About: John Papadopoulos

Website: DSOGaming : https://www.dsogaming.com
Bio: John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved - and still does - the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the "The Evolution of PC graphics cards." Contact: Email

Posts by John Papadopoulos:

MKP Revitalized 2 is a new great free Mortal Kombat Mugen game that is available for download

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

MKA has released a brand new version of his Mortal Kombat Mugen game, MKP Revitalized. MKP Revitalized 2 features 54 fighters from all the classic Mortal Kombat fighting games, including some characters that appeared in other Mortal Kombat games, like MK Sub-Zero Mythologies, and rumoured characters from the old 2D MK games.

F1 2018 – DX11 versus DX12 benchmarks

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

As we’ve already reported, Codemasters has added official DX12 support to F1 2018. Therefore, we decided to benchmark this F1 game on both AMD’s and NVIDIA’s hardware and see whether there are any major performance differences between the DirectX 11 and the DirectX 12 APIs.

Hitman 2 Patch 2.11 is now available, adds Simulation Quality option, brings optimization tweaks

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

IO Interactive has released a new patch for the PC version of Hitman 2. According to the release notes, patch 2.11 adds a brand new graphics setting called Simulation Quality and brings various PC optimization tweaks.

New videos released for the fan-made Half-Life 3 game, Boreal Alyph

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

Back in October, we shared the performance tech demo for the unofficial Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode 3 if you prefer, game Project Borealis. However, Project Borealis isn’t the only game that aims to recreate this vaporware title. Boreal Alyph is also based on Marc Laidlaw short story “Epistle 3” and its development team has released … Continue reading New videos released for the fan-made Half-Life 3 game, Boreal Alyph →

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Official PC System Requirements

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

Funcom has revealed the official PC system requirements for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i5-760 or an AMD Phenom II X4 965 with 6GB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 580 or an AMD Radeon HD 7870.

Latest Forza Horizon 4 patch implements multi-material color selection for cars & rims, fixes numerous issues

Posted on: 20 Nov 2018

Playground Games has released a brand new update for its open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 4. According to the release notes, the November 20th update implements multi-material color selection for a number of cars and rims, adds in a number of new to Horizon rims and fixes various bugs and issues.

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.