TL;DR: Microsoft's new Windows 11-powered PC gaming handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, demonstrate the company can remove bloatware and unnecessary features to optimize performance. By disabling ...

Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 is causing unexpected and severe slowdowns in several PC games. Update KB5066835, deployed across Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems, has been ...

This will most likely come as a shock to nobody, but in early head-to-head comparisons with official support on identical hardware, SteamOS seems to run rings around Windows 11 for gaming performance.

Although you can play games out of the box on Windows 11, there are still many tweaks you can apply to further improve your computer's gaming performance. You can, for example, turn on and off system ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA confirmed Windows 11 update KB5066835 caused significant performance drops in some games on GeForce RTX GPUs. The new GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 581.94 restores up to 50% frame rate ...

Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve’s “Steam Machines”-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS’s Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware ...