FromSoft releases Ray Tracing support for Elden Ring on the PS5(5GB), Xbox(7GB) and the PC(200MB)

Barely any difference from what I've seen so far. Maybe it's for the upcoming expansion.

inb4 Hardwenzen

Glad I can enjoy the game without fancy lighting.

It's barely noticeable and RT mode is basically a slugfest on ps5 as RT forces you to run Quality mode. So unless you have a beefy GPU that can run this on PC(there's no dlss either) it's pretty much a non upgrade across the board

RT on a FromSoft game? I can only imagined how flawlessly it will perform. 😁

Series X update is 7GB. The RT is barely noticeable.

@kvallyx: Thanks, updated the title.

Eh, I'll wait for Bluepoint to do an actual graphics update because only adding AO seems a little lacklustre...

Elden Ring the one game that doesn't need better graphics. but its cool I guess if patched RT in without a performance hit..

Elden Ring is ugly as ****. It looks like a PS3 game.

Yeah this is a studio that can't even support resolutions past 720p, without even taking a gander I'm confident the ray tracing will amaze all of mankind.

@kvallyx: It absolutely does not. Looks like a gorgeous PS5 game with best-in-class, award winning art style.

Not as good as graphics kings like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok, but still looks great technically.

Artistically it is pretty much unmatched, as reflected by the VGA.

Talk about polishing a turd. lolol :P

Nah, it's pretty standard fare. I would agree though, inline with HFW and GOW. But they still are not as good as games like Forza Horizon 5, Flight Simulator 2020 or Gears 5 Hivebusters, A Plague Tale: Requim or the new COD.

The game was already struggling to hit 60 FPS on consoles

I struggle staying alive for 60 seconds in the game.

You know what they say, you cant put lipstick on an pig.

@kvallyx: HFW and GOWR look vastly superior to FH5, FS2020 and Gears 5 lol.

Did they even fix the stuttering on the PC version yet? I am all for some RT, but the dev's priorities are definitely off if the stuttering has not been addressed.

@kvallyx: FH5 (2021), FS2020 (2020) and Gears 5 (2019) didn't even win the best graphics in their respective years. HFW literally won best graphics 2022.

LOL! No. Give us what you are smokin'!

@Mozelleple112: I don't think you understand the meaning of the word vast

Putting Ray tracing on a PS3 looking game is a bit like putting lipstick on a pig 😂

What? Cows were saying it is best in class! How dare you! Funny thing is MGS4 on PS3 looks better.

You must have the cows blocked, or it's opposite day!

Been fixed for a year now.

Will log in just to see the difference, i guess. But its fromsoft, they haven't learned what's technology, so i am not expecting anything but fps tanking.

You're an outdated gamer, bro. Bet you think that Blizzard and Bioware are still making bangers🥱

Curious to check it out and see what it’s like on console but will probably leave it off for the higher frame rates.

So, it pre-compiles shaders? I have never played the game, but the stutters were bad from what I saw and I have not heard about them fixing it...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/yrekgl/shader_compilation_stutters_still_run_rampant/

9.28 Cows to 12.155 Lems

Not sure, most of the issues at launch were in early Limgrave like with the Tree Sentinel fight and the Ahgeel fight that would turn the game randomly into a slide show. Those issues are alleviated, only hiccups I've experienced in my last playthrough and a seamless co-op run with my wife was a hiccup entering Caelid that was barley noticeable. Results may vary I guess but there are people doing no hit runs on PC and that simply wouldn't be possible with a game stuttering all the time. Just watch a Twitch stream or something and you'll see how it performs, or buy it and refund if the game runs like shit for you.

@fedor: Watching a stream of someone playing would not help much unless I am watching from a fresh install. Otherwise, they would have already cached many of the shaders that would have caused early stutters.

You can find a lot of Vods from fresh playthroughs like this one above on Youtube. Trying yourself would obviously be ideal.

Seems OK for the most part, but there are some traversal stutters. Also, unacceptable optimization like at 2:02:22. I can't handle shit like that.

I have no intention of playing the game any time soon as I still have to play DS3 and Sekiro, but was just curious if it is safe to play at this point.

Logged in to see how it looked. lol its so incredibly impressive i can't even tell if its On😂Must be the most barebones RT ever added into a video game.

@BassMan: It runs now pretty smooth. Rarely dips below 60. May get a stutter once in a blue moon.

The studio need to have lessons from King Microsoft on how to do graphics. Look at Flight Simulator and Hellblade 2 and Forza Horizon and Halo Infinite.

Yea, lets do that

I really think Tim Sweeney should just fly up to Japan and show them UE5.

I respect studios wanting to use their own engine and Fromsoftware has incredible artists. But their games look a generation behind from a technical standpoint.

@hardwenzen:

....and this game can do RT properly 😁

Good point.

Only RT shadows, the bare minimum from Fromsoft as always. Took em a whole year to add that lol

@Pedro: funny that you felt the need to point that out, but not the fact that there is a guy who thinks a game that wasn't even considered best looking in 2019 is better looking than the de facto best looking game of 2022?