Elden Ring runing worse for me now than it did at launch

[Cutboot]

So like many other players I've seen on Reddit or Steam, yesterday I re-installed the game after I played it at launch (in preparation for the DLC) and was surprised that it is running way worse now for some reason.

I never got to play in the Ray Tracing version of the game before, and even though I have disabled RT, the game runs so much worse now than it did then. I changed the presets form "High" (that I had before) to "Medium" or "Low" but it doesnt's improve my fps count, that constantly dips below 40 or 30 fps. The frame pacing is also very bad leaving the game very choppy. I don't know what's happening but I've seen a lot of players experiencing the same thing.

I've re-played through Stormveil Castle with a somewhat stable 60-50 fps performance, but when runing through Limgrave or Liurnia for example the game just tanks. Right now I'm at Caria Manor experiencing the worst dips.

Can anyone that played older PC versions of the game confirm this as well??

Here's a list of other discussion threads of other players with similar problems:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1ayz4a2/elden_ring_runs_worse_then_when_i_played_it_at/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1ayaxqi/performance_issues_on_high_end_pc_after_returning/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1ax8v2c/bizarre_pc_performance_issues/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1awtqnw/reduced_performance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1av35sn/performance_issues/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1245620/discussions/0/3820780968135648025/

[mpcgannon]

Jesus, I can smell the reddit from here
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[Madao]

seems a lot of people are having performance issues now

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Madao:

seems a lot of people are having performance issues now

a lot of ppl have crippled systems and do not care about maintain windows, drivers and bios or do not have the knowledge how to narrow down a problems cause, the game did not got any performance impacting update since patch 1.04 beside the raytracing, with raytracing of the performance is the same since patch 1.04

[Cutboot]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by Madao:

seems a lot of people are having performance issues now

a lot of ppl have crippled systems and do not care about maintain windows, drivers and bios or do not have the knowledge how to narrow down a problems cause, the game did not got any performance impacting update since patch 1.04 beside the raytracing, with raytracing of the performance is the same since patch 1.04

Yeah I agree most players, including me, don't find a good way of "narrowing down" the root of their performance problem, because on PC it could be just so many things.

In my case I'm playing on the same exact system that I did before, and have updated all my drivers and tried the usual performance hacks that we've known since day one, but it's not working. I've found lots of people complaining about worse performance in the last few days since lots of player are re-installing the game for the upcoming DLC. That leads me to believe that PC performance might have worsen after a certain update, I imagine the RT update. (I'm playing with RT disabled)

Did you play the game at launch and now and have the same performance??

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Cutboot:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

a lot of ppl have crippled systems and do not care about maintain windows, drivers and bios or do not have the knowledge how to narrow down a problems cause, the game did not got any performance impacting update since patch 1.04 beside the raytracing, with raytracing of the performance is the same since patch 1.04

Yeah I agree most players, including me, don't find a good way of "narrowing down" the root of their performance problem, because on PC it could be just so many things.

In my case I'm playing on the same exact system that I did before, and have updated all my drivers and tried the usual performance hacks that we've known since day one, but it's not working. I've found lots of people complaining about worse performance in the last few days since lots of player are re-installing the game for the upcoming DLC. That leads me to believe that PC performance might have worsen after a certain update, I imagine the RT update. (I'm playing with RT disabled)

Did you play the game at launch and now and have the same performance??

I have the game since day one and at all of my machines even a more than 12 years old Testsystem are the same since patch 1.04 (all rt disabled because directx rt is bad).

There are a lot of possible things that can cause actually performance issues, at your Hardware the main causes are:

-Missing bios updates
-faulty drivers (device Manager and event viewer could give some info if this is the case)
-USB powersaving Freaks out (disable the powersaving in any powerplan)
-on some cases Background apps without Microsoft certification cause processing delays
-gpu driver problems
-Any additional external USB Hardware

And a lot more mostly only revealed by a detailed analysis of the System or by trial and error.

Over the time since launch i found so many curious causes that i can not write a Essay about all.

[dark-breed]

I use a industrial Standard for narrow Down such problems but it is time consuming, i have gone with some ppl a long way over up to 5 hours of analysis and Tests to find the cause.

The most curious things i found are third party wireless cards where the manufacturer does not provide a Firmware update for the Intel module but Intel offers for the own cards a Firmware update.

Usb dongles with a hardware build in powersaving.

Devices with drivers that use coding Tricks and now they against the Microsoft rules.

Devices with drivers that where made for complete different device types and trigger the input reading.

Gpu's that suddenly not run at the right amount of lanes.

The problem of such analysis is you can not do some things in a different order because this way you can miss a cause and the cause could be at any step, for some it gone fast for others the last options where the cause.

A relatively new cause is that Windows dll Cache has a problem that Windows recognize but not properly solve alone.

[ExTremZ]

If you are a returning player, its a game issue not yours. Shaders needs to be compilied, ER does it mid game that causes stutters, if you just keep playing the stutters should get less n less.