Elden Ring is slow then suddenly speeding up

[Counter]

I just got Elden Ring yesterday and as I was playing I realized that around every 4 seconds my Elden Ring character would speed up for around half a second then go back to being slow. I went up to Tree Sentinel as I continued playing, but this weird glitch made the game unplayable. Tree Sentinel would also speed up and slow down just like my character. This didn't allow me to play because most of my roll timings were completely off because of the glitch. I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to fix this, thank you.

[Sparhawk 59]

What's your PC specs and windows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzsHYeIpFP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pckLWJeCQyc

[dark-breed]

first start with your specs, second what windows version you are running. third what background apps are running (third party antivirus, third party security software, tuning tools (even windows GUI tuning tools).

[Sparhawk 59]

Dark breed is our go to It person on forum to help

[Counter]

The processor is 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz, 32gb installed ram, with a 64 bit operating system and x64 based processor. I'm on Windows 10. I don't have any third party antiviruses or security softwares. As far as I know, I don't have any tuning tools either.

[Sparhawk 59]

Originally posted by Counter:

The processor is 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz, 32gb installed ram, with a 64 bit operating system and x64 based processor. I'm on Windows 10. I don't have any third party antiviruses or security softwares. As far as I know, I don't have any tuning tools either.

graphics card? he will ask that

[Counter]

it says Intel(R) UHD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Counter:

The processor is 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz, 32gb installed ram, with a 64 bit operating system and x64 based processor. I'm on Windows 10. I don't have any third party antiviruses or security softwares. As far as I know, I don't have any tuning tools either.

a deeper analysis is needed to determine why your system get this strange behavior.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Counter:

it says Intel(R) UHD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU

at laptops there are a lot of possible causes (heat problems, power settings, mainboard limitations, missing bios updates, manufacturer tools settings).

[Counter]

Okay, I'll look into that part more, thank you so much for the help.

[Sonnenbank]

that effect of slowing down and then speeding up again is common in elden ring when your hardware is too slow.

it could simply be a heat problem that forces your laptop to supply less power to the GPU
and then a 3050 Laptop GPU which isnt fast to begin with becomes really slow

3050 at full power is ~ GTX 1060 destktop which is min req for elden ring.
3050 with less watts and therefore less mhz is significantly slower than a 1060

So my first instinct would be to check the power settings

i once had a bug in MSI afterburner where my 2080TI got limited to 33% power supply
so core clock that usually is 1830mhz got clocked down to 925mhz by MSI afterburner
frames in Lies of P dropped from 124fps to 52fps

now in my case this was a bug.

But laptops very often have this as a feature to prevent overheating