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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.

The best settings for Resident Evil Village
By Jacob Ridley published
Come explore Castle Dimitrescu with us, as we dive into Resident Evil Village's settings and performance.

Here's why you should try out Vulkan in Valheim
By Jacob Ridley published
Useful tweak The latest patch introduces the Vulkan API to our favourite Viking survival game.

Horizon Zero Dawn is not the perfect PC port, but it's promising
By Jacob Ridley published
From PS to PC Here's the performance you can expect from the ex-PlayStation exclusive, and the best settings to up your game.
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