Trello Outage Disrupts Users as Access Issues Hit Atlassian’s Work Management Platform 
SoftBank Shares Slide as Oracle’s AI Spending Plans Fuel Market Jitters 
SK Hynix Shares Surge on Hopes for Upcoming ADR Issuance 
Evercore Reaffirms Alphabet’s Search Dominance as AI Competition Intensifies 
Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish National AI Regulation Standard 
SpaceX Edges Toward Landmark IPO as Elon Musk Confirms Plans 
IBM Nears $11 Billion Deal to Acquire Confluent in Major AI and Data Push 
China Adds Domestic AI Chips to Government Procurement List as U.S. Considers Easing Nvidia Export Curbs 
Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Sparks Global Debate and Early Challenges 
EU Court Cuts Intel Antitrust Fine to €237 Million Amid Long-Running AMD Dispute 
US Charges Two Men in Alleged Nvidia Chip Smuggling Scheme to China 
Australia Enforces World-First Social Media Age Limit as Global Regulation Looms 
Intel’s Testing of China-Linked Chipmaking Tools Raises U.S. National Security Concerns 
U.S.-EU Tensions Rise After $140 Million Fine on Elon Musk’s X Platform 
Apple App Store Injunction Largely Upheld as Appeals Court Rules on Epic Games Case 
“Elden Ring” publisher Bandai Namco has issued an apology shortly after the game release and recognized that the game frame rate and performance issues are something that needs to be addressed. The good news is the company promised to work on it, along with other early issues.
“We are currently experiencing some issues that are preventing the game from playing properly under some conditions,” Bandai Namco said in a blog post on Friday, the same day “Elden Ring” was released. “We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and ask for your patience.”
Bandai Namco cited four “main items to be revised,” including the frame rate and performance issues that have been more common in the PC version of “Elden Ring.” The publisher did not provide a specific timeline for when these problems are getting fixed. For now, the company left PC gamers with the advice of updating their graphics card drivers in the hopes that it will “significantly improve performance.”
Critics have raved about “Elden Ring” and have given the new dark fantasy RPG very high scores, but it did not take long before PC gamers noticed some crucial performance issues. While the game quickly amassed more than 740,000 concurrent users on Steam on Friday (the day of its release), its user reviews on the digital store are currently mixed.
More than 34,000 Steam users have reviewed the game as of this writing, and 39 percent of them do not recommend playing the highly anticipated title in its current form. One gamer warned fellow Steam users before getting “Elden Ring” on PC, saying it does not feel optimized for the platform and that frame rate stutters were noticeable when exploring open areas. Another Steam user noted that the game is “struggling to maintain” a 60 frames-per-second performance at 1080p resolution even though they are using a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.
Unreliable mouse sensitivity is another PC-related issue observed by “Elden Ring” players, but Bandai Namco said it would release a patch “in the near future” to address it. The publisher will also fix an issue that prevents Easy Anti-Cheat from loading for Steam account names with multi-byte characters.
