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A screenshot from Gray Zone Warfare, showing the player flying over the top of waterlogged fields in a helicopter
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.

Tactical Move
Person in armor with a lion face
Dragon's Dogma 2 is an object lesson in how system requirements pages are failing PC gamers

By Nick Evanson Published

System Wrecks And that's especially true where games are released on Steam.

System Wrecks
In-game screenshot from Dragon's Dogma 2, showing a fantasy landscape with a city and mountains in the distance
Dragon's Dogma 2 performance analysis: It'll take everything your PC has and still want more

By Nick Evanson Published

Testing the dragon I hope you have a top-end CPU and GPU because you're really going to need them.

Testing the dragon
Nightingale - A character walks across a sunset beach while airships fly in the sky above
Nightingale's system requirements reveal it offers an upscaler for every GPU but it'll gobble up 70GB of storage space

By Andy Edser Published

news It seems like it might be demanding, this new survival game, but luckily the graphics look pretty stunning with it.

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Alan Wake 2 screenshot showing the main character looking out over a beach bathed in orange light.
Alan Wake 2 is a stunning example of what the future of PC gaming looks like—but only on Nvidia

By Jacob Ridley Published

RTX Alan The RTX 40-series' features come together to make something beautiful in Alan Wake 2. I just wish it was something more players could experience for themselves.

RTX Alan
A Handler being revived by their dog in Remnant 2.
Remnant 2's upscaling settings are more necessity than nicety and players aren't happy about it

By Jacob Ridley Published

News The game's developers have confirmed they "designed the game with upscaling in mind."

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Wild Hearts weapons - a hunter with a hammer
Wild Hearts devs fix the hellish RX 7900 XTX 'disco lights' headache

By Katie Wickens Published

news The new patch also undoes the 'unintentional' high-end CPU frame caps, along with fixes for a bunch of other issues.

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A screenshot of a Ferrari from the side taken in F1 22
F1 22 update hands me a cheeky 11% performance uplift thanks to FSR 2.2

By Jacob Ridley Published

News The new and improved upscaler from AMD heads to F1 22.

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Crisis screenshots from its original release
There may never be another Crysis moment for PC gaming

By Jacob Ridley Published

News Has PC gaming grown out of absurd system requirements?

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The Witcher 3 next-gen update
New hotfix for The Witcher 3 next-gen update 'should improve overall stability and performance'

By Jacob Ridley Published

News Try this patch if you're struggling with performance issues or crashing in The Witcher 3 post next-gen update.

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