Elden Ring Practice Tool

A tool for practicing speedruns. Made with ❤️ by johndisandonato.

The tool is free, and will always be free for everyone. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting me!

Getting started

Download the latest stable release here.

Prerequisites:

• Steam must be open. Offline mode is fine, but the program must be started.
• Antiviruses are disabled. This includes Windows Defender. If you don't want to do that, make sure to whitelist the contents of the practice tool in your antivirus.
• You are using a completely vanilla install of the game, with no mods whatsoever. If you installed mods already, please reinstall Elden Ring from scratch.
• You are not using other overlay software, such as RivaTuner Statistics Server, FRAPS or similar. The Steam Overlay is an exception.
• You have a legitimate copy of the game. Pirated copies will never be supported.
• EAC is bypassed with the textfile method. Other methods aren't supported and could make it impossible to run the tool.

The tool will apply the bypass for you on the first run, so it is recommended not to do it manually.

Running the tool

Standalone

• Extract all files from the zip archive. Anywhere will do.
• Double-click eldenring.exe to start the game (Steam → right click ELDEN RING → Manage → Browse Local Files). Never start the game from Steam: the tool won't work.
• Double-click jdsd_er_practice_tool.exe.

The tool will automatically appear over the game. Press 0 to open and close its interface.

Installed

• Extract all files from the zip archive. Anywhere will do.
• Locate your ELDEN RING installation (Steam → right click ELDEN RING → Manage → Browse Local Files).
• Copy jdsd_er_practice_tool.toml and jdsd_er_practice_tool.dll in the folder you just found. Rename jdsd_er_practice_tool.dll to dinput8.dll.
• Double-click eldenring.exe to start the game. Never start the game from Steam: the tool won't work.
• During the startup, from now on, hold the right shift button for a few seconds until the tool appears on screen.

If you don't want to load the tool, don't press right shift during startup!

If you want to uninstall the tool, remove dinput8.dll and jdsd_er_practice_tool.toml.

Running the tool on Linux

The tool fully supports Linux and should run on Steam Deck seamlessly.

Standalone

If you want to run the tool in a standalone fashion, I recommend protontricks:

protontricks-launch --appid 1245620 jdsd_er_practice_tool.exe

Installed

Follow the same instructions as above. Additionally, you have to set the launch options in Steam as follows:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%

Help

If the tool doesn't work, you need help, or want to get in touch, read the troubleshooting guide.

If you are looking to submit a patch, check the contributing guide.

Credits

• ViRazY for the invaluable help in figuring out Linux support.
• The Soulsmodding community for the Param definitions and the Cheat Engine table maintained by Pav.
• Pav, wasted, jamesq7 for technical help in figuring things out.
• curiouspeanut, Weider96, Siegbruh, catalystz, danisangb, GiantCookieJar, Ahady, Gin, Nemz38, Noobest, for beta testing the tool.
• The font used in the UI is Comic Mono.