NieR: Automata is a 50GB game. At least, it was. A routine language patch on Steam has turned the PC version into a 366GB download, and players with full drives are paying the price. Square Enix has confirmed the problem and says a fix is on the way, but until it arrives there is a…
NVIDIA has released NVIDIA App version 11.0.9.585, and the headline change is a wider DLSS Override list. The update adds DLSS Override profiles for 19 games and Optimal Settings profiles for six titles, plus stability and security fixes. It is a compatibility update, not a new driver and not a new DLSS model, so it…
A dead Wi-Fi connection does not have to end your gaming session. Plenty of the best PC games are built around a full single-player experience, and once they are installed and launched once, they run fine with no internet at all. This list covers 15 offline games for PC that are worth your time in…
Microsoft’s new DirectX Raytracing technology just made an RTX 5080 look 221 times faster. In a demanding synthetic test, the card jumped from 1.4 FPS to 310 FPS once Clustered Geometry was switched on, while its acceleration structure memory use fell by 94.3 percent. The result comes from independent testing reported by Wccftech, and it…
AMD sells two flagship gaming CPUs that look almost identical on paper. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 16 cores, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12, and both carry the same 128MB of second-generation 3D V-Cache. The question is simple: does the cheaper chip give up anything where it matters, in games? The FPS Review put…
GTA 5 on PC ships with a built-in cheat system, and it works two ways: short console words you type with the tilde key, and 1-999 phone numbers you dial on the in-game phone. Both methods trigger the same effects, so pick whichever is faster for you in the moment. This guide lists every GTA…
Intel’s next desktop CPUs may come with a temperature rule that PC builders need to know about before they plan a cooling setup. According to a new rumor, Nova Lake-S processors will cap their maximum core frequency at 5.1 GHz once temperatures climb past 90 degrees Celsius. The claim comes from leaker Jaykihn, who shared…
Laptop gamers just got a serious upgrade path. ASUS has launched the ROG XG Station 3, its first external GPU dock built around Thunderbolt 5, and it promises up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth for desktop graphics cards. That is twice the interface speed of the eGPU enclosures that came before it. Here is what…
Gearbox Is Giving Away 100 Free Golden Keys The Borderlands series has passed 100 million copies sold, and Gearbox is celebrating with free loot. The studio released a SHiFT code that grants 20 Golden Keys in each of five Borderlands games. Enter it everywhere you own the series and you walk away with 100 Golden…
We have followed DLSS 5 from its first leaked DLL in August to its official launch, and the October update is the most consequential release yet. NVIDIA has shipped a new, lighter neural model that runs dramatically faster than the launch version, and the community quickly discovered that the extra speed came with visible tradeoffs….