Posts by John Papadopoulos:

The Last of Us Part I suffers from the same mouse camera panning stutters of UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

One of our biggest gripes with UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection was its awful mouse issues. At launch, the game had major mouse movement issues. And although Iron Galaxy fixed them, it introduced some annoying mouse camera panning stutters. And surprise surprise, The Last of Us Part I suffers from the exact same issues.

Can the NVIDIA RTX4090 run The Last of Us Part I with 60fps at Native 4K/Max Settings?

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

Sony has just released The Last of Us Part I on PC. Powered by Naughty Dog’s in-house engine, we’ve decided to test the game on our main PC system and share our initial PC performance impressions. Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 offer a constant 60fps experience at native 4K/Max Settings? Time to find out.

Crime Boss: Rockay City releases today so here are two new trailers for it

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

Crime Boss: Rockay City will release later today and 505 Games has released two new trailers for it. The first one is its cinematic launch trailer, whereas the second one details its available game modes.

New Witchfire gameplay trailer showcases its Spellcraft mechanics

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

The Astronauts has released a new gameplay trailer for Witchfire, in which it showcases some of the game’s Spellcraft. Featuring commentary from senior game designer Karol Krok, the video displays the different types of elemental magic available to players.

Free-to-play looter shooter, SYNCED, will release this Summer

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

Level Infinite and developer NExT Studios have announced that the upcoming companion-based looter shooter SYNCED will be available on PC this Summer. In order to celebrate this announcement, the teams have also released a new trailer that you can find below.

Boundary will no longer feature Ray Tracing, ditches DLSS over FSR & XeSS

Posted on: 28 Mar 2023

What do Atomic Heart and Boundary have in common? Well, both of them had exclusive Ray Tracing effects (and even benchmarks) that were cut from their retail versions. Yes yes, even though Surgical Scalpels showcased some really GPU-heavy RT effects for this online FPS, the game will not feature any of them at launch.

Diablo 4 may be the second triple-A game to support DirectStorage on PC

Posted on: 27 Mar 2023

The Open Beta phase for Diablo 4 is over and according to its files, Blizzard’s hack n slash RPG supports DirectStorage on PC. This is the second triple-A game that supports DirectStorage on PC (the first one is Forspoken).

WILD HEARTS runs 30-40% faster on AMD’s CPUs, still stutters like crazy

Posted on: 27 Mar 2023

Omega Force has released a new patch for the PC version of WILD HEARTS that, among other things, improved CPU performance, particularly for AMD processors. As such, we’ve decided to re-benchmark the game on our AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D.

New Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora screenshots have been leaked online

Posted on: 27 Mar 2023

It’s been a while since we last heard of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. However, that’s about to change as two new screenshots from it have been leaked online. Furthermore, it appears that a gameplay video may soon surface online.

NVIDIA RTX4090 cannot run Forspoken with 60fps at Native 4K/Max Settings/No Ray Tracing

Posted on: 27 Mar 2023

So here is something really interesting. This weekend, I’ve decided to give Forspoken a go. However, I came to realize that its built-in benchmark does not represent the actual in-game performance. And, as the title suggests, NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU is simply unable to offer smooth framerates at native 4K/Max Settings, even without Ray Tracing.