Author: Andy Edser
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Diablo 4’s new ray tracing update tested: It halves your frame rate for little visual gain, but I am definitely here for some Frame Generation
The latest update for Diablo 4 has arrived, and with it comes the much-anticipated addition of ray tracing effects. Both ray traced shadows and reflections are now available to enable in the settings menu, along with some extra goodies, so I jumped in for a bit of testing to see what sort of performance you…
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How to buy your first gaming PC
Buying your first gaming PC can be an intimidating task. Acronyms, backronyms, model and part numbers galore, it can be easy to find yourself drowning in terminology that at first glance can seem difficult to decode. While you can absolutely buy the components individually and build your own, many first-time buyers opt to buy one…
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Spending all day with MSI’s disappointing new gaming laptops I’ve learned it’s not just what’s inside that counts
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Tactile. It’s a word I find myself thinking of the second I pull a new piece of hardware out of its box. A sense of the tactile, the smooth, the svelte, the well-made, is to me one of the most important things a piece of hardware can have, particularly when it comes to gaming laptops.…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reckons we might see AI-generated games in less than 10 years
AI-generation has been making huge leaps and bounds in recent years, from prompt-based image generation through to recent developments in fully AI-generated video. When it comes to our games though, most of the AI innovation has been limited to things like upscaling existing content. That might be about to change in the next decade, however,…
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‘You name it, we made it faster’—The State of Unreal keynote didn’t just show off Unreal Engine 5.4 graphical goodies, but major performance optimisations too
Epic has delivered its annual keynote at this years GDC 2024, the “State of Unreal” address, and while there were plenty of demos showing off the expected graphical improvements and the addition of new tools and features to the latest version of Unreal Engine 5, some performance improvements were also announced to help our poor,…
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PS5 Pro leak allegedly reveals ‘PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution’ and up to four times the ray tracing performance of the regular ol’ PS5
The original PlayStation 5 is getting on a bit these days. First launched back in November 2020, the console set tongues a-wagging with its reasonably impressive spec sheet, including a fast SSD, a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU, and an RDNA 2 GPU that brought it up to greater performance parity with gaming PCs…
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Intel is still top dog: ships 3x more CPUs than AMD and Apple combined
While global PC shipments experienced something of a decline for much of 2023, some green shoots have been spotted in terms of recovery in the industry as a whole. The GPU market saw a 5.9% rise in GPU shipments at the tail end of the year, and, according to some recently released statistics, when it…
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Got a laptop plugged in 24/7? You could be ruining your battery life, so prepare to do the charger dance
There are few things more nerve-wracking than a dying battery. Ok, there are quite a few things more nerve-wracking than a dying battery, like getting chased by a bear or receiving a missed phone call from your bank. Still, those of you who like to keep your laptops plugged in all the time to avert…
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Tribes 3: Rivals needs just 10GB of storage space and the rest of the system requirements look relatively undemanding too
I monitor my storage space like a hawk, keeping a strict regimen that means if a new, 100GB+ game is added to my system, I make sure an equivalent is removed to make room, keeping my PC in a state of zen-like equilibrium. Looks like I won’t have to worry too much about Tribes 3:…
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You can now install PC Gamer—okay fine, any website I suppose—as an app on your desktop with the latest Chrome Canary build
Not content to merely sit on our laurels as the world’s best PC gaming website in your regular browser, now we want to infiltrate your desktop apps as well. Kidding— mostly kidding—but those of you with the latest Chrome Canary build could well make that dream a reality. With a bit of light tweaking you…