Steam’s monthly top-releases charts will now let you look back all the way to November 2004, when Half-Life 2 first released. Valve made a few other improvements, too, including automating the process so that the charts will come out on a more regular cadence.
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The gaming GPU market desperately needs real competition — perhaps Intel will bring it to Computex? Officially, the company’s only teasing new Arc Pro GPUs for pros, but its X account mysteriously keeps saying “stay tuned” to commenters who ask about an unannounced B770 gaming GPU!
If the Arc B770 is real — and follows the path laid out by the B580 and B570 before it — it could give Nvidia and AMD a run for the money.
Its recent updates addressed a slew of problems that have emerged following the launch of Nvidia’s RTX-50 series cards in January. But today’s 576.40 driver just includes a fix for some Asus displays booting to black screens, a stutter on LG TVs with G-Sync enabled, and “random stability issues” in Monster Hunter Wilds.
Nvidia’s new Game Ready driver also optimizes your PC for Doom: The Dark Ages, which will support idTech8 ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation when it launches on May 15th.
The new feature just launched in the Preview and Beta channels. “Limiting the charge limit to 80% can be beneficial for long term battery health,” Valve says. “This can be useful if your Steam Deck is constantly being charged (i.e. docked), or very rarely has its battery depleted.”
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Including Ghost of Tsushima, F1 25, and The Finals. Check out the full list on AMD’s website.
You can turn on your Steam Deck LCD from across the room with a Bluetooth controller (only the OLED model did that at launch!) and I’m personally excited to finally use my Bluetooth headset’s microphone for chat while I game (sadly just in Desktop mode for now). Plus much more!
All these changes already arrived in the Preview branch back in March and in April, but there be dragons that way. Much more accessible now.
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