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Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users
By James Bentley Published
News Ouch, that's gotta sting.

Linux kernel patch can boost the Steam Deck's 1% low frame rate by as much as 31% in early testing
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News There's life in the old handheld yet.

Halo: Campaign Evolved's motion blur is terrible. Just look at it
By James Bentley Published
News I know motion blur is the devil, but it's particularly… devilish here.

My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
By Nick Evanson Published
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.

Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
By Nick Evanson Published
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.

Turn down these five Subnautica 2 settings from Epic to High for a massive frame rate boost
By Andy Edser Published
Shipshape Hello Lumen my old friend.

Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look
By Andy Edser Published
News Yes, path tracing looks better than ray tracing. No, I don't think that's a plot.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)
By Andy Edser Published
Score: 63% Yes, it's cheap—but there's still a cost.

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.

The new Crimson Desert patches are grand and all, but the Ray Reconstruction performance and lighting options are still all kind of b0rked on my machine
By Andy Edser Published
News I guess it's going to take a while to fix, but Crimson Desert's visuals have some... issues left to resolve, at least for me.
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