Stutters and poor performance, is there any way to fix it?

[tcassat]

Damn, I came back to the game after a long time, and I expected performance to be better, but it's exactly the same nightmare as before.

The frame pacing is inconsistent, there are frames drops and stutters all the time, for no apparent reason. Is there a solution for this or have people resigned themselves to the fact that the game is poorly programmed and no longer care?

Reducing the graphics quality doesn't make any difference, I get exactly the same problems even when I set all graphics to LOW, which my computer should be more than capable of dealing with.

Note: the game is installed on SSD, on an i910900/RTX3070 running on Windows, at 1440p and 60fps.

Thanks.

[Silverlight]

Try playing it offline with an uncapped FPS.

You'll see.

[Sparhawk 59]

Turn off raytracing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzsHYeIpFP4
https://kosgames.com/elden-ring-performance-boost-and-stability-guide-17659/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9McWiB9ij4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pckLWJeCQyc

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Try moving the game to an HDD.

[Laxusthunder]

Yea same. Apparently i got pretty bad fpa drops to low 20. I will experiment with mods later. Funny thing i wanted to test my new used gpu with this game too bad then it's not a good candidate for testing hahah

Oh and btw people in forums like reddit etc essentially have mixed tips some said RT Off some said RT On fixed their game

[Sonnenbank]

Originally posted by Laxusthunder:

Yea same. Apparently i got pretty bad fpa drops to low 20. I will experiment with mods later. Funny thing i wanted to test my new used gpu with this game too bad then it's not a good candidate for testing hahah

Oh and btw people in forums like reddit etc essentially have mixed tips some said RT Off some said RT On fixed their game

RT on does never fix your game lol.....
a 3070 is the same speed as my 2080TI but with less ram.....

ray tracing definitely is not meant for a 3070

[nfinite.recursion]

Turn off RT. It harms performance in every single game no matter what your hardware is. In Elden Ring specifically, the graphical difference between RT on and RT off isn't enough to warrant the performance hit. Only enable it if you have a 3090 or 4090. Even then, I'd recommend leaving it off due to its rather poor implementation in Elden Ring.

What is your RAM speed OP? Your bottleneck is obviously NOT your GPU unless you insist on playing with RT on. Your CPU is more than adequate unless it's thermal throttling. Default RAM speed on Intel 10th Gen CPUs is lower than what is acceptable for Elden Ring. If your CPU, motherboard, and RAM support XMP then enable it in the BIOS. Hopefully it has a profile for 3000MT/s or faster. Additionally, 2 RAM sticks configured for dual channel operation is also recommended.

[Sonnenbank]

you need a Z-mainboard to enable ram speeds above 2933mhz on an i9 of 10th gen

[tcassat]

Thanks for all the advice, I'm going to try everything written here, and also the things said in the videos.
For clarification, I have RT off, but even RT at medium or worse, it doesn't change anything in performance. Basically if I play on High/RT Medium or Low/RT off, the performance of the game is exactly the same.
My RAM speed is only 2666MHZ, so maybe that explains the problem.

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by tcassat:

Thanks for all the advice, I'm going to try everything written here, and also the things said in the videos.
For clarification, I have RT off, but even RT at medium or worse, it doesn't change anything in performance. Basically if I play on High/RT Medium or Low/RT off, the performance of the game is exactly the same.
My RAM speed is only 2666MHZ, so maybe that explains the problem.

Try my thing last, moving the entire game is the longest and least likely fix. Also backup your save before moving your game. Save is in %appdata%

[Yard-Dog®]

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Try moving the game to an HDD.

I can't imagine that that would help performance. An SSD or nVMe is best.

[dark-breed]

to run this game with stable FPS you need dual channel RAM (two modules installed in the right slots) and minimum 3000 MHz RAM.

for stutters there are some possible causes too:

-missing bios update
-MDARE could cause a problems
-faulty driver installations
-background apps can interupt the workload flow

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Try moving the game to an HDD.

I can't imagine that that would help performance. An SSD or nVMe is best.

Not if the SSD has issues with it.

[Yard-Dog®]

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

I can't imagine that that would help performance. An SSD or nVMe is best.

Not if the SSD has issues with it.

But that goes without saying for any hardware, no?

[Rando the Crit Clown]

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Not if the SSD has issues with it.

But that goes without saying for any hardware, no?

You can say that literally any solutions to fix performance issues "go without saying", but they don't. Nobody ever knows their drives are dying until someone tells them.

[Yard-Dog®]

Originally posted by Rando the Crit Clown:

Originally posted by Yard-Dog®:

But that goes without saying for any hardware, no?

You can say that literally any solutions to fix performance issues "go without saying", but they don't. Nobody ever knows their drives are dying until someone tells them.

I'm not really saying otherwise, so I stand just as informed as I was before you just tried to enlighten me. I'm just saying that moving the install from an SSD to an HDD will likely not solve the performance issues. If you're worried about the SSD having issues, it would then be better to still move the install files to another SSD...not an HDD (because that would be a boondoggle).

It was your 'over-specificness' on what the problem could be that was head-scratchingly premature since there's been no evidence mentioned that points to that as the problem at all.

And no...people can know quite preemptively that their drives are soon to die without someone telling them, because the signs of its impending bucket-kicking reveal themselves quite convincingly through all kinds of processes rather than just 'how Elden Ring performs.'