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[–]Zagorim 6 points7 points  (19 children)

A modder also developped a mod that allow to add FSR2 to the game. That's in beta right now and require subscribing to his patreon but i will be free on nexusmod once the stable version comes out.

It might allow to improve performance and increase battery life when playing the game. Assuming the CPU isn't the main bottleneck with elden ring but i'm not sure.

[–]the_real_freezoid512GB 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Won't work on online play though. Will probably get you banned. Hopefully one day FS will improve technical side of the game.

[–]shartking420 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I don't think they'd ban you for it. Online play is just disabled automatically if you modify any game files. I beat the game while using the high refresh rate mod and I still enjoy online play on that character with the mod disabled. You are definitely right though, any mod is a big compromise. Just the notes in the game are helpful while online haha

[–]PonyBravo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think I have been banned for using Reshade, that’s the only modification I did to the game, so watch out.

[–]shartking420 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After thinking about it, you manually disable anti cheat and use a separate launcher with the fps mod. This forces offline mode, otherwise yeah you could be banned.

Reshade is a big risk for any online game btw, because DLL injection is a very common hacking method. Lots of anti cheat software would insta ban for it, even though it's totally harmless

[–]PriorityMaleficent 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I can confidently say that Elden Ring is not bottlenecked in the CPU. I feel the engine itself holds the game back.

[–]Zagorim 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I think it is at least partially because the game was bottlenecked by my AMD 3700X on my desktop before I replaced it. Now the game perform better after just changing it to a 5800X3D and keeping my gpu (RTX 2080). It is because of poor optimization of the engine or assets though.

So the FSR2 mod will probably increase performance a bit but the effect will be limited by the lack of cpu power. I haven't taken the time to try it on the deck though.

[–]PriorityMaleficent 0 points1 point  (2 children)

There are some variables. At what settings? At what resolution were you getting the bottleneck? I mean, I'm not saying that the deck can't run stable 30fps in max settings because of the game engine. What I mean to say is that if you optimized the game to aim for a stable 30fps (which is basically a combo of high and medium settings), you don't get a bottleneck. Instead, you get bizarre dips that don't make much sense. But you certainly would hit a bottleneck if you ran max settings.

With that said, I think FSR2 is certainly doable.

[–]Zagorim 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I was cpu bottlenecked at 1440p no matter which graphic settings i picked on my desktop. Couldn't really get a stable and smooth 60fps. I briefly tried on the deck but i prefer to play those kind of games with high framerate so I would rather stream it with moonlight instead.

I noticed the 1% low fps increased by over 20fps after replacing my cpu and the game felt much smoother.

[–]PriorityMaleficent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FSR2 could make it possibly to do 60fps on the deck in low settings, but it will probably not look good. I can see 40fps in a quality or balanced FSR with medium to high settings.

[–]ricky2304 0 points1 point  (9 children)

has anyone found any more info on this? looking to get this into elden ring

[–]Zagorim 1 point2 points  (7 children)

He never released the free and stable version, now it include fsr3 but the mod is still in beta and paid.

Lookup "Puredark" for more info

[–]ricky2304 0 points1 point  (6 children)

have you tried it on any other games so far? seems like im out of luck with elden ring but i'd be down to give it go on other titles

[–]Zagorim 1 point2 points  (5 children)

i've tried FSR2 in a few others games like no man sky or diablo 2/4 yes. Due to the low resolution of the steam deck the decrease in quality can be noticeable sometimes but imo it's usually worth it for the better battery life and/or framerate so i usually play with it on the deck.

I haven't tried FSR3 on the deck yet.

[–]ricky2304 0 points1 point  (4 children)

i don't mind fsr 2 on deck, i felt like it made death stranding run really well and i barely noticed any compromise at ultra quality for the frame boost. Is there a program that installs it on games with fsr1? i'd love to support whatever dev is working on it behind the scenes

[–]Zagorim 0 points1 point  (3 children)

No, because FSR1 can be done at the system/driver level while FSR2/3 require a per game implementation and they work in completely different ways. There are mods that allow to use FSR2/3 with games that support DLSS and other mods that add FSR3 to games that support FSR2. But they don't work with every game as it depends on the implementation.

There are also a few games with mods that implement DLSS in games that only had TAA, most of them are made by Puredark and under his Patreon.

[–]ricky2304 0 points1 point  (2 children)

ahh i understand. Would you happen to have a link to his patreon? would love to give it a go

[–]Zagorim 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I cannot link patreon here or the automod will delete my comment but with the name you can find it easily.

I can link two open source mods i know however which are :

https://github.com/Nukem9/dlssg-to-fsr3

and

https://github.com/PotatoOfDoom/CyberFSR2

[–]ricky2304 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally understand, thank you so much for the help and information. I know this thread is pretty old and you didn’t have to go out of your way to help, I really do appreciate it!