PC (Page 2)

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 …

Quake: Ray Traced is a mod for the original PC game by Sultim Tsyrendashiev that uses hardware-accelerated RT to create one of the most transformative upgrades we've ever seen from …

Nixxes builds on its work with Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered to bring us the Miles Morales 'expansion' - another quality PC port. In this content, Alex goes into depth on the …

A Plague Tale: Requiem gets the full PC deep dive treatment: settings analysis, optimised settings, console settings - plus PC vs console performance analysis with completely matched visual quality. Just …

This is a compilation of all of the source performance material we put together in reviewing in the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, covering ray tracing, rasterisation, and RT with reconstruction.

As a product, the RTX 4080 is a solid gen-on-gen upgrade - around 50% faster than a 3080 and 35% up on a 3080 Ti. However, with this in mind, …

Disadvantaged due to poor marketing, it turns out that Sonic Frontiers is actually a fantastic game! In this extended video, John Linneman explains how the game works and where it …

A comparison of how DLSS stacks up against FSR2 in two different sections (the official benchmark and ours), with 4K tested at performance settings, 1440p at balanced and 1080p at …

We're loving the PC upgrades in Asobo Studio's PC port, but something has to be done about a camera update that's not in sync with the performance.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is the latest in Sony's PlayStation ports for PC - and it's another in a long line of PC ports blighted by stuttering issues that make …

It's no secret that Gotham Knights on consoles has some profound issues - and in looking at the PC version we get some perspective on the challenges facing the game …

Here's the unpublished edit of the review code we were sent for Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves. We shared our concerns over issues with Sony and to their credit, all of …

How has Iron Galaxy's PC port of the excellent Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection turned out? Alex Battaglia shares impressions of the PC upgrades, a complete settings breakdown, comparisons with …

Our first attempt at integrating 8K into our video capture workflow, by stacking up RTX 4090 at 8K resolution against itself at 4K along with other results from RTX 3000 …

Let's take a 120fps feed of Marvel's Spider-Man running DLSS 3, then strip out every other frame twice over, giving us ONLY AI generated frames and ONLY standard frames. Here's …

Download the files from DigitalFoundry.net to actually see 120fps, not the 60fps seen in the YouTube embed above. Thanks for backing the DF Supporter Program!

Nvidia's new DLSS 3 frame generation technology increases perceived performance to remarkable effect - but it is a first-gen effort with key improvements to come. In this video, Alex Battaglia …

Nvidia's RTX 4090 delivers a new level in graphics performance, to the point where there's an argument that in many/most gaming scenarios, you'll be hitting CPU limits - often, even …

Benchmark data used in our Intel Arc A770/A750 review.

Benchmark data used in our Intel Arc A770/A750 review.

Benchmark data used in our Intel Arc A770/A750 review.

Benchmark data used in our Intel Arc A770/A750 review.

Benchmark data used in our Intel Arc A770/A750 review.

Intel's new Arc A770 and A750 take on RTX 3060 and RX 6600 XT in a battle across the generations - old APIs and new, rasterisation and ray tracing, image …

Remember Geo-Mod? Created by Volition for Red Faction, Geo-Mod essentially delivered dynamic, destructible enviroments. The system evolved considerably over time, but in this video we're going back to its very …

Alongside the arrival of RTX 4000 series cards, Nvidia revealed the new DLSS 3. Frame Generation combines with the existing DLSS 2 and Reflex latency reduction technology to take 4K …

Last week we put out a trailer about our upcoming DLSS 3 coverage - but it also contained a few seconds' capture of Marvel's Spider-Man running at 8K maxed on …

Nvidia has just announced the GeForce RTX 4090, based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture and backed up by a new evolution in AI-based frame generation: DLSS 3. In a …