There is no doubt that elden ring it’s one of the best games ever and anyone who disagrees can take a look at its massive list of GOTY trophies. However, its most recent update is making the title somewhat unpleasant to play.
The 1.09 update of elden ring recently debuted and not all fans are happy. In the last few hours, reports have come to light that the game’s performance is poor and unstable when ray tracing is activated, the main addition of the update.
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Ray tracing is very demanding on elden ring
Unfortunately, this feature has become obligatory, since there are users who point out that when enabling it, the frames per second (fps) drop. A user on reddit shared tests he did with the game running ray-traced at full resolution on an NVIDIA 3060 card. Interestingly, the frame count dropped to 30.8 fps, the average was 41.6 fps, and failed to top out at more than 54.4 fps.
Another user added that even with an NVIDIA 3070, smooth 60 fps is not achieved and another user mentioned that with an NVIDIA 3080 and at 1440p he suffered drops to up to 35 fps in the forest near Church of Elleh, at the beginning of the game.
another user he even mentions that he experienced crashes, and that the only thing that fixed it was disabling ray tracing and lowering the resolution.
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Why does ray tracing mess up elden ring?
Apparently the cause of these problems is the absence of DLSS. In case you didn’t know, this technology, in a nutshell, uses artificial intelligence to improve video game graphics and has been incorporated into other games with ray tracing support, such as Control and cyberpunk 2077.
Since the game doesn’t have DLSS, so the graphics cards have to put in more effort to render the game with ray tracing at high resolutions, like 1440p; if DLSS were used, the rendering would be in a lower resolution and the artificial intelligence would recreate the rest to project it in high resolution.
This is what players believe after they discovered that the update that adds ray tracing does not include DLSS.
Unfortunately, update 1.09 of elden ring not only causes ray tracing issues, but also includes gameplay bugs. The most worrying thing is that this problem is not limited to PC, but console users. also report inconsistenciesa very notable one is the one that prevents spells from causing any damagesuch as Catch Flame when used in conjunction with Contagious Fury.
So far, FromSoftware has not issued any comment on the matter, so it is not known what is the cause of these problems or if it plans a patch to solve them.
Have you tried ray tracing yet? elden ring? Tell us in the comments.
elden ring debuted on February 24, 2022 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. You can find more about him if you visit his file or if you consult our written review.
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