Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Half-Life Absolute Zero will recreate the pre-release versions of Half-Life, releases on February 12th

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

Modder ‘Cobalt-57’ has announced that Half-Life Absolute Zero will release on February 12th, 2019. In case you weren’t aware of, Half-Life: Absolute Zero is a mod dedicated to recreating the pre-release versions of Half-Life. The team aims to recreate the art-style and chapters featured off in Half-Life builds from early to mid 1998, featuring all … Continue reading Half-Life Absolute Zero will recreate the pre-release versions of Half-Life, releases on February 12th →

Reshade 4.0 is now available for download, features rewritten ReShade FX compiler from ground up

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

Crosire has released a brand new version of Reshade, Reshade 4.0. For Reshade 4.0, crosire rewrote ReShade FX compiler from the ground up to generate SSA code making it fully standalone, blazing fast, and featuring much better error recovery. What’s really cool here though is that this compiler paves the future for Vulkan support (so … Continue reading Reshade 4.0 is now available for download, features rewritten ReShade FX compiler from ground up →

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.2 is now available, optimized for Battlefield 5

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, this driver adds support for Battlefield 5. Unfortunately, AMD did not provide any percentage improvements over the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1 (which was also listed as a driver that was optimized for DICE’s shooter).

Fallout 76 now supports higher/unlocked framerates, physics no longer tied to framerate

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

As we’ve already reported, Bethesda released today the first post-launch update for Fallout 76. Now while the release notes did not mention anything about it, we can confirm that Bethesda has unlocked the framerate, meaning that PC gamers can get higher framerates than 60fps.

Capcom has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Mega Man 11

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

Now that’s the spirit. When it was originally released, Mega Man 11 was protected by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. However, earlier today CODEX was able to crack the game and as a result of that, Capcom has decided to completely remove Denuvo from its game.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs support Adaptive Shading for increased performance, debuts in Wolfenstein 2 [UPDATE]

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

NVIDIA has announced that its new GeForce RTX graphics cards support several new, innovative advanced shading techniques, that will enable developers to further improve performance. One of them is called Adaptive Shading and it will debut in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus via a new patch.

F1 2018 receives official DX12 support, DX12 beta build available for download

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

Now here is a pleasant surprise. Codemasters has released a DX12 beta build for F1 2018. According to the developers, this new DX12 version changes the way some parts of the game engine work, and particularly the graphics code.

First Fallout 76 post-launch update released, full patch release notes revealed

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

Bethesda has released the first post-launch update for Fallout 76. According to the release notes, this first patch addresses several performance issues and resolves hitches during gameplay. Moreover, the game client and servers have received additional stability improvements so theoretically the game should be more stable now.

Black Mesa: Xen will release in Q2 2019

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

The Black Mesa team has announced that Black Mesa: Xen will release in Q2 2019. In order to celebrate this announcement, as well as Half-Life’s 20th anniversary, the team has also released a new trailer that you can find below.

Alien Isolation VR mod adds motion controller support, making it one of the best VR games to date

Posted on: 19 Nov 2018

Back in 2014, we informed you about a mod for Alien: Isolation that re-enabled Oculus Rift Support. Since then, modder ‘Nibre’ has been working on this mod – obviously not on a daily basis – and released yesterday a new version that adds proper motion controller support. As such, Alien Isolation can now be fully played … Continue reading Alien Isolation VR mod adds motion controller support, making it one of the best VR games to date →