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SmoothServer
Server-only networking tuning for Valheim dedicated servers: frame rate, ZDO send cadence and budgets, telemetry. Nothing to install on clients.SmoothServer
Server-only networking tuning for Valheim dedicated servers. Drop SmoothServer.dll into the
server's BepInEx/plugins/SmoothServer/ — players install nothing.
Modules (each has its own Enabled toggle)
- Telemetry — periodic fps / frame-time / ZDO-rate log line. No gameplay effect.
- FrameRate — raises the dedicated server's Unity frame cap (
TargetFrameRate, default 0 = leave vanilla's ~30 fps untouched). 60 is a good default on modern hardware: roughly +4pp of one CPU core for half the tick latency. - SendCadence — sends ZDO updates to every connected peer on a fixed interval
(
SendHz, default 20) instead of vanilla's one-peer-per-frame round robin. The win scales with player count. Note: while this is enabled, BetterNetworking's own "Update Rate" setting becomes inert (its Steamworks send-rate tuning is unaffected). - SendBudget — the ZDO send-queue high-water mark / minimum chunk size, exposed as config.
- CreateBudget — objects created per frame, exposed as config (default matches vanilla, i.e. a no-op until raised).
Config: Nosferatu.SmoothServer.cfg in the server's BepInEx/config/.
Dependencies
- BepInExPack_Valheim 5.4.2333
Source & issues
https://github.com/MJensen01/valheim-mods — MIT licensed.
