u/anhedoniac

As stated, I found a fix for the stutters and freezes, and surprisingly enough, you don't even need to download any of the myriad of optimization mods out there to make this work.

Use this method at your own risk, as it may break things even further if you don't do it properly. See the bolded section below for an important update to having this method work in the long run.

Long story short, activating Smooth Motion in the NVIDIA app for Elden Ring as well as disabling my CPU's E-cores while running the Elden Ring executable completely fixed the issue and now things are running buttery smooth.

Smooth Motion is a feature requiring 40 and 50 series graphics cards, and it's similar to DLSS in that it uses AI to insert extra frames in order to boost framerates. The before and after was really night and day, and I highly recommend trying it out. You can find it in the NVIDIA app settings for Elden Ring.

Smooth Motion didn't actually fix the stutters and freezes though, which led me to finding the overall solution to this problem: disabling my CPU's E-cores while running Elden Ring.

Apparently my CPU (i7 12700K) and others have what's called P-cores and E-cores, or in other words, Performance cores and Efficient cores. Without getting too much into it, apparently it's the switching between these cores that ends up screwing up performance in game.

To disable the E-cores, if applicable to you, these are the steps to take. This requires you to have Process Lasso, and you will unfortunately have to do this every single time you run the game.

1. Run the Convergence .bat file and start the game.

2. Hit the Windows key to tab out of your game and click on the Process Lasso icon in the tray.

3. Find the Elden Ring .exe file in the process list and right click on it.

4. Find 'CPU Affinity', and then 'Current'

5. Uncheck every CPUE core (which are found at the end of the list of cores) by clicking on them one by one. For me, those cores were CPU 16E, CPU 17E, CPU 18E, and CPU 19E.

IMPORTANT! If you use 'Always' instead of 'Current', the Convergence bat file doesn't run properly when attempting to boot the game again in subsequent sessions! Beware!

If you do end up using the 'Always' option, you need to click 'Options', then 'CPU', then 'CPU Affinities' and then delete the Elden Ring.exe entry so that the bat file can run properly again.

As soon as I did this, 99% of my stuttering and freezes disappeared immediately and the game runs great! I hope that this helps anyone else who has been frustrated by all of those stutters. Again, Smooth Motion will only work for those users who have a 40/50 series NVIDIA card, and the Process Lasso method will only work with users who have a CPU with both P-Cores and E-Cores.

Also, as a final note: there is a way to disable the E-cores without Process Lasso just in the Task Manager, but Windows doesn't show you which cores are which. I think they would still be the cores at the end of the list, but I'm not positive on that. Either way would work though, since you do have to do it manually every time with Process Lasso as well.

Hope this helps anyone who needs it!

As stated, I found a fix for the stutters and freezes, and surprisingly enough, you don't even need to download any of the myriad of optimization mods out there to make this work. Try this at your own risk, your mileage may vary, etc, etc...

Long story short, activating Smooth Motion in the NVIDIA app for Elden Ring as well as disabling my CPU's E-cores while running the Elden Ring executable completely fixed the issue and now things are running buttery smooth.

Smooth Motion is a feature requiring 40 and 50 series graphics cards, and it's similar to DLSS in that it uses AI to insert extra frames in order to boost framerates. The before and after was really night and day, and I highly recommend trying it out. You can find it in the NVIDIA app settings for Elden Ring.

Smooth Motion didn't actually fix the stutters and freezes though, which led me to finding the overall solution to this problem: disabling my CPU's E-cores while running Elden Ring.

Apparently my CPU (i7 12700K) and others have what's called P-cores and E-cores, or in other words, Performance cores and Efficient cores. Without getting too much into it, apparently it's the switching between these cores that ends up screwing up performance in game.

To disable the E-cores, if applicable to you, these are the steps to take. This method requires you to have Process Lasso.

1. Run the Convergence .bat file and start the game.

2. Hit the Windows key to tab out of your game and click on the Process Lasso icon in the tray.

3. Find the Elden Ring .exe file in the process list and right click on it.

4. Find 'CPU Affinity', and then Always (you can also use Current if you don't want to permanently turn them off for Elden Ring until you're sure it works for you)

5. Uncheck every CPUE core (which are found at the end of the list of cores) by clicking on them one by one. For me, those cores were CPU 16E, CPU 17E, CPU 18E, and CPU 19E.

As soon as I did this, 99% of my stuttering and freezes disappeared immediately and the game runs great! I hope that this helps anyone else who has been frustrated by all of those stutters. Once again, Smooth Motion will only work for those users who have a 40/50 series NVIDIA card, and the Process Lasso instructions will only work for users that have a CPU with both P-Cores and E-Cores.

Also, as a final note: there is a way to disable the E-cores without Process Lasso just in the Task Manager, but Windows doesn't show you which cores are which. I think they would still be the cores at the end of the list, but I'm not positive on that. Also, you would also have to disable them manually through Task Manager every single time you played the game rather than Process Lasso saving it for you indefinitely.

Hope this helps anyone who needs it!

Title. Basically, I've been super interested in diving in for years now, but I've also seen how much content they have as a goal to add into the mod over time. So I've been patiently waiting until they get it to a point that feels complete, and now seems closer than ever to that.

How many more updates are they planning on adding to this behemoth? Should I just jump in now even if they're still planning on adding a lot more content in the future? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

My crazy and most likely not accurate prediction:

I think they're about to drop a stripped down, acoustically focused album. Basically, I see it as being their Jar of Flies. The Catacombs experience obviously was a majorly influential experience that led to them wanting to explore something more stripped down but still with full band backing. Maybe even with New Orleans jazz musicians since they recorded there?

Anyway, what are your final predictions if this single release is actually a part of an album rollout?

I just went through such a dumb little odyssey, and I have to think someone else out there can relate to me.

I've had a perfectly fine, $30 Temperpedic pillow from Costco for about a year or so now. I would rate it about a 7/10 in terms of comfort as well as not contributing to tweaking my neck, thus leading to migraines.

I got the bright idea one day that, hey, maybe I could find a pillow that might be more comfortable as well as less migraine triggering! Reasonable idea, right? I went on Amazon, looked for a pillow I might want to try, and ordered it. And thus began my ill-fated journey.

The first pillow I wanted to try was the Misiki Contour Memory Foam Pillow, and it cost $37.50. It arrived, I tried it out for a few minutes and thought to myself, wow! This might actually be the one! After which I promptly went and threw out my old pillow.

Lesson #1: don't throw out your old pillow before you know the new one is good for sure.

After about a few days of sleeping on it, everything was worse. My neck pain was awful, I felt total brain fog all the time, and I even triggered a few migraines.

Misiki Contour Memory Foam Pillow, final comfort rating: 4.5/10, would not recommend.

After that I thought to myself, hey, a lot of people on Reddit seem to like Purple pillows. I've always thought they were expensive, but you know what? If it works, I'll pay the price for it and it'll be worth it! So I ordered the Purple DreamLayer Pillow for $230.74. Yeah. Ouch.

Lesson #2: paying a higher price for a pillow does not guarantee you a better pillow.

At first, I laid my head on this thing and it truly felt amazing. It felt like laying on a marshmallow mixed with a cloud, and I started to get excited! Could this really be the pillow I've been looking for this whole time???

Fast forward a week. Over time, the novelty wore off and brutal reality set in. My neck really did not agree with this thing, and I ended up feeling even worse off than with the cheaper pillow I tried, believe it or not! But maybe worst of all was the god-awful memory foam chemical smell that never got better. Truly awful, and the scent alone maybe contributed to the migraines I had that week.

Purple DreamLayer Pillow, final comfort rating: 4/10, would not recommend.

At this point, I was sorely regretting my choices in life, but I still had to press on. Surely there had to be something out there better than a 4/10, right?! The next pillow I found was called the Pillow Cube Ice Cube for $82.79. Much cheaper, and a lot of Redditors seem to swear by it. Ok, sure, I'll roll the dice. It can't get any worse than it has been already, right?

Lesson #3: it can get worse. So much worse.

I could tell from the get-go that this one would end up being the worst of the batch yet, but I still wanted to give it a shot...so I did. After a few days with this medieval torture device, I felt like I hadn't slept in weeks and my neck pain was worse than ever. How in the hell do people like this thing??? I'm still baffled by it. Truly the worst pillow I have ever tried in my entire life, and I can't express enough how terrible it was.

Pillow Cube Ice Cube, final comfort rating: 1/10. No joke.

At this point, I was left demoralized and felt utterly defeated. I decided to wave the white flag and return to the brand that at least gave me a 7/10, mostly bearable level of comfort...but I couldn't find the same pillow that I had before! Uh oh. After some comparing and contrasting, I decided to try a slightly more expensive model called the Tempur-Pedic Memory Foam Symphony Pillow, which ended up costing me $109.30.

Which brings us to a week later, the present day. Did this pillow end up working out for me...? Believe it or not, yes! It actually did! And I would even say that it's a slight upgrade from what I had before! So far, so good, at least. Who knows if it'll hold up after a month, but we'll see! I wouldn't say that it's perfect by any means, but I don't feel like a zombie with a perpetual hangover anymore, so you know what? I'll take it.

Tempur-Pedic Memory Foam Symphony Pillow, final comfort rating: 8/10.

What have I learned from all of this? For me at least, it's been a total crapshoot trying to find a pillow that jives well with my poor wreck of a neck. Luckily though, I was able to easily return all the other pillows, so it didn't end up being a total waste of money.

Would I recommend this process to anyone else? Maybe, but only if you keep your old pillow as a backup (unlike me) and as long as you're sure the return policy is good with whatever pillow you do end up trying.

Can anyone else relate to this shitshow of an experience? I sure hope not. LOL.

hello, i work for nintendo and i am in charge of getting some people to sign up for duskblood network test. please give me your info here and i will forward it to nintendo asap so you can start gaming and having fun.

tell me your name, favorite color, least favorite game company, best from soft waifu, best non from soft waifu, your city, first five letters of ip address (for network info to know if you qualify), and of course your favorite food and drink.

good luck everyone and fingers crossed. heres to some jolly pvp and cooperation 🙏

Hello everyone. I had a nightmare last night. Everything is just fine. I'm not sure what happened but nothing to worry about here. I do not wish to return to the United States of America. I am happier than I ever have been here in China. No need to look for me or contact me unless I reach out here on this wonderful forum. Have a great day everyone and I will talk with you all again soon.

I'm jonesin' for a new Queens record, and I know I'm not the only one. We know that they had extensive recording sessions in New Orleans quite a while back, and Homme even mentioned it cheekily in a fairly recent interview. The Catacombs tour is done (for now), and they have a big arena tour coming up with SOAD and Acid Bath.

I doubt they're going to start a new album cycle in the next few weeks, so what does that leave us?

1. There's a gap between tours from July 19th - August 4th where they might choose to announce something. But the problem with this is that they're doing another co-headlining tour after this gap, this time with Foo Fighters, and it just doesn't make sense to me that they'd tie their new album up with that endeavor.

2. There's another touring gap currently from August 17th - September 15th, but again, they're jumping back on that big tour with Foo Fighters for a couple more shows. So I think it's unlikely they'd announce a new album then either. It's been pointed out that Mikey is on tour with Glu during both of these touring gaps, so I think it's safe to say we can count either of those time-frames out, right?

3. October 4th is the last currently announced live date. After that, there's nothing. Could they announce and drop a record at the end of the year? Let's look at this historically with some past release dates:

Queens of the Stone Age - September 22, 1998

Rated R - June 6, 2000

Songs for the Deaf - August 27, 2002

Lullabies to Paralyze - March 22, 2005

Era Vulgaris - June 12, 2007

...Like Clockwork - June 3, 2013

Villains - August 25, 2017

In Times New Roman... - June 16, 2023

So we can clearly see from this that the band favors dropping records in the summer, with a couple outliers (S/T in early fall, and Lullabies in late winter/early spring). This tells me that it's highly unlikely that they'd drop an album at the end of the year, and probably not even early next year to be honest. Based on all this info, my best guess as of now is summer 2027, sadly.

One last little farfetched theory: maybe they start doing their headlining tours a little differently, like what they did with the Catacombs tour. If they do it that way, I could see them dropping a record and doing smaller runs in those gaps throughout the years between the big rock tours. But my gut says this is unlikely? (Not at all a possibility due to the aforementioned Glu tour)

Thoughts, anyone?

This post has been brought to you by mid week boredom, Queens withdrawal, and desert fueled desperation.

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im very happy with how it all went in the doodle slam this past few days and of course congratulations to pablo for winning it all and there is no doubt in my mind that he won 100% you all should accept that too but i am sorry i do not remember most or even all of what happened yesterday i think i need to take a break from all this no more drinking and no more of this darkness thank you orca for being brutal and direct about it i cant do this to myself anymore i need to heal after last night i cannot turn my neck or head fully anymore i am scared that i will soon lose all mobility in my entire body if i am not careful.

i have thought long and hard about what might be best for my recovery and i think what has helped most has been this community maybe i could even be given the privilege of becoming a moderator you know i could even send hei points i have just learned what the hei network is im still confused and i really only care about the dots i discovered dootle dots on the youtube you see but now i understand that this network has created my favorite show so that has to count for something.

anyway thats all i had to say everyone should accept that pablo won for sure he has the talent it was clear to me and everyone else with eyes and a brain so yeah congratulations again pablo and i will see you all later take care and as always god bless.

hello everyone and congratulations to all our poets first of all hats off to everyone who participated we are very proud of you and you have represented the dots in the best way possible we couldnt have this community without you we really mean that anyway it took a long time to calculate the winners in a fair way and to really see how the scores were that everyone got mixed with skill and passion and having that spark to see who can really take it all anyway i am proud to announce our five winners drumroll please brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr our five winners are /u/pablojueves /u/luvthelemur /u/anhedoniac /u/bloatedsnake430 /u/pumpkinhead01

congratulations for making it into the final round everyone we are rooting for you and hoping you can be the one to take it all we believe in you and thank you for spreading doodle dot cheer and on that note cheers to everyone i finally smuggled some more alcohol into my room and this will really help me to write the best poem imaginable tonight just you wait for that its gonna be a doozy ha ha ha ha taking my first sip now ahhhhh thats better anyway as always have a great day wherever you are and god bless.

ok and also congratulations to /u/invaderskooj you are also a winner lucky you god bless.

if anyone can help point me in the right direction that would be great im not really a tech guy ha ha ha anyway good luck to all you poets and god bless.

can i just say how happy and moved i am that you have all been brave enough to share your talents with all of us here and kudos to everyone who participated my ward how many talented people we have here who would have thought it possible wow.

i really did enjoy all of these poems but as you know only the cream of the crop rises to the top and there has to be winners and losers but i just wanted to say no one has really lost here if you dont get chosen to move on to the next round just remember that we love you and thank you for being a part of this community it is so wonderful to share this love together and you know it seems like this is the start of something truly beautiful it really really does.

so as an official judge on behalf of all the judges here i raise my glass to you and congratulate everyone without exception for submitting your poems and i thank you so very very much please continue developing your talents you are all so wonderful anyway as always god bless.

i dont remember very much or last night and i honestly feel very weird today but i am in sound mind and ready to judge today good luck everyone much love from frank and as always god bless.

hello all i had an idea that maybe we should think of tiebreaker ideas in here that would help out the ones overseeing this community and then they could take those ideas and make another poll where we decide what to do to break this tie I still cant believe it ended like that what a nailbiter as they say oh my ward.

lemur had some good ideas like a poetry contest or sonnet writing that could be good and some of my ideas could be best poem for a certain dot of the communitys choosing or maybe even an essay to write about what the dots mean to us or something i dont know how it would be judged but maybe we could figure it out and set some rules somehow and anyway this could be a good warmup for the real competition and then the people writing poems could see how it is done.

anyway let me know what you all this of this and i wish lemur luck he is a good friend of mine and you know of course no matter what happens i will respect the results and oh if the moderators dont like this idea then please disregard im just brainstorming here not a lot to do in this area of hospital all the tvs are broken and there isnt even a radio here so yeah anyway thank you for reading and as always god bless.

yes its true there is some accidental misinformation spreading but i am still here i can still judge regardless of some recent health scares and i promise that it will be a wonderful experience for everyone the hospital aides here said there will be no problem whatsoever with my involvement and all yes it truly will be great fun and i promise to truly seek for the top poet and poems its really going to be a beautiful thing of course i know all of you agree.

so anyway, luvislemur was fully mistaken i am still in it to win it as they say ha ha ha ha ha ha its all in good fun anyway please retract your statement friend we wouldnt want to confuse the voters anyway as always god bless.