Question Elden Ring - FPS halved at random?

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Hello. I hope this is the right place to post this.

I am using an RTX 3090, I9 - 11900K with 32 GB of ram and Elden Ring will sometimes run beautifully at its 60 FPS cap, but most of the time when I launch the game it runs terribly with its FPS never rising above the low 30s.

Changing the resolution to 1080p and lowering the settings had no effect on this what so ever, and there have been a few times where the my FPS will start at 60, then slowly decrease into the single digits, give me a black screen, then the black screen will disappear with the FPS being capped to 30 again. I have no idea what is going on, but I know my computer can handle the game at 60 FPS in 4k as I have had a few sessions where I played for hours on end with perfect performance. I don't know what changes. It is usually after turning my computer off and back on this happens.

The temperature on my CPU and GPU are typically in the high 50s/ low 60s.
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Assuming you're not having any power related issues when your GPU's being taxed, try and use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.
 
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz 8/16

CPU cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360R RGB (I Think..looks identical)

4 Additional Cooler Master Sickleflow 120 ARGB fans(3 on top 1 in the back)

Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z590 AORUS MASTER

RAM: GSkill 32 GB DDR4 (16 x 2)

STORAGE1: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB (1.8 TB/Fixed hard disk media)

STORAGE2: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB (1.8 TB/Fixed hard disk media)

STORAGE3: ST4000DM004-2CV104 (3.6 TB/Fixed hard disk media)

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB)

OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home (10.0, Build 22631)

DISPLAY: Sony Corporation SONY TV *30 (3840x2160 / 74.9 Inch)

PSU: Checking..(will update)

PSU Age: 3 years

Chassis: Lian Li Lancool One Digital

BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends International, LLC. F5d, 2021-04-16

SMBIOS Version: 3.3