Elden Ring FPS Drops and Stuttering? Here’s How to Fix

Elden Ring is the most anticipated game of 2022, but after its release, many gamers reported they are facing the unbearable Elden Ring FPS drops and stuttering issues as well as various technical bugs like Elden Ring crashing on PC or won’t launch on Windows 10 as well as Windows 11 system.

Well, the FPS drops and stuttering is very frustrating as it makes the Elden Ring game unplayable. The game developers posted that they fix various games issues in the upcoming patch, however, this won’t work for many users and they are asking for a refund. So, our experts have done the research and investigated the error thoroughly and find out that there are multiple reasons that trigger the Elden rings stutters and FPS drops performance issues.

So, before jumping straight to the fixes it is suggested to learn the common causes responsible for the error.

As of now, we share each and every potential culprit responsible for the problem, let’s head to working solutions to fix the problem. Try the given solutions that worked for other affected users and boost the FPS and fix the stuttering problems.

Check The Elden Ring System Requirements

Cross-check the minimum and recommended system requirements of the game and confirm if your computer is capable to run the game properly. The system requirements for the game to run properly are mentioned below:

Minimum

• Operating System: Windows 7
• Processor: Intel i5 8400/ Ryzen 3 3300 X.
• RAM: 12 GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX GeForce 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580.
• HDD Storage: 60 GB.

Recommended

• Operating System: Windows 10.
• Processor: Intel i7 8700K, or Ryzen 5 3600X.
• RAM: 16GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB or AMD Vega 56 8GB.
• Storage: 60 GB.

If your system requirement looks fine but still deals with the FPS drop problem then here it is suggested to head to the next solution.

Change In-Game Settings

If you are playing the game on a low-end computer, you need to compromise a bit and lower the in-game graphics settings to play the game smoothly. To lower the in-game settings follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Launch the game and go to the Settings menu.
2. Then in the Settings menu click on the Graphics tab.
3. And in the Graphics tab toggle down the resolution and the texture option to low.
4. Now restart the game.

Check if this will provide you better FPS rate and you are able to run the game smoothly with a bit lower graphics. Now check if the issue is resolved or not.

Change Graphics Card Control Panel Settings

You can tweak a few settings in your computer to get an instant performance boost in your computer to run the game smoothly without any FPS drop and stuttering issues. To change the Graphics Control Panel settings, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Right-click on the desktop and click on the Nvidia Control Panel option.
2. Click on the Manage 3D settings option and click on the Program Settings.

   

3. Now find “Elden Ring” in the list and make the changes mentioned below:

• • Monitor Tech: G-Sync (If available)
  • Maximum Pre-rendered frames:2
  • Threaded optimization: On
  • Power Management: Prefer Maximum Performance
  • Texture Filtering – Quality: Performance
  • Low Latency Mode: Ultra(Low if you’re a PvE player).

For the AMD users, the settings are mentioned below:

1. Anti-Aliasing Mode: Use Application settings
2. Anti-aliasing Method: Multisampling
3. Morphological Filtering: Off
4. Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Use application settings
5. Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
6. Surface Format Optimization: On
7. Wait for V-sync: Off
8. OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
9. Shader Cache: AMD optimized
10. Tesselation Mode: Override application settings
11. Maximum Tesselation Level: Off
12. GPU Workload: Graphics
13. Chill: Off
14. Frame Rate Target Control: Disabled

Hope to check the graphics settings works for you to solve the issue with the game and start playing the game with any performance-related issues. But if in case you are still dealing with the problem in question then follow the next potential fix.

Update Graphics Driver

The graphics driver plays a major role in your computer functioning properly. So, make sure that it is always updated to get proper performance delivery from the graphics card and start rendering the Elden Ring game.

The outdated or partially corrupted graphic drivers are missing some of the key dependencies which are used by the game to run properly. And by updating the GPU driver and the physics module you can fix the performance-related issues.

To update the graphics drivers, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Click on the Start Menu and type Control Panel in the search bar.
2. In the Control Panel, click on the View devices and printers option available below the Hardware and Sound section.

   

3. Now click on your device name and click on the Hardware tab.
4. In the Hardware tab, search for your graphics card name.
5. And click on your graphics card name and now click on the driver tab.

   

6. In the driver tab, click on the update drivers option, and Windows will automatically search for any update available and install it.

   

7. Let the process complete and then restart your computer.
8. Now launch the game and check if the issue is resolved or not.

Update Windows

If you are running an outdated Windows operating system, then we recommend you to update the Windows 10 operating system as this can cause performance issues and can be the root cause of the Elden Ring FPS drops and stuttering issue. To update your Windows operating system, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Click on the Start Menu and search for Settings in the search bar.
2. In the Settings, click on the Windows update option available on the left side.

   

3. Then in the Windows Update option, click on the check for updates

   

4. If any update is available, download it and let the process complete.

Now restart the computer and launch the game and check if the issue is resolved or not.

Install the Latest Game Patch

As confirmed by the developers, the performance and other technical issues get fixed by updating the game to the latest patch. The latest updates are released to make the game more stable and bring lots of improvement to the game. Not only, but the updates are also usually released by the developers to fix various bugs and glitches with the game.

So, it is important to install the updates every time it is released, check if the automatic updates are disabled then open the steam client and update the latest patches available of the game to solve low FPS and stutter problems.

Increase the Game Priority

If updating the game with the latest patch won’t work for you then fixing the low FPS problem is increasing the game priority and boosting the game performance. This method only affects the game depending on the CPU.

Follow the steps to do so:

1. Launch Task Manager by pressing the CTLR + Shift + ESC key
2. Now find the Elden Ring running and then right-click on it choose details
3. Then right on the processes.exe  file after that set priority to the High.

   

This simple trick will give priority to your game over other windows apps and boost the gaming performance.

Enable Windows Game Mode

The Windows Game Mode will provide a significant boost to the game as it will run the game in the priority task list closing most of the intense tasks running in the background. Enabling the game mode can resolve the Elden Ring FPS drops and stuttering issue. To enable the game mode, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Click on the Start Menu and search for settings in the search bar.
2. In settings click on the Gaming option available on the left side.
3. Now in the gaming window enable the Game Mode.

   

Here it is suggested to check if the issue is resolved or not.

Disable In-Game Overlays

If you are using any type of in-game overlays, we will recommend you to disable all of them as they eat up a lot of performance of your computer and are of no use. To disable the in-game discord overlays follow the steps mentioned below:

Discord

1. Launch the Discord application on your computer and go to the settings menu.
2. In Settings click on the Overlay option available on the left side.

   

3. Now disable the in-game overlay option.

Steam

1. Launch the Steam application and click on the Library
2. The Library, section locates the game.

   

3. Now right-click on the game and click on the properties option.
4. In properties, click on the General option available on the left side.

   

5. Now disable the game overlays by clicking on the checkbox and unchecking it.

   

For Windows

1. Click on the Start button and search for settings in the search bar.
2. In the settings menu, click on the Gaming option available on the left side.

   

3. Now in the gaming tab, turn “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar” off.

   

4. Now click on the capture tab and turn the “Record the background while I’m playing a game” off.

Use Compatibility Mode

Using the compatibility mode will help your game to be more stable in the available operating system. To enable compatibility mode, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Right-click on the game and click on the properties
2. Now go to the Compatibility tab and then under the Run this program compatibility mode for option select Windows 10

   

3. And click on Apply and then Ok.

That’s all for our Elden Ring FPS drops and Stuttering problem, hope after trying the fixes given the issue is resolved.