It’s been nearly a year since we last took an in-depth look at viewport performance with the help of SPEC’s SPECviewperf, and with the recent release of its 2020 v3.1 update, we felt now was a good ...

Many of the best laptops, particularly gaming laptops or those aimed at content creators, come with two GPUs inside. This is because laptop processors, such as those from AMD or Intel, always have an ...

Windows 11 can feel sluggish long before your hardware is truly outdated, especially if its power profile, drivers and graphics settings are working against you. With a handful of targeted tweaks, I ...

There are a whole bunch of ways you can make your games and apps run better in Windows 11. But one of the simplest ways, in theory, is to enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAG). Switching on ...

For Windows users, Task Manager is an indispensable tool—but it's also a flawed one for those trying to troubleshoot their PC when it slows down, and AppControl looks to improve those scenarios ...

PC bottleneck detection helps pinpoint which component limits performance when games stutter, apps lag, or multitasking feels sluggish. Many slow PC diagnosis issues surface through simple observation ...

Earlier this week, Intel released a graphics driver update that according to the chipmaker, boosts graphics performance by up to 30% for devices with 4th generation Haswell processors, in addition to ...

An urgent Windows January 2026 update has been the source of performance issues, resulting in GPU slowdowns in intensive apps and gaming, particularly for NVIDIA GeForce graphics card users, but ...