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By SAKUJO

Greetings Tarnished,

Do you experience a regular FPS drops and stuttering after 20-40min of gameplay ?

You have nVidia graphic card ?

You have verified your hardware, no overheat/temp issues ?

All drivers and Windows (10/11) are up to date ?

You have already tried different stuff suggested on forums and game still stuttering ?

If response is "Yes" to previous questions then you are at right place.

Please give a look into next 7 steps to go through in order to get rid of these issues once for all.

Accordingly to your system you may need go throught several or all steps from 1 to 7.

Let's go

Award

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Guide Index

Overview

STEP1: MICRO$OFT STORE CRAP CLEAN

STEP2: DEVICE MANAGER

STEP3: CLEAR SHADERS CACHE

STEP4: NVIDIA

STEP5: EASY ANTI-CHEAT

STEP6: STEAM

STEP7: WINDOWS

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STEP1: MICRO$OFT STORE CRAP CLEAN

- Download and install Geek Uninstaller utility tool

(direct link https://geekuninstaller.com/geek.zip)

- Run the tool and remove these 4 apps: Insider Hub; Game Bar; Xbox Identity Provider; Xbox Live

- Verify that Store did not re-installed them automatically; if did then disable auto-update function (let me know if need a guide for this step)

STEP2: DEVICE MANAGER

- In Device Manager, Display Adapters: if you have unused integrated graphic card - right-click on it and Disable:

- In Device manager, Software Devices: disable "Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator":

STEP3: CLEAR SHADERS CACHE

- Disable shader cache in nVidia control Panel, Manage 3D Settings, Global Settings -> set 'Disable' and Apply:

- Wipe content of these locations:

C:\Users\yourProfile\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache

C:\Users\yourProfile\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\GLCache

Note: if some files cannot be deleted - no worries just ignore and continue

- Re-Enable shader cache in nVidia control Panel, Manage 3D Settings, Global Settings -> set 'Default' and Apply

- Right click on C:\ drive (drive where your Windows is installed), Properties, click on Disk Clean-Up -> check "DirectX Shader Cache" box -> OK:

STEP4: NVIDIA

- Go nVidia Control Panel, Manage 3D Settings, Program Settings tab, select Elden Ring: click on Restore button to restore default settings and Apply:

- Go nVidia Control Panel, Manage 3D Settings, Program Settings tab, select Elden Ring: set "Tripple Buffering" to [ON] and "Max Frame Rate" to [60] and Apply:

STEP5: EASY ANTI-CHEAT

- Go in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat\
- Delete EasyAntiCheat.sys file (backup/copy before)

- Go in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat_EOS\
- Delete EasyAntiCheat_EOS.sys file (backup/copy before)

STEP6: STEAM

- In Steam, right-click on Elden Ring, Properties, General tab: disable "Enable the Steam overlay while in-game"

- In Steam, right-click on Elden Ring, Properties, General tab: set "Launch Option" to [Play Elden Ring]

- In Steam, Settings, Downloads tab: enable "Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders"

STEP7: WINDOWS

- Delete game shortcut from Desktop

- Update Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (direct link https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe)

- Install .NET Framework v4.8.1 (direct link https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/thank-you/net481-web-installer)

- Finally restart computer and run the game from Steam library 'Play' button (no desktop shortcut)

8 Comments

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SAKUJO [author] 16 hours ago

@Cleo_log
Some video games (like Elden Ring) are allergic to bloatware and may cause anomalies with peripherals (like xbox contollers) and frame rates. Debloat OS may be just as important as update drivers, update OS, watch for temperatures of CPU cores and GPU and do the necessary if overheat detected.

Cleo_log 17 hours ago

half of this is just debloating windows

SAKUJO [author] 24 Sep @ 5:48pm

@Fruity booty
Awesome! You're welcome.
Wish you goog game.

Fruity booty 24 Sep @ 5:09pm

Nvm i figured out the issue.

In step 2, i disabled the other graphics card thing and that is what caused the fps issues.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help anyways, i appreciate it <3

SAKUJO [author] 24 Sep @ 4:52pm

@Fruity booty
Hi, did you restart computer ? If yes then roll back the nVidia setting to default (step4) - the only step that might in theory affect negatively the framerate. Let me know how is going. Regarding your GPU can you drop me it's: model/temp/frequancy load/idle. Thanks.

Fruity booty 24 Sep @ 4:39pm

I tried this and now elden ring runs at like five frames per second...
Might have done something wrong

SAKUJO [author] 14 Jun @ 8:45am

@Evil That's why i wrote " IF YOU HAVE UNUSED INTEGRATED GRAPHIC CARD "

AMDX45 22 Sep, 2024 @ 5:19pm

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