Both companies just released new GPU drivers that could potentially harm your system.

This hasn't been a good week for those of you who use video cards from either Nvidia or AMD. Chances are, that's probably all of you reading this. Both companies released new video drivers that could possibly cause either increased sustained CPU usage after exiting a game or, in the case of AMD, destroying your Windows install.

Let's start with Nvidia's relatively minor issue first. If...

Is the long-awaited Source 2 release just around the bend?

For a few centuries now, fans of Counter-Strike have been longing for their beloved FPS to receive an engine update to Source 2. After all, other Valve titles have received the treatment, some of which having been updated almost a decade back like Dota 2.

This week, rumors of the mythical Source 2 release of Counter-Strike flared up when the official Counter-Strike Twitter account updated their Twitter banner....

The deal will bring some titles to Nintendo platforms and Nvidia's streaming services.

Microsoft has agreed to a 10-year deal that will bring Xbox titles to Nvidia's cloud streaming services and to Nintendo platforms. This is being done in an effort to appease antitrust regulators that still feel as though Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard would lead to anti-competitive behavior or even a monopoly.

In the deal with Nvidia, games like Minecraft...

Team green's streaming service will soon offer DLSS 3 and 240Hz support.

Some new upgrades are coming soon to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service. Nvidia says that the hardware powering the service is getting access to all of those surplus RTX 4080 graphics cards that aren't being purchased by consumers. This means that GeForce Now games will get to make use of DLSS 3 and offer players 240Hz refresh rates. You will need to be a Now Ultimate Member to make use of the 4080 hardware....

Remember the 12GB RTX 4080? It's back!

Nvidia held their GeForce Beyond stream earlier today as part of CES 2023. During the presentation the company announced the fourth RTX 40-series desktop GPU, which will be the third 40-series card released.

Today, the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 was brought back as the newly announced 12GB RTX 4070 Ti. This card is again built on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4070 Ti ships with 7,680 CUDA cores, a 2.61GHz clock,...

Nvidia offers up another look at Portal with ray tracing ahead of its release.

December 8 is the release date set for Portal with RTX, a free DLC update to those that own the original Portal that will add full ray tracing capabilities and enhanced visuals. This release will also add DLSS 3 support to the game, though it is unclear if DLSS will be usable in the non-ray traced version of the game.

Though free to everyone that owns Portal, Portal with RTX will only be realistically...

These Game Ready drivers were made for Modern Warfare 2.

Nvidia released new drivers today for their graphics cards. These new 526.86 drivers are "Game Ready" for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Nvidia says that these drivers offer "improved stability, solves image corruption issues, and supports Nvidia DLSS Super Resolution and Nvidia Reflex" in Modern Warfare 2.

Not only that, but these drivers fix a number of outstanding issues that have been plaguing...

Get your hot and tasty hotfixes here.

Nvidia is now offering GeForce drivers version 526.61 that should help fix a couple of issues that either popped up following the last major release or were lingering issues from before. These drivers should be downloaded for those playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who downloaded the previous 526.47 drivers. If you did not download and install those drivers, you can probably hold off on this hotfix release until the next major driver release....

The 16GB model will still be released as scheduled.

Nvidia announces that they are "unlaunching" the 12GB version of the RTX 4080 GPU. This comes after most everyone throughout the industry voiced a wealth of criticism over the differences between the 12GB model and the more powerful 16GB model. The latter of which is still planned to launch on November 16.

Nvidia announced this "unlaunch" via a very short blog post earlier in the day. The company says...

The latest Nvidia driver sees framerate gains of up to 24% in some titles.

Nvidia just released their first Game Ready driver for the newly released GeForce RTX 4090. The card is a beast in terms of performance, power consumption, size, and price. That is all without question. A new GPU release does mean that a new driver update is also necessary for early adopters, be they fortunate to get a card from a retailer or from the countless scalpers that have already put the 4090 cards up...

This is all due to the power of the upcoming RTX 4090.

When Overwatch 2 comes out, you will be able to run it at 600 FPS if you want (and can). This is apparently thanks to Nvidia teaming up with Blizzard on Nvidia Reflex support for Overwatch 2, which subsequently allowed the studios to increase the cap. The two companies are taking that slow and pathetic 400 FPS cap from the first Overwatch and cranking it up another 200 FPS.

Nvidia confirmed that framerates of over...

It's Portal but now with ray-traced cake.

Nvidia's GTC keynote earlier today contained news about the new (and very expensive) 40-series of RTX cards. In addition, the company also announced Portal with RTX. As you can probably assume from its name, this is an RTX-enhanced version of the classic puzzle game from Valve.

Portal with RTX includes updated visuals along with real-time ray tracing. It seems as though a bulk of the grunt work on Portal with RTX is being handled...

You didn't want that spare arm or leg anyway, right?

Nvidia announced their new desktop GPUs today and they are none other than the expected and anticipated RTX 40-series of cards. These are the successor to the now two-year-old RTX 30-series of cards. With the new generation comes new advancements such as DLSS 3. All of the newness comes at a very hefty price though.

The Nvidia RTX 40-series runs on the company's new Ada Lovelace architecture. The first card is none other...

Will focus on "breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics technology."

Nvidia says that they will host a "special broadcast" and the upcoming GTC 2022. On September 20, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and his leather jacket will kick off GTC 2022 with a keynote that shows off the tech giant's "latest breakthroughs in gaming, creating, and graphics technology."

Nvidia says that GTC is "the world's leading technology conference."...