Elden Ring was recently updated with a ray tracing update, giving us access to a feature fans have wanted over a year now. If you're reading this article, you probably launched the game as soon you could, set ray tracing to maximum, and clicked “Continue” on your save file… and what you saw was astounding: A frozen screen and a crash back to the desktop. The same thing happened to me.
“Uh oh,” I thought. But with passionate optimism to see how FromSoftware’s latest masterpiece looked with enhanced shadows and reflections, I relaunched the game and swapped from full screen to windowed borderless mode. Unfortunately, it still crashed again. My optimism shifted to worry after this attempt, but I refused to give up.
