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The official splashscreen for Steam, showing the logo at the centre and various games as horizontal tiles in the background.

Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs

By Nick Evanson published

News Power from the people, power to the people.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles

Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters

By Nick Evanson published

News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.

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A screenshot of the PC version of Resident Evil Requiem

Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing's an obvious frame rate killer

By Nick Evanson last updated

Ray-traced evil Upscaling is a bit of a must-use, but that's a given these days.

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Ray-traced evil
The Discord mascot sitting on a floating Discord text entry bar.

Some users are claiming Discord's default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I've tested it myself to see what's going on

By Nick Evanson published

News And I have to say, I can't see any serious issues at all.

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Battlefield 6 beta queues, errors, issues: Soldiers running away from a collapsing building.

Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

By Nick Evanson published

Best dev …and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.

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Best dev
A screenshot of the PC version of Dying Light: The Beast, using the game's photo mode

Dying Light: The Beast PC performance analysis: Decent frame rates all round, nice graphics, and stutters only on low VRAM GPUs

By Nick Evanson published

Beast mode And if you do need more fps, upscaling works wonders here.

Beast mode
A psycho in Borderlands 4 stands ready for battle.

When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most

By Nick Evanson published

Core concerns Heck, you can even run it on 4 cores and 4 threads.

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Core concerns
Borderlands 4

'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt

By Andy Edser published

News 4x MFG and DLSS Balanced for 60 fps+ on an RTX 5080 at 1440p? Ouch.

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A siren summons a ball of purple energy

I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect

By Nick Evanson published

Borderline forked It's a big, bold world of stutters and disappointing frame rates, even on the best PC hardware money can buy.

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Borderline forked
An RTX 5080 GPU sitting in front of a 32-inch 4K screen with Doom: The Dark Ages running on GeForce Now in the background

I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble

By Andy Edser published

Slayer Streaming Even with the odd glitch, I'll admit I've been seriously impressed.

Slayer Streaming
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