'The good news is that on the Deck at least, those stutters seem to have indeed been fixed, and were not evident when I played.

This location usually sees quite a few stutters on both the Steam Deck, and on our powerful RTX 3090-equipped gaming PC. 'After downloading several updates for Elden Ring on the Steam Deck, I jumped into an area where you face several large enemies at once. Since the Steam Deck is pushing the engine's API calls via Vulkan through the Proton wrapper, Valve can itself deploy compiled shaders optimized for Steam Deck at the wrapper level, which prevent the constant shader loading from happening while in-game.TechRadar's own Matt Hanson tested the patch out for himself on Steam Deck, and his findings were overall very positive: Valve's engineers solved the problem via Proton, the compatibility wrapper that allows games to be played in Linux builds. This forces the game to constantly compile shaders as they're required (due to world loading, animation loading, among other triggers), which is responsible for the stuttering issues gamers on PC have been encountering. Apparently, Elden Ring allows users to enter its vast open-world without pre-compiling the required shaders (something that we've seen other games do through usually lengthy boot-up processes) for the specific hardware. The issue with Elden Ring's stuttering has been linked to the games' continuous shader loading. In a way, this turns Steam Deck into the smoothest device to play Elden Ring on. A fix for Elden Ring's stuttering issues has surfaced on late Monday - courtesy of Valve and its Proton wrapper, and only applicable to the Steam Deck. The game is an excellent showcase of From Software's gaming design ethos, but ultimately proves that the company's rendering engine still requires work after years of installments due to widely-reported stuttering issues - irrespective of hardware configuration. Elden Ring launched in late February to rave critic and consumer reviews.

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