Elden Ring’s launch has exceeded expectations among fans of FromSoftware’s games, in most ways. It’s From Software’s highest-rated game, expands theDark Soulsformula into an open-world experience, and all while maintaining the series' high difficulty level. One aspect ofElden Ringthat was, quite unfortunately, in-line with expectations was the game’s bevy of technical issues with the PC version at launch. A new list ofElden Ringpatch notes captures players' frustrations, attributing PC performance issues to the GPU “not being used.”
The full PC patch note written out by FromSoftware reads that the development team, “Fixed an issue where the graphics card was not being used, resulting in slow performance.”
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AsElden Ringplayers on PC know, performance issues aren’t ever-present. Frame drops and stuttering are intermittent and semi-rare. As such, it doesn’t take much technical knowledge to realizeElden Ringis, for the most part, using the GPU optimally a majority of the time. As such, it’s the language of theElden Ringpatch notethat is confusing the issue. What it’s likely trying to say is that a certain piece ofElden Ring, a shader, particles, or some other aspect of rendering, wasn’t using the GPU correctly.
If a broken piece ofElden Ringwas overburdening players' CPUs or asking it to perform an action it isn’t optimized for, stuttering and frame drops are absolutely understandable. Not using theGPUat all would make the game unplayable, so it’s best not to take the patch note verbatim.
The only two other patch notes announced for this recentElden Ringupdate are for a bug causing the game to occasionally quit when battling a Fire Giant, as well as “Fixed other bugs.” It’s a thin patch, to be sure, butElden Ringplayersappreciate any improvements over the current state of the game.
Unfortunately, there are early reports that thePC version ofElden Ringcontinues to have performance issues. Instead of stuttering, players say thatElden Ringsimply freezes. This patch wasn’t ever going to solve all ofElden Ring’s technical issues on PC, but it’s still rather disappointing to have the fix not deliver as expected. Luckily,Elden Ringis a huge game and players will be playing for weeks yet, so FromSoftware still has plenty of time to fix the game while players are still seeking to become the Elden Lord.
Elden Ringis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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