… Apex Legends Patch Addresses Physics Calculations-Based Stutters Encountered On CPUs With Fast Single-Threaded Performance, Such as AMD's Ryzen X3D Apex Legends rolled out its latest patch, "Overclocked," which includes a range of changes, including performance improvements on the PC platform. …
… Phoronix states that this patch series has been under development since September 2024. So, it has been a really long time, which clearly reflects the complexity of the corruption issues, but thankfully, not only do the patches address the core issues, they also boost gaming performance. …
… Reduced Power Draw: Decreased cpu power draw by around 20% by using idle-detection + sleep for the GpuComm dispatcher loop. Intel Performance Patches: Added Intel-specific performance patches in cpu patches by relocating the illegal-instruction traps firing in the GR2 eboot.bin. …
… The September 17th patch introduces further fixes to issues around CPU overload in certain situations, which should lead to performance improvements in areas with a lot of NPCs, like town centers. The new patch also reduced the frequency of crashes, improving game stability. …
… The DCN67 patches do not reveal any performance improvements or display capabilities, but they highlight AMD's groundwork for software ecosystem development. …
… Added Variable Refresh Rate VRR support for PS5 and PS5 Pro Added Variable Rate Shading VRS for supported devices VRS can help improve performance by reducing shading rates on certain areas of the image, resulting in less work for the GPU for similar looking close pixels Added support for DRS on PC… …
… Distinguishing it from a regular efficiency core matters for: user space exposure via /sys/kernel/debug/x86/topo/cpus/ , which today reports cpu type "unknown" for low-power cores amd get boost ratio numerator : on every X86 FEATURE AMD HTR CORES-capable AMD/Hygon part, low-power cores must scale b… …
… Overcoming these performance challenges definitely wasn't easy, as it required around 1 year of patches. The latest Monster Hunter Wilds patch, launched last month, reduced CPU and GPU load for better performance while adding even more content, completely addressing the two major issues at launch. …
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles brought Square Enix’s excellent tactical role-playing game to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Nintendo Switch systems, with an impressive technical overhaul that has only grown more impressive with an "Enhanced" patch that introduce… …
… The new patch also brings some PC-specific improvements , including support for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and AMD FSR 4 . …
