A new patch for Elden Ring has added ray tracing support to the game on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, but with a big catch. According to Bandai Namco, enabling ray tracing can have an effect on frame rate and resolution, impacting the overall performance of the game. This isn’t unusual, seeing as how ray tracing is a fairly resource-intensive function. “Please note that performance–such as frame rate and resolution–may be impacted while playing with ray tracing on,” Bandai Namco’s patch notes read.
For PC players, you can find the recommended requirements below to get Elden Ring’s ray tracing working on your system:
Elden Ring ray tracing minimum settings