Ray Tracing Is Now Available in Elden Ring

FromSoftware has released a new patch for their popular title Elden Ring which brings ray tracing to the game on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

Elden Ring RayTracing Update

This ray-tracing patch was initially announced back in November and has only now seen fruition. This update has brought ambient occlusion and ray-traced shadows to the game but has not introduced ray-traced reflections. Unfortunately, none of the upscaling technologies either DLSS or FSR has been added to the game so the performance hit from enabling ray tracing is unlikely to be worth enabling. Because of this fact From software has released new minimum recommended requirements for raytracing

Ray Tracing Technical Specifications

Minimum

• OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 10
• PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
• MEMORY: 16 GB RAM
• GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 8 GB or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, 12 GB
• RECOMMENDED GRAPHICS SETTING: 1080p – Low quality – Low Ray Tracing

Recommended

• OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 11
• PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-10700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
• MEMORY: 16 GB RAM
• GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, 8 GB or AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, 16 GB
• RECOMMENDED GRAPHICS SETTING: 1080p – High quality – High Ray Tracing

Other Additions

Ray Tracing is good news for those with a lot of frames to spare though for those who don’t care about that this patch has brought plenty of new bug fixes, gameplay issues and general PVP balances, you can read the full patch notes below.

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments
The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.

• The Inescapable Frenzy incantation power and grab angle have been increased.
• The Lifesteal Fist skill power, range and grab angle have been increased.
• Decreased the power of two-handed jumping attacks.
• Decreased the power of heavy and heavy running attacks of Fist and Claw weapon types.
• Decreased the power of the Founding Rain of Stars spell.
• Decreased the spell enhancement effect of the Terra Magica spell.
• Decreased the damage and poise damage of the Wave of Gold skill when hitting an opponent over a certain distance.
• Decreased the effectiveness of the Determination and Royal Knight’s Resolve skills.
• Decreased the effects of the Contagious Fury skill of the Jellyfish Shield.
• Decreased the effectiveness of the Claw Talisman.
• Decreased the effectiveness of the Lord of Blood’s Exultation Talisman.
• Decreased the attack power buff granted by the White Mask head armor.
• Decreased the jumping attack damage buff granted by the Raptor’s Black Feathers armor.
• Decreased the damage buff granted by Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear, and Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear when activated with the Flask of Wondrous Physick.

General balance adjustments

• Added an invincibility window when respawning in the colosseum.
• Increased the scaling of the following attributes when infusing weapons with certain Ashes of War:
• Magic / Fire / Flame Art / Lightning / Sacred
• Increased the attribute scaling of the following weapon types:
• Colossal Sword / Great Axe / Hammer / Flail / Great Hammer / Colossal Weapon
• Increased the speed, range and recovery time of some attacks for the following weapon types:
• Great Hammer / Great Axe / Great Sword / Curved Greatsword
• Flail weapons changes:
• Increased the speed of some attacks.
• Reduced attack recovery time.
• Increased poise when using two-handed attacks.
• Increased running attacks speed and reduced attack recovery time for the following weapon types:
• Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Axe / Hammer / Halberd
• Increased the first attack speed for the following weapon types:
• Straight Sword / Curved Sword / Whip
• Increased the speed of guard counters for the following weapon types:
• Straight Sword / Great Sword / Colossal Sword / Great Curved Sword / Katana / Twinblade Sword / Axe / Great Axe / Flail / Great Hammer / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd
• Reduced the attack recovery time for Whip weapons.
• Increased the damage of Claw weapons.
• Added Holy damage and Faith scaling to the Great Club.
• Increased damage negation when blocking Holy damage and decreased damage negation when blocking damage from other affinities.
• Increased the effectiveness of the Twinblade Talisman.
• Slightly reduced rolling travel distance for light equipment weights.
• Decreased the hitbox size for some attacks of the following weapon types:
• Thrusting Sword / Heavy thrusting Sword / Spear / Great Spear / Halberd

Ashes of War adjustments

• Lifesteal Fist
• Increased target grab range.
• Surge of Faith
• Increased projectile generation speed.
• Flame Spit
• Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill.
• Adjusted the angle of the fireball.
• Tongues of Fire
• Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill.
• Great Oracular Bubble
• Increased projectile generation speed and reduced the recovery time.
• Viper Bite
• Reduced the time before rolling is possible after using the skill.
• Shriek of Milos
• Increased close range poise damage.
• Spearcall Ritual
• Increased projectile generation speed.
• Cursed-Blood Slash
• Increased projectile generation speed and reduced the recovery time.
• Gold Breaker
• Reduced the recovery time.
• I Command Thee, Kneel!
• Increased attack generation speed.
• Starcaller Cry
• Increased the speed of follow-up attacks.
• Spinning Wheel
• Increased attack generation speed.
• Added a roll & heavy attack cancel timing while using the skill.

Ashes of War adjustments

• Lifesteal Fist
• Increased target grab range.
• Surge of Faith
• Increased projectile generation speed.
• Flame Spit
• Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill.
• Adjusted the angle of the fireball.
• Tongues of Fire
• Increased the guard speed and blocking amount of the skill.
• Great Oracular Bubble
• Increased projectile generation speed and reduced the recovery time.
• Viper Bite
• Reduced the time before rolling is possible after using the skill.
• Shriek of Milos
• Increased close range poise damage.
• Spearcall Ritual
• Increased projectile generation speed.
• Cursed-Blood Slash
• Increased projectile generation speed and reduced the recovery time.
• Gold Breaker
• Reduced the recovery time.
• I Command Thee, Kneel!
• Increased attack generation speed.
• Starcaller Cry
• Increased the speed of follow-up attacks.
• Spinning Wheel
• Increased attack generation speed.
• Added a roll & heavy attack cancel timing while using the skill.