Elden Ring mouse software on PC can cause framerate issues, FromSoftware’s official support account has confirmed.
This warning comes from the official FromSoftware Player Support account on X (via Dsogaming) following the release of the popular Shadow of the Erdtree expansion last week. If you’re experiencing framerate stutters, FromSoftware advises to close the mouse software. “In the PC version, the frame rate may not be stable when playing the game while running a mouse-control related app”, the translated post on X reads. “In that case, please try playing the game after stopping the mouse-control related app.”
We guess this applies to most background applications when running games, and as such, we highly suggest closing them before running Elden Ring, or any game for that matter.
Elden Ring and the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion are available worldwide now across PC and consoles. Here’s what we wrote about the game’s expansion earlier this month. We’ve also included some 4K PC gameplay to go with it:
“After that, it did not take long to get back into the engaging adventuring loop of the Elden Ring experience, searching for map fragments to get a better look at the map, placing markers where points of interest are seemingly located, and getting amazed by beautiful vistas, immense castles, and sprawling haunting forests, unaware of the dangers that lurked inside of them. With open-world fatigue setting in earlier this year due to the many open-world games released in 2024—like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Rise of the Ronin, and the PC versions of Horizon Forbidden West and Ghost of Tsushima—Shadow of the Erdtree’s open-world design stands out as a testament to how the Elden Ring experience still surpasses anything else on the market. As such, I believe a perfect score is justified, even with the evident lack of significant innovation and some technical hiccups.”
