Elden Ring's latest PC patch fixes a game-killing fire giant

Standing in front of a throne — (Image credit: FromSoftware)

An Elden Ring patch snuck out today, announced by FromSoftware in thread of updates on Twitter. It's a very small patch for a very large game, amounting to only 13.1MB. Don't expect anything game-changing, then.

Well, not unless you've tangoed with a fire giant with a penchant for killing the game. That's one way to win a fight. And it's also one of the fixes tackled in patch 1.02.2. The next time you start scrapping with it, you should be in for a fairer fight, or at least won't find the game quitting on its own.

(1/2)Patch 1.02.2 for PC and PS5 available now.PC:💠Fixed an issue where the graphics card was not being used, resulting in slow performance.💠Fixed a bug that caused the game to quit under certain conditions during a battle with the Fire Giant.💠Fixed other bugs.March 2, 2022

And that's about it for the specifics, unfortunately. The last item on this very short list is "Fixed other bugs", which implies they weren't very big ones. There aren't any patch notes, just the tweet, so these fixes will have to remain a mystery for now.

I'm lucky enough to have avoided running foul of bugs, so what I'm waiting for is optimisation and an end to the damn stuttering, which has, to be fair, been lessened since launch. It's not been fully excised yet, though. Thankfully, the team hasn't been silent on this, and an outline of how it plans to deal with performance issues was shared last week.

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