Enlarge / E2M1 has never looked so cool. Welcome to the ray-traced Doom experience. (credit: id Software) Since the launch of Quake II RTX in 2019, fans have kept their eyes peeled for similar ray- and path-tracing updates for other classic ’90s shooters. It’s fertile upgrade territory, since modern machines push vanilla versions of Doom […]
Enlarge (credit: AMD) When the PC industry’s two biggest graphics card manufacturers aren’t battling over benchmarks or chip shortage woes, they’ve been fighting over a different sales pitch: boosting performance for older GPUs. And while Nvidia has largely won that war, that has come with an asterisk of a proprietary performance-boosting system, DLSS, that requires […]
This gallery consists of shots taken from today’s PC reveal trailer. They all seem to better resemble live gameplay than the sweetened images on the PlayStation blog. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment ] Sony’s bullish-if-slow attitude toward launching its biggest PlayStation exclusives on Windows PCs will continue in January 2022 with a release that pretty much […]
Enlarge / No Man’s Sky added a bunch of trippy stuff this week, including rideable mounts. We love mounts. But we also love frames, so hence, we’re analyzing the game’s newfound use of DLSS, specifically in its punishing VR mode. (credit: Hello Games) Over the past few years, Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) standard has […]