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Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
By Nick Evanson published
New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 performance analysis—Blurry upscaling, mushy graphics, and so-so frame rates
By Nick Evanson published
Tyrannic FPS There's no ray tracing whatsoever, so you can't blame the middling performance on that.

Star Wars Outlaws performance analysis: Ray traced galaxies far, far away really, really demand upscaling and frame generation
By Nick Evanson published
Galactic FPS There's a colossal range of graphics options to tweak, so most gaming PCs can run the game well enough. Well, kind of.

Gray Zone Warfare delivers the odd hitch and stutter, but overall it's a reasonable Early Access ride
By Andy Edser published
Tactical Move Some early niggles for sure, but otherwise our testing has been a fairly smooth experience.

If Alan Wake 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are a glimpse of what games will look like in 2024, sign me up
By Jacob Ridley published
Makeover Mega detailed scenes lit by ever-increasingly more accurate lighting. That's a mouth-watering combo.

I tried to melt AMD's top GPU with Avatar: Frontier of Pandora's unobtanium graphics mode
By Jacob Ridley published
Good luck, RDA And I would've got away with it if it wasn't for the red team's own frame generation.

Starfield's DLSS patch shows that even in an AMD-sponsored game Nvidia is still king of upscaling
By Jacob Ridley published
🚀 Starfield officially supports DLSS now, with Frame Generation and Reflex, and it's better for it.

For such a gorgeous game Alan Wake 2 runs surprisingly well on budget graphics cards
By Jacob Ridley published
Cheap thrills This incredibly pretty game scales down to cheaper GPUs pretty well, actually.

You can run Alan Wake 2 on a 10-series or older graphics card, but you definitely shouldn't
By Jacob Ridley published
Did I stutter? I've stuck a GTX 1080 in our test bench and I just cannot get anywhere close to passable performance.

Alan Wake 2 is a stunning example of what the future of PC gaming looks like—but only on Nvidia
By Jacob Ridley published
RTX Alan The RTX 40-series' features come together to make something beautiful in Alan Wake 2. I just wish it was something more players could experience for themselves.
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