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The Thursday news:

SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away Them's Fightin' Herds: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thems-fightin-herds https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thems-fightin-herds
Next week, the free games will be Mortal Shell and the Anniversary Party Favor for World of Warships.

GOG has three new promos:

Steam has a few new deals:

Fanatical has three new Flash Deals and a bundle:

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 25.3.1 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-25-3-1
HIGHLIGHTS
New Product Support

  • AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT
  • AMD Radeon™ RX 9070
  • AMD Radeon™ RX 7650 GRE
  • AMD Ryzen™ Al Max+ 395
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 PRO 340 (AMD Radeon™ 840M)
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 PRO 350 (AMD Radeon™ 860M)
  • AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 340 (AMD Radeon™ 840M) 
  • AMD Ryzen™ Al 7 350 (AMD Radeon™ 860M)
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX with AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with AMD Radeon™ Graphics 

New Features

  • AMD Fidelity™ FX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4)
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards. 
    • AMD FSR 4 features a new upgrade toggle in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ that automatically upgrades supported games that have built-in AMD FSR 3.1 support to use the new ML-based AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm. 
    • AMD FSR 4 will be available for over 30 games on Radeon™ RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards.
  • AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1
    • Improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and better temporal tracking.
    • Support for AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, 7000, 9070 series graphics cards and AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors
  • AI Enhanced Features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards
    • AMD Chat
      • AMD Chat is a GPU-accelerated, local offline chatbot with text and image generation capabilities. 
      • AMD Chat can answer common questions about a user’s AMD hardware and enable key features in AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™. 
    • AMD Image Inspector
      • AMD Image Inspector leverages AI to help AMD accelerate game quality improvements by capturing text and image diagnostic data.
  • AMD Install Manager
    • AMD Install Manager is a new application that easily manages your AMD specific software installations.
    • AMD Install Manager supports the installation of our new AMD Chat and the latest AMD Graphics and Chipset drivers.
    • Users now have an option to “Automatically keep AMD Software up to date”, allowing the AMD Install Manager to update their installed drivers and software on-the-fly.
  • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2
    • Support is exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
    • Now updated to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases.
    • AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening 2 can now apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop.

Other Highlights

  • New Game Support
    • FragPunk
    • Split Fiction
  • AMD ROCm™ on WSL for AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series
    • Official support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) enables users with supported hardware to run workloads with AMD ROCm™ software on a Windows system, eliminating the need for dual boot set ups.
    • The following has been added to WSL 2: 
      • Official support for Llama3 8B (via vLLM) and Stable Diffusion 3 models.
      • Support for Hugging Face transformers.
      • Support for Ubuntu 24.04.
  • AI Performance Improvements on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series
    • Performance improvements to the following use cases:
      • Up to 70% improvement on Adobe Lightroom AI enhance detail.
      • Up to 13% improvement on Adobe Lightroom Denoise.
      • Up to 40% improvement with Topaz Photo AI subtest.
      • Up to 10% improvement on DaVinci resolve AI cases.
  • Developer Updates
    • New AMD machine-readable GPU Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) specifications updated to support AMD RDNA™ 4 and RDNA™ 3.5 architecture graphics cards.
    • New open-source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK release, designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience and AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK updates.
    • AMD Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite (RDTS) update with support for AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics cards coming soon. The RDTS includes the recently released Driver Experiments tool that enables low-level control over the behavior of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ for developers. Stay tuned to GPUOpen news for the latest news for developers.
  • Expanded HYPR-RX Support
    • HYPR-Tune support allows HYPR-RX to enable in-game technologies like AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution and AMD Radeon ™ Anti-Lag 2.
    • Support has been added to automatically configure AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution with frame generation in:
      • Farming Simulator 25
      • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
      • Silent Hill 2
  • Expanded Vulkan Extension Support
    • VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control

FIXED ISSUES

  • HEVC encoding may not work as expected while using OBS Studio with Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting.
  • Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370.)
  • Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
  • Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled.

Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-users-react-ecstatically-to-update-that-lets-them-access-their-heaving-game-notes-via-the-web-also-it-fixes-monster-hunter-wilds-video-recording/
I gotta be honest, the sum total of my engagement with Steam's Game Notes feature is that one time I wrote a news story about people using them to cheat at Counter-Strike 2. I've never used 'em myself. Is this because of my incredible mind and prodigious powers of recall? Yes. But also it's because I tend to open Notepad before I even remember Steam has a notes function.
But maybe the time to switch is now. As of yesterday's beta update to the Steam client, you can now access your many tomes of game notes via the web. The web! Imagine that. You don't actually need to opt into the Steam beta for them to work, either: I've tried creating some test notes on beta and non-beta versions of the client and they all end up showing in Steam's remarkably barebones new Notes section.
Which is pretty useful, sure. It's a lot easier to compile handy notes when you can easily flick back and forth between browser tabs, and you'll be able to add info to them from any device, not just ones you already have Steam installed on.
(...)
The whole web-notes thing isn't the only feature of the client update. Valve also says it's fixed game recording and video streaming in Monster Hunter Wilds, which is handy considering the entire planet seems to be playing it right now.
It's also added support for the 8BitDo Micro gamepad and futzed about with "display of notifications for in-progress achievements," meaning those cheevos you get for doing things like 'killing 100 whatevers,' and which update whenever you kill a whatever. All sounds good to me, even if I'm not quite sure this is the start of a long career in note-taking.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Monster Hunter Wilds Mod fixes stutters caused by the anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/monster-hunter-wilds-mod-fixes-stutters-caused-by-the-anti-tamper-tech/
Praydog, the man behind some amazing VR mods, has released a new version of the REFramework for Monster Hunter Wilds. This latest version fixes the stutters that are caused in the game by its anti-tamper tech.
For those unaware, Monster Hunter Wilds suffers from some stutters. And, according to Praydog, these stutters are caused by its anti-tamper tech.
To prove his point, Praydog shared the following screenshot. In this image we get to see the smooth frametimes that are possible when using REFramework.
My guess is that these stutters are NOT due to Denuvo. These are due to Capcom’s very own anti-tamper tech. In other words, they appear to be similar to those we saw in Resident Evil Village.
Alongside the stutters, this latest version of REFramework resolves some crashes. Again, those crashes were caused by the anti-tamper tech. Talk about a clusterf’ck.
I want to make it crystal clear that Praydog knows his stuff. This isn’t an unknown modder. So, when he says that the anti-tamper tech causes these stutters, I’m 100% certain he knows what he’s talking about. And no, this isn’t a placebo mod. This actually fixes those stutters.
>> The article has the screenshot it mentions.

'3 hours of my life that I'll never get back': A Minecraft modder did the lord's work, creating a mod that adds Jack Black's voice to the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/3-hours-of-my-life-that-ill-never-get-back-a-minecraft-modder-did-the-lords-work-creating-a-mod-that-adds-jack-blacks-voice-to-the-game/
As the upcoming Minecraft film creeps closer, one modder has found a creative way to blur the lines between film and game. By adding Jack Black's voice to Minecraft, players can now feel even closer to the one who calls himself Steve (via GamesRadar).
It all started after a player compiled all the times Jack Black says something from Minecraft verbatim in A Minecraft Movie trailer. There's "Steve", "Enderpearl", "Overworld", "water bucket", and who could forget "crafting table". Then another player pitched an idea where someone could make a mod "where every time you pick up an item or hit a mob, you get a clip from the movie of Jack Black saying it like this, like that one mode that flashes Jesus at you at low HP."
A few hours after this ingenious pitch, a mod popped up that did just that. "Now you can be Steve from the hit movie Minecraft in the game Minecraft based on the movie Minecraft," SnailMan says. "Three hours of my life that I'll never get back went into making this."
So far, all you get is Jack Black's voice saying "Steve" when you load into Minecraft or "crafting table", whenever you build or interact with that item in-game, but I'm sure there'll be more to come: "I'm squeezing everything I can from these voice lines, nothing will be wasted." SnailMan intends to release the mod on Modrinth but still has to jump through a couple of hoops before it's released to the public.
"I submitted the mod for review on Modrinth," SnailMan says. "No idea how long it's gonna take. Will link it here once it's accepted." I have no clue why an epic mod like this wouldn't be allowed. I mean, who doesn't want to pretend they're Jack Black, pretending to be Steve playing Minecraft—it seems like a dream. I also want to point out that as A Minecraft Movie isn't out yet, we can't say for sure that it'll be a hit movie, even if the new trailer does look like the film will make a trillion dollars.
>> Other than a pic from Jack Black, there’s no media of this mod.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 58 minutes of gameplay from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-58-minutes-of-gameplay-from-clair-obscur-expedition-33/
YouTube’s member ‘Punish’ has shared a video, showcasing 58 minutes of gameplay from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This footage appears to be from the game’s latest preview build, so it can give you an idea of what it looks like in its current state.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Update 1.003 Is 18GB, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-update-1-003-is-18gb-full-patch-notes/
Square Enix has released Title Update 1.003 for the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This patch is 18GB in size, so let’s take a look at its full patch notes.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Patch 4 released, bringing CPU & GPU performance improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/marvels-spider-man-2-patch-4-released-bringing-cpu-gpu-performance-improvements/
Nixxes Software has released Patch 4 for the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and shared its complete changelog. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.



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