GPU and Frame Rate Issue

[poodzdude]

Dear Steam user,

So whenever I play Elden Ring my GPU is constantly maxed out. I have seen this as normal for the 300 hours worth of playtime I've built up, but now I'm not so sure. I have been playing through the convergence mod of the game with friends recently, and I posed this question to them. The players always had the game at 60 fps with max graphics constantly and their GPU is only using up about 20 ish percent. I am using 99-100% of my GPU and am only averaging 15 fps in most areas of the game, However, in other areas, I average 30 fps which I deem as "playable". I have an AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and know that the GPU can give more than 15-30 fps. Another Phenomenon I have come across in this endeavor is the fact that certain characters have a normal frame rate in certain areas while other characters do not. An example of this is that my lightning class character and my black flame character have low frame rates in Godricks Castle, while the other 5 characters that I have run normal 25-30 fps in the area.

I am finally fed up with the low frame rates for seemingly no reason, and I hope you can shed light on this subject for me.

Thank you,

A random player

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by poodzdude:

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

In-game resolution?

Depends on the mods used. For example, if they have a config-file and it is explicitly targeting a certain file-directory, then you may have to change that config, to point to the new directory.
Also depending on the mods used, performance might be affected.

I have moved everything over to my actual computer instead of an external hardrive and it boots fine, but I still have the fps problem. I mean that the game boots and all the mods I had installed still work fine. Also at this point, I never intended to create an argument so I will just leave off the conversation here as at this point I'd rather run on wack fps than sit in an argument that I started yet somehow am clueless as to what's being said.

Thank you to those who tried to offer solutions and advice.

sorry to trouble you,

Poodz

as i told you it is pointless what you done.

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by poodzdude:

sorry to trouble you,
Poodz

I apologize for wasting your attention with my slightly off-topic arguing. My last piece of advice is to try and just lower the resolution further down, to see if you get any improvement whatsover and if you do get to 60FPS at a acceptable res, stick to that resolution and consider a GPU upgrade at some point.

[poodzdude]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

Originally posted by poodzdude:

sorry to trouble you,
Poodz

I apologize for wasting your attention with my slightly off-topic arguing. My last piece of advice is to try and just lower the resolution further down, to see if you get any improvement whatsover and if you do get to 60FPS at a acceptable res, stick to that resolution and consider a GPU upgrade at some point.

at any resolution I have the same frame rates, I will leave it here. Thank you

[TwinChops]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

I have no idea of AMD crap, but in Fromsofts wisdom when they got us Ray Tracing they put it on ON and High automaticly. So you might want to disable that.
(like i said no idea of amd crap so yeah)

Since it got burried from all the "i have a big internet Pen"

[Wimpzilla aka gRAVE]

Originally posted by poodzdude:

Dear Steam user,

So whenever I play Elden Ring my GPU is constantly maxed out. I have seen this as normal for the 300 hours worth of playtime I've built up, but now I'm not so sure. I have been playing through the convergence mod of the game with friends recently, and I posed this question to them. The players always had the game at 60 fps with max graphics constantly and their GPU is only using up about 20 ish percent. I am using 99-100% of my GPU and am only averaging 15 fps in most areas of the game, However, in other areas, I average 30 fps which I deem as "playable". I have an AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and know that the GPU can give more than 15-30 fps. Another Phenomenon I have come across in this endeavor is the fact that certain characters have a normal frame rate in certain areas while other characters do not. An example of this is that my lightning class character and my black flame character have low frame rates in Godricks Castle, while the other 5 characters that I have run normal 25-30 fps in the area.

I am finally fed up with the low frame rates for seemingly no reason, and I hope you can shed light on this subject for me.

Thank you,

A random player

You need first try to understand some basic facts about how a computers work.

The fast forward explanation to your first question is roughly 2 words: compute horsepower.
If you set your frame rate locked at 60fps, you need a defined amount of compute power (cpu+gpu), to be able to keep 60fps on the screen.
If you compute power (gpu+cpu) is just enough to keep 60fps mark, the components will be used to their max capacity, i.e 100%.
Now, take a computer that have 5 times your compute power (cpu+gpu); to be able to produce the same 60fps on screen, in the same place of the map, it will need only 1/5 of the total compute power available, which is around 20% usage.

This is a rough explanation to picture how it works.
I play ER uncapped, but if i play with a 60fps cap, my gpu utilization drops as low as 20/40%, from the usual 80/99% when playing uncapped fps.


Now, even when going for cheap and low-end parts, there are always ways to maximize performances, but it cost time and a bit of knowledge.

First, tune at best the hardware, is my cpu running at his max clock, same goes for the memory and the gpu?
Are the components T° in check, do the motherboard VRM power delivery overheat, especially on these A320 motherboards, shipped without VRM heat-sink.

Second, is the OS, software running in the background clean?
If the computer compute power is already used for something else than gaming, this compute power is lost.
Do the OS is clean of bloatware, are the drivers are installed properly, is there software that uses resources in the background?
There are a lot of tools like HWInfo, Throttlestop, DDU, GPU-Z, Ryzen Master, etc, that help monitoring and tuning the system.

Third, unfortunately, ER is a demanding game, the best performances are obtainable only when playing full offline with the EAC disabled.
So it is important to spend some time benching the game graphic settings, resolutions, to find what is really limiting the frame rate while gaming.



So yeah, pretending the best performances, from low end systems, is completely possible, but requires some mandatory tinkering.
Don't expect going cheap and getting the best, without before investing some time and research into.