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  • Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of my favorite games of all time. The sheer replayability, dialogue, hidden areas, quests, and varied outcomes easily make it a 1000-hour adventure (multiple playthroughs). BG3 is a big step up from Larian’s previous project (Divinity Original Sin 2), playing more like a third-person RPG than a tabletop. While the initial areas are forgiving on most PCs, the third and final act set in Baldur’s Gate (the city) can be…

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  • Apex Legends remains one of the most popular Battle Royale games with over 300K concurrent players on Steam. Although the game launched back in 2019, it can be a little taxing if you are running it on a notebook or an iGPU. In this post, we look at the various graphics settings available in the game and figure out which ones cost the most. Our Test Bench CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Motherboard: ASUS ROG…

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  • Horizon Forbidden West had a smooth PC release. We tested the game at launch and were pleasantly surprised by its performance. The game ran well on all GPUs but had a thing for Radeon hardware. The RX 7900 XT delivers similar frame rates as the RTX 4080, while the 7900 XTX comes pretty close to the 4090. Since then, there have been multiple game updates, and the Resizable BAR profile has been enabled for GeForce…

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  • Ghost of Tsushima is headed to PC on the 16th of May. The game will feature the base campaign, expansion, and multiplayer modes. It’ll be the first Sony title to feature the PlayStation overlay on a non-PS platform, bringing crossplay, voice chat, and more. The official PC requirements for Ghost of Tsushima are rather steep, considering it’s a 4+ year-old game. For the highest quality at 4K, you’ll need a GeForce RTX 4080 or a…

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  • Dragon’s Dogma 2 had a rough PC launch, with CPU bottlenecks limiting performance with and without ray tracing. The deficit was especially glaring in towns and settlements, dropping below 60 FPS even on a GeForce RTX 4090 + Core i9-13900KF setup. Our testing revealed a crippling CPU bottleneck with ray-tracing enabled, with the GPU being idle for ~50% of the frametime. Disabling ray tracing improved frame times and lows, but the result remained sub-par. Since…

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  • Diablo 4 is the latest installment in the long-running series of action RPGs made by Blizzard Entertainment, released simultaneously on consoles and PCs back in 2023. Unfortunately, it requires one of those pesky launchers separate from Steam to make it run but is generally a well-running PC port, with issues patched out over the year. (The textures and VRAM issues however still exist). With the Game Pass released and ray-tracing added, let’s check out the…

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