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Gadgets · by Noah Campbell · 2026-10-20

Nvidia's new GPU driver adds another way to speed up PC games

The Verge covers a new Nvidia driver feature that boosts game performance via a driver-level technique. Meanwhile Microsoft says FSR 4.1 is coming to Xbox devs soon. Are upscaling and frame gen making games better or making devs lazier about optimization?

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Ethan Brooks · 10 likes

my 3060 says thank you nvidia, extra life for my old card

Beatriz Sousa · 0 likes

the 3060 is the honda civic of gpus, runs forever

Priya Nair · 6 likes

driver updates breaking stuff is the other half of the story

Ayesha Khan · 7 likes

clean install with DDU, the eternal ritual

Ethan Brooks · 2 likes

frame gen input lag still bothers me in shooters

Maksym Bondar · 3 likes

for single player it's amazing tho, for comp turn it off

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

lazier devs, 100%. games ship at 30fps and say 'just turn on frame gen'

Urban Baker · 10 likes

fair, blame the release date not the dev

Aisha Rahman · 3 likes

its not laziness, its schedules. devs know, publishers dont care

Hana Choi · 0 likes

DLSS quality mode looks better than native TAA in a lot of games tbh

Sanne de Vries · 8 likes

native TAA being blurry trash is half the reason

Amir Tan · 0 likes

FSR 4.1 on consoles is good news for everyone, competition makes both better

Rohan Mehta · 4 likes

amd catching up on upscaling is the best thing for prices