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You might recall just a few days ago when, immediately after the launch of hotly-anticipated open world RPG Crimson Desert, it was discovered that it simply would not launch on Intel Arc GPUs, throwing up an error message saying that the...
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You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, where gamers can download pre-compiled binary...
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If there's one thing PC gamers universally despise, it's shader compilation stutters, but it's also a drag to launch a brand-new game, ready to play, only to be greeted by a "Compiling Shaders" progress bar slowly crawling across...
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Let's talk about DLSS 5. If you pay any attention to gaming discourse at all, you'll have already noticed that there has been a tremendous pushback against NVIDIA's new DLSS 5. Gamers and gaming commentators have set to work, making a...
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Microsoft has had a big presence at this years Game Developers Conference, providing fans with a glimpse of the future of Xbox with a sneak peek at a potential Xbox Development Kit alongside detailing its partnership with AMD. However, the...
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In an unexpected bit of news, Toyota has unveiled a proprietary game engine called Fluorite. Nope, this doesn't mean the company is entering the game development any time soon, but rather, is something we could likely see powering its...
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Following the worldwide launch of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, Microsoft announced some interesting upcoming features for both of the initial models specifically, and for Windows 11 gaming PCs at large. While this launch has been...
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In case you've been out of the know for a bit in tech, Qualcomm just announced a family of new mobile processors last week at its Snapdragon Summit event, including its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile CPUs as well as its second-generation...
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The developers behind the Borderless Gaming utility, first released for free back in 2014, have thoroughly overhauled the software for its "v1.0.0" release on Steam, bringing with them a flurry of modern features including vendor-neutral...
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The engineers onMicrosoft's DirectX team are always busy bees, constantly working on one improvement or another. Today, the team announced that it's taking initial steps to get rid of a perennial annoyance in PC gaming: shader compilation...
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Monster hunters across the planet have something to look forward to. Capcom has released a fresh new patch for Monster Hunter Wilds, packed with lots of improvements and new content, but most importantly, lots of PC-specific performance...
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In a move that hopes to stir a sense of nostalgia among veteran PC enthusiasts, MSI has officially revived its iconic Cyclone graphics card series, launching the GeForce RTX 5060 8G Cyclone OC. This marks a return of a design originally...
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The DIY PC market is in a tough spot. If we disregard older, previous-gen graphics cards for a moment, the only company currently selling anything approaching a modern entry-level GPUis Intel, and those cards are nearly impossible to find for anything approaching MSRP. Quality motherboards for...
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AMD's "AMD Gaming" account just dropped a spicy little teaser on Xwitter reminding everyone about its May 20th Computex conferenceand in the process, all but confirming the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The post features a sleek, compact dual-fan GPU...
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There aren't any major triple-A games releasing this week that we are aware of (soon, though), but there is a new 'Game Ready' driver release by the folks at NVIDIA all the same. It's version 576.28, it's WHQL-certified, and it's yet...
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It looks like NVIDIA's driver team has been working overtime since the launch of the GeForce RTX 50 series, and especially in recent weeks. Following the launch of its 'Game Ready' 576.02 WHQL GPU driver chock full of bug fixes two weeks...
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Just days after NVIDIA began rolling out its 'Game Ready' 576.02 WHQL driver package that's packed to the brim with bug fixes, it's made available an out-of-band hotfix to iron out even more wrinkles related to its GeForce GPUs. The...
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Apple Mac Studio (2025) with M4 Max: Starts @ $1,999 ($2,199 As Tested) If you crave the best performance an Apple Mac desktop system can offer, look no further than the latest Mac Studio and its very powerful M4 Max chip. It has all the...
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It used to be pretty commonplace, once upon a time; we could flash a different or modified firmware to our graphics cards in search of higher performance than was possible with the stock code. GPU companies started encrypting their...
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Half-Life, one of the best first person shooters of all time, got its flowers with the amazing Black Mesa remake made by fans with Valves blessing. Half-Life 2 is now getting the same treatment, once again led by fans, with Half-Life 2...
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AMD RDNA 4 And Radeon RX 9070 Series: Radeon RX 9070 - $549, 9070 XT - $599 MSRP AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT target the high volume, mid-range PC gaming market, are priced aggressively, and take the fight to NVIDIA. Competitive...
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CES 2025 brought us plenty of GPU tech to be excited about, much of it from NVIDIA. The GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs feature advanced AI tricks, with technologies such as DLSS 4 and neural rendering. Microsoft is also jumping on board the AI...
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