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Zak Killian - Mon, Dec 23, 2024
Have you checked out our review of Intel's Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU yet? Hopefully, you already have and you're well aware that the Arc B580 is a competent entry-level GPU with solid 1080p and 1440p performance. We benchmarked 20 games...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 06, 2024
Bethesda has opened up early access for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle ahead of the game's broad release on Monday, December 9, and right cue, NVIDIA has come out with optimized GPU drivers to squeeze the most performance possible out...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Oct 02, 2024
If you read that headline and thought, "wait, didn't AFMF 2 already come out," then you're thinking of the preview release back in July. At that time, AMD released a beta driver that contained support for the AI-improved, driver-based...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 17, 2024
It's been nearly two decades since Crysis came out and brought modern gaming PCs (for the time period) to their knees (and four years since Crysis Remastered), prompting the popular meme, 'Yeah, but can it run Crysis?', which was the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 21, 2024
Intel's GPU driver team has made a habit out of delivering massive performance increases on a surprisingly frequent basis. The latest round comes by way of the latest Intel Arc beta driver, version 31.0.101.5379, which brings big gains of...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 27, 2024
It's barely been four weeks since we wrote about a WHQL-certified Intel Arc graphics driver purporting to deliver massive performance gains by triple-digit percentages in some titles. Our coverage led to Intel creating a cool graphic (see...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 13, 2024
Ubisoft is on track to release Skull and Bones this Friday to PC and console, and in preparation for its debut on the former, NVIDIA is rolling out a new GeForce GPU driver that's optimized for the upcoming open-world action game. Part of...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 08, 2024
Attention all GeForce graphics card owners, if you're system is inexplicable stuttering, the latest hotfix GPU driver from NVIDIA may be the salve to sooth your pain. Released last night, NVIDIAs hotfix driver version 551.46 purportedly...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 25, 2024
Somewhere out there is an Intel Arc software engineer who's chugging a Red Bull while furiously hammering out driver code and wearing a t-shirt that reads, 'Big performance gains or bust'. Or maybe not. Either way, the continued...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 08, 2023
Intel deserves some kudos for maintaining a regular driver update schedule for its Arc GPU family. Even more impressive, though, is the effort its driver team has put into delivering chunky performance gains, with the biggest to date being...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 05, 2023
NVIDIA rolled out a new 'Game Ready' GPU driver for GeForce owners this week, version 546.29 WHQL, which brings optimizations to Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition (not to be confused with the 2.1 update) and some bug fixes. Since then...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 04, 2023
There are plenty of gamers who are having a blast in Alan Wake II, a survival horror game with bone-crunching system requirements (particularly if you want to play at a 4K resolution with max settings and ray tracing on high). If you're...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Nov 02, 2023
Bolt on your metal armor and pull out your automatic Beretta, because Robocop: Rogue City releases today. This new title from the developers of sleeper hit Terminator: Resistance has had almost no marketing, yet its extremely faithful...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 24, 2023
Horror fans will get to see if Alan Wake II lives up to the hype when the game releases later this week. In the meantime, gamers who own an Intel Arc graphics card can download the latest Arc driver, version 31.0.101.4900, for a...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 05, 2023
If you own an Intel Arc graphics card, congratulations, you're about to receive a huge performance boost in a whole bunch of games. All you have to do is apply the latest Arc GPU driver, version 31.0.101.4885. According to the release...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 04, 2023
Okay, maybe "need" in our headline is a bit extreme. Don't try telling that to folks who are having a bear of a time getting up and running smoothly in Starfield on their Arc A770 or other Alchemist-based graphics card, though. In a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 01, 2023
It didn't take very long for Starfield to ascend in rankings on Steam with a peak of 234,502 concurrent players in just the first 24 hours, which already qualifies it for the seventh highest of all-time. To say it's off to a great start in...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Aug 18, 2023
Intel's efforts to improve its graphics drivers continue apace. We probably don't have to tell an audience of enthusiasts that Arc launched in a less than ideal state, and that lead to a sub-optimal first impression for the brand. Intel...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 11, 2023
If you're seeing any kind of wonky performance issues in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and you're running the game on a GeForce GPU, be aware that NVIDIA has made a hotfix driver available, version 537.09, that could potentially solve your...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 09, 2023
It didn't take long for Baldur's Gate 3 to rise in the ranks on Steam following its exit from Early Access—It's currently the third-most played game with over 500,000 concurrent players at the time of this writing, after peaking at 814,666...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Aug 03, 2023
Baldur's Gate III has just exited a lengthy early access period, and it already runs well on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. That may be why neither company bothered to release a graphics driver for the game's 1.0 release today. We didn't hear any...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 08, 2023
Can you believe we're already a quarter of the way into July and past the halfway point of 2023? A new month means a new middle version number for the latest Radeon driver release, naturally numbered 23.7.1. These drivers have the usual...
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