Shadow of the Tomb Raider hotfix fixes crashes on RTX GPUs, visual corruption & flickering particles

EIDOS Montreal and Nixxes have released a hotfix for Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s patch 4. According to the release notes, this hotfix addresses the crashes when using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080 or RTX2080Ti GPUs with specific driver and OS versions. These instant crashes really frustrated us and were present only when DX12 was enabled, so it’s at least great that Nixxes has addressed them so soon. Continue reading Shadow of the Tomb Raider hotfix fixes crashes on RTX GPUs, visual corruption & flickering particles

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 update 1.03 released, full patch release notes unveiled

Treyarch and Beenox have released a new patch for Call of Duty Black Ops 4. According to the release notes, this patch will update your game’s version to 1.03 and makes Leaderboards available for Multiplayer, Blackout, and Zombies, addresses an issue where player-created paintjobs may appear corrupted or stretched when placed on weapons and brings general stability improvements across Multiplayer, Blackout, and Zombies. Continue reading Call of Duty Black Ops 4 update 1.03 released, full patch release notes unveiled

GUN, Bodycount and more running on the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia, in DirectX 12

YouTube’s ‘John GodGames Emus’ and ‘Emulators for PC’ have shared some new videos, showing GUN, Bodycount, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and more running on the latest version of the best Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia. Continue reading GUN, Bodycount and more running on the Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia, in DirectX 12

New Just Cause 4 trailer focuses on the new and improved Supply Drop function

Square Enix has released a brand new trailer for Just Cause 4 that focuses on its new and improved Supply Drop function. As its name suggests, Supply Drop allows players to select their vehicle, weapon or random items that they want and fly them in via the menu. Continue reading New Just Cause 4 trailer focuses on the new and improved Supply Drop function

First third-party gaming benchmarks released for the Intel Core i9 9900K and Intel Core i7 9700K

The embargo for the Intel Core i9 9900K and Intel Core i7 9700K CPUs has been lifted and the first third-party gaming benchmarks for these two CPUs have been revealed. And as you may have guessed, these two models are right now the fastest CPUs for gaming. Continue reading First third-party gaming benchmarks released for the Intel Core i9 9900K and Intel Core i7 9700K

New Windows 10 Spectre fixes will reduce performance impact to low single-digit percentages

Good news: the October 2018 Update for Windows 10 features the highly anticipated fixes for Spectre and Meltdown. Bad news: these fixes can have a significant performance it, with some websites reporting a 20-30% hit. Thankfully, though, Microsoft is looking into optimizing these new features in the next Windows 10 update. Continue reading New Windows 10 Spectre fixes will reduce performance impact to low single-digit percentages

New Star Citizen video showcases advanced physics effects

Cloud Imperium has released a new video in which Sean Tracy and Andreas Rohr take us through how and why physics is starting to be used to bring environments and characters to life in Star Citizen. This video showcases advanced physics effects that are now possible in Star Citizen and Squadron 42, so we strongly suggest watching it if you are fans of this upcoming space game. Continue reading New Star Citizen video showcases advanced physics effects