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Digital Foundry | Why VRR is not a magic bullet for fixing poor performance
Variable refresh rate is a game-changer - but it has its limits.
Alex Battaglia
Video Producer, Digital Foundry
Ray-tracing radical, Turok technophile, Crysis cultist and motion-blur menace. When not doing Digital Foundry things, he can be found strolling through Berlin examining the city for rendering artefacts.
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Digital Foundry | The making of Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 - the Ninja Theory interview
Breaking down an Unreal Engine 5 technological showcase.
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Digital Foundry | Forza Motorsport PC modded: extra detail and improved ray tracing are there for the taking
Plus: a look at performance optimisation since launch.
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Digital Foundry | AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tested: improved over FSR 2 but DLSS and XeSS are still ahead
Improvements are evident, but core issues remain.
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Digital Foundry | Frame generation for every game? Lossless Scaling vs FSR 3 and DLSS 3
Despite some limitations, this is a genuinely great new option.
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Digital Foundry | Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - long-standing tech issues remain unaddressed
Over two years later, performance problems still impact all platforms.
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Digital Foundry | Doom: The Dark Ages - how id Tech evolves for the current-gen console era
What we learned from the Xbox Showcase teaser.
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Digital Foundry | Lessons from Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 - a milestone Unreal Engine 5 release on PC
Developers can learn a lot from what it gets right - and wrong.
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Digital Foundry | Ghost of Tsushima on PC delivers impressive upgrades over PS5
But perhaps its time for Nixxes to take its ports to the next level.
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Digital Foundry | Unreal Engine 5.4: Epic's latest revision delivers big performance and feature wins
Yet frame-time stability, traversal stutter and shader precompilation still need improvement.
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Digital Foundry | Dragon's Dogma 2 has a hidden path-traced renderer - and modders have found it
It's real, it works - but it's not built for gamers.
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Digital Foundry | PC image quality enhanced: the new DLSS and XeSS tested
Machine learning-based upscaling has evolved.
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Digital Foundry | Horizon Forbidden West: the best PC settings look a lot like Guerrilla's choices for PlayStation 5
The best PC settings look a lot like Guerrilla's choices for PlayStation 5.
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Digital Foundry | Dragon's Dogma 2: a brilliant game in need of technical improvements
All consoles and PC put through their paces.
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Digital Foundry | The big Horizon Forbidden West PC tech interview with Nixxes and Guerrilla Games
How one of PS5's most advanced games made its way across to PC.
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Digital Foundry | Horizon Forbidden West: hands-on with the eagerly anticipated PC port
Is this a scalable, performant version of one of PS5's most demanding games?
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Digital Foundry | Upcoming Alan Wake 2 patch drastically improves GTX 10-series performance
A look at the new optimisations, plus general PC improvements since launch.
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Digital Foundry | Skull and Bones: the good, the bad, the ugly - and the utterly bizarre
We've got a range of issues with Ubisoft's 'quadruple-A' game.
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Digital Foundry | RTX HDR: Nvidia's AI video enhancement tool works for games too - and it beats AutoHDR
Available via a mod now, but official support must surely be heading our way.
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Digital Foundry | Temporal anti-aliasing: a blessing or a curse?
TAA is a crucial tool for developers - but is the impact to image quality too great?
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Digital Foundry | Tested: the DLSS 3/FSR 3 mod that brings frame generation to older Nvidia cards
There are some issues - but fundamentally, it works.
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Digital Foundry | The Finals on PC: genuinely awesome destruction tech without sacrificing performance
DF's PC tech analysis, plus a quick look at PS5.
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Digital Foundry | Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - PC optimised settings and graphics comparison vs PS5
Plus: how does FSR 3 hold up?
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Digital Foundry | Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - the big developer tech interview
A deep dive into Ubisoft Massive's phenomenal, revised Snowdrop engine.
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Digital Foundry | Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is one of the most technologically impressive games of the year
Ubisoft Massive's next-gen Snowdrop engine enhancements are simply phenomenal.