How to fix Elden Ring stuttering and boost FPS for boss fights

Nothing ruins a perfect Maliketh speedrun faster than a sudden frame drop right as he unleashes his Destined Death projectile spam. Elden Ring is notoriously demanding on CPUs and prone to shader compilation stutters. If your hardware is struggling to maintain a locked 60 FPS during chaotic boss encounters, these quick optimizations will stabilize your framerate.

Before tweaking the game, optimize how your operating system handles Elden Ring.
• Windows Graphics Settings: Turn on Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) and set Elden Ring's graphics preference to High Performance.
• NVIDIA Control Panel: Change Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance and set Shader Cache Size to Unlimited to eliminate sudden loading stutters.

You don't need to drop everything to Low. Focus only on the heaviest performance killers.

1. Volumetric Effect Quality: Set this to Medium. This single setting handles heavy fog, smoke, and magical boss aura effects, saving you up to 10% in FPS.
2. Shadow Quality: Lower this to Medium or High. Maximum shadows crush CPU performance in open areas like Farum Azula.