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The first Windows 11 update doesn't address AMD Ryzen bugs; fixes coming soon
By Jorge Jimenez published
News The good news is AMD says we should expect fixes as early as next week.

AMD reports that Windows 11 may be causing a performance dip of up to 15% on Ryzen CPUs
By Jorge Jimenez published
News A fix is in the works and coming later this month.

The best settings for New World
By Alan Dexter published
Don't let those wolves get the upper paw.

Intel XeSS should work on AMD RDNA 2 and Nvidia Ampere, Turing, & Pascal GPUs
By Jacob Ridley published
News Intel's frame rate-boosting feature should work across many modern Nvidia and AMD GPUs, but not all.

Struggling to boot Resident Evil Village? This incoming patch might help
By Jacob Ridley published
News Some CPUs were struggling to boot Resident Evil Village, but the game's August 24 patch should fix it.

Steam Deck: what sort of gaming performance can we expect from Valve's handheld PC?
By Jacob Ridley published
Game time The Steam Deck is powered by some of the latest AMD architectures, but what does that actually mean in terms of gaming performance?

New MS Flight Simulator update to deliver dramatic performance uplift on PC
By Jacob Ridley published
News Sim Update 5 to lower CPU utilisation and memory usage for improved performance and less stuttering.

Good news, you don't actually need a graphics card to run Resident Evil Village
By Alan Dexter published
Spooky Resi 8 will run on just about anything if you're prepared to sacrifice resolution and settings to the gods of performance.
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