Best Elden Ring PC settings: How to boost FPS & recommended specs

Elden Ring can finally celebrate the much-anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC launch, and you are probably ready to set off to the Realm of Shadow. However, if you are on PC and you don’t get your desired performance, it’s safe to say that your DLC run might just be over before it even started.

Elden Ring requires you to have fast reflexes and lag or similar performance issues can ruin the experience. So, here are the PC requirements for Elden Ring and the best PC settings.

Best Elden Ring PC settings

• Screen Mode: Fullscreen
• Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution, e.g 1920×1080
• Auto-Detect Best Rendering Settings: On
• Quality Settings: Custom
• Texture Quality: Medium
• Antialiasing Quality: Low
• SSAO: Medium
• Depth of Field: Off
• Motion Blur: Off
• Shadow Quality: Low
• Lighting Quality: Medium
• Effects Quality: Medium
• Volumetric Quality: Medium
• Reflection Quality: Medium
• Water Surface Quality: Medium
• Shader Quality: Medium
• Global Illumination: Medium
• Grass Quality: Medium

We have made these best Elden Ring PC settings for players with hardware at the lower end of the spectrum, but they’ll work for any rig if you’re looking for the smoothest experience possible.

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The title is locked at 60 frames per second and while not an ideal FPS for most PC gamers, it means we can still keep the visual quality up and still achieve the maximum framerate.

Of course, these settings all depend on how powerful your rig is, and what resolution you’re trying to run it at. 1080p will be much less demanding than 4K, for example. But, these settings are a great baseline to start with, and then you can adjust them accordingly.

But we recommend keeping Depth of Field and Motion Blur settings off on every game you play, as they add unnecessary visual effects to your game without affecting performance.

Elden Ring minimum & recommended PC requirements

	Minimum specs	Recommended specs
OS	Windows 10	Windows 11/10
Processor	Intel Core i5 8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X	Intel Core i7-8700K or Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory	12GB RAM	16GB RAM
Graphics	Nvidia GeForce 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
DirectX	12 (feature level 12.0)	12 (feature level 12.0)
Storage	60GB	60GB
Sound Card	Windows-compatible Audio Device	Windows-compatible Audio Device

It seems a budget rig won’t cut the mustard when it comes to FromSoftware’s best-selling game, as you’ll need at least 12GB of RAM, an Intel Core i5 8400, and an Nvidia Geforce 1060 with 3GB of VRAM to play. Players on high-end PCs reported FPS drops at launch but the performance has improved with subsequent updates.

Elden Ring PC specs

Elden Ring supports 4K resolution and RTX Raytracing was also added through a patch in March 2023.

Here are the full Elden Ring PC specs:

• Maximum resolution: Up to 3840x2160P 
• Framerate: Up to 60 FPS
• HDR: Supported
• Raytracing: Supported

Does Elden Ring have NVIDIA DLSS?

Unfortunately, Elden Ring does not feature DLSS support. DLSS is a technology that allows players with RTX GPUs to set their game at a lower resolution, increasing performance, but giving the appearance of a higher resolution.

The Temporal Super Sampling Mod by huutaii might help you get the benefits of DLSS in Elden Ring. However, do note that the mod isn’t official and it works on limited versions of the game. On top of that, you can’t play online on official servers while using it.

Now that you have the best Elden Ring PC settings at your disposal, it is time to take on the most engaging questlines and beat the toughest bosses.