Frame Rate Issues - possibly fixed

[martymcfly3004]

My setup:

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-12100F 3.30 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

I'm getting horrific stuttering issues when playing the game, i've tried the following:

1 Setting Cache memory to unlimited
2 Setting for performance mode
3 Turning off thread optimisation
4 Turning the frame rate to 58
5 Uninstalling the XBOX app
6 Setting the graphics to the lowest setting
7 Setting to resolution to 720

Even with all of the above i'm getting frame rate drops - quite often whilst in fights making it very hard to control.

Anyone else managed to resolve this issue with any others steps i haven't already listed?

I also noticed that the game seems to stutter a lot more when using a controller. I have tried the following options

1. Xbox wireless
2 Xbox wired
3 PS4 wireless
4 PS4 wired

They all seem to present issues when playing.

I tried to get a refund but all the above steps took way over the 2 hours that you need to be under to get your money back so i'm coming here out of desperation. I know i probably won't be able to fix it but any suggestions would be gratefully received

[dark-breed]

Try to deactivate the Microsoft device association root enumerator in device manager/Software device.

Also at what frequency is your RAM running ?

Check temperatures if they reach high values it could be related to a slow Down of your cpu.

[Lidi_Melo]

I have problems with fps drops. Indoors I try 55/60 fps. But outdoors it drops to 40/50

I tried several things but nothing worked. I don't have very recent hardware, but I have no problem running any other games. No fps drops.

Anyway, unfortunately the game is not very well optimized for older hardware. We just to wait for some patch and hope to fix this problem

[NoSignal-K]

Go into the Nvidia control panel (or whatever it’s called) and go where you can adjust specific applications. Chose eldenring.exe and force v-sync on.

Sound trivial but solved so many problems for me. Both for AMD cards and Nvidia Cards.

[martymcfly3004]

Oprindeligt skrevet af dark-breed:

Try to deactivate the Microsoft device association root enumerator in device manager/Software device.

Also at what frequency is your RAM running ?

Check temperatures if they reach high values it could be related to a slow Down of your cpu.

The RAM is Corsair 3200 MHz that should be ok shouldn't it?

I'd turned off the Nvidia overlay to see if that helps but i will put it back on again and I will disable that service as well.

Just waiting for it to redownload as i deleted the game files as well to see if that fixes it.

[martymcfly3004]

Oprindeligt skrevet af NoSignal-K:

Go into the Nvidia control panel (or whatever it’s called) and go where you can adjust specific applications. Chose eldenring.exe and force v-sync on.

Sound trivial but solved so many problems for me. Both for AMD cards and Nvidia Cards.

cheers will give this a go as well

[dark-breed]

Oprindeligt skrevet af iain.martland:

Oprindeligt skrevet af dark-breed:

Try to deactivate the Microsoft device association root enumerator in device manager/Software device.

Also at what frequency is your RAM running ?

Check temperatures if they reach high values it could be related to a slow Down of your cpu.

The RAM is Corsair 3200 MHz that should be ok shouldn't it?

I'd turned off the Nvidia overlay to see if that helps but i will put it back on again and I will disable that service as well.

Just waiting for it to redownload as i deleted the game files as well to see if that fixes it.

3200 should be ok with this Hardware.

[Rama]

Yeah... there's no way you will achieve stable 60fps with that hardware no matter what settings you're using, the game is simply awfully optimized for how it looks.

I know there's a mod in nexus that allows you to disable tree animations and reduce draw distance to increase pwrformance, you should try it.

[martymcfly3004]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rama:

Yeah... there's no way you will achieve stable 60fps with that hardware no matter what settings you're using, the game is simply awfully optimized for how it looks.

I know there's a mod in nexus that allows you to disable tree animations and reduce draw distance to increase pwrformance, you should try it.

I was worried that it was simply a case of my machine not being powerful enough - but it runs quite well, even on 1080, when i used keyboard and mouse. The minute I start a controller the issues start again.

[dark-breed]

Oprindeligt skrevet af iain.martland:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rama:

Yeah... there's no way you will achieve stable 60fps with that hardware no matter what settings you're using, the game is simply awfully optimized for how it looks.

I know there's a mod in nexus that allows you to disable tree animations and reduce draw distance to increase pwrformance, you should try it.

I was worried that it was simply a case of my machine not being powerful enough - but it runs quite well, even on 1080, when i used keyboard and mouse. The minute I start a controller the issues start again.

This points to a polling mechanism like the Microsoft device association root enumerator, sometimes it can also be caused by the USB Hub driver itself, but in this case there is not much you can do, if the USB hub is using a polling Interval to check for connected Hardware the only thing you can try is to deactivate the powersaving for USB.

[Rama]

Oprindeligt skrevet af iain.martland:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rama:

Yeah... there's no way you will achieve stable 60fps with that hardware no matter what settings you're using, the game is simply awfully optimized for how it looks.

I know there's a mod in nexus that allows you to disable tree animations and reduce draw distance to increase pwrformance, you should try it.

I was worried that it was simply a case of my machine not being powerful enough - but it runs quite well, even on 1080, when i used keyboard and mouse. The minute I start a controller the issues start again.

Never encountered such issue but I know some people had problems getting their controllers working properly with this game. If you're using bluetooth, try cable and configure the cotroller through steam. Also, try disabling easy anti cheat, that will reduce the workload on the cpu and give you a bit more performance.

[Bernography]

Try and disabling the "Device Association Service" within services. make sure you right click on this particular service and go to properties then choose "Disable" for startup type.

[martymcfly3004]

Thanks everyone for their suggestions, none of them fixed the issue but definitely worth trying as a quick google showed they had fixed similar issues for other people.

I don't want to jinx it but I may have resolved the issue - i've had about 20 minutes of stutter free gameplay (the odd frame rate drop but as a souls fan i'm more than used to that).

I tried to update the firmware on my xbox pad and realised the microsoft store was broken - this led me to perform a scan of windows using dsim which then failed to run and found errors. So I reinstalled windows to fix the store issue which in turn meant i could install the xbox accessories app to update my pad.

Not sure if it was windows or the pad but the fact that there was an issue with the OS installation leads me to believe that was the issue.

Anyway thanks again to everyone.

[Sparhawk 59]

also i run a GTX 1650 in Geforce experience turn off whisper mode

[Northstrider]

your CPU is a joke. That's your problem. The RAM is sufficient and the GPU is as well. So there is no fixing that unless you take some money into your hands and upgrade to an i5 at least or if you wanna do it properly. just scrap it alltogether and switch to a Ryzen model since by now, there are fairly beefy last gen CPUs on the market.

[martymcfly3004]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Northstrider:

your CPU is a joke. That's your problem. The RAM is sufficient and the GPU is as well. So there is no fixing that unless you take some money into your hands and upgrade to an i5 at least or if you wanna do it properly. just scrap it alltogether and switch to a Ryzen model since by now, there are fairly beefy last gen CPUs on the market.

I am going to upgrade at some point in the near future, though since i've reinstalled windows its running very smoothly on medium settings and i'm perfectly happy with the the performance for the games i'm playing at the minute.