Dominic Bayley

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Dominic Bayley

A capture card is a niche PC component that you may be considering if you’re planning on recording your gameplay or live streaming. But how do you know if you really need one? The direct answer is: If you game on consoles and want to record or stream content from them, then — yes, you will need one. Then again, if you’re just wanting to stream or record gameplay from your PC, a capture card is generally not needed, with the odd exception.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Dominic Bayley

Among all the game stats that I monitor, the Frame Time Graph is the one that I keep going back to time and time again to fine tune my performance. Here’s why that is…The Frame Time Graph is a measurement of the amount of time it takes for a single frame to be rendered on screen. You can access it in most frame rate counters — like MSI Afterburner — but there are also specialist frame-time capture tools like CapFrame X that specialize in capturing and analyzing frame time.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Dominic Bayley

7 hours agoThe Trump administration is considering taking control of the seating in the White House press briefing room from the independent White House Correspondents’ Association. Ashley Wu, a graphics reporter for The New York Times, explains why this matters and notes how questions at the briefings have …

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Dominic Bayley

Just having a password set on your PC in Windows 11 isn’t a sure way to stop hackers from physically gaining access to your PC — yes, it can be bypassed. But there is another security measure you can take. For an extra layer of protection, you can turn a humble USB drive into a secure key that will lock and unlock your PC, making it much harder for intruders to gain access. Here’s how…Windows 11 has a facility to set up a secure USB key.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Dominic Bayley

If you ask any PC repairer what PC components end up on their trash heaps most frequently, they will say the motherboard is right up there as one of the most common. In fact, some say it’s top of the list, even more than RAM sticks and graphics cards, which are some of the other biggest offenders. So why are motherboards so technically irksome? It’s because as far as hardware goes there’s a lot riding on them.