Items tagged with PC gaming
Legendary game developer John Romero was working on a secretive new project beginning in 2022 which was feared canceled after Microsoft pulled funding last year. It turns out that while that game isn't happening as originally envisioned...
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AMD has been improving its various FSR 4 technologies across its past and present GPU architectures, which includes FSR 4 Frame Generation. Specifically, AMD is claiming improvements to frame pacing with FSR 4 Frame Generation enabled with...
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Bolstered by AI, the gaming world has seen an explosion in the number of projects based on decompiled and recompiled binaries lately, and with the introduction of the new RecompLauncher, PC and even PS5 players eager for an all-in-one hub...
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Last week, AMD dropped Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1, so-named because it was the first AMD graphics driver release in October. Graphics driver releases are usually a little humdrum, so we don't normally cover them in detail...
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The never-ending Half-Life 3 saga continues, thanks to a passing mention of "HLX" by Valve composer Mike Morasky. For those unaware, past data mining efforts pointed toward HLX being a codename for Half-Life 3. The full quote is in the...
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For several years now, one of the key defining features separating NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs from AMD's Radeon graphics cards is the software feature set that NVIDIA has developed, particularly surrounding its "Deep Learning Super...
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If you read that headline and you thought "wait, I thought DLSS 5 hurt your FPS", you're right. The idea here is that NBA 2K27 has been updated with the new DLSS 5 Neural Rendering that NVIDIA announced prior to the RTX Spark platform...
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Not only has Epic released its Linux client, but Valve is also updating Steam For Linux to 64-bit. This is a welcome change for some users, since the initial 32-bit version of Steam For Linux launched over 13 years ago, on Valentine's Day...
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A PC gamer got a nasty surprise when the computer they purchased from someone on OfferUp ended up being a stolen system. Luckily, there’s a happy ending to this story. After posting about their ordeal on the pcmasterrace subreddit they...
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Game hitching and stuttering is the enemy of a good experience. It's a plague on modern gaming, though it's far from exclusively a modern affliction; we just notice it more because we have higher expectations and lower frame times. A...
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AnyPS5, the Proton-inspired, open-source translation layer for porting PlayStation 5 games to the PC has developed rapidly in the last couple of weeks since it was initially announced. In fact, the AnyPS5 project has already achieved 100%...
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It's October, and you know what that means: time to get ready for the holiday shopping season. Amazon makes it easy, if you've got Prime; the site's "Prime Big Deal Days" started today, and it seems like half of the site is on deep...
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Fans of the classic MMORPG RuneScape have much to be excited about, but chief among them is the formal announcement of RuneScape 4 at the 2026 RuneFest. Besides the base RuneScape, which had brief periods where it was renamed to RuneScape...
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Over on the X platform, prominent account @DiscordPreviews has spotted an upcoming Discord feature called "Game Mode," which is intended to activate automatically when Discord detects you're in-game. Functionally-speaking, the current...
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PlayStation 5 emulation on the PC is an ongoing effort. The most noteworthy of the current emulators are KytyPS5, SharpEmu, and perhaps AnyPS5. AnyPS5 is somewhat different than the others, however, because it is technically not a...
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DuckStation, one of the more popular Sony PlayStation 1 emulators, received a major update that significantly boosts performance and enhances the user experience. The developers of DuckStation have incorporated multi-threaded shader...
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In bittersweet news for fans of emulation everywhere, prominent Nintendo Switch emulator & Yuzu successor Suyu is shutting down with version 0.04, but not before introducing a limited static recompilation mode for emulated titles. While...
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Valve's highly anticipated Steam Frame standalone VR headset is finally here after being revealed alongside the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine back in November.
The Steam Frame just launched with two models (one with 256GB of...
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Are you an overclocker? If note, you may be the exactly the audience for "Hypertune", a subscription service that promises to improve your PC's gaming performance "with one click." While some of the claims made by the company don't quite...
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PC gamers of a certain age will fondly remember the days when physical copies of PC games came in oversized boxes known simply by enthusiasts as "big boxes." These so-called big box games used oversized packaging so that they could fit...
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SteelSeries has stepped into the luxury gamepad market with the Aeon Pro controller, a high-end option tailored specifically for gamers who frequently switch between PC and Xbox platforms, and perhaps more importantly, have money to blow...
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NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering offers a stunning upgrade in visual realism but the performance hit is substantial, to the point that some, including this writer, feel it doesn't justify the cost. What if you could slash that performance...
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