New pc slow motion/ frame drops

[Cootswig]

I bought a new pc and elden ring plays very bad, even if I turn all the settings down to low the frames drop frequently down to 30 and the game moves in a choppy slow motion.

Raytracing is turned off.
Playing in 2k

I came from an AMD pc and never had these problems.

I assume it's just a nvidia setting or something but I have no idea what or where.

While I was writing this, elden ring crashed. Lol

Some specs that might matter

Windows 10
13600kf
4070 super
32gb ram 3200

Thanks for the help

[nfinite.recursion]

E-cores...

Edit: Also sad to say that you need to upgrade to Windows 11 if you're going to use that CPU.

[Cootswig]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

E-cores...

Edit: Also sad to say that you need to upgrade to Windows 11 if you're going to use that CPU.

E cores? Pretend I'm a baby please :D

I was going to update to windows 11 later, just curious why would that matter for the cpu?

[Cootswig]

I Googled e cores but I see multiple different things about them.

What do I do exactly? Do I really have to go in bios? I'm not much of a computer expert.

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by Cootswig:

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

E-cores...

Edit: Also sad to say that you need to upgrade to Windows 11 if you're going to use that CPU.

E cores? Pretend I'm a baby please :D

I was going to update to windows 11 later, just curious why would that matter for the cpu?

Your CPU has 2 types of cores, split among performance (P) cores and efficiency (E) cores. The performance cores are quite frankly awesome. The efficiency cores are hot garbage. If a multithreaded game like Elden Ring runs across both these types of cores, you get stuttering because the E-cores are a performance bottleneck.

Additionally, Windows 10 and older versions have no way of differentiating these 2 core types from one another, so it just sticks threads on whichever available cores it feels like. Windows 11, however, will detect when a game is running and only place its threads on the P-cores. Microsoft chose not to backport this feature to Windows 10, so Windows 11 is effectively a mandatory requirement to properly use Intel 12th gen and newer CPUs.

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by Cootswig:

I Googled e cores but I see multiple different things about them.

What do I do exactly? Do I really have to go in bios? I'm not much of a computer expert.

Just go into BIOS and look for a CPU or performance section. You may have to go into "Advanced Options" as a lot of modern BIOSes default to a "Basic" mode with some common options.

Look for an option mentioning E-cores and disable them. ONLY CHANGE THIS OPTION. Then go to exit and choose to save your changes. Your PC should reboot.

[Cootswig]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Originally posted by Cootswig:

I Googled e cores but I see multiple different things about them.

What do I do exactly? Do I really have to go in bios? I'm not much of a computer expert.

Just go into BIOS and look for a CPU or performance section. You may have to go into "Advanced Options" as a lot of modern BIOSes default to a "Basic" mode with some common options.

Look for an option mentioning E-cores and disable them. ONLY CHANGE THIS OPTION. Then go to exit and choose to save your changes. Your PC should reboot.

Thank you for the detailed responses.
I will try to do this.

So if I would have windows 11 I can turn back on these e cores?

Does this mean that in the meantime I basically make my cpu a worse version of itself? (Doesn't really matter since I don't do any heavy cpu stuff)

[nfinite.recursion]

Yes. You should be able to turn them back on after upgrading. However, some users have made help threads for stuttering where they had a 12th gen Intel CPU or newer and Windows 11. It seems that some of these CPUs probably should have failed Intel's QA tests as there seems to be an issue with cross core latency. Also, upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 can cause other issues as well, with broken global dependencies, broken administrator account, or a mismatched OS kernel. Though this has always been an issue with upgrading Windows since forever. Fresh installs are recommended over upgrades.

As far as worse performance, you won't notice much difference. The E-cores mostly handle background tasks. In CPU-heavy loads like video encoding they can help quite a bit. However, your GPU is significantly faster at that kind of stuff so it's no big deal.

[Cootswig]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Yes. You should be able to turn them back on after upgrading. However, some users have made help threads for stuttering where they had a 12th gen Intel CPU or newer and Windows 11. It seems that some of these CPUs probably should have failed Intel's QA tests as there seems to be an issue with cross core latency. Also, upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 can cause other issues as well, with broken global dependencies, broken administrator account, or a mismatched OS kernel. Though this has always been an issue with upgrading Windows since forever. Fresh installs are recommended over upgrades.

As far as worse performance, you won't notice much difference. The E-cores mostly handle background tasks. In CPU-heavy loads like video encoding they can help quite a bit. However, your GPU is significantly faster at that kind of stuff so it's no big deal.

Yes dude it worked! Thank you so much

Now have all settings on max even ray tracing on max and fps is 55-60.

Maybe I'll just do a fresh install of windows 11 then in the near future.

Once again thanks man!