iArtorias / elden_pause

A useful mod for Elden Ring allowing you to pause the game any time you want.

⚔️⏸️ EldenPause v1.1.4

A useful mod for Elden Ring allowing you to pause the game any time you want.

Usage

1. Download the latest release
2. Copy the dinput8.dll and elden_pause.ini to your Elden Ring game folder
   • If you're using Elden Ring Mod Loader by techiew, copy dinput8.dll and elden_pause.ini to the mods directory and rename the library to something like elden_pause.dll
3. Launch the game with EAC disabled
   • To do this, create the file steam_appid.txt with the text 1245620 in your game folder and run eldenring.exe directly
4. Press P button to pause the game. Press the same button again to resume the game.
5. If you're using controller, press Start button

Remapping the keys

1. Open elden_pause.ini
2. If you want to change the keyboard key code, edit the KeyboardButton option value
3. If you want to change the controller key code, edit the ControllerButton option value
4. If you want to use a combo of two buttons, edit the ControllerButton2 option value (0xFFFF by default aka Disabled)
   • Optional: you can change the ControllerEnabled option value to false if you don't need to use the controller code

Advantages

• No DirectX hooking, just the native code usage
• A single library only
• Universal solution (unless the developers decide to patch it out)
• Easy to use

Demo

• Visit the following link

NexusMods link

• Find it here

Stuff used

• Mem (https://github.com/0x1F9F1/mem)
• IniReader (https://github.com/X-rays5/inireader)

Credits

• EMPRESS for the help with locating a specific flag in memory

Compilation notes

• Visual Studio 2022 is recommended to compile this project