Obvious ways to improve fps consistency?

[Fenris]

I get around 80 fsp with high settings, but once every minute or two it dives to 50 and its super jarring. I can run other games that are supposedly much harder on my system just fine. Why does my pc have fps dives once every couple minutes? Are there common ways people who are on this forum know of that can address this? Common culprits? Maybe a recent patch? Haven't played valheim in a long time.

[Fenris]

It's borderline unplayable. Anytime a mob attacks my gps drops by 20-30 and my screen skips. How is this possible.. drivers are ok

[umop-apisdn]

Lower your resolution. Turn down shadows. Set it to fullscreen instead of windowed. Turn down (or off) the anti-aliasing.

Pretend you're running on a graphics card that costs half as much as you paid for yours; Early Access games are typically not optimized until close to release.

[Fedsmoker]

I dunno what your system is but I feel like the more you play and let it cache stuff, especially smoke effects, the better it runs over time.

[Mharr]

There are some performance mods that let you push graphical settings further into potato mode than the vanilla game allows. Turning the number of light sources way down can be very effective.

[Rocco]

My Valheim is very stable, think it must be your hardware.

I (can) even run 4K with 60FPS on a 1660ti GPU, on medium settings. But I play at 1440p on max, I only lower active light points one bit to keep stable at 60 FPS.

Maybe you guys also post your specs when posting about performance issues, this gives us a good perspective on what can cause your troubles

[Fenris]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Lower your resolution. Turn down shadows. Set it to fullscreen instead of windowed. Turn down (or off) the anti-aliasing.

Pretend you're running on a graphics card that costs half as much as you paid for yours; Early Access games are typically not optimized until close to release.

Okay, I will try this about anti-aliasing.

To Rocco,

I have 16 gigs of ram with an AMD ryzen 7 5700 3.8 ghz, and an nvidia rtx 3600 ti. Games installed on an SSD with 250 gb remaining memory. To me these specs should blow this game out of the water, but I am running at 85 fps at 1920x1080 with dips to high 40's every minute or so, which is super jarring. In game my settings are now medium with fps capped at 60. Thinking there is no way that everyone is running rigs like this AND having this kind of performance, unless it's common and I'm just aloof here

[Rocco]

Originally posted by Fenris:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Lower your resolution. Turn down shadows. Set it to fullscreen instead of windowed. Turn down (or off) the anti-aliasing.

Pretend you're running on a graphics card that costs half as much as you paid for yours; Early Access games are typically not optimized until close to release.

Okay, I will try this about anti-aliasing.

To Rocco,

I have 16 gigs of ram with an AMD ryzen 7 5700 3.8 ghz, and an nvidia rtx 3600 ti. Games installed on an SSD with 250 gb remaining memory. To me these specs should blow this game out of the water, but I am running at 85 fps at 1920x1080 with dips to high 40's every minute or so, which is super jarring. In game my settings are now medium with fps capped at 60. Thinking there is no way that everyone is running rigs like this AND having this kind of performance, unless it's common and I'm just aloof here

Hey bro,

Your GPU is like 30% faster than mine, but I have a i9-1200KF which is 50% faster than your CPU. I also have 32GB DDR5, but this should not make any difference between you and me.

I checked, your GPU and CPU are perfectly together with 0.5% bottleneck.

To compare: we both max out our GPU with our processors and your GPU is 30% faster., but you don't have spare CPU cycles left when your GPU is at 100%. I do have lots of CPU left.

Think your drops are because of Maxed CPU when the game (or something else) is doing GPU unrelated stuff, this drags down your CPU, framerate and makes things jittery. Essentially you have a CPU bottleneck when doing anything on the background.

Sounds quite plausible to me.

You have a decent PC, but with a maxed out CPU things indeed get Jittery. I would keep my CPU 20% faster than my GPU.

This is an ideal build for me, looking for the 3090 and hope to get one soon. Maxed out GPU and 20% left on my CPU. All will be sooo fluid ;)
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn176/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

With my processor I would not choose the 3090ti, background tasks will cause drops when I have some work running on the background.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1aY/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

I would get this GPU though, eventhough the 2% bottleneck can drag my CPU when doing background tasks. Reason is I just Cap the frames on 120 FPS, this is more than enough and most games will run on 50% CPU and GPU.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1dN/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

Hope you have some things to compare, lowering settings to limit CPU is your way to go on this Rig.

[Fenris]

Originally posted by Rocco:

Originally posted by Fenris:

Okay, I will try this about anti-aliasing.

To Rocco,

I have 16 gigs of ram with an AMD ryzen 7 5700 3.8 ghz, and an nvidia rtx 3600 ti. Games installed on an SSD with 250 gb remaining memory. To me these specs should blow this game out of the water, but I am running at 85 fps at 1920x1080 with dips to high 40's every minute or so, which is super jarring. In game my settings are now medium with fps capped at 60. Thinking there is no way that everyone is running rigs like this AND having this kind of performance, unless it's common and I'm just aloof here

Hey bro,

Your GPU is like 30% faster than mine, but I have a i9-1200KF which is 50% faster than your CPU. I also have 32GB DDR5, but this should not make any difference between you and me.

I checked, your GPU and CPU are perfectly together with 0.5% bottleneck.

To compare: we both max out our GPU with our processors and your GPU is 30% faster., but you don't have spare CPU cycles left when your GPU is at 100%. I do have lots of CPU left.

Think your drops are because of Maxed CPU when the game (or something else) is doing GPU unrelated stuff, this drags down your CPU, framerate and makes things jittery. Essentially you have a CPU bottleneck when doing anything on the background.

Sounds quite plausible to me.

You have a decent PC, but with a maxed out CPU things indeed get Jittery. I would keep my CPU 20% faster than my GPU.

This is an ideal build for me, looking for the 3090 and hope to get one soon. Maxed out GPU and 20% left on my CPU. All will be sooo fluid ;)
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn176/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

With my processor I would not choose the 3090ti, background tasks will cause drops when I have some work running on the background.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1aY/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

I would get this GPU though, eventhough the 2% bottleneck can drag my CPU when doing background tasks. Reason is I just Cap the frames on 120 FPS, this is more than enough and most games will run on 50% CPU and GPU.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1dN/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

Hope you have some things to compare, lowering settings to limit CPU is your way to go on this Rig.

Now, hear me out.. I'm not gay... but I think I'm in love. Nobody has ever explained PC's to me so simply such that I, an ape, can understand. Thank you..... I had no idea a bottleneck calculator was even a thing... but now that you point it out and explain it so simply... it makes perfect sense. You would think I would know these things being an engineer... but alas..... thank you sempai

If you are experiencing generally low fps intuitively it makes sense for your gpu to be struggling. Conversely, if your gpu is performing flawlessly and then suddenly it loses 30% of its performance, it would make sense for something else to be the limiting factor. Now I just need to find a way to apply this to my job so they buy me a new computer.....

[Rocco]

Originally posted by Rocco:

Originally posted by Fenris:

Okay, I will try this about anti-aliasing.

To Rocco,

I have 16 gigs of ram with an AMD ryzen 7 5700 3.8 ghz, and an nvidia rtx 3600 ti. Games installed on an SSD with 250 gb remaining memory. To me these specs should blow this game out of the water, but I am running at 85 fps at 1920x1080 with dips to high 40's every minute or so, which is super jarring. In game my settings are now medium with fps capped at 60. Thinking there is no way that everyone is running rigs like this AND having this kind of performance, unless it's common and I'm just aloof here

Hey bro,

Your GPU is like 30% faster than mine, but I have a i9-1200KF which is 50% faster than your CPU. I also have 32GB DDR5, but this should not make any difference between you and me.

I checked, your GPU and CPU are perfectly together with 0.5% bottleneck.

To compare: we both max out our GPU with our processors and your GPU is 30% faster., but you don't have spare CPU cycles left when your GPU is at 100%. I do have lots of CPU left.

Think your drops are because of Maxed CPU when the game (or something else) is doing GPU unrelated stuff, this drags down your CPU, framerate and makes things jittery. Essentially you have a CPU bottleneck when doing anything on the background.

Sounds quite plausible to me.

You have a decent PC, but with a maxed out CPU things indeed get Jittery. I would keep my CPU 20% faster than my GPU.

This is an ideal build for me, looking for the 3090 and hope to get one soon. Maxed out GPU and 20% left on my CPU. All will be sooo fluid ;)
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn176/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

With my processor I would not choose the 3090ti, background tasks will cause drops when I have some work running on the background.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1aY/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

I would get this GPU though, eventhough the 2% bottleneck can drag my CPU when doing background tasks. Reason is I just Cap the frames on 120 FPS, this is more than enough and most games will run on 50% CPU and GPU.
https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/1cn1dN/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

Hope you have some things to compare, lowering settings to limit CPU is your way to go on this Rig.

Thanks bro, your response makes helping people much fun! Goodluck on your chat with the boss ;) I only get a crappy laptop, since I "only need Putty" for my work... (networking engineer)