how do i fix low frame rate

[LightBearer]

so for some reason i cant get above 30 fps, ive tried everything i can think of, lower the graphics to 144p scale, windowed mode, windowed borderless, nothings open in the background of my pc, no clue what to do, game is borderline unplayable since i cant even out dodge attacks at this frame rate, i almost died to the soldier of godrick for christs sake.

here arethe specs i can find
geforce RTX 3060TI
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz

[dark-breed]

how many RAM modules you have? are they equal ? are they in the right slots ?

[LightBearer]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

how many RAM modules you have? are they equal ? are they in the right slots ?

all the ram is where it is, and i believe its two sticks of ddr4 8gb so 16gb total

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by LightBearer:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

how many RAM modules you have? are they equal ? are they in the right slots ?

all the ram is where it is, and i believe its two sticks of ddr4 8gb so 16gb total

low FPS in this game are mostly related to:

slow RAM (the speed it needs for mostly stabel 60 FPS is 3000MHz, anything below this will have FPS drops or overall below 60 FPS)
dual channel not running (this cut your bandwidth in half, it is like running RAM with half the speed)

check with a tool like CPU-z for dual channel and what frequency you are running.

[Dirk]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by LightBearer:

all the ram is where it is, and i believe its two sticks of ddr4 8gb so 16gb total

low FPS in this game are mostly related to:

slow RAM (the speed it needs for mostly stabel 60 FPS is 3000MHz, anything below this will have FPS drops or overall below 60 FPS)
dual channel not running (this cut your bandwidth in half, it is like running RAM with half the speed)

check with a tool like CPU-z for dual channel and what frequency you are running.

Curious to know where you got the exact ram requirements from as it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. A lot of the known issues with Elden ring has been chalked up to your overall system specs and other fixes such as windows gaming mode, shutting down apps in the background, removing external 3rd party devices etc. Bear in mind these stability issues vary amongst a wide range of specs, including very high end ones.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

low FPS in this game are mostly related to:

slow RAM (the speed it needs for mostly stabel 60 FPS is 3000MHz, anything below this will have FPS drops or overall below 60 FPS)
dual channel not running (this cut your bandwidth in half, it is like running RAM with half the speed)

check with a tool like CPU-z for dual channel and what frequency you are running.

Curious to know where you got the exact ram requirements from as it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. A lot of the known issues with Elden ring has been chalked up to your overall system specs and other fixes such as windows gaming mode, shutting down apps in the background, removing external 3rd party devices etc. Bear in mind these stability issues vary amongst a wide range of specs, including very high end ones.

i know what specs you need because i analyse this game since release of the game, the hive mind in this forum pinned down how the performance get effected and which specs are really important.

this game has a bandwidth hungy engine and you need at least 3000 MHz dual channel to get nearly everywhere stable 60 FPS. there are additional things like the raytracing that tanks additional bandwidth where you need at least 5600 MHz or more to come close to 60 FPS.
the CPU is also relevant but the CPU the OP has should be able to provide stable processing so the most likely two things that could cause his low FPS is low RAM speeds/missing dual channel and raytracing.

removing processes in background have nearly no effect (as long you not running a software in background that is also a bandwidth tank).

they do not need to tell you everything the minimum specs needed to run this game does not mean you can run it with this at 60 FPS.

[Sonnenbank]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Curious to know where you got the exact ram requirements from as it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere.

Just experience of what most systems with stutters have in common over the last 2 years.
Dark Breed has analyzed litteraly 1000s of problems with Elden Ring since its release.

And i also found many systems with stutter issues have their ram speed bound to the intel CPUs since they dont have a Z-Mainboard.

[Dirk]

Originally posted by Sonnenbank:

Originally posted by Dirk:

Curious to know where you got the exact ram requirements from as it doesn't seem to be listed anywhere.

Just experience of what most systems with stutters have in common over the last 2 years.
Dark Breed has analyzed litteraly 1000s of problems with Elden Ring since its release.

And i also found many systems with stutter issues have their ram speed bound to the intel CPUs since they dont have a Z-Mainboard.

fair enough, just seems a little odd that in 2 years its mentioned so little and not mentioned in any steam guide or any other online guide. Especially if it's a primary cause for issues.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Originally posted by Sonnenbank:

Just experience of what most systems with stutters have in common over the last 2 years.
Dark Breed has analyzed litteraly 1000s of problems with Elden Ring since its release.

And i also found many systems with stutter issues have their ram speed bound to the intel CPUs since they dont have a Z-Mainboard.

fair enough, just seems a little odd that in 2 years its mentioned so little and not mentioned in any steam guide or any other online guide. Especially if it's a primary cause for issues.

Most people come here at some point and find out in one way or another which specs have an influence.

Since it is very dependent on the hardware used (Intel e core CPUs can also lead to the same problem when e cores are activated) I would say it is almost impossible to create a complete guide.

So I will go through the main causes step by step. It is not helpful to list everything that has an influence.

There are also some other causes if the hardware should perform well, but these can only be found through precise system analysis. There have been cases in which board drivers constantly restarted, but there is no point in looking for them if you do not know enough about the system and the basic causes have not already been ruled out.

A lot of what I do with people who have performance problems despite having sufficiently powerful hardware is time-consuming and requires a lot of checks and tests.
The number of those whose performance never goes above a certain FPS value and the problem is not due to the RAM setup is vanishingly small.

[LightBearer]

Originally posted by LightBearer:

Originally posted by dark-breed:

how many RAM modules you have? are they equal ? are they in the right slots ?

all the ram is where it is, and i believe its two sticks of ddr4 8gb so 16gb total

before i start clicking random ♥♥♥♥, what am i looking for? i ended up on a site called CPUID for cpu-z sis but i have no idea what im doing past that, what version am i downloading?

[Dirk]

Originally posted by Dirk:

Originally posted by Sonnenbank:

Just experience of what most systems with stutters have in common over the last 2 years.
Dark Breed has analyzed litteraly 1000s of problems with Elden Ring since its release.

And i also found many systems with stutter issues have their ram speed bound to the intel CPUs since they dont have a Z-Mainboard.

fair enough, just seems a little odd that in 2 years its mentioned so little and not mentioned in any steam guide or any other online guide. Especially if it's a primary cause for issues.

No that's understandable, and it's great you've helped so many people. Tbh i have a 10 year old rig and have no issues running sekiro or fires of rubicon so seemed a little odd how elden ring ran so poorly so it explains a lot for why it drops so often, especially since shadow of erdtree dropped. It'd be nice if Fromsoft acknowledge this instead of chalking up performance issues to 3rd party mouse software.

[s0d0]

Originally posted by LightBearer:

so for some reason i cant get above 30 fps, ive tried everything i can think of, lower the graphics to 144p scale, windowed mode, windowed borderless, nothings open in the background of my pc, no clue what to do, game is borderline unplayable since i cant even out dodge attacks at this frame rate, i almost died to the soldier of godrick for christs sake.

here arethe specs i can find
geforce RTX 3060TI
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz

Might be obvious, but do you have RT activated?
Also I guess you mean 1440p?

[LightBearer]

Originally posted by s0d0:

Originally posted by LightBearer:

so for some reason i cant get above 30 fps, ive tried everything i can think of, lower the graphics to 144p scale, windowed mode, windowed borderless, nothings open in the background of my pc, no clue what to do, game is borderline unplayable since i cant even out dodge attacks at this frame rate, i almost died to the soldier of godrick for christs sake.

here arethe specs i can find
geforce RTX 3060TI
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz

Might be obvious, but do you have RT activated?
Also I guess you mean 1440p?

no i meant what i said, i set all the graphics to the lowest possible settings so i said 144p, and i have no idea if i do or not, i dont know how this stuff works so if it is/isnt activated ive never done it before lol

[s0d0]

Originally posted by LightBearer:

Originally posted by LightBearer:

all the ram is where it is, and i believe its two sticks of ddr4 8gb so 16gb total

before i start clicking random ♥♥♥♥, what am i looking for? i ended up on a site called CPUID for cpu-z sis but i have no idea what im doing past that, what version am i downloading?

You don't need to download anything actually, task manager will do as well.
Open it > performance > RAM

it should show the clock speed and how many slots are used

[s0d0]

Originally posted by LightBearer:

Originally posted by s0d0:

Might be obvious, but do you have RT activated?
Also I guess you mean 1440p?

no i meant what i said, i set all the graphics to the lowest possible settings so i said 144p, and i have no idea if i do or not, i dont know how this stuff works so if it is/isnt activated ive never done it before lol

Ray Tracing is an option in the graphics menu, but when you say you put it all to low I guess you have turned it off as well.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by s0d0:

Originally posted by LightBearer:

before i start clicking random ♥♥♥♥, what am i looking for? i ended up on a site called CPUID for cpu-z sis but i have no idea what im doing past that, what version am i downloading?

You don't need to download anything actually, task manager will do as well.
Open it > performance > RAM

it should show the clock speed and how many slots are used

sadly the taskmanager gives no info about dual channel usage