delete them all, then crash the game for a fresh one, post the contents in here and we'll move on to a solution.

Instability in one game doesn't mean instability in every game. Optimization doesn't mean anything for crashing. It's always a driver, hardware, or interfering software problem.
If a game crashes and it crashes for everyone, or certain hardware profiles the devs will fix it. If it is just you, then it's probably a driver, overclocking, or hardware instability issue.

1. Clean out your drivers and reinstall them. Sound and GPU drivers!
1. A. Not all drivers are good drivers, you may need to use an older one.
2. Backup your local saves, delete all the game folders, reinstall.
3. Check to make sure your memory is good, windows has a memory checker, hit start -> type: memory, and then click on the windows memory diagnostics. You'll need to restart to do the check. It'll take quite a while so maybe schedule it for when you go to bed or some other downtime.
4. Undo any overclocking you've done, check your memory profile, use the DOCP or XMP profiles.
5. You may have a cooling problem, clean out your computer.
5. A. You may have to redo the thermal paste on your cpu or gpu (google for a tutorial for your card/cpu)
6. Corrupted system files; Open an admin command prompt and copy and paste this:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
sfc /scannow

It'll update the system cache and then check for corruption of system files.

Beyond those basic tech support items, we'll need the crash log to tell if it's something else.