pc gaming performance

Lossless Scaling is a $6.99 Windows utility on Steam from developer THS that applies external upscaling and LSFG frame generation to windowed or borderless games, emulators, and video content across Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and integrated GPUs. That dry description understates why the app matters in...

AMD officially released FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards on June 22, 2026, bringing its newer machine-learning upscaler to RDNA 3 desktop GPUs through the latest Adrenalin driver ahead of the July window AMD had previously promised. The move is more than a driver...

Microsoft’s Dev Drive is a Windows 11 storage feature that creates a ReFS-formatted volume for developer workloads, and PCWorld is now arguing that the same small-file optimizations can also help some games load and stream assets faster. That does not make Dev Drive a secret turbo button for...

Microsoft is reportedly using an internal Windows initiative called K2 in April 2026 to raise Windows 11’s quality bar, reduce bloat, and make PC gaming performance more competitive with SteamOS on handheld and low-end gaming hardware. That is not an admission of defeat, but it is something more...

GeForce users around the globe reported sudden, severe frame‑rate drops after installing Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (catalogued as KB5066835), prompting NVIDIA to publish an out‑of‑cycle mitigation — GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 — to restore performance for...