Elden Ring On Pc Review

On desktop Linux (Proton Experimental), performance is actually better than Windows for some users, with fewer shader compilation stutters thanks to Valve’s pre-cached shaders. The anti-cheat works with Proton as of 2023. The DLC launched in June 2024 and reintroduced minor stuttering in specific legacy dungeons (notably the Abyssal Woods and Enir-Ilim). FromSoftware patched it within three weeks. More importantly, the DLC is harder—much harder. On PC, this means precision matters. Use the FPS unlock mod with caution; above 90 FPS, enemy attack timings become slightly compressed, making dodges frame-perfect nightmares. Verdict: Is Elden Ring on PC Worth It in 2025? Yes—with caveats.

The game remains capped at 60 FPS. There is no native ultrawide support—you get black bars on 21:9 or 32:9 monitors. Ray tracing, added post-launch, is still a performance hog with minimal visual gain (soft shadows and slightly better ambient occlusion). And crucially, the anti-cheat system (Easy Anti-Cheat) can still cause sporadic frame drops on some CPU architectures.

But if you own a PC, you owe it to yourself to play Elden Ring here. The mods alone—Seamless Co-op, Convergence, Randomizer—turn a 100-hour masterpiece into a 500-hour sandbox. The ability to play at 120 FPS on an ultrawide monitor, with reshade filters and custom difficulty scaling, is transformative. Elden Ring On Pc

The result? A game that was nearly unplayable for some, and merely annoying for others. User reviews on Steam dipped to “Mixed” within days—a rarity for a title of this pedigree. FromSoftware, known for ignoring PC optimization in past Dark Souls ports, was finally forced to listen. After more than a dozen patches and the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, how does Elden Ring perform on PC today?

Just remember: back up your save files manually. FromSoftware’s cloud save implementation remains, appropriately, cursed. The fallen leaves tell a story. On PC, they also tell you to disable Easy Anti-Cheat if you’re using ReShade. FromSoftware patched it within three weeks

If you want a plug-and-play experience, buy it on PS5 or Xbox Series X. The console versions are rock-solid at a locked 60 FPS (performance mode) with no tinkering required.

When Elden Ring launched in February 2022, it was simultaneously hailed as a masterpiece of open-world design and derided as a technical embarrassment on PC. Two years later, the game sits in a far better—though still imperfect—place. For anyone considering a journey through the Lands Between with mouse and keyboard (or a preferred controller), here is everything you need to know about the definitive PC version of FromSoftware’s magnum opus. The Launch: A Shambles of Stuttering Let’s address the elephant in the room. At release, Elden Ring on PC suffered from catastrophic stuttering. Regardless of whether you ran an RTX 4090 or a GTX 1060, the game would regularly freeze for fractions of a second when loading new areas, shaders, or even enemy attacks. Digital Foundry’s analysis confirmed the culprit: a combination of inefficient DirectX 12 implementation and a background thread managing assets that would choke the CPU. Use the FPS unlock mod with caution; above

7/10 Final Score as a Gaming Experience on PC: 10/10 (with mods)

The catastrophic stuttering is 95% fixed. FromSoftware implemented a background shader compilation step on first launch (invisible to the user but active during the initial loading screen). Frame pacing, while still not perfect, is vastly improved. Most modern systems can lock 60 FPS at 1440p or 4K with high settings.