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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.0 hrs on record
Posted: 21 Jun @ 1:58pm
Updated: 26 Jun @ 1:03pm

More than 2 years after release, their biggest DLC was released, but they don't care enough to fix simple problems that should be unacceptable in 2024 for anyone.

There are a couple of problems I wanna talk about:

1) My game freezes randomly in random areas without any reason. So I'm walking or riding Torrent, and the game freezes for a couple of seconds (sometimes around 10 SECONDS) and for some reason I either need to wait or press Alt+Tab, and it unfreezes. It changes game from frames per second to frame per seconds.
So I found out it has something to do with CPU affinity. You need to change it in the task manager, but when you try it shows access denied because of EAC. If you use mod to turn EAC off, you can, without any problem, change CPU affinity.
This problem should be very easily fixed on FromSoftware's side, but it just isn't for no reason. I don't understand why most people have not this problem. It has nothing to do with my GPU, CPU or anything else. I even completely fresh installed Windows and nothing changed.
This is the only game that does this stupid ♥♥♥♥.
2) Well, that is just... I don't even know how this is possible. Japanese studio doesn't have native support for Dualsense and Dualshock on PC. A JAPANESE STUDIO DOESN'T HAVE NATIVE SUPPORT FOR JAPANESE CONTROLLERS. That is just unbelievable.
Of course, you can mod PS icons, but again, you need to turn off EAC.
3) 60 FPS lock, no Ultrawide support, can't turn off vsync in game, no upscalers. They decided to use DX12 but there is no shaders pre-compilation, so you're 100% gonna get stutters. ANYWAY, LOOK GUYS, THEY ADDED RAY TRACING.
All these things are common and easily fixed ♥♥♥♥. Again, you need to turn off EAC to fix basically any problem, but you lose all multiplayer elements. In Sekiro there is no Anti-Cheat and you can fix all of Sekiro problems (2019 GOTY has same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ problems as 2022 GOTY, FromSoftware's stability I suppose).
It's 2010s lowest quality standards and can you imagine there is a game in 2024 with 500k+ players (only on Steam) missing any of it.

All these problems come from the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ need to have this stupid Ant-Cheat. No problem to turn it off, download mods and play Elden Ring as you're supposed to from a fresh install.
Of course, they can just optimize their stupid code and add native support for most common things. I'm sure only one person can do it.

There are no achievements for DLC. Almost every game developer adds achievements for DLCs, but it's not about FromSoftware of course. They are always behind everyone.

After all, this ♥♥♥♥ gonna win best DLC of the year, maybe some other awards, sell very well, and nobody will ever care that this game doesn't meet any quality standards.
All of that is because Elden Ring is made for consoles. You can see that releasing this game on PC is their side quest that they don't even want to finish.

Maybe it's just their way of revenge for bombing them. Because if there is any explanation, that's the only one I see.

Update: After trying everything, I finally found how to fix freezes. The problem is that Elden Ring can't work with multithreading. I turned off SMT, and everything works as it should. All of that is because they refuse to fix their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ code.
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EstrogenDrinker 21 Jun @ 2:35pm 
I mean, it has some issues but without EAC it should work just fine, I really think the problem's on your end, https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/4914
here's a mod for cpu priority, if it's not the one you were using already, here it is, it fixed everything for me and as it doesn't change anything in the files of the game itself, it's usable with EAC, hope it'll help !
Sunrou 21 Jun @ 2:25pm 
it isn't even EAC, FromSoftware fucked up how ER uses cpu threads
EstrogenDrinker 21 Jun @ 2:22pm 
well, yeah, 5600x might struggle with the game, it wouldn't surprise me tbf, EAC truly is poorly optimized in this title
Sunrou 21 Jun @ 2:19pm 
Hellbalde 2 comes to mind first
bad game but way better polished than ER
Taif 21 Jun @ 2:16pm 
Okey, I got it..Elden Ring doesn’t meet the quality standard...

Well, name me another fresh AAA title come to Pc that even matched the polishness of this game..I will wait.
CONQDUSK 21 Jun @ 2:13pm 
no one cares about you, you a russian mongol, get off life and don't you dare to return
You won't be missed, see ya
ultrawide downsyndrom screen user
may crash 21 Jun @ 2:13pm 
how did you manage to write so much yet say so little.
Sunrou 21 Jun @ 2:09pm 
5600X is too weak, sure buddy
EstrogenDrinker 21 Jun @ 2:07pm 
yes EAC is a "problem", your game freezing is a problem with your PC though, probably too weak of a CPU