The new game from Soulsborne masters From Software is currently breaking all records on Twitch and Steam. Elden Ring was played on Valve’s gaming platform by 764,835 players at the same time almost three hours after the release – that’s six times more than the indirect predecessor Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
At almost the same time, 908,687 people were watching them on Twitch, surpassing their previous viewership highs by a factor of 3. A remarkable success, which is now, however, from the mixed steam ratings is clouded. The reason is mostly technical problems.
How was our experience? We also encountered some technical problems, which we have prepared for you in our technology check. Unfortunately, due to the shortcomings we observed, we couldn’t resist giving Elden Ring a downgrade in our in-depth review:
Elden Ring put to the test
The second highest rating in GameStar history
What does From Software say about the problems? In the meantime, there is also a first official statement from the developer about the problems. In this article you can find out which technical defects are at the top of the to-do list. But first, let’s take a look at the issues being reported by affected players.
Players report these technical defects
The technical problems do not affect or bother all players by any means, but some topics can be found again and again in the Steam reviews:
- FPS drops in large open areas
- Micro stutters and generally low FPS despite strong hardware
- Control problems when using the keyboard
- Controllers that are not recognized
- Easy-Anti-Cheat prevent mods and community fixes
- Regular crashes
So reported For example, one of those affected said that even with a Geforce RTX 3080, he had difficulties maintaining a stable 60 FPS at a resolution of 1920×1080. Another complained about still images and unresponsive buttons, which made the already rock-hard boss fights even more difficult.
Elden Ring – View screenshots from the PC version
From Software comments on future patches
The fact that there were already two day-one patches within 12 hours could at least give some hope that From Software also want to break studio records with the speed of their updates.
There is already an official statement. in one new blog entry From Software lists some issues that it is aware of and that it intends to fix in the future. Instead of giving an approximate time frame, the waiting fans are told: We ask for your patience.
These problems are explicitly mentioned:
- Sensible Maus: Emotions are all well and good, but our beloved rodent is just overly sensitive at times in the Elden Ring. The problem should come with a patch
in the near future
be resolved. - Easy-Anti-Cheat: The protection against piracy makes trouble if your Steam username is a so-called
2-Byte-Character
having. This means all sorts of special characters, including the umlauts such as ä, ö and ü, which are common in our region. The developer’s solution? They come here tooin the near future
. - performance drops: From Software states that they will work on optimizing the game performance in the long term. If you are currently having problems, you should make sure that the graphics card drivers are up to date.
Finally, the studio assures that you can some other bug fixes and performance improvements
work. Here, too, no approximate time frame is given.
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From Software outdoes itself with Elden Ring – Test/Review
Technical issues in Elden Ring are unfortunate as they affect what is otherwise a fantastic gaming experience. Those who are curious can see for themselves in our test video above. Or you can just listen and watch our almost 50-minute rating discussion. There Michi, Elena and Géraldine talk shop about how Elden Ring was able to inspire us so much.
What is your experience with Elden Ring so far? Are you plagued by technical quirks or are you enjoying the game milestone to the fullest? Let us know in the comments!
