It's a good one: the NVIDIA App has no unique features by itself, most of you don't need it and it's better to keep only the Control Panel. Oddly enough, there's a lightweight alternative!

— It will not increase the average FPS by any noticeable value, but it will help with performance dips and overall privacy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfutB69rmE
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And all the most popular graphics cards are not having sufficient VRAM for AAA games (3080 10GB and 5070 12GB are the most powerful among the first 20). Despite the developers push to higher and higher VRAM consumption and using unique textures for literally everything.

Fortunately, Radeon market share grew from 15.2% in mid-2024 to 18.5% by late 2025. Intel stays the same, since they only released B580 and B570, which wasn't enough to noticeably fill the market.

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Can I remind you that modern games expect you to run them at 1080p WITH FRAME GEN on 5080?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiB2NnXgPU
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They did WHAT?!

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Finally, they started to notice...

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This should be illegal!

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Monitor technologies explained by cats 😻

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Fortunately, they still do stuff for gamers: first and only worthy backlight strobing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXwXGYhi8_I
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Good news, everyone!

Apparently, Arc Raiders fans discovered a new performance issue in Unreal Engine: if your mouse is modern, it can run at 500, 1000, or even 2000Hz (polling rate). The input system of Unreal Engine (and some other apps and engines) go nuts if your mouse is not 250Hz. At 500+ it does some odd compensation and it makes the input inconsistent.

This adds up to extra computation of camera culling, LOD, and lighting that the engine must show and hide when you look around. And it feels as stuttering.

For some mice the setting can be found in apps, for some it's literally a button underneath. You need faster rate for competitive multiplayer, but almost no engine can really work with 2000Hz, for example. Unreal sets no limiter on the input and every USB command make it stop to receive it and review. Now imagine it has 2000 of them when the CPU is already overloaded.

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Wait, it's real: 5070 Ti 16GB and 5060 Ti 16GB are discontinued and at best you can aim for 5070 12GB.

The limit will last at least for Q1 of 2026, but could continue as long as the memory shortage will last. But Asus is saying "these models will likely never return".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE
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