Latest about performance
Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
news A reminder to check your settings, and potentially disable some useful mouse configuration tools if you're having issues.
Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
Scarlet Stutter The persistent stutter issue is elusive, and some systems won't see it at all, but Elden Ring on at least one of my testing PC is still full of scarlet rot.
Ghost of Tsushima PC performance analysis: Your CPU will be fine, your GPU will whine, but there are settings for every gamer out there
Ghosting Your GPU Unless you happen to own an Intel Arc graphics card. You're out of luck, I'm afraid.
Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates
The frame rate of space Even old CPUs will run it well enough, provided they can handle six or more threads.
Gray Zone Warfare delivers the odd hitch and stutter, but overall it's a reasonable Early Access ride
Tactical Move Some early niggles for sure, but otherwise our testing has been a fairly smooth experience.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is an object lesson in how system requirements pages are failing PC gamers
System Wrecks And that's especially true where games are released on Steam.
Dragon's Dogma 2 performance analysis: It'll take everything your PC has and still want more
Testing the dragon I hope you have a top-end CPU and GPU because you're really going to need them.
Nightingale's system requirements reveal it offers an upscaler for every GPU but it'll gobble up 70GB of storage space
news It seems like it might be demanding, this new survival game, but luckily the graphics look pretty stunning with it.
