Game crashing as soon as i kill a boss

[Priest]

whenever i kill a main story boss and collect my rewards my fps drops to zero and my game crashes after a minute or two of being frozen and its every boss fight with the odd gap between 1 fight where it doesn't crash but each playthrough i do is at least 8 crashes and its getting really annoying lmao. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this i have tried the basic stuff like reinstalling to a new drive, verifying files, changing to full screen , turning down graphics and cleaning some drives but nothing seems to work. ANY help would be much appreciated

[nfinite.recursion]

Verify game files -> reboot -> verify again.

The reboot part is important.

Other than that, you can clear out your temp files and clear your shader cache.

[Nuriyokan]

Nope I found the real fix... it's different for everyone. Check your event viewer log as soon as it crashes to see whats going on. If you have AMD then all you have to do is download the latest STABLE version of your drivers and you'll stop the crashing. I had 22.27.00 then updated it to 22.44.00 and now i get no crashes or bluescreens . Could be a driver error . Verify the integrity of the games files , check to see which is the most stable and newest driver for your gpu and install it, and just make sure your PC can actually run Elden Ring.

As long as your PC is powerful enough and you have enough ram... c++ redistributables are installed correctly which I'm sure they are the rest should work fine. The game has issues with a few bugs so its not you all the time . I'm willing to bet you just needed to change the driver like i did.

Go on Reddit and look up the most stable driver that's also the newest for your GPU and install that one instead of the one you have. Try it after that and the game should stop crashing.

[Nuriyokan]

Sorry let me be more specific .
1.) open your event viewer after a crash and click on windows and you'll see a red x with the latest application crash and it will say Elden Ring when you click on it. The event will have an ID. Google that ID as well as any other Errors that came up.

It may say " Driver error timed out " or something like that ... this will tell you that its an issue with a driver . So to fix this you just go to google and search up your own personal graphics card and look up " ( The name of your gpu here ) latest stable drivers Reddit " and filter the search results to this week , or this month. See what people are saying first .

Then you can go on the gpu manufactures site to download drivers . Check the patch notes on the website and each driver will tell you its known issues and what not. Click your gpu settings and figure out what driver you have then search up that same driver and read its patch note's " known issues " that will let you know if it has issues . Either update your driver to a new one if it has less issues , or roll it back to an older one that is more stable.

This should fix the problem .

2.) if this doesn't work then figure out what that Event ID is to narrow down your issue. You might have to reinstall the x86 and x64 Redistributables and reboot your PC after each install.

3.) Check for drive errors on the drive you installed the game too. Ignore the comments about reinstalling the entire game. If you verified the integrity of the cache and the game boots no need for a reinstall unless you just recently edited your registry . If you didn't edit your registry then you don't need to do a fresh install of the game. Many people do that and just waste internet data and end up still having the same problem. Verifying the files for two minutes will do just fine.

This should fix the crashing . If not then it means either Your save game file is corrupted causing a glitch , You have an insufficient amount of ram, a background app is causing too many resources to be used causing the crash , OR.... You had the very rare problem of having constant crashes due to a bugged area in the game around ( spoiler free ) MT. GM fighting RKYD .

People got around the glitch at that point by disabling steam overlay in steams settings then fighting the boss then turning steam overlay back on after beating the boss. Me ? I kept it on and just updated my driver and my issue was solved. Game has issues with AMD drivers sometimes . If you have Nvidia then follow the same steps but do it on Nvidia's website .

[CourtesyFlush09]

The game just can't handle you being so good at it, But if all else fails, verify the integrity of the game files.