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DMGR4 MONSTER MYTHOLOGY (2E) | FANTASY GROUNDS EXPANSION

A goblin warband does not gather beneath the same symbols as a dwarven clan, an illithid colony does not understand divinity like a coastal human settlement, and the creatures waiting beneath the earth may serve powers whose names are barely known outside their own cultures. Fantasy Grounds – D&D Classics: DMGR4 Monster Mythology (2E) brings Carl Sargent’s classic AD&D Second Edition sourcebook into Fantasy Grounds VTT as a digital reference module...

PUBLISHED | O5.O8.IIO26

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GAME COMPRESSOR v1.0 | MORE GAMES, LESS SSD SPACE

A nearly full SSD usually forces the same unpleasant decision: uninstall a game that may be needed again or postpone installing something new. Game Compressor approaches the problem from another direction by reducing the physical space occupied by installed Windows games while keeping them immediately playable. The utility uses Windows’ native LZX compression technology, meaning it does not convert a game into a conventional archive that must be...

PUBLISHED | 27.O7.IIO26

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STEAM PERFORMANCE MONITOR | FPS CHECKS FINALLY GET SERIOUS

Steam’s old FPS counter was useful, but it was also very limited. You could see a number in the corner, maybe confirm that a game was running poorly, and then you still had to guess what was really happening. Was the GPU overloaded? Was the CPU holding the game back? Was RAM usage becoming a problem? Was frame generation making the number look better than the real game feel? Valve is now pushing that basic idea much further with the Steam In...

PUBLISHED | 25.O6.IIO26

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AMD ROCM | 3D GAUSSIAN SPLATTING & FUTURE GAME WORLDS?

AMD has published a new ROCm-focused look at Street Gaussians, a 3D Gaussian Splatting approach built around dynamic autonomous driving scenes, and while the project is not a gaming announcement, the technology behind it is exactly the kind of rendering research PC gamers should keep an eye on. The official focus is autonomous driving: reconstructing and rendering complex street scenes with moving objects, vehicles, roads, and camera viewpoints. AMD says it...

PUBLISHED | II8.O5.IIO26

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NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL | CLASSIC GOES TO HISTORY...GOODBYE

NVIDIA Control Panel is finally being retired for GeForce users, and for anyone who has been building, fixing, tuning, or simply surviving PC gaming for the last two decades, that feels like the end of a very familiar era. It was never the prettiest piece of software on a Windows desktop. It was never fast, modern, or especially elegant. But it was there. V-Sync, refresh rates, 3D settings, image scaling, multi-monitor behavior, color options, application profiles...

PUBLISHED | II8.O5.IIO26

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NVIDIA PROFILE INSPECTOR | DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION

NVIDIA Profile Inspector is not a typical utility you install and forget. It exposes the underlying driver profiles that define how each game interacts with your GPU, going far beyond what the standard NVIDIA Control Panel allows. Instead of working with surface-level settings, it gives direct access to internal parameters that influence rendering behavior, performance consistency, latency handling, and compatibility. The interface is minimal and not particularly...

PUBLISHED | II6.O4.IIO26

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MICROSOFT XBOX MODE ON PC | PC WAS FINE...JUST SAYING

Microsoft is quietly experimenting with something that feels a bit… unusual for long-time PC users. Through the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, an “Xbox Mode” is starting to appear a full-screen, controller-friendly interface that leans heavily into the console experience. It’s designed to make navigating games, apps, and services smoother with a gamepad, bundling together things like Game Pass, installed titles, and system functions into a single...

PUBLISHED | I8.O4.IIO26

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GAME PERFORMANCE SOFTWARE | OPTIMIZE YOUR GAMES

Performance issues rarely appear as obvious problems. A game can look perfectly fine at first glance, settings pushed where they should be, yet something doesn’t feel right once you start playing. Not broken, not unplayable… just inconsistent. A small stutter when turning the camera. A sudden drop in a busy scene. It’s the kind of thing that doesn’t show up in screenshots, but you feel it immediately while playing. Most people jump straight to hardware...

PUBLISHED | I8.O3.IIO26

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SYSTEM MAINTENANCE | KEEP YOUR PC CLEAN, FAST & HEALTHY

Computers age in a strange way. They don’t get wrinkles or grey hair, but after a few months of normal use something starts to feel…heavier. Programs take longer to open, the system hesitates for a second before doing simple things, and the drive slowly fills up with files you never remember saving. Nothing dramatic happens overnight. It just slowly piles up. Most of the time the problem isn’t the hardware at all. It’s the digital junk that Windows quietly accumulates...

PUBLISHED | I6.OI.IIO26

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OCCT | FINDING INSTABILITY BEFORE IT FINDS YOU

Most PC problems do not announce themselves with fireworks. They creep in quietly. A random crash here, a stutter there, a strange freeze that only happens once every few days and then disappears long enough for you to doubt your own memory. The machine still boots. Games still launch. Benchmarks still show respectable numbers. On the surface, everything looks fine. But under the hood, something might be barely holding together. This is the uncomfort...

PUBLISHED | IO.O8.IIO25

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