Elden Ring Gets Long-Promised Ray Tracing Support on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X: Details

As per renowned Dark Souls modder Lance McDonald, ray tracing is limited to ambient occlusion and shadows — no ray-traced reflections.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Manas Mitul | Updated: 24 March 2023 13:16 IST

Elden Ring Gets Long-Promised Ray Tracing Support on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X: Details

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Ray-tracing is not available on Elden Ring's PS4 and Xbox One versions

Highlights

The Elden Ring ray tracing update is 5GB in size on the PS5, 200MB on PC
Bandai Namco has released PC system requirements for ray-traced settings
Elden Ring patch 1.09 also brings several bug fixes, balance adjustments

Elden Ring has finally received its long-promised ray-tracing update, courtesy of patch 1.09. The feature is now live on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X, with renowned Dark Souls modder Lance McDonald affirming that it's unfortunately limited to ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion. While Elden Ring's settings menu does include a ray-tracing toggle, there are no options for Nvidia DLSS or AMD's upscaling options to ensure better framerates when playing on high-fidelity graphics settings. There are no ray-traced reflections either and most visible changes are only seen outdoors, eliminating glowy edges on nearby rocks.

McDonald, who rose to prominence by creating the much-needed Bloodborne 60fps mod, notes that the PS5 ray-tracing patch is larger, coming in at 5GB, while the PC update is merely 200MB in size. That's because the PS5 version comes with precompiled shaders, which are ready to go once downloaded and installed. On PC, however, Elden Ring will need to compile/ install shaders upon the first launch after downloading the update — a common occurrence with most modern PC games. Still, nothing compared to Hogwarts Legacy on PC, which compiles shaders upon every launch. FromSoftware is aware of the lack of upscaling options, and therefore, in its recommended system requirements, lists 1080p resolution as the limit. Anything beyond that could potentially slow down your experience.

Elden Ring 1.09 is now live on PS5 and PC. It adds support for ray traced ambient occlusion and raytraced shadows. No ray traced reflections. No support for DLSS to help with performance.

PS5 update is 5gb, PC is 200mb. PS5 is bigger due to precompiled shaders being included. https://t.co/4oIMOcWgq8 pic.twitter.com/0fM7mV0qBM
— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) March 23, 2023

Here are the ray-tracing system requirements for Elden Ring, from publisher Bandai Namco:

Elden Ring minimum ray tracing PC requirements

OS: Windows 10
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
Graphics (GPU): Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12GB)
RAM: 16GB
Resolution: 1,920x1,080 pixels at Low quality – Low Ray Tracing

Elden Ring recommended ray tracing PC requirements

OS: Windows 11
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7-10700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Graphics (GPU): Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (8GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (16GB)
RAM: 16GB
Resolution: 1,920x1,080 pixels at High quality – High Ray Tracing

Elden Ring's patch 1.09 also brings several balance adjustments to the game, ranging from scaling in online PvP to making changes to several Ashes of War. You can read the entire patch log on the official Bandai Namco website. The company previously dropped a fun infographic revealing that players had collectively died over 9 billion times in Elden Ring, with key culprits being damage from enemies, falls to death, status effects, and online PvP. The stats also revealed that players attempted boss battles nearly 6 billion times, of which 329 million was Malenia, Blade of Miquella alone.

A few days after celebrating its one-year anniversary, FromSoftware announced the first major expansion for Elden Ring — Shadow of the Erdtree, which is currently in development for all platforms. At the time, we also got a teaser art of a dimly-lit scenery, featuring a mysterious blonde figure riding Torrent — our steed in-game — looking far into the distance at two intertwined trees casting shadows and leaking some golden sap. It is assumed that the figure is Miquella, brother to the Empyrian goddess Malenia, who was cursed to remain a child forever. Bandai Namco also confirmed last month that Elden Ring had sold over 20 million copies since its launch in February 2022.

Elden Ring is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X. The ray-tracing update feature won't be available on the PS4 and Xbox One versions.

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Elden Ring

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Genre RPG

Platform PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

PEGI Rating 18+

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