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Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
By Nick Evanson published
Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.

FSR 3.1 vs DLSS showdown: How does AMD's latest upscaler version compare to Nvidia's finest for performance and image quality?
By Andy Edser last updated
Upscaler showdown *Rocky theme* It's the, eye of the upscaler, it's the thrill of the... performance comparison?

Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
By Nick Evanson published
news Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.

Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
By Andy Edser published
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
By Nick Evanson published
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
By Nick Evanson published
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
By Nick Evanson published
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
By Andy Edser published
Tactical Move Some early niggles for sure, but otherwise our testing has been a fairly smooth experience.
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