Categories: DiscussionValheim

Just venting for the moment

I've been playing Valheim solo for a few months now and I may be the slowest Viking ever. I am now some 970 game days in and I just tried defeating Bonemass and have retreated in frustration. I am taking a time out. I almost had him, about 75% done. I had set up a portal against an outside wall of a nearby crypt and that worked well for awhile for regrouping but eventually he found it and wrecked it. My closest base in a meadow adjacent to the swamp is not far away and I first I was just retrieving the body and immediately suiting up and running back into the fray. It was a war of attrition and I finally had to retire. I still have most, but not quite all, of my stuff. I am wearing 2nd level iron armor and maxed iron mace and maxed round shield. I want to do this with a mace and shield (and the Stagbreaker for the blobs).

I start out the fight well, but as Mike Tyson said, "everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth". My main issue is my PC, an older one I built years ago. My processor is a Phenom II X2 (2 cores) and my video card is a Radeon RX550 with 4 gigs memory, pretty weak. If I have all my graphics at low and turn some of the other features off I am fine in the meadow and black forest. My framerate is not great even then, about 24 fps but playable. But for some reason when I get close to the swamp my frame rate drops much lower and when I was fighting Bonemass it may have been under 5. I can't time his hits, or mine. Sooooo, I am going to build a new PC. I use my game computer as my den media PC and movies and streaming don't stress the system much but it is inadequate for Valheim. I have built around a dozen computers, all but one with AMD CPUs, and I will stay with AMD. I will be building this next one with a Ryzen 5 5600, either the G or X. The G has integrated graphics and the X does not. I prefer the integrated graphics for now because of the extremely high prices of discrete cards and from what I can tell the integrated Vega graphics in the 5600G will still have at least double, and probably more, the ability of the card I have now. Once video card prices drop to a more sane level I will upgrade to a discrete card. I am cautiously confident that even using integrated graphics the better CPU performance and 16 GB of RAM will give me decent frame rates. I can buy a 5600X now, keeping my present video card, but I will wait until August 5th when the 5600G will be released to retail. I hope they are not all bought up by scalpers. So by the second week of August I should be back in the swamp with Bonemass still somewhat depleted.

Until then I will enjoy the game vicariously by keeping up with all y'all's adventures. Skol!

Gamer

Recent Posts

Ledx have been so hard for me this wipe

Not being able to craft them sucks. Especially when everyone I talk to about it…

1 year ago

My interesting and unfortunate Gwent life

First I'd like to say I absolutely love this game it's quality. Basically I first…

1 year ago

Teacher Tuesday 12/Dec/2023 – ask your questions here!

Welcome to Teacher Tuesday, a thread where anyone can ask any type of question without…

1 year ago

This games balance is confusing

I’m kind of new/returning to gwent I played beta and obviously it’s a lot lot…

1 year ago

Summary of 10 Days of Draws from Chaffee’s Bundles

Level 1 Bag (Free with Atmosphere Level 2) 6 small consumable (First Aid, Repair, Fire…

1 year ago

Why is my crew at 135%?

Here's my crew - T34-85M - for the life of me I cant figure out…

1 year ago