The latest Nvidia drivers reportedly fix stutters when using frame generation and VSync, so you can generate to your heart’s content

There’s a chance that, if your games have been stuttering with DLSS frame generation enabled, it’s because you have VSync on and didn’t know the two don’t always play nicely. If you’re one of the unlucky few, you might want to try updating your Nvidia drivers. Game Ready Driver 596.49 has reportedly enhanced smoothness when…

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Subnautica 2 pulls over 370,000 concurrent players in its first 30 minutes on Steam as it cannonballs into early access

Considering the length of its tenure as Steam’s most-wishlisted game, it was safe to suspect that Subnautica 2 would draw a crowd. Now that its early access launch day is here, those suspicions have been thoroughly validated: Less than an hour after launch, its oceans are already packed with eager explorers. Within moments of Subnautica…

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‘It nearly killed me’: Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the ‘beginning of the end’ at BioWare

“My son always says I look like a supervillain,” James Ohlen says, laughing as he puffs his daily cigar on his porch in Austin, Texas, smoke twirling around his face. “It’s one of the many bad habits that I picked up when I was doing the job. I always told everybody I should never be…

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How to digest food in Subnautica 2

After you reach the surface and get to work making your new aquatic habitat a home, your Subnautica 2 adventure hits a snag: You can’t digest any of this planet’s lifeforms. Whatever fish you catch and gobble up, even if cooked, throw up warnings about “digestive incompatibility.” Mercifully, Subnautica 2 leaves the physical consequences of…

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University graduate speaker met with boos for saying AI ‘is the next industrial revolution, then cheers for saying ‘only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives’

AI doesn’t have the best rep. Being the thing responsible for the memory crisis is certainly not great, but concerns over copyright, the environment, and human creativity only make things worse. That’s why it’s a little bit satisfying to watch a crowd of university graduates respond negatively when they’re told it is the future. As…

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