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Asking a gamer what title he’s into nowadays will almost surely involve Elden Ring, one way or another. Bandai Namco’s new dark fantasy action RPG amassed a large community of fans long before release.
But don’t be fooled by the fancy wallpapers and the 4K gameplay videos, because this game also came with quite a large number of bugs and glitches that made it either hard or impossible for some fans to play.
Whether they’re having problems with the game not downloading, or not being able to play on PC using a controller, gamers that purchased Elden Ring have seen their fair share of issues.
Some of these bugs got fixed through recent patches, while others are still avoided using temporary workarounds.
What can I do if Elden Ring won’t use the GPU on my PC?
As we said, one of the biggest issues Elden Ring faced so far was a bug that prevented the game from automatically detecting and using your gaming rig’s GPU.
It goes without saying that this resulted in the game running off the weaker CPU integrated graphics instead, in case you were wondering.
This, of course, led to tons of performance issues, and while the issue could be fixed manually through Windows settings, many players didn’t even realize that their GPU wasn’t being used.
Fortunately, you pretty much have to do next to nothing, except update your game to the latest available version.
FromSoftware released Elden Ring Patch 1.02.2 to address and solve this problem and now Elden Ring will correctly default to using your PC’s GPU instead of your CPU’s integrated graphics.
Before the gaming studio provided the fixes through this patch, resourceful players found some workarounds that apparently did the trick.
Gamers struggling with this nasty performance issue had to manually intervene and adjust graphics performance options for Elden Ring directly from the machine’s Settings menu.
Another workaround that seems to have helped some users involved manually disabling the internal GPU using the Device Manager or BIOS.
However, now that developers took care of everything, all that’s left to do is kick back, relax, and gear up to take down some tough foes such as Bloodhound Knight Darriwil.
Remember to also look over the most recent patch notes, which also bring lots of fixes for both PC and PlayStation versions of Elden Ring.
Players have also reported dealing with white screen errors in Elden Ring while playing on PC, but there is a quick fix that will help you with this.
Also keep in mind that you don’t be able to crossplay Elden Ring with friends from different platforms, except for Xbox One – Series X/S, and PlayStation 4 – PlayStation 5.
Have you also been dealing with this annoying issue while playing Elden Ring on PC? Share your experience with us in the comments section below.
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