Optimization with a GTX 1050 Ti

[A. Belinato]

Hello world,

As the title suggests, I've been trying to figure out what is the best way to run Elden Ring as smooth as it can. I'm running everything on "Low" (or lower where it can be applied). No setting is on "Medium" or higher qualities.
First and foremost, huge disadvantage for me, I'm playing from a gaming laptop, although there are no temperature issues. Funny enough, the laptop gets hotter when I run Tekken 7 rather than when I run ER. No, you are not allowed to gaming-laptop-GTX-1050 Ti-shame me (jk you are). Other specs are: Intel CORE i7-8750H, RAM 16 GB, hard disk is HDD (let me know whether you need more details on this).

I do not expect to run the game in 4K res and 120 fps, but as for now, it looks like a slideshow. Now, yes, I am exaggerating, but people on the web and friends of mine can run the game with a GTX 1050 Ti and an average fps between 30 and 45, mine doesn't even get up to 30.
The game is still somewhat playable (and I am hardcore, these issues won't stop me from playing it), but sometimes Torrent and the enemies become invisible, which can be a huge bummer.
The only things I've done are:
- upgrading the GPU drivers to the latest version;
- downgrading every graphics setting (everything is on low settings right now).

Any suggestions on what can I do or where should I look?
Thank you very much for your help and please let me know whether you need more information.

EDIT: Check the latest comments! Around #50 or so, there should be an interesting discussion about EAC which might help your cause

[Pumpernikkeli]

You could try image scaling in nvidia experience settings. Didn't even know they added that until very recently. It's no DLSS but in my experience also doesn't completely butcher image quality.

[Linyos Torvoltos]

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

I'm inclined to think that you're right, mainly because it seems very hard to me that people with the same GPU and same (or even worse) hardware specs than mine, do not run the game as I run it.

Yeah, that's my theory at least, judging from what I've seen on the forums. The only thing I really know for sure is that the main stuttering issue that's been plaguing people the most is a technical issue. Valve mentioned it somewhere when they spoke about how they got the game fixed for the SteamDeck/Linux. It's something to do with shader caching.

Using linux myself I can confirm there's no suttering like there is on windows.

[A. Belinato]

Автор сообщения: † Mr. Anderson †

Why are you pretending to run the game at high frames with unsupported gpu?

Why are you pretending to have read what's in the original discussion?
Hold yourself from pouring salt over my genuine curiosity if you don't even take your time to read 10 lines properly.

[The Reality Paradox]

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

Автор сообщения: † Mr. Anderson †

Why are you pretending to run the game at high frames with unsupported gpu?

Why are you pretending to have read what's in the original discussion?
Hold yourself from pouring salt over my genuine curiosity if you don't even take your time to read.

You can not do much, especially with a laptop, the only thing I can advise you is to set a high energy profile and try to look for some mod that reduces the visual distance, obviously you can not play online, but I had been in you I would have waited for a better future and I would have enjoyed the game to its full potential rather than playing it now with a hardware that does not even reach the minimum requirements causing only fluidity problems

[A. Belinato]

Автор сообщения: John Linux

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

I'm inclined to think that you're right, mainly because it seems very hard to me that people with the same GPU and same (or even worse) hardware specs than mine, do not run the game as I run it.

Yeah, that's my theory at least, judging from what I've seen on the forums. The only thing I really know for sure is that the main stuttering issue that's been plaguing people the most is a technical issue. Valve mentioned it somewhere when they spoke about how they got the game fixed for the SteamDeck/Linux. It's something to do with shader caching.

Using linux myself I can confirm there's no suttering like there is on windows.

Yeah no but stuttering aside, it really strikes me as odd that I can't run it over 30 fps. I get that I do not have the best hardware for the game, but less than 30 fps is just frustrating. At least, now I know that a lot of people like me have different problems with different (and more powerful) setups

[Sgt. Flaw]

Get a new card..other peoples setup make 0 difference on the fact that your hardware is outdated

[Linyos Torvoltos]

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

Автор сообщения: John Linux

Yeah, that's my theory at least, judging from what I've seen on the forums. The only thing I really know for sure is that the main stuttering issue that's been plaguing people the most is a technical issue. Valve mentioned it somewhere when they spoke about how they got the game fixed for the SteamDeck/Linux. It's something to do with shader caching.

Using linux myself I can confirm there's no suttering like there is on windows.

Yeah no but stuttering aside, it really strikes me as odd that I can't run it over 30 fps. I get that I do not have the best hardware for the game, but less than 30 fps is just frustrating. At least, now I know that a lot of people like me have different problems with different (and more powerful) setups

Have you tried dropping the game's resolution? That accounts for a lot if you're being GPU bound.

[A. Belinato]

Автор сообщения: † Mr. Anderson †

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

Why are you pretending to have read what's in the original discussion?
Hold yourself from pouring salt over my genuine curiosity if you don't even take your time to read.

You can not do much, especially with a laptop, the only thing I can advise you is to set a high energy profile and try to look for some mod that reduces the visual distance, obviously you can not play online, but I had been in you I would have waited for a better future and I would have enjoyed the game to its full potential rather than playing it now with a hardware that does not even reach the minimum requirements causing only fluidity problems

Thanks for your comment, I will definitely try to look into some mods to "lighten up" the game graphics.

I don't know why you're trying to make a strong point over the fact that I'm stressing my laptop.
However, if it makes you feel better to know this, the laptop is not the main device I was planning to play Elden Ring on. Since I have it, it only comes natural to me to understand whether I can run it better than this or not.

[A. Belinato]

Автор сообщения: Masterflaw

Get a new card..other peoples setup make 0 difference on the fact that your hardware is outdated

Were it possible to change the GPU on a laptop, this thread would never have existed

[Hamshank cat]

if you have nvidia control panel by default, you can limit frame rate to 30, set power management to prefer maximum preformance and put virtual pre-rendered frames to use 3d application setting. I've been playing like this with high settings and I have a 1650 which isn't too far off from a 1050 but graphics might be a little lower for you. Maybe setting texture quality to performance and disabling v-sync would help for your game too

[Seegaren]

I feel you. The only way i can get it to run smooth, is offline with fps unlocker.
I've literally tried all things i could find around the internet, in hope i could play online at some point.
I did all the nvidia settings from guides. Full-screen optimization (Application) Unlimited shader cache. 59 FPS lock in Both nvidia and Rivatuner(which helped a littlebit). Set EAC core-affinity to 1 core, changed settings ingame for maximum optimization. Even if i go below my ress: 1920x1080 it doesn't give ANY FPS BOOST. I still stutter and get unplayable fps drops.
But once offline with the third-party program, everything is fine.. It leads me to think it's 100% with EAC the problem lies.. If anyone have more suggestions i would be happy.

[Raigavin]

Автор сообщения: PHQ

I feel you. The only way i can get it to run smooth, is offline with fps unlocker.

This is something very curious, no one in the community seems to do a proper benchmark with and without EAC. But they all claim without EAC increase performance.

I even suggested someone to post the differences by using CapFrameX, but no one seems to care. https://www.capframex.com/

[A. Belinato]

Автор сообщения: Pumpernikkeli

You could try image scaling in nvidia experience settings. Didn't even know they added that until very recently. It's no DLSS but in my experience also doesn't completely butcher image quality.

Will certainly give this a try.

Автор сообщения: Starscourge Bandit

if you have nvidia control panel by default, you can limit frame rate to 30, set power management to prefer maximum preformance and put virtual pre-rendered frames to use 3d application setting. I've been playing like this with high settings and I have a 1650 which isn't too far off from a 1050 but graphics might be a little lower for you. Maybe setting texture quality to performance and disabling v-sync would help for your game too

And this as well. I will get back to you with the results.

Автор сообщения: Raigavin

Автор сообщения: PHQ

I feel you. The only way i can get it to run smooth, is offline with fps unlocker.

This is something very curious, no one in the community seems to do a proper benchmark with and without EAC. But they all claim without EAC increase performance.

I even suggested someone to post the differences by using CapFrameX, but no one seems to care. https://www.capframex.com/

As for this... To be fair, a friend of mine who got Elden Ring managed to sneak around the EAC. He has a GTX 1050 Ti on a laptop as well and says that low performance drops were clearly visible on my laptop, but not on his.

[oChalko]

Автор сообщения: Bimon Sellamy

Автор сообщения: Masterflaw

Get a new card..other peoples setup make 0 difference on the fact that your hardware is outdated

Were it possible to change the GPU on a laptop, this thread would never have existed

You could possibly run a external gpu, but thats fairly expensive and the only worth purchase is the alienware amplifier and whatever gpu of your choosing.

honestly youd be better off getting a ps5 and buying elden ring there as it runs much better on console anyways

[Yo]

First, play in offline mode, turn off overlay, delete all EAC ♥♥♥♥, disable gamebar and fullscreen optimizations, overclock ur gpu and undervolt, same for cpu, put fans at 100% and make sure they're not throttling and getting warm enough to reduce ur core frequency

2nd, a laptop version of a gpu is weaker than the equivalent desktop version

Make sure to optimize ur laptop, quit all other programs, exit background services etc.

Switch to fullscreen mode, not borderless, this should help

Finally, if nothing helps, try playing windowed, 1600*900 or 1440*900 . Ive played lots of games this way like farming in diablo 3 while watching stream and whatever, its really not bad at all, ofc on laptop screen that is smaller (17 inches vs 23) it really does get quite small in terms of real size, but oh well, such is the life of laptop people

Also, if ur gpu is a 1050ti mobile, ur cpu is also prob bad, cheap laptops' cpus are notoriously bad, so that doesnt help, and no ssd? Everytime i played an open world game like fallout 76 on my old 7200 rpm hdd it would lag hard, so buy a cheap 256gb ssd, kingston a400 is a good budget choice, won't regret it

Oh also, use high performance power plan from control panel and set in nvidia control panel gpu mode to "prefer maximum performance"

Im sure if u do all that ur fps will increase by a decent amount

Also block the game with your firewall