Best Settings to Play Elden Ring Nightreign - At 1440p

Optimize your gameplay and find out what the best settings are to play Elden Ring Nightreign at 1440p screen resolution.

1440p is currently the sweet spot for most gamers, delivering incredible image fidelity similar to 4K, but with less taxing system requirements. The Steam hardware survey charts still show 1080p as the most popular resolution among gamers, but 1440p is also gaining significant traction. That said, Elden Ring Nightreign looks spectacular to begin with, but it’s not just looks that decide a game; how it plays is a deciding factor.

Now, the developers have issued a warning for RTX 4000 series and above GPUs that may experience performance issues. For the optimal 1440p experience, use these settings.

Best Settings for Elden Ring Nightreign at 1440p

settings page for Elden Ring NightReign — Settings page for Elden Ring NightReign (Image via Bandai Namco Entertainment)

You will likely run into the following issues, and they are apparent across RDNA 2 on the likes of Blackwell cards. The issues are:

Inconsistent frame pacing, especially above 60 FPS, which is hard-locked anyway.
Asset streaming causes hitches as you move through dense areas like shadowed ruins or rain-covered forests.
Some systems default to 60Hz even on high-refresh-rate displays. To fix that, use Lossless Scaling in windowed mode.

Note that the frame pacing issue can be improved by using RTSS and locking your framerate to 55. This will preserve the game’s motion fidelity, along with flattening the frame-time graph. However, this will not fully resolve the asset streaming issue; that is an engine limitation, which can only be addressed by the game developers.

Setting	Value
Screen Mode	Fullscreen
Limit Mouse Movement	(Optional)
Resolution	2560×1440
Auto-Detect Best Rendering	Off
Texture Quality	Medium
Antialiasing Quality	Medium
SSAO	Medium
Depth of Field	Medium
Motion Blur	Low
Shadow Quality	Medium
Lighting Quality	Medium
Effects Quality	Medium
Volumetric Lighting Quality	Medium
Reflection Quality	Low
Water Surface Quality	Low
Shader Quality	Medium
Global Illumination Quality	Low
Grass Quality	Low

Verdict

In summary, depending on your GPU, you can use these settings as a starting point. Since the FPS is engine locked at 60, eliminating stutters is your primary goal. Experiment with the options and see how they fare. Finally, lowering the settings too much can result in pop-in, missing shadows, and tree shimmering, and may even cause motion sickness, depending on your tolerance for these issues.

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