Bandai Namco Entertainment and FromSoftware’s action role-playing game, Elden Ring: Nightreign, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Elden Ring: Nightreign, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Elden Ring: Nightreign Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
ADVANCED SETTINGS
- Texture Quality: Maximum
- Antialiasing Quality: High
- SSAO: High
- Depth of Field: High
- Motion Blur: High
- Shadow Quality: High
- Lighting Quality: High
- Effects Quality: High
- Volumetric Lighting Quality: High
- Reflections Quality: High
- Water Surface Quality: High
- Shader Quality: High
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Grass Quality: High
How Does Elden Ring: Nightreign Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
ADVANCED SETTINGS
- Texture Quality: High
- Antialiasing Quality: High
- SSAO: High
- Depth of Field: High
- Motion Blur: High
- Shadow Quality: High
- Lighting Quality: High
- Effects Quality: High
- Volumetric Lighting Quality: High
- Reflections Quality: High
- Water Surface Quality: High
- Shader Quality: High
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Grass Quality: High
As seen in the video above, Elden Ring: Nightreign runs at frame rates above 30 fps on the Steam Deck on the High settings preset. As such, we consider the game to be playable on Valve’s handheld device.
