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Updated: GeForce cards mysteriously appear to play nice with TR's FreeSync monitors Update 9/30/18 3:22 AM: After further research and the collection of more high-speed camera footage from our G-Sync displays, I'm confident the tear-free gameplay we're... |
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Weighing the trade-offs of Nvidia DLSS for image quality and performance While Nvidia has heavily promoted ray-traced effects from its GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards, the deep-learning super-sampling (DLSS)... |
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Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller is for everybody—literally At a quick glance, it's easy to dismiss the Xbox Adaptive Controller as a one-off thing meant for a very specific audience. But Microsoft... Type: Blog post Tags: Input devices Gaming |
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Tobii makes a compelling case for more natural and immersive VR with eye tracking We've heard murmurs about the benefits of eye-tracking in VR headsets for quite some time now, but even with the number of press days and... Type: Blog post Tags: Displays Input devices Gaming |
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I made my dumb appliances smarter with the Internet of Things Sometimes I forget things. In particular, I forget to transfer my clean but wet laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. When this happens,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Networking |
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Space Pirate Trainer's beta update turns it into a more strategic VR shoot-'em-up Space Pirate Trainer's early-access release, like many fun games, has a simple premise. Put on the HTC Vive, pick up its controllers, and you're... |
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TR's VR journals, part one: setting the stage Over the past couple months, I've been places. I've dangled from the side of a rock wall hundreds of feet above crashing waves. I've... |
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Radeon Pro Duo spearheads AMD's push for VR dominance GDC—At its Capsaicin event this evening, AMD took the wraps off a wide range of software and hardware projects that put the spotlight on virtual... |
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Microsoft's push for a unified cross-platform gaming experience backfires Over the past few years, Microsoft has made a few attempts to build bridges to the PC gaming community. More often than not, though, those... |
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Ashes of the Singularity's second beta gives GCN a big boost with DX12 Ashes of the Singularity is probably the first game that will come to most people's minds these days when we talk about DirectX... |
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Mixing power-line networking with Wi-Fi proves intoxicating You may recall my failed attempt at using a second Wi-Fi router in repeater mode in order to overcome some signal-strength issues in the... Type: Blog post Tags: Networking |
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Chess, guns, and chainswords collide in Warhammer 40,000: Regicide Dakka! Dakka dakka dakka! That, my friends, is the most beautiful sound in the universe. Well, second best, perhaps, after the dulcet tones of... |
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Is FCAT more accurate than Fraps for frame time measurements? Here's a geeky question we got in response to one of our discussions in the latest episode of the podcast that deserves a solid... |
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Time Warner slings free Maxx upgrades to counter Google Fiber I've been chronicling the slow progress of Google Fiber moving into my metro area, my city, and eventually, into my house. Since Google Fiber... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Networking |
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In the moment with Project Cars There's a whole process involved with playing Project Cars in my home office—a ritual, if you will. First, I pull an older X79 rig off... |
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Gaming on the Grid with Nvidia's Shield Tablet Music and video streaming are big business these days. Game streaming hasn't taken off in the same way, but Nvidia has big plans for it.... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Gaming |
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Civ: Beyond Earth with Mantle aims to end multi-GPU microstuttering The next installment in Sid Meier's Civilization series, Civilization: Beyond Earth, comes out tomorrow. The folks at AMD have been working with its developer, Firaxis, to... |
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AMD's CEO transition is a natural next step I just finished listening in to the conference call for financial analysts regarding AMD's CEO transition from Rory Read to Dr. Lisa Su. As... |
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