Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC saw higher system requirements than the base game. As such, the amount of tweaking required to obtain a fine-tuned balance between frame rate and image quality in this particular game remains largely unchanged.
The game has received multiple patches since its 2022 launch, which has helped stabilize performance to a great degree. A general breakdown of the recommended PC settings for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree can be found detailed below.
Optimized PC settings for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
For the most part, Elden Ring is rather well optimized across a wide range of PC hardware, making it playable on both mid-range and relatively low-end devices such as the Steam Deck and ROG Ally.
Regardless, there do exist a series of visual tweaks we can apply that help boost frame rates at a minimal cost to image quality. These settings are accessible via the Graphics submenu under System, and include the following:
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Set this as per your display’s maximum internal resolution
- Auto detect best rendering settings: Keep this disabled
- Ray Tracing Quality: Keep this disabled – the image improvement is not significant enough and has a negative effect on FPS
- Quality Settings: High
The following section can be accessed via the Advanced settings tab:
- Texture Quality: High
- Antialiasing Quality: High
- SSAO: Medium
- Depth of Field: Medium
- Motion Blur: Off
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Lighting Quality: High
- Effects Quality: High
- Volumetric Quality: High
- Reflection Quality: High
- Water Surface Quality: High
- Shader Quality: High
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Grass Quality: High
Miscellaneous other settings
- Toggle Auto Lock-On: Enabled
- Auto-Target: Enabled
- Mouse Sensitivity: Keep this between 5 to 7
Keep in mind that these settings require you to be above the minimum system requirements. In particular, a mid-range GPU and CPU is necessary for achieving adequate visual quality at 60 FPS in 1080p resolutions.
As always, the list of settings mentioned above are not exactly universal, and readers are encouraged to tweak as per their hardware to strike their own balance.
