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A comparison of the appearance of a game character using three different DLSS 5 AI models
DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement

By Andy Edser Published

News You thought ray tracing was bad...

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Yeston graphics card in its natural environment, on a rock, on a beach
60 fps is still the de facto minimum frame rate for half of PC Gamer readers, but more than 10% of you are dying on the 120 fps hill

By Dave James Published

Poll We asked what the minimum frame rate you'd accept as playable, and 60 fps still stands as a measure of smooth gaming.

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A screenshot of the PC version of Forza Horizon 6, taken using the game's photo mode and maximum graphics settings (including ray tracing)
Forza Horizon 6 PC performance analysis: Heavy on your CPU, with uninspiring ray tracing, but at least it all runs very nicely

By Nick Evanson Published

Flying forza frames From handhelds to old gaming PCs, pretty much anything will run the new Forza.

Flying forza frames
The official splashscreen for Steam, showing the logo at the centre and various games as horizontal tiles in the background.
Valve could well be giving Steam its most useful update ever: Frame rate estimates for games, based on how well they've been running on users' gaming PCs

By Nick Evanson Published

News Power from the people, power to the people.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles
Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters

By Nick Evanson Published

News Being locked into 6x mode might sound great for performance, but it ruins the PC latency.

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A screenshot of the PC version of Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing's an obvious frame rate killer

By Nick Evanson Last updated

Ray-traced evil Upscaling is a bit of a must-use, but that's a given these days.

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Ray-traced evil
The Discord mascot sitting on a floating Discord text entry bar.
Some users are claiming Discord's default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I've tested it myself to see what's going on

By Nick Evanson Published

News And I have to say, I can't see any serious issues at all.

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Battlefield 6 beta queues, errors, issues: Soldiers running away from a collapsing building.
Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

By Nick Evanson Published

Best dev …and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.

Best dev
A screenshot of the PC version of Dying Light: The Beast, using the game's photo mode
Dying Light: The Beast PC performance analysis: Decent frame rates all round, nice graphics, and stutters only on low VRAM GPUs

By Nick Evanson Published

Beast mode And if you do need more fps, upscaling works wonders here.

Beast mode
A psycho in Borderlands 4 stands ready for battle.
When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most

By Nick Evanson Published

Core concerns Heck, you can even run it on 4 cores and 4 threads.

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