Classic Total War games receive a free performance boost alongside Intel 12th Gen fixes

Expect classic Total War games to run better on modern CPUs

Published: 26th April 2023 | Source: Total War | Author: Mark Campbell

Empire and Napoleon Total War have both been updated to better utilise modern CPUs

Last month, it was discovered that b oth Total War Empire and Total War Napoleon players were running into issues when playing both games on Intel's 12th Generation processors , likely due to the hybrid nature of these CPUs. Back then Creative Assembly promised to address these issues with

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AMD issues a statement in response to Ryzen 7000 CPU burnout reports

AMD are working with their board partners to address these issues with BIOS updates

Published: 26th April 2023 | Source: Anandtech | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD releases official statement following reported Ryzen CPU burnouts

In recent weeks there have been several reports of Ryzen 7000 CPU failures, specifically affecting users of AMD's new 3D V-Cache enhanced Ryzen 7000X3D processors. Right now, motherboard manufactures appear to be releasing new motherboard UEFI/BIOS updates to address

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum receives an RTX trailer and detailed system requirements

Gollum will feature DLSS 3 and ray tracing at launch

Published: 26th April 2023 | Source: Nvidia | Author: Mark Campbell

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has received detailed PC system requirements ahead of launch

NVIDIA and Daedalic Entertainment have released a new RTX trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, confirming that the game will support DLSS 3 on PC as well as Nvidia Image Scaling (NIS), ray traced shadows, and ray traced reflections.

With DLSS 3 support, The Lord

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Dead Island 2 PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

Dead Island 2 has arrived, but how well does it run on PC?

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: OC3D Internal Testing | Price: | Author: Mark Campbell

Introduction

Dead Island 2 is a game that many us never expected to launch. The game was originally revealed back in 2014 and to say that the game's development has been difficult is an understatement. Now nine years and two developers later (having moved from Yager Development to Sumo Digital and

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AMD launches their 1 series of Zen 4 processors had handheld gaming systems

This SOC will power ASUS' ROG Ally gaming system

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD ushers in a new era of portable gaming with their new Ryzen Z1 processors - RDNA 3 and Zen 4 are a powerful combination

AMD has today revealed their Ryzen Z1 series of low power processors, CPUs that combine the powers of AMD's Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 graphics architecture to create a powerful gaming combination for portable gaming devices.

With up

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Returnal's receiving DLSS 3 later today support as part of a new game update

Nvidia achieves up to 2.2x performance gains with DLSS 3

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: Nvidia | Author: Mark Campbell

Returnal's DLSS 3 update enables 4K gaming at over 140FPS on PC on one of Sony's top current-gen titles

Today, Returnal's PC version will be receiving a patch that will bring Nvidia's DLSS 3 technology to the game, giving PC gamers with compatible hardware access to Nvidia's DLSS Super Resolution

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Yuzu's latest builds deliver huge performance gains to the Nintendo Switch emulator

Expect large gains in CPU performance and GPU performance

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: Yuzu - Early Access Builds | Author: Mark Campbell

The Yuzu team has achieved 50% performance gains when emulating many popular Switch games

The team behind Yuzu, the popular Nintendo Switch emulator, has been very busy over the past few weeks, releasing several new early access versions of their emulator that have delivered huge performance gains in popular titles.

Starting with early access version 3524, the Yuzu


Alleged AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTX, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT specs leak online

AMD reportedly planned to release an RX 7800 XTX, but it has reportedly been cancelled

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: Red Gaming Tech | Author: Mark Campbell

Specifications for three planned RDNA 3 graphics cards have leaked online

AMD released their RDNA 3 based Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT in December 2022, and since then Radeon fans have been waiting to see what AMD will deliver with RDNA 3 at lower pricing levels.

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Netflix's "Basic with Ads" subscription has been upgraded in the UK

Basic with Ads subscribers can now access higher resolution screens and multi-device streaming

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: Netflix | Author: Mark Campbell

"Basic with Ads" has become a huge earner for Netflix, and its users are getting some free upgrades

Last night, Netflix upgraded their "Basic with Ads" subscription tier in the UK to give users access to full HD (1080p) quality streams and streaming to up to two devices at once. These upgrades are

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Diablo IV's finalised PC system requirements have been released

Want to play Diablo 4? Here's the hardware you need

Published: 25th April 2023 | Source: Blizzard | Author: Mark Campbell

Diablo IV's launching on June 6th and here's what you need to run it

Blizzard has released detailed system requirements for the PC version of Diablo 4, confirming that the game will be a DirectX 12 title and that the game will require an SSD to run optimally. Storage-wise, the game will require 90GB of

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