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November 12, 2025

Monster Hunter Wilds’ first Elder Dragon is finally landing in December along with some much-needed optimisation focused on reducing the game’s ridiculous load on our poor CPUs

Capcom has announced that the Elder Dragon, Gogmazios, will debut in Monster Hunter Wilds with Title Update 4 on December 16. This marks Gogmazios's return since his last appearance as the final boss in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate in 2015. The update will also include performance improvements, such as "weapon buffs" and optimizations for CPU load, as addressed by Director Yuya Tokuda. He mentioned plans for reducing CPU load in the fourth title update and a second stage for further mitigation. Players are looking forward to enhanced visuals and smoother gameplay.

AppWizard

September 16, 2025

One of our favorite soulslikes drops deluxe upgrade and free gear, so now’s the time to try it

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is set in Ming Dynasty China, where players control Wuchang, a pirate warrior fighting a virus called 'Feathering' that creates monstrous entities. The game has a 69% rating on Steam and received an 8/10 from PCGamesN, but faced launch issues, including performance problems and a controversial patch. Recent reviews have improved to 'mostly positive' as developers address these concerns. The deluxe edition includes two new costumes and weapons, while the base game offers free headgear. A patch with various fixes is now live, and guides for gameplay optimization and mods are available. Players are encouraged to share experiences on Discord.

AppWizard

November 22, 2024

Stalker 2 best graphics settings to improve FPS

For optimal performance in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, players should adjust the following graphics settings: - Texture quality: Epic - Hair: Low - Object details: Epic - Effect quality: Epic - Materials: Epic - Post Processing: Epic - Antialiasing: Epic - Motion blur strength: 0% - Depth of field: Epic - Light Shaft: Enabled - Upscaling method: DLSS (Nvidia), FSR (AMD), XeSS (Intel) - Upscaling quality: Quality (or Performance/Super Performance for increased FPS) - FSR 3 Frame Generation: Enabled - Shading quality: Epic - Global Illumination: Epic - Reflections: Epic - Shadow quality: Low - Cloud: Epic - Fog: Epic - Sky: Epic - Foliage quality: Epic - Environment draw distance: Far or Medium Display settings: - Field of View: 90 - V Sync: Off - Frame rate: No limits - Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: Enabled These settings are recommended for GPUs like the RTX 3070, with adjustments suggested for lower-end GPUs.