PC

Wondering about immensely variable performance in TLOU Part 1 on PC? It can be loading and decompressing assets at any given point - and that has a big impact on …

Elden Ring was recently upgrade to Patch 1.09, bringing with it the introduction of hardware-accelerated ray tracing on all current-gen systems... exclusing Xbox Series S. In this in-depth content, you'll …

Unwelcome image quality problems, crashing issues, texture oddities, continual problems with RT features... there's so much to enjoy with the PC port of Resident Evil 4 Remake, but basic technical …

Here's Rich with a look at performance in Elden Ring using an RTX 2070 with broadly equivalent console settings (beefed up places, actually) with RT on an off. A Ryzen …

It's Resident Evil 4 weekend on Digital Foundry! You've seen how good the remake is, we've extolled the virtues of the brilliant GameCube original, but what on Earth went wrong …

Much as the title implies, Alex tries out the RE Framework mod's newer ability to add DLSS, DLAA, FSR2 and XeSS into any RE engine game. The results speak for …

Alex Battaglia and John Linneman have been let loose in the Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo, providing an early look at the game on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X and …

Steam Deck laid the foundation for the mainstream PC handheld, but there's a limit to its capabilities. Armed with the latest Ryzen 7 6800U APU, the AyaNeo 2 and AyaNeo …

The maker of ray traced versions of Serious Sam, Doom, and Quake - Sultim Tsyrendashiev - returns with a fully path-traced upgrade to the classic Half-Life, a free mod for …

Lambasted at launch owing to its various tech problems - along with unflattering comparisons against Arkham Knight - Warner Bros' Gotham Knights didn't fare too well in the DF Tech …

We're looking into Gotham Knights again after reports of massive improvements... and those reports are on the level! Alex revisits the PC version in upcoming content and you can preview …

The Yakuza franchise has evolved - not just in terms of its name but also its key technology. The bespoke Dragon engine powering the series has been replaced by Unreal …

Alex is currently taking a look at the path-traced mod for the original Half-Life and here's a quick comparison showing how the original version of the game stacked up against …

The Legend of Doom is a total conversion of id Software's classic Doom, created by DeTwelve, looking to recreate the original NES classic in its entirety within the Doom engine. …

The complete tech breakdown of developer Omega Force's new action RPG. Built on its proprietary Katana Engine, the team focuses only on newer PS5, Series X and S consoles and …

Can the latest - and most powerful - AMD mobile APU deliver performance in line with the PlayStation 4? Here's a preview look at some material from our upcoming AyaNeo …

Join Alex Battaglia for the tech breakdown of Company of Heroes 3 on PC. How does the game innovate over its venerated predecessors and is the series' legacy of tech …

A new FPS action game clearly inspired by BioShock has arrived from newcomer Mundfish. In this DF tech review, Oliver Mackenzie assesses the visuals and performance of the game, which …

Extended head-to-head comparisons showing what happens with a GTX 1660 Ti attempting to run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p in performance mode. There are comparisons here against native resolution rendering, FSR …

Some capture taken to discuss Wild Hearts PC performance in DF Direct Weekly #99. It's quite the ride.

Join Alex Battaglia for a deep dive into the fascinating PC port of the PlayStation 5 masterpiece, Returnal. This is a PC version with so much to commend it, including …

An all-in-one look at the latest patch 4.01 for The Witcher 3, where RTXGI optimisations promise to improve the frame-rate on console and PC. However, certain issues remain - like …

The Dead Space Remake - from a content perspective - is nothing short of sensational. However, some small tech issues on the console versions are much more of a problem …

Apologies for the lateness of this one: owing to continual changes in the console code, this is actually the third time we've worked on this project. So, in the follow-up …

Hi-Fi Rush is a superb, wildly creative game with elements of action, platformer, rhythm and side-scroller titles. Oliver delivers the DF tech review following the game's 'shadow drop', looking at …

Alex Battaglia presents the DF tech review for Forspoken, looking at whether the rocky launch of the PS5 version is smoothed over for the PC platform. Despite the exciting inclusion …

Far Cry 3 is a brilliant game - so brilliant, in fact, that it's still fun to play even in the face of some of the worst levels of performance …

We've seen Valve's Steam Deck capable of great things when paired with well-optimised ports, or cross-gen conversions built for the PS4 generation - but what about some truly challenging fare? …

A game for the ages, the DF team return to Half-Life 2 to appraise the original PC version running on classic PC hardware and the 'impossible port' that is the …

The creators of Blazing Chrome return with Vengeful Guardian Moonrider - a brilliant modern retro pixel art game that brings the magic of the precision action game to modern hardware. …

In the latest PC Time Capsule episode, we return to 2011 and the arrival of Battlefield 3, powered by the incredible Frostbite engine. DICE pushed technology to the next level …

2022 was a dire year for the quality of PC ports, from awful scalability to missing features to the inevitable #StutterStruggle. We're looking to kick off 2023 by trying to …

Nvidia's Pascal generation of GPUs did not include hardware-accelerated ray tracing features, but a certain selection of RT titles *will* run - and the demanding Control is one of them. …

DF Supporter Sibalicious asked us an interesting question: if the RTX 4090 effectively 'solves' graphics at 4K resolution, can RTX 4070 Ti do the same thing at 1440p? It's an …

Steam Deck's processor has only 1.6TF of peak GPU compute, less than half the CPU power of Xbox Series and PS5 consoles and is power constrained to just 15W. So …

4K benchmarks comparing Nvidia's controversial new RTX 4070 Ti against the main last-gen Ampere cards of interest, along with AMD's competing Radeon RX 7900 XT.

Pricing has been the key discussion point for the latest generation of GPUs - so how does the new RTX 4070 Ti stack up? How fast is the 'unlaunched' RTX …

By using Fortnite replays, we can produce like-for-like gameplay performance testing and here we're running Fortnite tapped out with hardware RT Lumen, Nanite and virtual shadows active. The only difference …

Winding down for the end of 2022, John, Rich and Alex decided to polish off the year's work by looking at the recently released path-traced version of Quake played in …

It took some effort, but we managed to get Lumen, Nanite and virtual shadows in Fortnite working on Steam Deck running under Windows! Which means it's time for another Deck …

Alex Battaglia presents the DF tech review for The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade, as running on PC. Running through the entire gamut of upgrades, including the game-changing ray tracing effects, …

In another close collaboration with My Life in Gaming, DF Retro presents Final Fantasy 13 - the full story. John Linneman and Marc Duddleson revisit the origins of this fascinating …

Portal RTX is our first look at RTX Remix, which has the potential to revolutionise older PC games, transforming them into RT showcases. This particular release dramatically modernises the Valve …

Here's all of the raw 4K data we used to put together our latest review for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT. Peruse at your pleasure!

Prices are heading up with this latest GPU generation and with the RTX 4080 being so expensive in particular, AMD has the biggest chance in years to strike back against …

Video sponsored by Intel. Intel's Arc A770 and A750 graphics cards impressed us on modern games running under Vulkan and DX12, delivering strong benchmarks against Nvidia's RTX 3060. However, raw …

Fortnite's full Unreal Engine 5 upgrade has arrived, delivering cutting-edge next-gen rendering features like Lumen global illumination and Nanite geometry at 60fps on PS5, Xbox Series X and even Series …

There's good news about The Callisto Protocol on PC - but there's still some way to go before we have a decent port...

It's not often that we see a PC-focused game that really pushes the platform hard - but that's exactly what Warhammer 40K Darktide does - and its visual quality is …

We've been eagerly anticipating this one - and on PlayStation 5 at least, we're getting a simply brilliant game and a proper technical showcase. That's the bulk of our coverage …