ERSS-FG (Free release) v4.10.6 - Frame Generation & Super Resolution for ELDEN RING

(Early access version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114748623)

Features

• Frame Generation:

  • NVIDIA DLSS 4 Frame Generation (with MFG)

  • AMD FSR Frame Generation 3.1

• Super Resolution / Anti-aliasing:

  • NVIDIA DLSS 4

  • AMD FSR 3.1

  • Intel XeSS 1.2

• HDR in borderless|windowed screen modes

• FPS unlock

This mod is mutually exclusive with ERSS2

Requires ELDEN RING version 1.16.1. Older versions of the game are not supported.

You cannot play in the official online mode while using this. (The mod doesn't affect your save data, however.)

Quick-start:

Prerequisite: Turn on Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HwSch) in Windows graphics settings (expect screen tearing and stutters while using framegen with HwSch disabled)

Using ERSS-FG standalone (recommended):

• Extract the attached file's content to the ELDEN RING\Game\ directory (including ERSS-FG.dll, D3D12.dll and the folder ERSS2).
  For using alongside ReShade: install the file ERSSReShadeStub.addon to ELDEN RING\Game\

• Rename the ERSS loader D3D12.dll file to DXGI.dll if you wish to use the Steam overlay and don't have ReShade installed.

• Disable Easy Anti-Cheat, either by putting cmd /c start eldenring.exe & rem %command% into launch options in Steam or by using some other tool.
  For Steam Deck (Linux) users: cmd=(%command%); cmd[-1]="eldenring.exe"; WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b;d3d12=n,b;dxgi=n,b" "${cmd[@]}"

• Set Resolution in the game's Graphics menu to your target resolution (i.e. your monitor's resolution)

• Open the mod's configuration overlay with the Home key, select a Frame Generation and a Super Resolution method, restarting the game is required for turning on Frame Generation.

Using ERSS-FG alongside ReShade (requires ReShade version 6.0.0 or newer, supports FrameGen):

• Install ReShade with full add-on support

• Install ERSS-FG using the instructions above including the file ERSSReShadeStub.addon and keep the loader as D3D12.dll

[Deprecated] Using ERSS-FG as a ReShade addon (version 6.0.0 or newer, FrameGen is not supported):

• Install ReShade and ERSS-FG following the instructions above

• Delete the file D3D12.dll that comes with ERSS-FG

If you don't have a keyboard plugged in (or don't have a Home key on your keyboard)

Download the controller overlay toggle file below and extract it to the ELDEN RING/Game/ERSS2 directory

Notes for Wine/Proton users (including Steam Deck, Linux and macOS users):

• The mod's overlay may be invisible while running in exclusive full-screen.
  Workaround: switch to borderless mode, or turn on "Override Full screen state" in ERSS advanced settings before switching to full-screen.

For Mac OS users (or those running the Steam client through Wine instead of using the native Linux Steam client):

• Add the file name (excluding the ".dll" extension) of D3D12.dll, ERSS-FG.dll and the files found in ERSS2\bin to the DLL overrides setting in Wine configuration. See wiki.winehq.org  and the documentation of your Wine wrapper (Crossover, Whiskey, Bottles, etc.)

• Use a different method to disable EAC, don't use the commands above.

• Install the Alternative overlay toggle config optional file if you don't have an external keyboard.

Notes about usage with other mod loaders (Special K, EML, ModEngine2, etc.):

• The D3D12.dll loader that comes with ERSS should work alongside EML, ME2 and some other mod loaders (except Special K). Don't use other mod loaders unless the previously mentioned methods fail.

• Remove the included D3D12.dll file.

• ERSS-FG.dll and ERSS2 (folder) must be in the same directory

• Make sure ERSS-FG.dll is loaded as early as possible (before or at the same time as the flash-bang)

• Steam overlay may refuse to work

• For Special K:

  • Run Special K in service mode

  • Delete the D3D12.dll file that comes with ERSS unless it's not installed to the game directory.

  • Add ERSS-FG.dll to Special K plug-in list and set the load order to Early.

Recommended mods

• Remove black bars + Ultra-wide UI fix

• Remove Chromatic Aberration and Remove Vignette

Add-ons (attatched below the post)

Installation: Extract the attached add-on archive files to "ELDEN RING\Game" (add-on DLL files are located in "ELDEN RING\Game\ERSS2\addons")

• Remove Frame Time Constraint: Prevents game physics from being slowed down when it's frame rate drops below 20fps.

Known issues:

• Steam overlay will refuse to work if the ERSS loader file name is D3D12.dll while not using ReShade. Workaround: rename the loader (D3D12.dll) to DXGI.dll

• Flickering global illumination, most visible in shaded areas. (It's caused by either NVIDIA drivers or ELDEN RING itself but made more prevalent by the mod.)
  Workarounds:

  • Use the GI Glitch Mitigation options in Advanced Settings -> Frame Generation

  • Rolling back NVIDIA GPU drivers to version 552.x

  • Using DXVK + VKD3D (doesn't support DLSS on Windows, it does on Linux however)

  • Setting Global Illumination to Low can reduce the intensity

  • Some reported that limiting the game's frame rate below your GPU's capability may reduce the flickering.

• Minimizing while FSR-FG is enabled crashes the game.

• FSR FG + Special K: if Elden Ring's screen mode is set to Full-screen the game will repeatedly try to enter exclusive full-screen mode causing screen flashes.

Change log:

v3.4.0

• Restored support for ELDEN RING version 1.13 and 1.14

• Updated DLSS to v310.2.1

v4.9.2

• Features: DLSS-FG, improvements to frame gen in HDR, FPS unlock.

v4.10.1

• Added FPS unlock toggle; disabled FPS unlock by default.

• Verified support for Elden Ring v1.16.1.

• Fixed FPS limit exceeding display refresh rate while Frame Generation is active.

• Fixed flashing black rectangle when the X (Square) button is pressed with Gamepad Navigation enabled.

• Slightly improved ERSS load time.

v4.10.4

• Fixed compatibility with ReShade 6.6

• Fixed a bug in FSR-FG SDK that crashes the game when minimized in windowed mode

• Fixed a FG resource state management error

v4.10.5

• Fixed a compatibility issue with additional overlay mods.

v4.10.6

• Implemented a workaround for incorrect compatibility checks of FSR, FSR-FG and XeSS on certain DirectX compatibility layers (Crossover on Apple Silicon).

• Re-enabled NVIDIA Image Scaling upscaler.

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