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If you have ever plugged in an external SSD and watched it crawl at 40 MB/s, then blamed the cable, the port, the drive, and eventually Windows, there is a fourth suspect you probably never considered: your hand. Insert a USB 3.0 Type-A plug slowly enough and the connection can silently...

Getting a red banner telling you your antivirus is disabled is exactly the kind of notification that ruins an evening, and right now a lot of people are getting one for no reason at all. Microsoft has confirmed two separate problems in recent Windows servicing, and the more alarming of the two...

There is a version of driver week where you install the new build, gain some frames, and never think about it again. This is not that week. Game Ready Driver 616.56 landed on August 26 with a performance bump, and over the following days two separate regressions surfaced that between them touch...

I said Linus, not Linux 🙃

The second Modern Warfare 4 beta weekend opened to everyone at 10:00 AM PT last Thursday and runs until 10:00 AM PT on Tuesday, September 1. No preorder, no beta code, and this round includes Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PC via Steam and Battle.net, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X...

Buried in the Star Wars Zero Company Steam FAQ is one of the more candid admissions a publisher has made about PC performance this year, and it went up before the game launched. Answering a question about Steam Deck verification, the developers wrote that they recently removed “native” from the...

Nobody who follows this stuff is surprised that Nova Lake-S wants a new socket. What changed this week is who is saying it. Intel’s Design-In Tools store now lists an “ILM Kit for the LGA1954 NVL-S Interposer for the Gen5 VR Test Tool.” NVL-S is Intel’s internal shorthand for the desktop Nova...

The most useful thing anyone has said about DLSS 5 this week did not come from NVIDIA. It came from Linus Sebastian, sitting on the WAN Show, confirming that Linus Tech Tips has signed an embargo agreement covering DLSS 5 and already has a video finished and waiting to publish (Ed: NVIDIA still...

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The best-covered product of the week is a 39-inch ultrawide, which tells you something about where display tech is right now. Alienware’s AW3926QW put a glossy 5K2K RGB-stripe tandem panel at $1,099 and reviewers spent the week trying to find the catch. Elsewhere, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction...

Some of us have been waiting for a specific RTX Remix project since the platform launched, and it was never going to be Half-Life 2. It was going to be a game where the lighting was the atmosphere and the draw distance was the joke. NVIDIA confirmed at gamescom that The Elder Scrolls III...

Two years of early access ends on December 11, and the $30 entry fee ends with it. Grinding Gear Games used Opening Night Live to finally date Path of Exile 2’s 1.0 release, and the announcement came bundled with the two things the community has been asking about longest. The first is the...

Opening Night Live gets the headlines and the celebrity cameos. The Future Games Show is where the release dates live, and this year it delivered a wall of them. The main broadcast aired yesterday at 10 AM PDT, hosted by Nick Apostolides and Angela Sant’Albano, better known as Leon Kennedy and...

The last major piece of DLSS 4.5 has landed, and unlike the headline feature from January, this one is not gated behind Blackwell. DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction went live yesterday as part of NVIDIA’s GeForce On presentation opening Gamescom 2026, and it runs on every GeForce RTX GPU from the 20...

Two hours, roughly forty games, and not one of them a leak that had already been picked apart for a month. Opening Night Live has spent the last few years being accused of front-loading everything into press releases, and this year’s show in Cologne actually held a few things back. Geoff...