Monster Hunter Wilds texture mod fixes 8GB GPU stutter on PCs

Monster Hunter stutter fixed on 8GB by uncompressing textures

Monster Hunter Wilds has been a headache on PC since launch, with stutter and texture pop in on midrange hardware. Months later there is still no official fix from Capcom (I guess it’s safe to assume there won’t be any). The worst case has been 8GB GPUs, which must choose between blurry medium textures or high textures that cause constant hitching. A new community mod built on RE Framework now targets that exact problem. Digital Foundry tested

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Intel

Intel Core Ultra 290K, 270K and 250K Plus spec leak: “Arrow Lake Refresh” with higher clocks, more cores and faster memory support

Intel Core Ultra 9 290K Plus “Arrow Lake Refresh” CPU to feature 5.8 GHz TVB boost

The last breath for the LGA-1851 socket.

Intel is now set to introduce its Arrow Lake Refresh next year, likely as a last push before moving to the LGA-1954 socket for Nova Lake. There is still no clear communication on the launch date for that successor. For now, Arrow Lake Refresh is shaping up as the final upgrade for the LGA-

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NVIDIA is giving away GeForce RTX 5090 DOOM: The Dark Ages GPU

NVIDIA offers another DOOM: The Dark Ages wrapped RTX 5090 Founders Edition

NVIDIA has launched a new giveaway for a DOOM: The Dark Ages custom wrapped GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition as part of its GeForce Season campaign.

The RTX 5090 is NVIDIA’s current flagship based on the Blackwell architecture with 21,760 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 on a 512 bit bus and around 575W board power. It also supports DLSS

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Intel

Intel reportedly working on Arc B380 Panther Lake Xe3 iGPU for gaming handhelds

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel Arc B-Series powered by Xe3 (for gamers too)

An Intel source familiar with company’s plans has shared additional details about the Arc B-Series graphics for Panther Lake chips. Intel has decided to brand its Xe3-based integrated graphics under the B-Series (Battlemage family) for the upcoming Core Ultra 300 processors (Panther Lake). The naming convention is currently unclear.

OneRaichu has provided more information about the B

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Lisuan 7G100 6nm GPUs now in customer sampling, September mass production target slips

Lisuan Tech finally sampling, no mention of mass production

Lisuan Technology’s first 6 nm graphics rendering GPU, the 7G100, has now entered the customer sampling and testing stage. A recent investor relations activity record states that the company is “ carrying out customer sampling, test optimization, product production and market promotion for its first graphics rendering GPU ‘7G100’, and work is progressing normally. ” This is the first official confirmation that partners are receiving chips for real-world validation

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ASUS RTX 5090 ROG MATRIX offically priced at $3999.99, twice the NVIDIA MSRP

ASUS ROG MATRIX costs two RTX 5090 FE

As reported yesterday , an official ASUS distributor in Europe has started taking preorders for the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 at €4,099, with shipping expected by the end of the month. At the same time, the official ASUS US store has confirmed a price of $3,999.99, making this the most expensive ASUS Blackwell model.

The card is a 30th anniversary limited edition, with production

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NVIDIA shows how to run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p/175 FPS on DGX Spark with Ultra ray tracing and DLSS 4

NVIDIA explains how to use DGX Spark for gaming

DGX Spark is not a gaming machine, but we all know it has good specs for a small desktop computer and should, in theory, provide an excellent gaming experience. However, since the system is locked behind DGX OS (Ubuntu) and the architecture is based on ARM, it means that without emulations and optimizations it is not possible to take full advantage of this hardware.

A few days ago we shared news that Redditor Retrodom successfully ran Cyberpunk 2077 on

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Custom “Steam Machine” PC worth $600 sets an early performance bar for Valve

DIY “Steam Machine at home” build shows what Valve now has to beat

Steam Machine inspired PC build for around $600 delivers solid performance in AAA games.

Some YouTubers move fast when new hardware appears, and some do not wait for the hardware at all. Just a day after Valve announced its Steam Machine mini PC for early 2026, ETA Prime has put together his own version using an ASRock DeskMeet X300 barebones kit and a budget Radeon card from AliExpress (a very special

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NVIDIA $10K RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU with broken PCIe connector, no replacement part available

This RTX PRO 6000 is a ‘paperweight’ due to user damage (no warranty) and no replacement parts

We return to the topic of NVIDIA RTX graphics card servicing, more specifically an issue that should not be a problem in the first place. NorthridgeFix, known for various videos related to power connector replacements on RTX 40/50 series, has recently started sharing a different problem: the lack of spare parts for NVIDIA’s own Founders Edition models.

The previous video was about an RTX

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ASUS RTX 5060 EVO series debuts with short PCB and unusual power connector placement

ASUS launches EVO with shorter PCB

ASUS has quietly added four new cards to its GeForce RTX 5060 series lineup. The new EVO models introduce a revised cooler, shorter PCB, and, based on our database data , the first physical PCIe 5.0 x8 connector used on any ASUS GPU to date. The cards share a compact 225 × 120 × 42 mm design with a 2.1-slot profile, which should make them a better fit for smaller systems.

The

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