6 Ways to Fix Regular In-Game Elden Ring Crashing on a Windows PC

Elden Ring is a PC game for which many players have reported persistent crashing issues. For example, a player’s forum post says this about ER crashing: “I want to enjoy Elden Ring, but I can’t anymore. The game doesn’t stop crashing every five minutes, over and over again.” Many players report Elden Ring often crashes randomly, at certain points, or shortly after entering worlds. Regular crashing can make Elden Ring quite unplayable. This is how you can fix persistent in-game Elden Ring crashing on a Windows 11/10 PC.

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Verify Files for Elden Ring

A quick file verification check can fix Elden Ring crashing by repairing missing or corrupted game files. This doesn’t work in all scenarios, but it’s a simple potential resolution that’s a good starting point for troubleshooting. Check out this Steam help page for details about how to verify games with Valve’s gaming client.

The Verify integrity of game files

Disable Ray Tracing in Elden Ring

Many players say disabling Ray Tracing can fix Elden Ring’s crashing issues. This highlights that the fancy Ray Tracing graphical effect crashes Elden Ring on some PCs when enabled. You can disable Ray Tracing via ER’s settings as follows.

1. Start your Elden Ring game.
2. Select System on the menu.
3. Next, go to the Graphics tab.
   
   

   The Ray Tracing Quality setting

4. Set the Ray Tracing Quality option to Off.

I also recommend selecting a lower graphics quality setting for Elden Ring. For example, set the graphics to a medium setting if at high. You can do that by changing the Quality Settings option below Ray Tracing.

Set Windowed Mode

Some players confirm configuring ER to run in a windowed borderless mode has fixed their Elden Ring crashing. You can do this with Steam launch options or via in-game graphical settings. This is how to set a windowed mode Steam launch setting for Elden Ring.

1. Open the Steam games client.
2. Select Library at the top of Steam.
3. Click Elden Ring with the right button to select Properties.
4. Input -windowed -noborder in the Launch Options box.
   
   

   The Launch Options box in Steam

Turn Off Steam’s Overlay

Overlays don’t mix well with Elden Ring. So, I recommend all players make sure that the Steam overlay is disabled at least. You can turn off the Steam overlay like this.

1. Click Steam > Settings in your Steam software.
2. Select the In-Game tab.
   
   

   The Enable the Steam Overlay setting

3. Toggle off the Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game option.

Aside from that, try disabling overlays in other software packages. NVIDIA GeForce Experience, Discord, Ubisoft, EA app, and the Windows Game Bar all have overlays that can potentially cause Elden Ring crashing issues much the same. So, disable overlays for those apps if installed.

Close MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner

Make sure MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner isn’t running in the background if you have either app. Players say they’ve fixed Elden Ring crashing by closing MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner. Both are overclocking apps with overlay (or on-screen display) features. You can close MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner with Task Manager like this.

1. Go into Task Manager by activating that tool with the Ctrl + Shift + Esc key combination.
2. Look for MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner processes on the Processes tab.
3. Right-click all MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner processes you can to select End task. Note that multiple Rivatuner processes for its stats server have RTSS in them.
   
   

   The End task option

4. Try starting Elden Ring with the MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner apps closed.

Configure High-Performance Graphics for Elden Ring

Setting high-performance graphics is a potential fix for Elden Ring crashing some payers say has worked for them. This will more likely work if your PC has two graphics cards, as selecting high-performance sets a dedicated GPU. To apply this potential fix, select the High performance graphics option like this.

1. Click the taskbar magnifying glass icon or the search box to access the tool for file searching.
2. Enter a graphics settings keyword and click the matching result in the search box.
3. Click Browse and select the EXE file for launching Elden Ring in the Open window.
   
   

   Graphics settings in Settings

4. Press the Add button.
5. Select Elden Ring in the graphical settings and click on its Options button.
6. Click the High performance radio button and Save.
   
   

   The High performance radio button

Other Potential Fixes for Regular Elden Ring Crashing

If Elden Ring still crashes too much, there are other troubleshooting methods worth trying. Here are additional suggestions for fixing Elden Ring crashing.

• Delete all temporary files in the Temp folder.
• Uninstall the Epic Games launcher if you have that software. However, note this will also remove games installed with that gaming client.
• Try installing the newest driver for your graphics card.
• Select the Disable full-screen option for Elden Ring on the Compatibility tab.
• Uninstall and reinstall Elden Ring.

There’s no surefire way to entirely eliminate Elden Ring crashing on any Windows PC. However, the resolutions above are among the more widely confirmed remedies for ER crashing that have worked for players. So, applying some of those potential crashing fixes could make your Elden Ring game much more playable.