{"id":13242,"date":"2021-03-02T02:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/valheim-how-to-enable-vulkan-api"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:04:11","slug":"valheim-how-to-enable-vulkan-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valheim\/valheim-how-to-enable-vulkan-api","title":{"rendered":"Valheim: How To Enable Vulkan Api"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valheim, even though it&rsquo;s been wildly successful up to this point, is still in an Early Access period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iron Gate Studios opted for this route to allow the player base to explore the game&rsquo;s current state while offering feedback on bugs, glitches and other gameplay aspects. This helps the developers to fix any issues before the game&rsquo;s full release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While some bugs have definitely been reported, many players&rsquo; biggest gripe with the Viking survival title is the poor optimization. Though you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valheim\/how-to-increase-your-fps-in-valheim-by-20-30-frames\">fix your FPS problems with some tweaking<\/a>, many players still report receiving lower than usual FPS counts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valheim\/valheim-how-to-increase-fps\">How to increase FPS in Valheim: Best settings<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This persistent problem for players could be over, however, as the Vulkan API is now usable in Valheim and offers a huge performance boost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Turning on Vulkan in Valheim&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Vulkan is an API developed by the Khronos Group, which is led by various industry minds from technology companies all around the world. Essentially, Vulkan is a third-party API that allows players to receive a performance boost in select games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At its launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valheim\">Valheim<\/a> was not one of these few select games. Although, with the launch of Patch 0.146.8, Vulkan can now be turned on through Steam.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To enable Vulkan, you just need to follow a few quick and easy steps. The first is going into Steam and right-clicking on Valheim in your games library. This will bring up a menu and from there, click &ldquo;Properties.&rdquo; You should now see the &ldquo;General&rdquo; box of Properties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/_SbfalFsmzpc1H27NBwq7sF2mBNp5qT5M7tQrTsfgAg\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL3Z1bGthbl9hcGlfMi5wbmc\" alt=\"Valheim Vulkan API\" width=\"838\" height=\"597\" loading=\"lazy\">The screen you should see after clicking Properties. (Picture: Valve)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the screen, you&rsquo;ll notice a box with the header &ldquo;Launch Options.&rdquo; Simply click on the box to type in it and write the following phrase: &ldquo;-force-vulkan&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/14MOOraJsbiI2pEk0gHcLu2T_0033CWcR2X6q1mEh-U\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL3Z1bGthbl9hcGlfMy5wbmc\" alt=\"how to turn on Vulcan API Valheim\" width=\"826\" height=\"375\" loading=\"lazy\">The phrase to type in the Launch Options box. (Picture: Valve)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, the Vulkan API is now enabled in your version of Vahleim. While it might not fix all of your FPS troubles, some players have reported seeing a significant boost to their frames.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valheim, even though it&rsquo;s been wildly successful up to this point, is still in an Early Access period.&nbsp; Iron Gate Studios opted for this route&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":13243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valheim","genre-rpg","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Valheim: How To Enable Vulkan Api - GINX TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13242\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Valheim: How To Enable Vulkan Api - 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