The native GeForce NOW app for the Steam Deck is here, and it comes with the charm of a Trojan horse. While you are still wondering whether this is cloud gaming 2.0 or just well-packaged streaming, NVIDIA surprises you with a simple and effective truth: if you pay 20 dollars a month, you get the full visual package. Power guzzler becomes endurance [...]
Many people are familiar with the problem of traveling with a laptop or mini PC. You have a device that you want to use for both work and play. However, the latter can quickly become a challenge, as there can be a problem with graphics-intensive games in particular. The performance of older devices or integrated graphics chips is often simply not [...]
Huawei follows up. After smartphones, which have long since left Western markets, now comes the big desktop launch: HarmonyOS Next. It sounds like a promise of the future, but above all it brings a clean break with the past. This is because old devices are consistently locked out, as are apps that do not want to be in Huawei’s own App [...]
With the latest graphics driver update, Intel is delivering a moderate but not insignificant performance increase for its integrated Arc GPUs of the 140V and 130V series, which are based on the Xe2 architecture (codenamed “Battlemage”). Without any major announcements, but with clear benchmarks, the chip manufacturer has now documented [...]
As a patient with type 2 diabetes, I regularly and carefully inform myself about current methods of blood glucose measurement, especially about developments in the field of non-invasive technologies. In this context, I am increasingly confronted with a flood of online advertisements that are distributed via various channels and supposedly [...]
Once again there is a quiet rumble in the underground of AGESA versions – this time with the version number 1.2.0.3C, a patch that does not deal with performance gimmicks or RAM compatibility, but with something much more serious: a security vulnerability in the microcode signature check. The whole thing was not discovered internally at AMD [...]
There was a lot of noise in the user forums, plagued by black screens, game crashes and drivers that behaved like bad-tempered interns in the data center. The RTX-50 series, actually positioned as the spearhead of the Ada Next wave, not only got the silicon under the hood right from the start, but also an unsightly hodgepodge of unstable drivers [...]
Ray tracing. For most people, this has so far meant pretty reflections in puddles, soft shadows, blinding rays of sunlight – and a GPU fan that spontaneously switches to runway mode. But now it’s getting thick – this time for the ears. The developer Vercidium, previously more at home in the niche market, is focusing on a concept [...]
There are growing indications that MSI will no longer rely on Intel for the next generation of its Claw handhelds, but will instead use AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 AI Extreme APU in the future. This step would not only mean a technological reorientation, but would also mark the end of the previous exclusive relationship with Intel’s “Core [...]
Update from 12.04.2025 The MCT is now also compatible with RDNA4 (download see below). A different SDK was used in today’s update to avoid incompatibilities with the latest Microsoft update -ADLX 1.4 support -RDNA4 bugfixes -ImageSharpening Sharpen Desktop feature Preliminary note and introduction Since AMD massively restricted the use of [...]
With version 7.65 of its system analysis tool AIDA64, FinalWire has once again rolled out an update that will make fans of future hardware sit up and take notice. While the average user is probably still clicking around with some “refresh” from the Raptor Lake box or running a GPU from the Ampere ramp, AIDA64 is gearing up for [...]
A sober look at a software solution for gamers who want more – but without driver voodoo and GPU brand pressure, please. Because you know the problem: older games only run in windowed mode or scale so muddily on modern monitors that you think the image has been filtered through Vaseline. On the other hand, there are modern blockbusters that [...]
Microsoft has done it again: a new attempt to force users even more firmly into the Microsoft ecosystem has been introduced with the Windows 11 installation. Mandatory login with a Microsoft account was supposed to provide more security, but as always, there is a way around it. Because what Microsoft wants to sell as a “security [...]
While NVIDIA officially supports its RTX-50 GPUs with the 572.XX driver series, the company appears to be causing growing dissatisfaction among owners of older Ampere and Ada-Lovelace cards. Several developer studios are publicly warning against using the latest driver versions for the RTX-30 and RTX-40 series. The reasons are tangible: [...]
While NVIDIA is outwardly focusing on the RTX-50 series, complaints about the current GeForce Game Ready driver version 572.XX are piling up in the background. Owners of the RTX-40 graphics cards in particular have been reporting serious problems for weeks. These range from sporadic black screens and complete system crashes to permanently [...]
While Valve is still officially working on the release of SteamOS 3.8, a YouTuber withthepseudonym “The Phawx” has already created facts: He was able to successfully install the latest version of the Linux-based operating system on the ASUS ROG Ally – well ahead of its general availability. The results are quite remarkable and [...]
When the PCI-SIG chases another PDF through the mailing lists, experienced observers can either yawn or marvel – depending on how much coffee they have already had. This time it’s about version 0.9 of the PCI Express 7.0 standard. It sounds final, but for now it’s just the last draft stage before official approval. For the [...]
Microsoft presented a comprehensive update to its DirectX toolchain at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025. The focus: DirectX Raytracing 1.2 (DXR 1.2), Shader Model 6.9 with “Cooperative Vectors”, as well as neural rendering technologies, which are to be implemented on a broad hardware basis in collaboration with NVIDIA, AMD and [...]
Anyone hoping for a leap in performance for the integrated GPUs of the next APU generation can immediately lower their expectations. According to the latest GPUOpen drivers, AMD will continue to rely on RDNA 3.5 for the Medusa Point APUs and reserve RDNA 4 exclusively for dedicated GPUs. Sounds pragmatic, but also a little uninspired. RDNA 4? Only [...]
You can argue about upscaling technologies, but NVIDIA is pushing through its DLSS 4 program unwaveringly. Over 100 games and applications have now joined the list, and the next software trick is already waiting in the wings with Neural Shading for DirectX. DLSS 4: More games, better upscaling, but not for everyone NVIDIA is celebrating [...]
