Posts by John Papadopoulos:

The Outer Worlds has major optimization issues in later stages, drops to 40fps on Intel i9 9900K at 1080p/Ultra

Posted on: 06 Nov 2019

The Outer Worlds is the latest role-playing game from the company behind Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian. And while, as we wrote in our PC Performance Analysis, its first stages were not that taxing on the CPU, its later stages have major optimization issues.

The Hive is a new round based first-person-looter-shooter, coming to the PC in 2020

Posted on: 06 Nov 2019

3 Day Monk has announced that it’s working on a new game, called The Hive. The Hive is a new round based First-Person-Looter-Shooter set in an NPC-filled, devastated world. The game promises to combine competitive FPS and RPG elements to deliver a unique experience.

Epic Games Store exploit allows you to play and keep a game forever, without even buying it

Posted on: 06 Nov 2019

It appears that PC gamers can take advantage of an exploit on the Epic Games Store to access and keep games to their accounts for free. Willian Worrall of CCN discovered this new vulnerability and – for anyone interested – Epic Games has not fixed it yet.

Red Dead Redemption 2 supports both DirectX 12 and Vulkan, has more than 40 graphics settings, first mods

Posted on: 05 Nov 2019

Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally available on the PC. While our PC Performance Analysis will not go live today (or tomorrow), we can confirm that the game takes advantage of the latest APIs. These are, obviously, DirectX 12 and Vulkan.

Square Enix has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Octopath Traveler

Posted on: 05 Nov 2019

Octopath Traveler came out almost five months ago on the PC. However, and while most PC gamers were really pleased with this release, some were disappointed to find out that the game was using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Thankfully, Square Enix has decided to remove it from the game.

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.11.1 released, optimized for Red Dead Redemption 2

Posted on: 05 Nov 2019

Today is a big day as Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally coming out on the PC. And similarly to NVIDIA, AMD released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. So, as you may have guessed, the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.11.1 is optimized for RDR2.

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 441.12 WHQL Driver released, optimized for Red Dead Redemption 2

Posted on: 05 Nov 2019

NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 441.12 WHQL Driver is optimized for Red Dead Redemption 2. NVIDIA claims that this driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for RDR2.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti cannot run Red Dead Redemption 2 with 60fps in 4K/Ultra

Posted on: 04 Nov 2019

RDR2 releases in a few hours on the PC, and most PC gamers are really looking forward to it. However, it appears that Rockstar’s latest open-world game is a really demanding title. From the looks of it, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti will only be capable of offering an optimal performance at 2560×1440 in Red Dead … Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti cannot run Red Dead Redemption 2 with 60fps in 4K/Ultra →

Reshade 4.4 available for download, features better DX12 support & experimental Vulkan support

Posted on: 04 Nov 2019

The team behind Reshade has released a brand new version of it. Reshade 4.4 adds experimental support for the Vulkan API. Moreover, it features better DX12 support, and brings numerous performance improvements to all APIs.

Here are 26 minutes of leaked gameplay footage from the latest Cyberpunk 2077 Italian Demo [Off-Camera]

Posted on: 04 Nov 2019

Last month, we shared two videos from the PGA2019 demo of Cyberpunk 2077. And today, we have for you a new video from the game’s Italian demo, showing 26 minutes of gameplay footage. However, do note that this is off-camera footage.