Thousands of calls began to come out, and the "Eldon's Ring of Law", which attracted the attention of soul players, finally met with the players at the end of last month.
This RPG masterpiece developed by From Software Studios and sitting by Hidetaka Miyazaki, although the initial PC optimization problems made players comment on it mixed, fortunately, in subsequent updates, the official stability of the game was improved. Xiaobian actual measurement found that after the update, the frame rate did stabilize a lot, and the situation of the honey juice dropping frame before was basically not reproduced, and the familiar "soul" flavor came back.
Speaking of the game itself, "Eldon's Ring of Law" gathers many features of the previous soul system: the game starts directly on the big BOSS, the labyrinthine box court map, the sinister levels full of routines, the thrilling BOSS battle, and on this basis, it also adds the popular open world elements, and the vast map greatly enriches the game volume, reaching the highest of the soul game.
What is more surprising is that the open world of the "Old Man Ring" is not a formulaic task running map, the game will only give you simple guidance, the rest is to give the player full freedom space, you can ride the leaping spirit horse in the complex scene to explore, jump over different terrain, wander in different areas of the box court maze, the gameplay of each scene is not a simple copy paste, but different, the story behind the scene is also worth pondering and recalling, igniting your desire to explore.
Many players may have a lingering feeling about the high-intensity battle and "jail" running map experience of the "Soul" series of games, in this generation, the number of game save points has increased significantly, reducing the player's fatigue of "one level failed, the whole picture rerun" of the "jail style" experience. At the same time, there are enough degrees of freedom in the open world that allow you to skip the previous levels and go to other areas to explore and upgrade, and you can come back to challenge the main boss after the character's strength has risen.
This generation of the old ring weapon system not only has short-range weapons, you can also choose magic and bow and arrow ranged attacks, you can also summon souls to assist you in battle, rich combat system for players, facing the boss battle can unlock more strategies and play, with higher playability.
The recommended configuration is based on the mainstream CPU and graphics card from five years ago, if your computer configuration is newer, it is no problem to drive 1080P or 2K resolution smooth 60 frames running.
Of course, the frame rate of the old ring is only 60 frames, and at the end of the article, we will share a small Easter egg with you to teach you how to crack the limit of 60 frames of the old ring.
Test the platform configuration
In terms of test platform, based on the official recommended configuration, we choose the hardware combination of i5-12600K+ RTX 3050. As a new generation of dessert card successor, RTX 3050 is positioned to meet the 1080P high-quality smooth gaming experience, today we will use this Gigabyte RTX3050 Magic Eagle graphics card to see how the actual frame rate of "Eldon's Ring of Law" is.
The resolution of the game test is 1920 * 1080, the picture quality is set to high quality and the highest quality, and the "auto adjust rendering effect" is turned off to ensure picture consistency, and during the game, the frame number is recorded using MSI Afterburner.
Gaming experience
Game Quality: Highest
The difference between the actual two picture quality is not large, the main difference is that under the highest picture quality, the texture of the protagonist's clothes is more delicate, while the surrounding texture quality is better, and then a little more light and shadow effect. Since Old Man Ring is a cross-PC/console platform game, the official maximum frame rate is only 60 frames.
Game Quality: High
After the official new version update, the Gigabyte RTX 3050 Magic Eagle graphics card is quite smooth in 1080P high quality. The average frame count reached 59.8 frames, which is basically in the state of 60 frames in the whole process, and the minimum frame rate of 1% reached 53.8 frames, which means that the fluctuation of the frame rate in the game is quite stable.
The average frame rate at the highest quality is also 57 frames, but the minimum frame rate of 1% reaches 40 frames, which fluctuates slightly more than the high quality in the game.
The 60-frame limit is obviously not a stress for the RTX 3050, and there will even be cases where the graphics card is not loaded in the game scene.
Unlock frame rate test
In order to make this RTX 3050 graphics card reach its limit, we used some "special means" to unlock the highest frame rate, but the highest frame rate can only run to the highest refresh rate supported by the monitor, because the display is used at a 144Hz refresh rate, so the maximum frame rate is limited to 144 frames.
After unlocking, the performance of the Gigabyte RTX 3050 Magic Eagle has been well utilized, and the average frame rate can reach 90.9 frames at 1080P and high quality, and the frame rate performance at 1% minimum frame rate can also reach 57 frames, which is better than the performance at the unlocked frame rate.
The average frame rate at the highest quality was also 75.7 frames, while the 1% minimum frame rate was also improved to 43.8 frames. The overall frame rate performance is a big improvement compared to before unlocking.
Little Easter Egg: Elden Ring FPSUnlocker
This Easter egg comes from a software project on GitHub: Elden Ring FPS Unlocker, which can unlock the limitations of FPS in full-screen mode of the game, which may be officially recognized as cheating, and it is recommended not to try it easily.
Before running, you need to make sure that your monitor's maximum refresh rate is higher than 60Hz, then set the game parameters in the 3D settings under the NVIDIA control panel, and then launch the game through the software after the settings are complete.
This software will be recognized as cheat by the official EAC cheat system, so to run the game in offline mode, click "Start game without EAC" in the software and the software will automatically bypass the cheat system to start the game.
At the end of the article, the address of the software will be released, and interested partners can understand it by themselves.
summary
Limited by the length of the space, the content of "Eldon's Law Ring" is far from being summarized in one article, it combines the gameplay and characteristics of the previous soul system predecessors, combined with the vast map of the open world, it can be said to be a collection of adventure, fierce battles and running map experience.
Soul game has always focused on the gameplay experience, the picture quality is not too colorful, GTX 1660 graphics card above the 1080P high quality is still enough. After practical testing, the use of i5-12600K processors and GIGABYTE RTX 3050 Magic Eagle graphics card can run throughout 60 frames, indicating that the old man ring is still very friendly to mainstream players in terms of configuration.
At the same time, the graphics card's wind power three-fan cooling system, to help RTX 3050 core full blood output, so that Gigabyte RTX 3050 Magic Eagle in the game to maintain a calm performance, the author liver an afternoon of the old ring, the graphics card temperature has been kept below 60 degrees, while it has an overclocking design, the core of the game process has been maintained at a high frequency of 1.9Ghz. The game is so robust that for long-term liver old ring players, the Gigabyte RTX 3050 Magic Eagle is a good graphics card choice.