YMTC Explained: Can China Really Overtake Samsung in NAND?
Imagine entering one of the most brutal semiconductor markets in the world nearly three decades after the established leaders. Then imagine…
Category: PC Gaming
What Are the Elder Scrolls? The Mysterious Scrolls Behind the Game’s Name
If you have played Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind, there is a decent chance you’ve spent hundreds of hours in a series called The Elder…
Why CPU Bottlenecks Matter More Than Ever in PC Gaming
For years, PC gaming performance had one obvious villain: the graphics card. Game runs badly? Lower the resolution. Turn down…
How to Automatically Enable Cheat Engine Scripts After Attaching to a Game
Opening a Cheat Engine table can become surprisingly repetitive. You open the table. You attach Cheat Engine to the game. Then…
Loongson Explained: Can China Build a CPU Without Intel, AMD, or Arm?
Imagine spending years designing your own CPU architecture because you no longer want to depend on Intel, AMD, Arm, or…
2XKO Failed to Make Fighting Games Mainstream. Can Anyone?
For years, fighting games seemed to have a fairly obvious problem. They were too difficult. Combos were difficult. Motion inputs were…
Fallout’s Corporations Explained: Unfortunately, Capitalism Survived
Fallout’s America had a government. Technically. But by 2077, enormous corporations were building military robots, developing biological weapons, running nuclear shelters,…
How to Add Universal Slow Motion and Fast-Forward Hotkeys in Cheat Engine
Slow motion is one of those cheats that sounds silly until you actually try it. In a shooter, it can…
Major Fallout Factions Explained: Who Should Rule the Wasteland?
Destroying civilisation is surprisingly easy in Fallout. Rebuilding it is where everyone starts arguing. More than two centuries after the Great…
Is the Desktop PC on the Brink of Extinction?
I recently talked to several friends who work for major desktop PC component companies. Different companies. Different jobs. Different parts of…
How to Automatically Attach Cheat Engine to a Game with Lua
Opening a Cheat Engine table usually goes something like this: Fortunately, they can. Cheat Engine supports automatic process attachment, and you…
FPS vs. Frametime: Why Games Stutter at High FPS
The FPS counter says 120. Your graphics card is comfortably within its temperature limit. You have already lowered several settings,…
Why Cheat Engine Cannot Find the Value You Are Looking For
The number is right there. Your character has 247 health. You enter 247 into Cheat Engine, click First Scan, and find either nothing useful or…
The Most Horrifying Vault Experiments in Fallout
Vault-Tec marketed its underground shelters as humanity’s best chance to survive nuclear war. Technically, that was not always false. The Vaults…
Cheat Engine Value Types Explained: 4 Bytes, Float, Double, and More
You can see the number clearly. The game says you have 100 health. You enter 100 into Cheat Engine, click First Scan, and receive either…
Tech Explained: Laptop vs Desktop on Power Consumption
“Your desktop has a 750W power supply? Wow, your electricity bill must be terrifying.” If you’ve ever owned a desktop…
Vault-Tec Explained: Fallout’s Most Evil Company Was Worse Than You Remember
In the world of Fallout, nuclear war destroyed civilisation in roughly two hours. Vault-Tec needed several decades. Long before the…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Wants to Be Your GPU, CPU and Coworker
For most of its history, NVIDIA has been an extremely successful tenant inside the personal computer. Intel or AMD owned…
Why Cheat Engine Addresses Keep Changing Every Time You Restart a Game
You found the health address. You changed 83 into 999, saved it in your Cheat Engine table, restarted the game—and suddenly the address…
Pulsar Put a Noctua Fan Inside a 73-Gram Gaming Mouse: Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition
Gaming mice have spent years competing over familiar numbers: lower weight, higher DPI, faster polling rates, and increasingly elaborate shells…