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How Valve made Steam Deck the first PC to smoothly run Elden Ring

Enlarge / Artistic representation of having Elden Ring running surprisingly smoothly on Steam Deck. (credit: Valve / From Software / Sam Machkovech) While Elden Ring‘s recent launch has been a massive critical and commercial success, it continues developer From Software’s streak of leaving players in a technical lurch. Even on the newest Xbox and PlayStation […]

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A weird take on frame rate: How PS5’s first “40 fps” game works, runs

Enlarge / This Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart image was captured while running in the game’s new 40 fps mode. It offers the same amount of resolution, image quality, and ray-tracing fidelity as the prior 30 fps “quality” mode. (credit: Sony / Insomniac) When it comes to action-filled video games, frame rates matter, and up […]