Articles by Dave James, Managing Editor, Accouterments

PC Gamer THE ALL-AROUND ASCENDANCY ON PC GAMES

Dave has been gaming aback the canicule of Zaxxon and Adult Bug on the Colecovision, and cipher books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Chase 2000!). He congenital his aboriginal gaming PC at the breakable age of 16, and assuredly accomplished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based arrangement about a year later. Aback he alone it out of the window. He aboriginal started autograph for Official PlayStation Annual and Xbox Apple abounding decades ago, again confused assimilate PC Format full-time, again PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 amid others. Now he's back, autograph about the awful cartoon agenda market, CPUs with added cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs added abundant than a Cybertruck.

Articles by: Dave James

The best settings for Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 and Apparition Liberty

By Dave James published 28 September 23

tested We've activated Cyberpunk 2077's latest amend to actuate which settings do and don't matter, with benchmarks and angel affection comparisons to advice you tune your experience.

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A simple Windows 11 adjustment has afflicted my appearance of PC HDR gaming: Win Alt B

By Dave James published 27 September 23

HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.

Kerbal Amplitude Affairs 2 has been spamming your Windows anthology with clutter back launch, but a fix is actuality activated appropriate now

By Dave James published 26 September 23

news The developer is now acquainted of the affair and is currently testing a fix it will absolution as a hotfix update.

Samsung's new low power, aerial achievement anamnesis ambit could be a austere benefaction for bunched gaming laptops

By Dave James published 26 September 23

News The ickle upgradeable anamnesis modules action college achievement than acceptable SO-DIMMS with best of the allowances of soldered-on memory.

Ray Reconstruction in Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0

I've activated Nvidia's latest ray archetype abracadabra in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at affliction it's aloof better-looking, at best it's that and a accomplished lot added performance

By Dave James published 20 September 23

Real Good Nvidia's DLSS 3.5 Ray About-face affection fits altogether with Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 added realism.

Whether or not Nvidia absolutely has a chiplet-based RTX 5090 'under investigation' its GPU approaching has to be multi-chip

By Dave James published 19 September 23

News Rumours advance it hasn't yet accustomed a GB101 chiplet version, but that the aggregate of Nvidia's next-gen gaming cards will still be caked GPUs.

The ROG Accessory gets a new Zen 4c dent and a annoying amount tag

By Dave James published 18 September 23

News That's finer bisected the Beef Deck's GPU for abreast alert the price.

Looks like Nvidia has finer cut the RTX 4070 amount to $550 in acknowledgment to the RX 7800 XT

By Dave James published 15 September 23

news With so abounding retailers and manufacturers aback bottomward the agenda to $550 it's adamantine to accept it's not somehow incentivised by Nvidia.

Games consoles are infuriatingly absolved from California's contrarily important new appropriate to adjustment bill

By Dave James published 14 September 23

News "Since Appropriate to Adjustment can canyon here, apprehend it to be on its way to a backyard abreast you," says iFixit CEO.

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NeueChair review

By Dave James published 14 September 23

Not so Neue Still artlessly the best appointment armchair for gaming.

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Bethesda says Nvidia DLSS abutment will appear to Starfield in a 'regular breach of updates that accept top association requested features'

By Dave James published 13 September 23

News Included in the application addendum of today's "small hotfix" is a account of top association requested features.

Intel predicts 'a resurgence' of alien GPUs because of Arrow 5's huge bandwidth increase

By Dave James published 12 September 23

news It's actuality classed as "the best adaptation for creators and gamers."

I never capital the RTX 3090 Cool but I'm gutted to absence out on the annulled prototype's catlike all-black aesthetic

By Dave James published 11 September 23

news The 'Super' tag was too on the nose, but this glassy close has got to be revisited.

Realistic Nova 40 Headphones from the 1970s

Kurt Cobain's $20 headphones accept been bought for $70,000

By Dave James published 11 September 23

news It's added about history than audio quality.

AMD says it's acquainted of Starfield's Ain't No Sunshine bug but currently has no timeline for a fix

By Dave James last adapted 12 September 23

news But is additionally agog to point out that earlier GeForce GPUs, from at atomic the GTX 10-series down, are additionally suffering.

How to add DLSS and Anatomy Bearing to Starfield

By Dave James published 8 September 23

Upmarket upscaling As able-bodied as whether you should...

Got a awe-inspiring PC activity in mind? Framework baldheaded a abundance of old mainboards in an old branch and is affairs them off cheap

By Dave James published 8 September 23

news The absolute abject for any awe-inspiring and/or admirable custom PC build.

Okay bold marketing, you win this annular because this custom Starfield PC is stunning

By Dave James published 7 September 23

news So, turns out I'm a complete accoutrement for marketing.

Nintendo About-face 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to addition anatomy rates

By Dave James published 7 September 23

News Behind bankrupt doors developer audience of the accessible accouterments at Gamescom highlights Nvidia hardware.

AMD RX 7800 XT review

By Dave James published 6 September 23

Upper mid A multi-chip RX 6800 XT for beneath and the best $500 GPU around.