Problem with Gameplay Smoothness

[AfeZ]

Hi everyone. As the title suggests, I’m having an issue with the smoothness of the game.

Here are the graphic settings I’m using:
Screen mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920x1080
Automatic rendering settings: Off
Ray tracing quality: Off

Advanced settings:
Texture quality: Medium
Anti-aliasing quality: High
SSAO: High
Depth of field: Maximum
Motion blur: High
Shadow quality: High
Lighting quality: Maximum
Effects quality: Maximum
Volumetric lighting quality: Low
Reflection quality: Maximum
Water surface quality: High
Shading quality: High
Overall lighting quality: High
Grass quality: High

The hardware I’m playing on is an MSI Katana 15 B12VFK laptop with the following configuration:
Operating system: Windows 11
Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12650H 2.30 GHz
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Dedicated video memory: 8188 MB GDDR6

With this setup and graphic settings, is it normal that the frame rate I’m getting is around 60-75 FPS? On a 144 Hz monitor, the game feels more like a slideshow rather than smooth gameplay. Is there anything I can do to improve this? Is it possible to achieve a stable 144 FPS?

[Ironwu]

I think you are trying to run the game to hard for a 4060 based laptop. Way to hard.

[nfinite.recursion]

Elden Ring has a framerate cap of 60fps. You can go above this by using a mod and playing offline. With your specs, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to max out your screen's 144Hz refesh rate. Elden Ring tends to bottleneck on the CPU and RAM bandwidth.

Speaking of which, your problem with "gameplay smoothness" is probably stuttering. 12th gen Intel CPUs and newer have E-cores which can cause issues with some games even though Windows is supposed to automatically avoid using them for games and certain specific applications.

You can effectively disable them with:

Win + R

msconfig

Boot tab

Advanced

Set the number of CPU cores to 12.

Click OK on everything.

Reboot

Doing this will force Windows and any apps and games to only run on the much more powerful P-cores.

[AfeZ]

Is it safe for my laptop?

[Frank White]

Also biggest visual impact you can see is grass so you put grass on maximum not shadows or something motion blur,grass is most noticeable one and most enjoyable when it's like maxed

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by AfeZ:

Is it safe for my laptop?

Well, hard to say. Usually what happens with laptops is:

1. If they are not set to run at full power all the time, they will start to throttle down as usage and heat builds up.

2. If they are set to run at full power all the time, they are usually going to simply shut down if the heat build up becomes to extreme. This can be very problematic if the software for whatever reason does not detect the extreme heat.

In any case, the configuration of typical laptop hardware does not lend itself to running games at the same level of detail and performance as similar desktop hardware. Attempting to make them do so is probably not a good idea.

I would start by setting all graphic options to Low or Off, whichever is available for the option. Run the game at 1080p, 1440p is probably to high for this system. Then, using a monitor tool that graphs performance, monitor your CPU and GPU temps and usage to get an idea of what is going to be happening on your system when you play.

Good Luck

[Gamerzilla]

Using a laptop for gaming is already like going jogging with 20 lbs ankle weights and a fully loaded rucksack. The worst part is you probably paid 20-40% more for that laptop hardware than if you simply built the same hardware into a pc chassis. :(

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by AfeZ:

Is it safe for my laptop?

Yes. Why wouldn't it? The E-cores are disabled automatically when Windows' thread scheduler is working properly. This isn't overclocking or undervolting.

[RoofusGoofus]

If you're having stuttering issues, just set everything to medium. I promise it looks just as good and it'll perform much better.