NVIDIA officially reserves DLSS Multi Frame Generation for its GeForce RTX 50 Series “Blackwell” GPUs, but the PC modding community has spent the past few weeks systematically tearing down those barriers. We have now reached the point where experimental implementations of NVIDIA's DLSS-G pipeline can run on RTX 40 Series “Ada Lovelace” GPUs, RTX 30 Series “Ampere” cards, and even the older RTX 20 Series “Turing” hardware. These projects are fundamentally more interesting than the numerous "DLSS (Multi) Frame Generation" mods that appeared over the past couple of years. Many of those older solutions simply intercepted NVIDIA's DLSS-G calls and […]

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NVIDIA's DLSS Multi Frame Generation remains officially exclusive to the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series, but the modding community has now managed to get NVIDIA's own DLSS MFG frame interpolation technology running across three older GeForce RTX generations. Unlike previous workarounds that substituted AMD FSR Frame Generation, these new projects are attempting to run native DLSS (Multi) Frame Generation code on Ada Lovelace, Ampere, and even Turing GPUs. RTX 40 Series: Ada MFG Unlockers Are Already Quite Advanced The RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" Series is perhaps unsurprisingly the furthest along. Dashdogy's RTX40MFG-Unlock has evolved into a universal DirectX 12/Vulkan solution […]

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NVIDIA DLSS 5 modders continue experimenting with ways to reduce the technology's substantial performance cost, with the latest attempt bringing a hybrid FP8/NVFP4 version of its Neural Rendering model to GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. As highlighted by X user SwurvGaming, the experimental implementation was introduced through version 0.7.1 of the OptiScaler-DLSSNR-PreSR-Multipass project. Since Blackwell's fifth-generation Tensor Cores natively accelerate NVFP4, moving portions of DLSS 5 away from FP8 sounds like an obvious way to improve inference performance. The actual gains, however, are tiny. In fact, according to the project's release notes, the hybrid model reduced the complete DLSS 5 […]

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Capcom's RE Engine has built an enviable reputation over the past several years. From Resident Evil to Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter — though the last franchise is certainly not without its fair share of technical issues — the engine has repeatedly demonstrated that modern AAA games do not necessarily have to place absurd requirements on PC hardware to deliver a polished presentation. Onimusha: Way of the Sword continues that trend from a performance perspective, although we came away considerably less impressed by its visuals. The game runs very well on modern hardware, particularly compared to many contemporary Unreal […]

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The leaked DLSS 5 Neural Rendering implementation continues to expand well beyond NVIDIA's officially announced scope, with modders now targeting older RTX GPUs, games without native DLSS implementations, older graphics APIs, and even emulators. It has only been a few days since NVIDIA's experimental DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime leaked through NBA 2K27, but the PC modding community has already made remarkable progress in getting the technology running where it was never intended to. After initially bringing DLSS 5 to RTX 40 Series GPUs, enthusiasts have now enabled it on the older GeForce RTX 30 and even RTX 20 Series, […]

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Gamescom Congress 2026 concluded with a new attendance record after welcoming more than 1,100 visitors from the games industry, business, education, politics, science, media, and wider society. Held on August 27 as part of Gamescom in Cologne, this year’s conference featured 85 program items spread across eight stages, with 165 international speakers discussing the potential influence of games on culture, education, technology, the economy, and society. Attendance surpassed the previous record of more than 1,000 visitors established in 2025. The event was officially opened by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, marking the first time a sitting German head of state […]

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, marking the acclaimed open-world action RPG’s first appearance on a Nintendo platform. The package includes the original game, its substantial Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, and several new pieces of content. The release follows a lengthy journey to Nintendo’s latest system. Tarnished Edition was initially expected in 2025 but was pushed into 2026 after the early Nintendo Switch 2 build exhibited significant performance problems at Gamescom 2025. More recent footage suggested that FromSoftware had made considerable progress ahead of launch. Nintendo Switch 2 players can explore both the Lands […]

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NVIDIA's DLSS 5 marks a major shift for the company's AI-powered graphics technologies, using Neural Rendering to enhance lighting, materials, skin, hair, and other visual elements in real time. NVIDIA is positioning it as a “significant step” toward more photorealistic game graphics, while still giving developers and artists control over how the effect is applied. Although DLSS 5 isn't officially available in games yet, PC gaming enthusiasts have already managed to get an early and unofficial version working. An experimental runtime library shipped with the early access PC build of NBA 2K27, and members of the RenoDX Discord server quickly […]

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Unreal Engine 5 games have earned a reputation for being visually impressive but often difficult to run smoothly, particularly once Lumen, Nanite, and Virtual Shadow Maps enter the equation. Mortal Shell II is another title built around those technologies, but the result is considerably more encouraging than some recent releases using Epic's engine. Cold Symmetry's action RPG is not among the very best-looking Unreal Engine 5 games we have seen, yet it still delivers an attractive dark fantasy presentation backed by the aforementioned high-end UE5 modern rendering features. More importantly, it does so without placing an unreasonable load on modern […]

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Tencent Games Central Tech has made its Gamescom debut as a unified brand, presenting a portfolio of proprietary technologies designed to cover content creation, gameplay experiences, and long-term live operations. Its Gamescom 2026 showcase brings together Motus, GIGA, MagicDawn, Anti-Cheat Expert, GVoice, and WeTest. The centerpiece is Motus, Tencent Games’ end-to-end AI pipeline for 3D character animation. Built around the company’s proprietary generative animation foundation models, Motus connects several production stages that would traditionally require separate tools, including character rigging, skinning, motion generation, motion refinement, and real-time character interaction. Motion can be generated from text prompts, videos, or keyframes, while […]

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Funcom has released seven minutes of new Dune: Awakening gameplay captured on a PlayStation 5 Pro, offering the most substantial look yet at the survival game’s upcoming console version. The footage debuted during Gamescom 2026, where attendees can also play the PS5 build ahead of its September 22 launch. According to the developer, Dune: Awakening will offer two graphics modes on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. Performance Mode targets 60 frames per second at a dynamic 4K resolution, while Quality Mode targets 30 FPS, also using dynamic 4K. The PS5 Pro version will run at a higher native […]

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Square Enix brought Final Fantasy VII Revelation back to the stage during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, unveiling a new gameplay trailer for the third and final entry in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy. While the game was formally revealed at Summer Game Fest earlier this year, the new trailer offers a more extensive look at the colossal Weapons and some of the battles Cloud and his companions will face as they continue their pursuit of Sephiroth. Originally encountered during the later stages of the 1997 Final Fantasy VII, the Weapons are enormous guardians that emerge when the planet […]

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Ubisoft announced Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tactics during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026. Developed by Ubisoft Paris, the new single-player game trades the franchise’s familiar real-time shooting for turn-based squad combat built around planning, coordinated breaches, operator abilities, and environmental destruction. For the first time in the series, players will assume the role of Six, commander of Team Rainbow. Set alongside the ongoing Rainbow Six Siege timeline, its campaign follows the unit as a new global threat forces it to operate on a broader strategic scale. Missions begin at Rainbow’s headquarters, where players assess intelligence, select assignments, assemble their squad, […]

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Maxing out every graphics setting is rarely the best way to play a demanding Unreal Engine 5 game, and The Sinking City 2 is a particularly clear example. Frogwares' return to its Lovecraftian world uses several of the engine's marquee rendering features, but its Ultra preset is quite heavy on the GPU relative to the visuals it delivers. More frustratingly, most of the individual quality settings do very little to either the image or performance. That does not mean the PC version is a technical disaster. In fact, The Sinking City 2 handles one of Unreal Engine 5's most persistent […]

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For decades, computing performance was easy to reduce to a few headline specifications. CPUs were sold on clock speed and core count, GPUs on shader throughput and later teraFLOPS, memory on frequency, and storage on sequential transfer rates. Those numbers still have value, but modern processors have become so extraordinarily capable of performing arithmetic that another problem increasingly dictates how much of that theoretical performance can actually be used: getting data where it needs to go, when it needs to be there. A modern CPU core can execute multiple instructions every clock cycle. A high-end GPU contains thousands of arithmetic […]

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NVIDIA’s RTX 50 SUPER lineup has followed a remarkably uncertain path, but the GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER may ultimately become one of its most important additions. Unlike the higher-end SUPER models, which are largely expected to rely on additional memory and power, the RTX 5070 SUPER reportedly combines a slightly larger GPU configuration with a substantial increase from 12 GB to 18 GB of GDDR7 memory. NVIDIA’s RTX 50 SUPER Refresh — Finished Hardware, Unsettled Launch Economics Before we dive deeper into the RTX 5070 SUPER, let’s first discuss the broader RTX 50 SUPER lineup. NVIDIA’s upcoming consumer GPU refresh […]

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Frame generation (oftentimes abbreviated as “FG”) has quickly solidified itself as one of the most vital and hotly debated innovations in modern PC gaming. When implemented correctly and used properly, it can greatly enhance the smoothness of modern, demanding PC games, particularly on high-refresh-rate monitors. Unfortunately, it’s also very easy to misuse under many circumstances, by game developers and gamers alike. As such, we decided to write this guide to illustrate the most optimal ways of using frame generation in modern PC games. Let's clear something up right away: Frame generation isn't a panacea meant to fix low gaming performance […]

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Building a gaming PC in 2026 has become considerably more expensive than it was only a year or so ago, and graphics cards are not solely responsible this time. The ongoing memory shortage has driven up the cost of all DRAM and NAND flash-based products, such as memory kits, SSDs, and graphics cards. For that reason, we consider approximately $1,000 to be the realistic starting point for a decent new gaming PC in July 2026. Even then, some compromises are unavoidable. Moving up to higher pricing tiers allows progressively stronger CPUs and GPUs, not to mention higher system memory and […]

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NVIDIA’s RTX 50 SUPER lineup has been in the rumor mill for quite a while now, and out of all the SKUs expected to be part of Team Green’s mid-cycle Blackwell refresh, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPER might end up being one of the most interesting cards for gamers, creators, and even local AI users. NVIDIA’s RTX 50 SUPER Lineup - A Rocky Launch For NVIDIA Amidst The DRAM Shortage Before we dive deeper into the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER, let’s first talk about the broader RTX 50 SUPER lineup. NVIDIA’s upcoming consumer GPU launch isn’t expected to be […]

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