Final week, FromSoftware launched the primary and final growth for Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree. Whereas it launched to vital acclaim, it did not take lengthy for the DLC to obtain a “combined” overview rating on Steam, primarily as a result of efficiency points and “unbalanced” boss fights.
To fight gamers’ complaints that Shadow of the Erdtree was too troublesome, FromSoftware launched patch 1.12.2 earlier this week, which aimed to make the start of the DLC somewhat simpler by growing the assault and injury negation for the primary half of the utmost quantity of Blessing enhancements, whereas additionally making the second half extra gradual. The patch additionally elevated the assault and injury negation granted by the ultimate degree of Blessing enhancements.
Whereas the patch did not embrace any efficiency enhancements on PC, FromSoftware did acknowledge that gamers have been experiencing unstable framerate. “We’ve got confirmed a bug the place the raytracing settings are routinely enabled when you’ve got beforehand loaded saved information from earlier sport variations,” FromSoftware stated.
The studio then instructed gamers who have been experiencing points to navigate to the in-game settings and disable raytracing to enhance the sport’s general efficiency. FromSoftware then ended the patch notes by confirming that “different steadiness changes” and bug fixes are being deliberate for a future patch.
Regardless of the dearth of enhancements to the DLC’s efficiency on PC, Shadow of the Erdtree has managed to climb its manner again as much as a “principally constructive” Steam ranking, with over 56,000 person opinions on the time of writing this text (70% of that are constructive).
There are, nevertheless, nonetheless loads of damaging opinions calling out the sport’s poor efficiency and optimization. One reviewer stated the growth is “really stunning” however nonetheless left a damaging overview because it has “worse efficiency than the bottom sport.”
One other person claimed that they could not run Shadow of the Erdtree on the bottom settings with a 7800XT and a Ryzen 7800x3D with out “stuttering and skipping frames.”
“I genuinely can’t say I am having fun with this. It appears good, however on the similar time can barely maintain a steady framerate. I don’t perceive how [FromSoftware] put out one thing this poor high quality,” one other reviewer acknowledged.
Lots of the damaging opinions that cite poor efficiency points look like associated to an unstable framerate. For those who’re a kind of individuals, we suggest following FromSoftware’s recommendation and disabling raytracing till a brand new patch is launched.
