Last Updated on March 15, 2022
Elden Ring, the most anticipated title of the decade is now available. The game launch hasn’t been smooth for FromSoftware, users are reporting multiple issues across all platforms. We’ve already covered crashing and performance fixes on the website.
AAA titles are known for their problems, not even a single title last year was free from problems. Performance issues in a title like this are not something new, a game that has system requirements this high. On top of that, it’s hard for the devs to optimize the game for computers, given the vast difference in hardware. However, this is not a problem that cannot be fixed. The devs have promised that there will be updates on Day 1 to take care of most problems.
Elden Ring – Best Settings to Increase FPS for Low End PCs
For Low-End PCs, it’s obvious that we will have to compromise with the game quality so that we are able to get maximum playable FPS. Having great graphics and the game running at 20-30 FPS is something no one is going to enjoy.
Note: While these settings should work for everyone, you should know that there are no best settings that are going to work for everyone. You have to find what works best for you by tweaking everything one by one.
Let’s find out what the best settings are:
| Name | Settings |
|---|---|
| Texture Quality | Medium/High (Lowest setting has minimal impact) |
| Antialiasing Quality | Off |
| SSAO | Medium |
| Depth of Field | Medium |
| Motion Blur | Off |
| Shadow Quality | Medium (this should have impacted the performance a lot. But it doesn’t, dropping it to low only increases FPS by 1 or 2) |
| Lightning Quality | Medium |
| Effects Quality | Medium |
| Volumetric Quality | Medium |
| Reflection Quality | Medium (Test both Medium and High) |
| Water Surface Quality | Medium |
| Shader Quality | Medium |
| Global Illumination Quality | Medium |
| Grass Quality | Medium |
The general rule of thumb for every game is if you are lagging it is always recommended to tone down the settings. Playing around a bit with all the settings and finding the best configuration is what works best.
Elden Ring has a very low number of settings for a title that is releasing in 2022 after so many delays. The game is locked at 60 FPS, and there’s no Ray Tracing or FSR available at launch. This is what the settings screen looks like:
There’s not much you can do to increase your FPS other than lowering down your settings. I still feel like the game needs a lot more optimization to run well on low-end computers. This shouldn’t come as a surprise given the high system requirements of Elden Ring. If you don’t know about them, here they are:
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows® 7 | Windows® 10 |
| Processor | Intel i5 8400/Ryzen 3 3300X | Intel i7 8700K or Ryzen 5 3600X |
| RAM | 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Graphics | Geforce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580 | Geforce GTX 1070 8GB or AMD Vega 56 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB | 60 GB |
These settings and optimizations were tested on PCs with the following configuration:
i5 8500 with GTX 1060 @1080p
i3 10300 with RTX 2060 @1080p
i7 8700 with GTX 1650 @1080p
AMD Ryzen 5600x with RTX 3080 @2k
The GTX 1060 PC couldn’t churn out more than 45 FPS at the lowest settings. The 3080 PC still had troubles maintaining 60 FPS at 1440p resolution. We still need fixes from the devs for the horrendous optimization this game is launched with.
I hope this article gave you an idea of what the settings look like and what’s best for you, as of now. Do comment below with hardware configuration if you face any problems and we’ll do our best to fix it.
