Posts by John Papadopoulos:

First Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC Update Released, Is 17GB, Full Patch Notes

Posted on: 03 Feb 2025

Square Enix has just released the first title update for the PC version of Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, and shared its full patch notes. This first patch is 17.7GB in size on Steam, so let’s see what it brings to the table.

New 4K Mod for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Overhauls 1300 Textures

Posted on: 02 Feb 2025

Modder ‘Romi’ has just released a must-have 11GB 4K Texture Pack for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This pack focuses on the game’s environments, and it will overhaul around 1300 textures in total. So, let’s take a closer look at it, shall we?

We’ve tried NVIDIA Smooth Motion, here are our thoughts

Posted on: 02 Feb 2025

Last week, NVIDIA launched a new feature for the RTX50 series GPUs that is similar to AMD’s AFMF, called Smooth Motion. Smooth Motion allows you to enable Frame Generation in games that do not support DLSS 3 FG. So, how good – or bad – is it? Let’s find out.

Skyrim just got a free NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mod

Posted on: 02 Feb 2025

Modder ‘doodlum’ has released a new mod for Skyrim Special Edition that adds support for NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation. Thanks to this mod, owners of an RTX40 or RTX50 series GPU will be able to enjoy the game with higher framerates.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis

Posted on: 01 Feb 2025

KOEI Tecmo shadow-dropped Ninja Gaiden 2 Black on PC last week. Team Ninja has basically remastered this classic Ninja Gaiden game in Unreal Engine 5, using new and more detailed assets. Thus, it’s time to benchmark this remaster and examine its performance on the PC.

DLC-sized fan expansion for Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout: Nuevo Mexico, has been canceled

Posted on: 01 Feb 2025

Remember Fallout: Nuevo Mexico? Well, if you were looking forward to it, we have some bad news for you. A few days ago, its creator announced its cancellation. As such, this new DLC-sized mod will now never see the light of day.

Hellblade 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake, STALKER 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor & more running on NVIDIA RTX 5090 at 8K/Max/Ray Tracing with DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Gen X4

Posted on: 01 Feb 2025

NVIDIA has released a new version of the NVIDIA App that enabled DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Gen in a lot of games. As such, we’ve decided to use it and run at 8K some of the most demanding PC games. So, here are Hellblade 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake, STALKER 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Hogwarts … Continue reading Hellblade 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake, STALKER 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor & more running on NVIDIA RTX 5090 at 8K/Max/Ray Tracing with DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Gen X4 →

Sony is trying to take down the 60FPS patch for Bloodborne, but you can still download it

Posted on: 01 Feb 2025

On January 21st 2021, Lance McDonald released a 60FPS patch for Bloodborne that you could use on PS4, PS5 and PC (via shadPS4). However, after more than four years, Sony is trying to take down this patch/mod.

First Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC patch released to fix crashes

Posted on: 31 Jan 2025

Nixxes has just released the first PC patch for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. According to the devs, Title Update 1.31.0.0 aims to resolve the crashes that plagued the game at launch. As such, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 should be more stable on your PC.

Invariant is a Half-Life-inspired FPS from former Serious Sam devs

Posted on: 31 Jan 2025

Now here is a game that passed under my radar. Last month, Faros Interactive released a teaser trailer for its upcoming Half-Life-inspired FPS, Invariant. So, let’s take a look at it, shall we?