Late final evening I famous that Elden Ring’s newest patch, ver. 1.02, solved quite a bit of the stuttering we had been experiencing within the recreation pre-release. Nonetheless, it did not fairly repair all of it, and there have been nonetheless some appreciable framerate drops resulting in stutters throughout gameplay.
Following the sport’s launch, extra gamers have famous the identical factor. The sport even has acquired a mixed review score on Steam, largely as a result of efficiency points. That is regardless of a flurry of excellent or near-perfect Elden Ring review scores from main retailers.
Now solely hours after launch, a weblog submit on the Bandai Namco website acknowledges the efficiency points and asks gamers for “persistence.”
“We’re at present experiencing some points which might be stopping the sport from enjoying correctly below some circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may occasionally trigger and ask in your persistence,” the submit says.
It goes on to listing the primary points which might be being regarded into as a precedence:
- Concerning the issue of the mouse being too delicate within the PC model. We can be sending out a patch for this situation within the close to future.
- Concerning the issue of Straightforward Anti-Cheat failing to launch when the Steam account title is about to 2-byte characters. We’re conscious of the reason for this situation and can be offering a patch within the close to future.
- Concerning the phenomenon of body fee and different performance-related points throughout gameplay. We can be consistently working to enhance the sport in order that it may be performed comfortably on varied PC environments and platforms. For the PC model, updating your graphics card drivers to the most recent model might considerably enhance efficiency.
- Concerning the phenomenon of recreation information that doesn’t save appropriately within the PlayStation 5 model. If the PS5 console is unexpectedly turned off whereas enjoying a recreation or in relaxation mode, saved information will not be saved appropriately. We’re conscious of the reason for this situation and are engaged on a patch to right it, however till the patch is launched, please save your recreation manually by exiting the sport recurrently. Recreation information can be saved appropriately when you give up the sport by opening the system menu utilizing the OPTION button and choosing “Give up Recreation.”
That is a very good notice about updating your graphics card drivers. The dearth of optimised drivers will completely throw your recreation for a loop and solely result in worse efficiency and instability.
I am fairly hopeful the efficiency points could be rectified quickly with a later patch. The ver. 1.02 patch, whereas seemingly not doing sufficient for all gamers, did massively enhance my very own gameplay expertise and lower out loads of the random stuttering I used to be encountering as I used to be enjoying.
The stuttering that also happens could be fairly painful at instances although, as you’ll be able to see above. I’ve already spoken about how the stuttering left me worse for put on after falling down a gap, however when you get hit with dangerous stutters mid-boss it may be the tip of that run and maybe loads of runes, too.
The stuttering would not seem linked to any particular graphics setting in my expertise, both, which does not go away gamers with any choices to repair on the client-side. Both means, it is good to see a swift acknowledgment of the problems dealing with PC gamers, and hopefully future fixes can be simply as speedy.
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