Content and news by Rob Williams

Following years of gamer outcry, NVIDIA finally released a GeForce driver earlier this week that opens up support for VESA’s Adaptive-Sync, used by every AMD FreeSync monitor. From the get-go, the company was clear that it didn’t think most FreeSync monitors fit the bill, and proved it by certifying only 12 of…..

Without too much fanfare, Agisoft released the latest iteration of its popular photogrammetry tool in recent weeks, effectively kicking off the next era of the company’s software. Since 2010, this software has been known as PhotoScan, but as of a couple of weeks ago, the transition to “Metashape” took place. Until last…..

It’s been over seven years since we entered the PCIe 3.0 generation, so isn’t it about time for an upgrade? At CES last week, AMD announced that its next processors would be supporting PCIe 4.0, which would once again double our available bandwidth per lane. So, 2019 should be the year 4.0…..

There are a number of things that can make me feel like time is flying by just a bit too quickly, and realizing that GOG is about to turn 10 is one of those things. I remember being so excited at the launch of the classic game-focused service, that I wrote about…..

Deep-learning can be used for myriad things, and has the potential to improve products and solutions in all industries. Relevant to the Techgage audience, deep-learning has allowed NVIDIA to accelerate AI denoising in its OptiX engine, while on the gaming side, it’s begun to enable super-sampling quality at a lower performance cost,…..

At last week’s CES, NVIDIA impressed many by announcing that it was going to begin supporting Adaptive-Sync monitors, complementing the G-SYNC support it’s offered since 2013. During meetings, the company was clear that many monitors sold as FreeSync fail to live up to the green team’s high standards, but whether or not…..

Autodesk has today released Maya 2019, the latest iteration of its popular modeling and animation software. Included within are major improvements to performance, bolstered animation tools, and updates to Arnold renderer and Viewpoint 2.0, to name just a few things. Admittedly, the numbering scheme in Maya’s name is a little misleading, because…..

For some Steam fans, a quality update to the desktop client seems to be taking ages. Last year, we got our first real proof that change was coming with an update that overhauled the Steam Chat client, something that didn’t just bring a fresh coat of paint, but improved the mechanics under-the-hood.…..

It’s beginning to feel like we’re entering a truly cross-play generation. For most of 2018, fans rallied against Sony for being a thorn in the side of the industry where cross-play was concerned. Games that should have offered cross-play support, didn’t, despite the fact that one of the first shining examples of…..

There’s a lot about AMD’s soon-to-launch Radeon VII graphics card that’s intriguing. Announced at CES last week, this monstrous GPU bundles 3840 Stream cores along with 16GB of HBM2 memory that delivers 1TB/s of bandwidth. Based on VII’s specs, it’s easy to assume that the card is a repurposed 7nm Radeon Instinct…..

You may not think of a car as being an “electronic”, but at the past few CESes, the automotive industry has been well represented. Even companies like Qualcomm have made a big impression on the market, and at this CES the company announced its third-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit SoC – or rather,…..

Leading up to CES, there were almost too many AMD leaks to even keep track of. I remember seeing mention of Ryzen 3000 series about a month ago, but the unlikeliness of a follow-up that quickly was so unbelievable that even AMD’s most ardent hopefuls weren’t naive enough to believe it was…..

Capture One is a popular RAW photo editor that caters to the professional photographer looking for full control over their craft. In a land of competing products, CO stands out as being one of the few to take the GPU seriously, which is exactly why we decided to take the application for a performance test drive.

The lead-up to CES is always an interesting one, because it’s inevitable that some good stuff from the event is going to leak, and NVIDIA’s been receiving a good chunk of that “love” this year. Yesterday, we reported on new leaks that suggest a GeForce RTX 2060 could be launching soon (potentially…..

It’s been rumored for a while that NVIDIA has plans to launch its fourth Turing card as the RTX 2060, and all hints point to a launch taking place in the weeks ahead. If other rumors also prove true, we could be seeing another GeForce soon after – that one dubbed GTX 2050 or 1150.…..

It might be hyperbole, but to me, it seems like the gaming industry is dealing with a rough patch right now. Don’t get me wrong – it’s stronger than ever. Games like Fortnite prove that. But look at how quickly the industry at large transitioned itself to begin crafting money-grubbing titles that…..

At a special event held last week in Los Angeles, NVIDIA and RED jointly announced that some CUDA-accelerated goodies are coming soon – set to become available at the end of Q1 2019. The goal of this venture is to use NVIDIA’s graphics cards to dramatically improve real-time 8K editing workloads. 8K isn’t quite…..

Earlier, I wrote a post about a bizarre Windows 10 install issue on MSI’s X399 MEG CREATION, and as much as I would have loved for that to be the only issue I’ve been dealing with, that’s not the case. At the time the Windows 10 October Update released, it refused to…..

Note: This bug also affects Windows 10 1903 (May 2019 Update).  I understand how dumb that title must look. How could installing Windows to one motherboard be any different from installing it to another? Well, as it turns out, MSI’s X399 MEG CREATION motherboard can throw off someone’s Windows 10 October Update install…..

The next generation of consoles from both Microsoft and Sony are going to be undoubtedly interesting, and as expected, the number of leaks has been bordering on ridiculous. Of course, we’re not sure what sounds that plausible, but a new set of leaks does seem possible, given the aggressiveness we’ve seen from…..