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

[Cookie]

I do have 1050 ti and i5, My settings are:
Borderless
Medium, doing low didn't change a thing lol.
- SSAO, Blur a DoF are off.
Running at 2k, with shaky 40-50 in saturated areas and ~60 in closed spaces.
Also, if it's still horrible - play offline.

[Pisaro]

Originally posted by Bimon Sellamy:

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Get a new card..other peoples setup make 0 difference on the fact that your hardware is outdated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

With a e-GPU Card/Cable whatever its called, it is possible to change youre GPU.

[oChalko]

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

Originally posted by Bimon Sellamy:

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

With a e-GPU Card/Cable whatever its called, it is possible to change youre GPU.

its called a external gpu and you can buy something called a alienware amplifier or something similar to do this

[Raigavin]

Originally posted by Yo:

Also block the game with your firewall

Why block the game with firewall, the OP isn't playing a pirated version of the game like others without a purchase on the forum.

[butchy]

1650 ti user here. Most of my settings are maximum with a few exceptions of medium and I'm getting smooth fps for most of the time except for few chains of drops depending on the landscape here and there.

The only optimizations I did were the the most normal suggested ones and making sure no background apps are running.

Considering my graphics card and my ram (8gb) with the quality of the look in the game (check out my screen shots) , the performance I'm getting is more then I could ask for.

[yarko]

How many GB is your 1050 TI, 4GB or 2GB? If it's 4GB I have pretty much the same specs in my laptop aside from an SSD Instead of HDD.

In open world I get around 45 fps and in dungeons around 55-60 fps, so I would think maybe your GPU came underclocked by default when you purshased your laptop, or there are some options you can play with in the Nvidia control panel, or as others have said the power plan of your laptop is limiting you in some way.

[Razorlight Entertainment]

Good evening, Bimon,

Nice to meet another gaming laptop player. I am using an Azom gaming laptop myself, with a Skylake processor, 64GB RAM (32GB shared with the video card by default), and a 6GB Nvidia GTX 970M. I love this 3D card. It's a powerhouse for its time and very reliable.

I run Elden Ring with 32 to 45 FPS, depending on where I am in-game and I made some screenshots to show you the settings I use.

Before I drop the links here, I wanted to ask if you set your Power Plan to High Performance. I always check that from time to time, because I had a weird incident where the power plan changed to Balanced all by itself (I assume another software did it, but whatever). Please check that on your laptop.

Here're the links:
1. https://pasteboard.co/vHnUOKbKocWD.png - 32 FPS screenie.
2. https://pasteboard.co/Hxh8LEHIRfR3.png - NVidia Control Panel - 1.
3. https://pasteboard.co/njYxMFPlPNHG.png - NVidia Control Panel - 2.
4. https://pasteboard.co/5toMMJs1BdgM.png - Elden Ring settings

I have to turn of Anti-Aliasing each time I run the game, even though I disabled it in the local config file. I can improve this further by reducing Volumetrics, but the game runs quite well for me and I don't get stuttering or anything weird, now.

I DO have the occasional invisible Torrent and enemy, but that happens only when I have other live streams and videos running in the background. I live stream with this setup, too and the performance doesn't degrade. I hope this helps you in some way.

[butchy]

Originally posted by Razorlight Entertainment:

I have to turn of Anti-Aliasing each time I run the game

How do i do this? And would it disable steam achievements?

[Razorlight Entertainment]

Originally posted by Butchy:

Originally posted by Razorlight Entertainment:

I have to turn of Anti-Aliasing each time I run the game

How do i do this? And would it disable steam achievements?

It hasn't disabled Steam achievements for me. I edited the config file in the Elden Ring folder in AppData. You have to go into your Users directory to find it. I inserted DISABLE (tried OFF, too) in the Anti Aliasing field. It worked once, stayed working, and then reverted to High another time in-game, even though the file says OFF / DISABLE. *Shrugs* I just disable it in-game each time I log in, now.

[A. Belinato]

Alright so, quick update on things, I can run the game in medium settings at 40 to 60 fps (very rarely 60, but still 50-55).

After hours and hours of gathering online material thanks to all of the suggestions you gave me hardware-wise, such as to check the benchmarks of the mobile version of the GTX 1050, checking where the bottleneck was, the usage of CPU vs the usage of GPU, etc., I decided to open the laptop (I was checking on which hard drive could eventually replace mine), dusted it off, close it back up, and apply the fixes you suggested.

First of all, I lowered the game resolution to 1600x900. Everything in the graphics settings was already turned to "Low" (or "Off" where possible, especially Motion blur, depth of field and SSAO).

Then, I went and played around with the NVIDIA Control Panel, applying the fixes suggested by StarscourgeBandit:

Originally posted by 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 by Pumpernikkeli:

Originally posted by 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.

I switched off background apps as well (System > Privacy > Background apps) and made sure my battery power plan was set to "Best performance". I edited the "best performance" setting on NVIDIA GeForce Experience as well. I used an integrated software called NitroSense to switch the power plan of CPU and GPU fans to the best performance as well (although I think this did very little to nothing).

I don't remember doing anything else.

Now, here's the interesting part... The fixes you all suggested worked just perfectly, the game started running in a gap of 40 fps to 60 (60 fps in small coverted areas and dungeons/close spaces). However, the graphics quality was butchered, and I thought to myself that I would rather play a slideshow game than the open-world version of TBOI. Hence, I restored the NVIDIA Control Panel settings back to default and switched the resolution back to 1920x1080. I restarted my laptop after all of this fidgeting, and was ready to play the PowerPoint version of Elden Ring. To my surprise, not only did the game stay at the same fps gap it had with all of the fixes, I managed to switch mostly everything to "Medium" (leaving motion blur etc. etc. on "Off"), and to my surprise, the game is more stable than ever.

I am not good with hardware, so I have no frigging clue what happened here, but it must be one of these settings that helped me.
I really thank you all for all of your prompts, and hope that this thread may be useful to everybody else having my same issues.

Have a great day!

[Pisaro]

Originally posted by spaghetti:

I run it on 720p and get 55-60 fps in most areas.

Wtf, 720p gaming 🤮🤮

[Yo]

Originally posted by Razorlight Entertainment:

Originally posted by Butchy:

How do i do this? And would it disable steam achievements?

It hasn't disabled Steam achievements for me. I edited the config file in the Elden Ring folder in AppData. You have to go into your Users directory to find it. I inserted DISABLE (tried OFF, too) in the Anti Aliasing field. It worked once, stayed working, and then reverted to High another time in-game, even though the file says OFF / DISABLE. *Shrugs* I just disable it in-game each time I log in, now.

Try making the config file read-only. But be careful, maybe the game needs to write to it. But if u don't change settings, it might not need to. But i have no tried.

[Yo]

Originally posted by Bimon Sellamy:

Alright so, quick update on things, I can run the game in medium settings at 40 to 60 fps (very rarely 60, but still 50-55).

After hours and hours of gathering online material thanks to all of the suggestions you gave me hardware-wise, such as to check the benchmarks of the mobile version of the GTX 1050, checking where the bottleneck was, the usage of CPU vs the usage of GPU, etc., I decided to open the laptop (I was checking on which hard drive could eventually replace mine), dusted it off, close it back up, and apply the fixes you suggested.

First of all, I lowered the game resolution to 1600x900. Everything in the graphics settings was already turned to "Low" (or "Off" where possible, especially Motion blur, depth of field and SSAO).

Then, I went and played around with the NVIDIA Control Panel, applying the fixes suggested by StarscourgeBandit:

Originally posted by 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 by Pumpernikkeli:

Originally posted by 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.

I switched off background apps as well (System > Privacy > Background apps) and made sure my battery power plan was set to "Best performance". I edited the "best performance" setting on NVIDIA GeForce Experience as well. I used an integrated software called NitroSense to switch the power plan of CPU and GPU fans to the best performance as well (although I think this did very little to nothing).

I don't remember doing anything else.

Now, here's the interesting part... The fixes you all suggested worked just perfectly, the game started running in a gap of 40 fps to 60 (60 fps in small coverted areas and dungeons/close spaces). However, the graphics quality was butchered, and I thought to myself that I would rather play a slideshow game than the open-world version of TBOI. Hence, I restored the NVIDIA Control Panel settings back to default and switched the resolution back to 1920x1080. I restarted my laptop after all of this fidgeting, and was ready to play the PowerPoint version of Elden Ring. To my surprise, not only did the game stay at the same fps gap it had with all of the fixes, I managed to switch mostly everything to "Medium" (leaving motion blur etc. etc. on "Off"), and to my surprise, the game is more stable than ever.

I am not good with hardware, so I have no frigging clue what happened here, but it must be one of these settings that helped me.
I really thank you all for all of your prompts, and hope that this thread may be useful to everybody else having my same issues.

Have a great day!

Grats. But, if ure gonna play on 1600 * 900, make it windowed (what i suggested). Dont play fullscreen on 1600 * 900 (or lower than 1920 * 1080), that will just make it blurrier, whereas smaller window not only retains the 1080p resolution, but also has more dpi (dots per inch), because the window is smaller, making it look even better.

[Pad.Trick]

Originally posted by Raigavin:

Originally posted by 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/

Desktop: Ryzen 3600, 16GB, 1070Ti 8GB, 1TB NVMe
Laptop: i7-7700HQ, 24GB, 1060 6GB, 1TB NVMe

Proper Benchmark no. Testing yes. I can play the game OK, minor fps drops in open areas from time 2 time, but nothing serious. if i play without EAC, the drops are gone.
Settings are 1080p, high on desktop, mid on laptop.

my girlfriend has a nearly 1:1 desktop as mine, but an older AMD RX470 8GB, she has no fps drops, but random crashes while playing with EAC. without EAC no crashes, even after 12h.

Even my network gets flooded with traffic from EAC during init.
to that amount, that my audio steam (voicemeter vban audio stream over 1GB LAN) gets disturbed.

just to clarify that, i dont think EAC is useless. but how from software implemented it is just awfull. i have many games with EAC but none of them, not even some cheap F2P Games made such problems.

reminds me a bit of StarForce DRM back in the early 2000 ^^

[Pad.Trick]

Originally posted by Razorlight Entertainment:

Good evening, Bimon,

Nice to meet another gaming laptop player. I am using an Azom gaming laptop myself, with a Skylake processor, 64GB RAM (32GB shared with the video card by default), and a 6GB Nvidia GTX 970M. I love this 3D card. It's a powerhouse for its time and very reliable.

I run Elden Ring with 32 to 45 FPS, depending on where I am in-game and I made some screenshots to show you the settings I use.

Before I drop the links here, I wanted to ask if you set your Power Plan to High Performance. I always check that from time to time, because I had a weird incident where the power plan changed to Balanced all by itself (I assume another software did it, but whatever). Please check that on your laptop.

Here're the links:
1. https://pasteboard.co/vHnUOKbKocWD.png - 32 FPS screenie.
2. https://pasteboard.co/Hxh8LEHIRfR3.png - NVidia Control Panel - 1.
3. https://pasteboard.co/njYxMFPlPNHG.png - NVidia Control Panel - 2.
4. https://pasteboard.co/5toMMJs1BdgM.png - Elden Ring settings

I have to turn of Anti-Aliasing each time I run the game, even though I disabled it in the local config file. I can improve this further by reducing Volumetrics, but the game runs quite well for me and I don't get stuttering or anything weird, now.

I DO have the occasional invisible Torrent and enemy, but that happens only when I have other live streams and videos running in the background. I live stream with this setup, too and the performance doesn't degrade. I hope this helps you in some way.

u just need to check if windows made some updates. very often windows changes different settings back to default. like default browser etc.