How to fix stuttering and FPS drops in Elden Ring PC?

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Elden Ring's PC version is probably one of the worst ports of all time. This edition is plagued by numerous FPS issues, stuttering, and poor performance.

As a result, the community has been trying to find some system tweaks through which the game can become borderline enjoyable. While none of these fixes is optimal, they will provide a temporary solution until FromSoftware provides an official patch to remedy the issue.

Elden Ring is a brilliant game, and every player, including PC users, should be able to play it in the best possible manner.

The first thing that every player should check out is their equipment. While the game is playable at 8 GB of RAM, the CPU and GPU need to be higher than the minimum mentioned requirements to run the game smoothly.

This is because the optimization for the game is not very good. If the CPU and GPU are strong enough, it can help make the experience much smoother.

Now, once the system requirements are good to go, players can start tweaking. There are some in-game tweaks and some off-game tweaks. Both of those have been provided below.

These tweaks were recommended by a user named Phish777 on the Elden Ring subreddit.

Fix 1: Enabling high-performance.

Fix 2: Nvidia Control panel change

Fix 3: System changes

Once the off-game tweaks are done, players can then try the following in-game changes to further enhance performance:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Texture Quality: Medium

Anti-aliasing Quality: Off

SSAO: Medium

Depth of Field: Off

Motion Blur: Off

Shadow Quality: Low

Lighting Quality: Medium

Effects Quality: Low

Volumetric Quality: Low

Reflection Quality: Low

Water Surface Quality: Low

Shader Quality: Medium

Global Illumination Quality: Low

Grass Quality: Medium

Thus, the above-mentioned fixes will help to provide