I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game

I fixed Borderlands 4’s stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn’t have to do in a well-optimised game

Well, it’s my own fault, really. Despite writing an article about the reaction to Nvidia’s brutal optimised settings charts for Borderlands 4, and being well aware of stuttering issues thanks to Nick’s performance testing piece, I jumped into the game this weekend anyway. And, lo and behold, the stuttering was very much there—until I discovered…

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford’s chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says ‘less than 1% of 1%’ of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet’s overblowing it

To what I assume is the eternal dismay of the Gearbox PR department, studio CEO Randy Pitchford has once again been tweeting. What’s he up to now? Well, he’s applying the ol’ scientific method to people’s Borderlands 4 performance complaints, pointing out that—if this game is really as stutter-prone as you horrible lot have been…

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Strange Antiquities review

Need to Know What is it? A cozy puzzle adventure about identifying occult artifacts.Developer: Bad VikingPublisher: Iceberg InteractiveReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? NoLink: Steam If the “What Is This Thing?” subreddit existed in the Edwardian era, it’d be a quiet little curio shop called Strange Antiquities. As a temp shopkeeper…

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Who needs Silent Hill? The ‘anxiety horror’ game I’m most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse

I’m a trusting soul. When some poor unfortunate raps on my door after the end of the world, I don’t have it in me not to let them in. When their teeth are a suspiciously perfect white, I attribute it to a rigorous before-bed hygiene routine. Their red eyes? We’re all tired. Their hairless armpits?…

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