Elden Ring Nightreign releases today, and is best described as a roguelike expansion of the already popular Elden Ring video game. Nightreign is purely a multiplayer experience – and as such demands slightly beefier CPUs to work well most of the time.
All things considered though, Elden Ring Nightreign should perform close to Elden Ring, as it mandates largely similar PC system requirements. Regardless, there do exist a few optimized settings which will be explained in detail below, targeting a 60 FPS experience.
Optimized PC settings for Elden Ring Nightreign
Display
- Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed, Windowed might be better if you want to multi-task
- Resolution: 1920×1080; swap to your display’s native screen resolution
- Auto-Detect Best Rendering Settings: Off; we will be using our own presets here
Advanced
- Texture Quality: High; drop to Medium or Low for systems with less than 6 GB VRAM
- Antialiasing Quality: High
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO): High; can be dropped to Medium for lower end PCs
- Depth of Field: Maximum; barely any effect to frame rates, more of a personal preference
- Motion Blur: Off; personal preference
- Shadow Quality: Medium; drop to Low for weaker systems
- Lighting Quality: High; drop to Medium for low end systems
- Effects Quality: Medium; very intensive and should be always kept at Medium
- Volumetric Lighting Quality: High
- Reflection Quality: Low; very intensive and scales poorly
- Water Surface Quality: High; barely any effect on performance
- Shader Quality: Medium; Keep at Medium or Low, to avoid FPS drops
- Global Illumination: High
- Grass Quality: Medium; works best with Medium without sacrificing too much visual quality
The settings above should net you a more performant Elden Ring Nightreign experience, with little to no impact on visuals. Elden Ring Nightreign is strictly okay in terms of its optimization, and much of its leeway can be attributed toward its very accessible PC system requirements.
