JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on “framerates of other Steam users.” Back in February, Valve gave Steam client beta users the option to share anonymized framerate data and hardware information with the company to “help us learn about game compatibility and improve Steam.” Now, new text buried…
Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue. PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta version of the Nvidia App. Alongside new DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation…
Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges Like practically everyone who owned a PC in the early ’90s, I tore through the shareware episode of Wolfenstein 3D shortly after it came out. At the time, the game’s mere existence seemed like a…
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy. The downloadable versions of Nintendo’s first-party Switch games have always cost the same amount to buy, despite the costs of manufacturing and shipping physical releases. This was still true when the Switch 2 launched last year,…
If game makers don’t like it, “they could decide not to use it, you know?” Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community. In a podcast published Monday, though, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tried to…
Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of “higher stakes” decisions. For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this system needed “higher stakes,” overhauling Counter-Strike 2‘s reload…
Nvidia’s next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way Since deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS) launch on 2018’s RTX 2080 cards, gamers have been generally bullish on the technology as a way to effectively use machine learning upscaling techniques to increase resolutions or juice frame rates…
Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor. Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid increase in both the capabilities and popularity of using AI models to throw together quick programming projects with less human time…
Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we’ve done this before. Do you remember the joyful satisfaction you felt when you really started to understand Slay the Spire? This isn’t a totally rhetorical question. If you’re reading this piece about Slay the Spire 2—published roughly a…
Advanced Shader Delivery uses precompiled shaders for “console-like load times” across PC hardware. Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a “compiling shaders” step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their specific hardware.…
