The debate about whether Windows 10 or Windows 11 delivers the better gaming experience is no longer a purely technical argument — it has become a cultural one, tied up with benchmarking obsession, perceived differences versus measurable gains, and a growing tension between security features...
Microsoft’s pitch for Windows 11 promised more than a new skin — it promised a gaming OS that would feel like it was built from the ground up for modern play: Auto HDR to breathe new life into older titles, DirectStorage to make load screens and texture pop-in fade into memory, and tighter Xbox...
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Microsoft promised a gaming revolution when it introduced DirectStorage as a marquee feature for Windows 11 back in 2020. But here we are, barreling into 2024, and the promise still feels... lukewarm at best. So, what’s keeping this game-changer trapped in the development wormhole? And should...
As of June 28, Xbox Cloud Gaming is available to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members with Windows 10 PCs and Apple phones and tablets, via browser, across 22 countries. If you’re a member or want to become one, go to Edge, Chrome or Safari on your PC or mobile device to start playing hundreds of...
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That's what my grandson calls it. He's got 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive in an Asus PC. System info is attached here as a .pdf file. 95% of his activity is Minecraft, but even before that comes into play, the OS is slow to load and if he should enter an erroneous password at the start...
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What the latest driver set does do is fix Battlefield: Bad Company 2Link Removed load times; and I don't mean fix in the sense that it's a little faster now. Compared to previous driver revisions, the load times are now seconds instead of what felt like minutes. Mind you, this is only in the...