I think you meant that the way to play it is the ps4 version on ps5.

Yeah, my framerate would noticeably fluctuate a lot, especially in the open world. I was embellishing by calling it terrible but it never really felt smooth

PS4 version on PS5 is the way to go. Got that recommendation on Reddit back at launch, and fully support it. Buttery framerate, great detail, nothing distracting going on with the graphics.

I play on a budget 4K 60hz TV, FWIW.

It's only worth doing if it makes a real difference. Metro exodus launched with some rtx effects, but the enhanced edition changed the visuals dramatically. Witcher 3 added rtgi, shadows, and reflections. This update apparently only affects shadows, yet they still look like ass.

And rendering in ultrawide but blocking the extra screen space with black bars is such a disrespect. We get the performance loss, but no benefit. Until it bugs and the black bars disappear, and you get to enjoy it for a short time. Really wish they'd just let us have nice things. It costs nothing.

original Dark Souls is running on frames instead of time slices so if you play at 60fps the enemies jump like Olympians to hit you and you can slide through the floor down the ladder.

Please stop... let this sweet princess of series rest in peace

Not everything will be good when done by Fromsoft, they are good in two things and sucks at other aspects

Legacy of Kain is in legal/licensing(or whatever) limbo.

No company big enough to have resources to pursue legal aspects will make it justice and WILL squeeze it dry with greed

And Santa is not real.

The problem the PS4 load times were enormous compared to the number of times you die in that game.

It was particularly awful when fighting bosses, where each iteration of the fight could be less than ten seconds. It literally meant a majority of my time “playing” the game while fighting a boss was spent waiting to respawn.

As I said, I don’t mind this sort of wait in a game where respawning is very infrequent, but in a game where you do it all the time it’s awful.

I think if it was souls-lite it would work.

I find it fascinating that the highest end gaming pcs perform worse than my ps5… I know it’s about the developers prioritizing compatibility, but why would I make the leap into pcs at this point?! Every game that comes out I hear about these issues.

Good, let it be an afterthought, especially if they're continually making GAME OF THE YEAR, year after year.

Clearly, they have an idea of what they're doing.

I don;'t think the loading times are that bad, and I actually don't even care about a small load. It's cool they're trying to eliminate them, but I actually feel like a little loading downtime is *good* for Souls games. Breather. That said, I never found PS4/Ps4 Elden Ring frustrating., nor did I have issues' with loading blocks of vegetation slowly like I do with either version on the PS5, in ANY graphics mode. Which just kind of baffles me.

As I said it's a fighting game thing. They must have really wanted the look and feel of mortal kombat/street fighter/smash bros...

The combat must be so important to their game design, they want it fixed.

Kinda sucks :/ My graphicscard sits at maybe 20% utilization i wish i could use more of its power and just play at silky smooth 120fps.. how can Engine fps caps still be a thing in 23.. shouldnt all engines be updated by now for the new consoles and dx12 etc. Are they just straight up refusing to review their code or why..

I think you are mistaking RT with RTX.

RT means ray tracing, agnostic of hardware or software.

RTX means you eat the entire nvidia library SDK and benefit from all the technology suite.

This game is not RTX ON, it's RTX OFF.

Looks like all the frame data is hard coded like in Mortal Kombat.

High punch is 6 frames, so FPS must be 60 or else the game makes no sense...

You are right in the first half. But the second half just propagates a stereotype that PC gamers are too stupid to buy a TV and a HDMI cable...

It’s about the dialogue.

I could listen to that cast read the phone book.

Fuck you, leave my series alone. Not everything needs to be souls-like. Combat is secondary in these games, its all about the puzzles.

I scoot my couch up or grab a chair for game time. Gimme all the details!

And yet it still drops framerates by about 25% for almost no visual difference.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elden-rings-ray-tracing-update-is-out-heres-how-it-looks-and-runs-on-pc

Like you can see *a* difference but it's mostly "colours and shadows a bit softer now" not a meaningful change to illumination and shadows.

Yup, and the fact that Raziel can't actually die would balance the difficulty out completely.

Bull-fucking-shit! FromSoft are great, enough of this artificial outrage.

As a consumer, I am all in favor of less choices. The work of balancing optimization with other considerations should be handled by the developers and should not be handed off to consumers.

Really? The game runs flawlessly on my Series X. It has since day one.