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Star Citizen has officially dropped support for Windows 7 and Nvidia's GTX 700 series graphics cards with the latest release of Star Citizen Alpha 3.17.

A new report claims that AMD is preparing Smart Access Storage (SAS) to accelerate storage performance on its Ryzen processors.

The new AI upscaling tech from Intel gets fleshed out by Intel's devs and third party game devs. Some quality and performance indicators have been shared.

Forspoken for PCs supports AMD's screen-space ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections, raytraced shadows, and Super Resolution. It will also be the first game to use Microsoft DirectStorage.

Intel's Arc A380 discrete gaming GPUs have been benchmarked and the specs revealed for the full family.

Taking framerates above 1,000 feet?

The Xindong/Innosilicon Fenghua 1 GPU offers 10 TFLOPS FP32 and 50 TOPS INT8 performance, and on paper can match the RTX 3060.

We tested the RTX 3080 Ti and RX 6900 XT on Windows 10 and Windows 11 using identical hardware to see if there's any benefit or penalty to switching to the latest OS.

Microsoft is finally making the Windows Terminal the default command-line application in Windows 11 by 2022. Replacing the older Windows Console Host.

6GB and even 8GB cards can struggle