Tag: hardware

Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2

Crimson Desert has received…

If you’re currently playing Crimson Desert on an AMD graphics card, you should hopefully find that the performance has…
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

Valve could well be…

Two months ago, Valve released a beta version of Steam that had an option to send anonymised frame rate…
Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia’s own YouTube channel

Italian television channel does…

In a sublime example of the internet’s “I made this” effect, an Italian TV channel temporarily took down Nvidia’s…
28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it

28 years after the…

It’s a given that the question “What’s the oldest computer you can run modern Linux on?” would produce a…
It’s not just Arrow Lake that’s been refreshed: Intel’s whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction

It’s not just Arrow…

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I have been: mostly testing Intel’s new Arrow Lake Refresh…
I bought a PS5 on launch day but I won’t be buying a PS6, even though its exclusives aren’t coming to PC anymore

I bought a PS5…

Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Checking out free experiences like indie horror Sato…
AMD’s FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license

AMD’s FSR 4 open…

AMD made a bit of an oopsie yesterday, as it accidentally released the source code for FSR 4, before…
Microsoft’s DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it’s limited to the ROG Ally X for now

Microsoft’s DirectX Advanced Shader…

Shader compilation woes are, to my mind at least, one of the scourges of modern gaming. Nothing brings you…
After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China

After months of back…

Nvidia’s H20, an AI and compute chip specifically modified for use in the Chinese market, has reportedly stopped production…
The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I’m not sure we should prepare ourselves for another ‘meltgate’ just yet

The first reported case…

Ah, I almost feel nostalgic. Remember ‘meltgate’, in which 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors were regularly in the headlines for, well,…