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Valve is reportedly preparing a Steam feature that estimates expected FPS before purchase using anonymized performance and hardware telemetry.

Intel says Texture Set Neural Compression can shrink texture sets up to 18x, targeting lower VRAM use with modest measured quality tradeoffs.

Intel has ended active support for its official XeSS Unity plugin, leaving the repository archived and shifting responsibility to forks.

Microsoft is reportedly auto-upgrading eligible Windows 11 24H2 systems to 25H2 as part of a staged rollout tied to lifecycle support timelines.

NVIDIA says its neural texture compression can reduce a demo scene from 6.5 GB VRAM to 970 MB while preserving close visual quality.