Where in Elden Ring people experience the worst stutters?

[C1REX]

Hi,

At what spot people experience the worst stutters?
Asking as I want to test it out.

[Pickdown]

Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella fight by a sizeable margin.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Pickdown:

Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella fight by a sizeable margin.

Is it any specific attack that causes the worst stutter? Or just in general the the game stutters constantly during the fight?

[Pickdown]

2nd phase lightning attacks cause the most lag i've had in the game to date. also remember i had issues in the 3 sisters for some reason, but that was a one-time occurance. no particular area at the 3 sisters though.

[CazadorDeLobo]

I only notice stutters when playing online with EAC enabled

[Sabaithal]

Used to be limgrave for me, but Leyndell after a recent update is giving me a run for my money on that one. Online or offline as long as EAC is enabled.

Without EAC, nothing.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

I only notice stutters when playing online with EAC enabled

like in pvp or just normal single player while online is active (messages, ghosts, etc?)

[kl250d]

Walking building in mountaintops of the giants that shoots a massive hail of magic blue fireballs at you

[CazadorDeLobo]

Originally posted by C1REX-PL:

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

I only notice stutters when playing online with EAC enabled

like in pvp or just normal single player while online is active (messages, ghosts, etc?)

Just normal play, even within the character creation screen. It's like the kind of hitching and overhead you get from DRM software.

Arguably it's not as bad as some hitching I've seen others experience, but it's still totally noticeable once you turn it off, on, and then back off.

[Don Lobo]

The back end of Caelid, from the building hosting the Beast Clergyman looking south to the rest of Caelid (where the monkey men are).

There are a few other places where I get some stutters, including some of the ones mentioned here, but that area is the only place where I consistently get low FPS (low 40s), regardless of settings (480p at lowest settings gets me maybe 2-4 more fps). It has improved significantly since launch though.

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by kl250d:

Walking building in mountaintops of the giants that shoots a massive hail of magic blue fireballs at you

^This by a country mile.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900711700

[C1REX]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Originally posted by kl250d:

Walking building in mountaintops of the giants that shoots a massive hail of magic blue fireballs at you

^This by a country mile.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900711700

Not exactly a stutter but still an amazing spot with performance issue. I think it's the only one that most (all?) players experience.

[nfinite.recursion]

Feels like a combination of frame drops and microstuttering. Best of both worlds! :)

For something more definitive, go to Roundtable Hold. Jump over the banister to where Mad Tongue Albrect is/was. Go into the side room with the beds and where Cipher Pata is/was. Return to where Mad Tongue was. Along the way, there's a loading stutter EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

I think this is also true if you go past the second imp statue downstairs past Hewg.

[CazadorDeLobo]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Originally posted by kl250d:

Walking building in mountaintops of the giants that shoots a massive hail of magic blue fireballs at you

^This by a country mile.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900711700

Note the memory consumption is overflowing into page file. Also note that the game claims a requirement of 12-16gb of RAM but is clearly hitting 18gb+ in that case. THAT is a compliance failure.

Either the game itself needs the specified RAM and they've ignored the fact that generally 2.5gb of that memory is being used by default Windows OS setups, or, they've had trouble testing the variety of possible hardware configs leading up to the release of the game.

Final note: the min and rec specs for ER came out late, were retracted, and then re-published a bit later. That indicates difficulties.

[C1REX]

Would be nice to see frametime graph here and if there are any spikes.

[CazadorDeLobo]

Originally posted by C1REX-PL:

Would be nice to see frametime graph here and if there are any spikes.

If I were savvy I'd do a benchmark vid with ER showing that, but sadly I'm too basic and don't have a buncha hardware to validate benchmarks with.