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I was an Nvidia DLSS 5 sceptic —but here are 5 reasons why I’m now hopeful that it’ll revolutionize graphics in PC games
Following the leak of the tech and a raft of unofficial mods, this week saw Nvidia‘s official launch of DLSS 5, with the company showing it off in NBA 2K27 at Gamescom 2026 and providing some further illuminating details. Before, after Nvidia’s initial DLSS 5 reveal in March, I was…
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‘It’s been particularly bad since Blackwell’: Nvidia’s new GPU driver has another nasty bug — and gamers are rapidly losing patience
Nvidia’s latest graphics driver has a frustrating bug Version 616.56 is causing distracting screen flickers and color corruption A patch is coming, and there are potential workarounds — but gamers are getting fed up with the prevalence of bugs in GeForce drivers Nvidia‘s latest graphics driver is causing chaos for…
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Nvidia DLSS 5 leak sparks major turnaround among PC gamers — as some brand it an ‘insanely huge graphical update’ that means ‘there’s no going back’
Nvidia‘s DLSS 5 has been nothing short of a bubbling cauldron of controversy ever since the next-gen gaming tech was first aired. That initial reception shocked Nvidia as what seemed like a legion of PC gamers took up arms and vowed, well, all sorts of colorful things — most of…
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The RAM crisis just hit a new low — here’s my advice on what to do based on 30 years of writing about GPUs, memory and PC components
It appears that the RAM crisis is getting worse than ever as we head further into 2026. I’ve been closely watching and reporting on memory price hikes — which were soon followed by other PC component cost increases — since this crisis first began, and the worrying thing is, I…
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Oh, great, GPU prices could climb again — here’s my expert advice on why you should buy now (and which graphics card to get)
Gigabyte graphics cards are rumored to be set for a big price rise It could be a hike of 20% to 40%, and other rumors are also pointing to major price hikes for GPUs more broadly This means now is likely a good time to make a purchase, particularly with…
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DLSS 5’s biggest crime is making us forget how good Nvidia’s tech can be, as my time testing DLSS 4.5 proves
I’ll be honest: despite many tech companies trying to convince me otherwise, artificial intelligence has left me cold (if not downright outraged when Google’s AI overviews steal my content) — but there’s one AI feature that I use almost every day: Nvidia’s DLSS, which uses artificial intelligence to upscale video…
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