David Freeman

Gaming since 1994, building PCs since 2000. Enough hardware has passed through my hands that I stopped counting, but it taught me the useful part: marketing makes promises, benchmarks count frames.Genre means nothing to me, and that is not because I will play anything. It is the opposite. I have one test and it is unforgiving: made with care, or thrown together. Baldur's Gate 3, The Last of Us, The Witcher, Cyberpunk and Titanfall are five different genres with one thing in common, people who gave a damn worked on them. Everything else drops out fast, and neither the budget nor the volume of the marketing saves it.At FramesGames I work out what a frame costs and check whether what the manufacturer promised survives contact with a real computer.
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The fake 113 GB GTA VI build: a virus and a hundred gigabytes of nothing

A teardown found a 50 KB virus inside the supposedly playable build,…

AMD is readying RDNA 4m: firmware for the new graphics IP is already in Linux

GFX1170 binaries turned up in the Linux firmware repository. The IP sits…

Eight GTA 6 leaks in a week: the full timeline, the leaker demands and the dead man switch fake

The GTA 6 leak timeline by date: what the clips showed, what…

Lossless Scaling: frame generation in any game, and how to run it on a Steam Deck

A seven dollar utility bolts frame generation onto anything, emulators included. How…

Valve turns thirty: Half-Life, three goes at hardware and still no Half-Life 3

Valve was registered on 24 August 1996. Half-Life, Steam with a forty…

Every detector in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: what they show, what they cost and which one to carry

All four S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 detectors with their art: range, what the display…

All 80 artifacts in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: what they look like, what they do and where to find each one

Every one of the 80 artifacts in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 with its art,…

Ryzen 5 5500X3D: the anti crisis AM4 upgrade when memory costs more than the CPU

Six cores, 96 MB of cache and 175 dollars. What the 3D…

What PC you need for 4K in 2026: three builds and the price per frame

Counted on real measurements: no card holds 60 frames at native 4K,…

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 at 2K and 4K: which GPU you need and where not to overpay

Official GSC requirements, what Update 2.0 actually changed, TechPowerUp numbers for 2K…