AMD Releases Adrenalin 19.12.3 Drivers: Stability Updates and Fixes Inside

On December 10th, AMD released its now annual major driver update to introduce its Adrenalin 2020 driver. The new software promised, and delivered, performance improvements along with a lot of new and updated features. With these new features and YOY (year over year) performance enhancements, came some user complaints about stability from the driver and even installation problems. While we are not sure how many actually ran into issues, there was a fair amount of chatter in tech forums and it felt like more than

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Up Your MMO Skills: Logitech’s G600 Gaming Mouse Is Cheaper Than Ever

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Big into World of Warcraft ? Want to pwn some n00bs in FFXIV ? With the best holiday tech deals here to tempt, there's no shame in hunting for a cheap gaming mouse. Today, the Logitech G600, a mouse made specifically for MMO games, is selling for its lowest price ever, $23 on Amazon .

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Microsoft Promises Fix for Windows File Explorer Not Responding

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Microsoft's released numerous bug-ridden updates to Windows 10 in recent months. But it looks like the company's working on fixing at least some of those problems, specifically those affecting the File Explorer, as Windows Latest discovered today.

The problems with File Explorer are twofold. First, many users have reported that the search bar can freeze for long periods of time. Second, a recent update prevents users from right-clicking in the search bar.

Microsoft has updated a


Logitech's G903 Lightspeed Hero Wireless RGB Gaming Mouse Drops Below $100

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Logitech's G900 landed back in 2016, which was later followed by the G903 Lightspeed, and then again with the G903 Lightspeed Hero. The latest iteration is now at its lowest price ever, available for $99.99 on Amazon , which although still a steep price for "a mouse" is a great price for this mouse .

The hero variant comes with an improved sensor that can sense up to 1


AMD's FEMFX Deformable Physics Library Lands: Benefits From Lots of CPU Cores

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PhysX has been Nvidia's party trick for well over a decade, but it seems that after all these years AMD wants to play catch up on that front too. The red team's latest announcement is that its new FEMFX library is finally available, which offers deformable physics effects through the GPUOpen set of AMD-built libraries for developers.

The name FEMFX stems from FEM, which stands for Finite Element Method. AMD describes this as "Solid objects are represented as a mesh of


Cloud Streaming Services Could Be a 'Gateway' for PC Gaming

Google's Stadia cloud streaming service. 

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Analyst bureau IDC today shared forecasts for desktop and laptop shipments over the coming years, and despite the appending rise of cloud gaming, it does not expect the PC gaming market to be negatively impacted by the dawn of the new technology.

The numbers, via the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker, December 12, 2019 report, are for the EMEA market (Europe, Middle East and Africa), so it doesn


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The Tom's Hardware Show Talks Intel Challenges and Xbox Series X

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The latest episode of The Tom's Hardware Show is here, and you can catch it on our YouTube channel . Don't want to leave the site? It's embedded right here:

On this episode, Avram Piltch, Paul Alcorn and Andrew E. Freedman talk about Intel's challenges of late, the Xbox Series X and the last minute holiday deals they are considering.

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Google Stadia's Screen-Sharing Feature Debuts a Month After Launch

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Google Stadia's Stream Connect has finally arrived. The feature allows users of the game streaming service to share their screens with each other and came with the one-month-old platform's release of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint today.

Stadia officially debuted on November 19. The Stadia launch was incomplete , however, with Google announcing just days beforehand that many of the platform's features wouldn't be ready in time for its launch. Stream Connect was one


ASRock's X299 Taichi CLX Mothboard Now Supports RDIMMs up to 256GB

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ASRock has released a new firmware (Version 1.4) for its X299 Taichi CLX motherboard that brings support for RDIMMs (registered DIMMs). Standard DIMMs currently max out at 32GB per stick. RDIMMs, on the other hand, hold up to 256GB on a single module. However, there are two caveats.

For starters, RDIMM support is solely coming to the Intel Skylake-X family of processors. For


Nvidia and Tencent Partner on 'Start' Game Streaming Service for China

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Nvidia's getting even more involved with game streaming. The company announced this week that it's partnered with Tencent Games, the world's largest game studio, on a new cloud gaming service called Start that's set to launch in China soon.

Nvidia said in the announcement that Start "gives gamers access to AAA games on underpowered devices anytime, anywhere" and that Tencent Games "intends to scale the platform to millions of gamers, with an experience that is consistent with