Can I Run Valheim on Windows 11?

As an open-world survival game played from a third-person perspective, Valheim has got much popularity among the gamer. In the last 30 days, it has 27,498.2 average monthly players. As it is becoming more and more popular, some users reported that they can’t play Valheim after they upgrade to Windows 11 and Valheim keeps crashing or freezing in Windows 11. Therefore, users are not sure whether Valheim can run on Windows 11. This article will tell you the answer can I run Valheim on Windows 11 and how to fix Doom crashing or freezing on Windows 11.

About Valheim

Valheim: Valhalla is an action-adventure game developed by Iron Gate AB and published by Coffee Stain Publishing, which was released on Steam on February 2, 2021. The game is inspired by Norse mythology and Viking culture. Players need to create their own characters and start survival and adventure in the game world. The player can choose the gender, skin color, hair and beard shape and color of the character. After confirming the profile, enter the nickname to officially start the game.

“It is a battle-slain warrior, the Valkyries have ferried your soul to Valheim, the tenth Norse world. Besieged by creatures of chaos and ancient enemies of the gods, you are the newest custodian of the primordial purgatory, tasked with slaying Odin’s ancient rivals and bringing order to Valheim.” – Introduced on its official website.

Can I Run Valheim on Windows 11

If you want to play Valheim on Windows 11, please check the system requirements of the game to confirm can you run Valheim on Windows 11 device, before you do any system or hardware modifications.

System Requirements of Valheim

System Requirements	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 7 or later	Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit)
CPU	2.6 GHz Dual Core or similar	i5 3GHz or better
Video card	GeForce GTX 500 series or similar	GeForce GTX 970 series or similar
Vertex shader	5.0	5.1
Pixel Shader	5.0	5.1
RAM	4 GB	8 GB
Free Disk Space	1 GB	1 GB
Dedicated video RAM	512 MB	4096 MB

How to Fix Valheim Crashing on Windows 11?

If your computer didn’t meet the minimum requirements of Valheim, please upgrade to your hardware. While, if your system and hardware meet the requirements of Valheim and it is still not working smoothly, please follow the steps to fix the issues.

Run Valheim as an administrator;
Update Graphics Drivers. You need to go to the manufacturer website to find the drivers corresponding with your specific flavor of Windows version and download the driver manually. Or run device manager on Windows 11 to let the system to detect and update the drivers for you;
Close background running Tasks. Because the unnecessary background running programs will take up your system resources like CPU or Memory usage that literally reduces system performance;
Verify the integrity of your Valheim game files. First Run Steam client > Click LIBRARY > Right-click DOOM and select Properties > Click the LOCAL FILES tab, and then click VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES;
Turn off the third-party antivirus tool or Windows Defender, or add Doom to its white list to allow it to run on Windows 11;
Reinstall the latest DirectX. Install the latest version of DirectX from the official Microsoft website on your PC/Laptop to make sure you have DirectX 11 or above installed to run the Valheim on Windows 11 properly.

Now just wait for the process until it gets completed, and restart your Windows 11.

Although there are some problems resulting in that Valheim can’t work or launch on Windows 11, we try our best to help you to check can you run Valheim on your Windows system and find out the solutions to fix Valheim not working on Windows 11.