Elden Ring PC Players Are Frustrated With the Flawed Optimization

Elden Ring has been the most anticipated game of 2022 for many of us, but it is also another big PC game that falls short in delivering an optimized experience.

Over two and a half years after its official announcement, Elden Ring is finally out today! As already promised by FromSoftware and Hidetaka Miyazaki himself, Elden Ring is truly the most ambitious project from this veteran team, but projects bring big issues as!

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Although the Metascore of Elden Ring doesn’t reflect this at all, PC players are having a frustrating experience in Elden Ring due to severe stuttering issues and sudden frame drops.

We all know what a brief frame drop or stutter means in a FromSoftware game, where timing matters more than anything. In a game like Elden Ring, you will not stand a chance against your brutal enemies in the presence of technical issues.

PC Players Expressing Their Frustration Over Elden Ring Optimization on Reddit and Steam

Just a quick look at the Steam page of Elden Ring will convince you that things don’t look good for PC gamers. As some of the players have reported, they encounter major frame drops once they enter open-world areas in the game.

According to a Reddit user who runs Elden Ring on an RTX 3080-based PC, the game couldn’t even reach 60FPS at 1080p when standing idle. The moment the player moves, the frame rate drops to around 45, and when the screen gets a bit more crowded, it goes all the way down to below 30.