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Firm predicts wildly optimistic view of 2025 PC gaming, then an exodus

The gaming PC ecosystem should benefit greatly from the forced transition to Windows 11, an analyst firm wrote Friday, with a 35 percent increase in hardware sales alone during 2025. But there are clouds on the horizon: Over the next five years, millions will leave PC gaming entirely. Jon Peddie Research, which has followed the PC graphics market for decades, issued the incredibly optimistic…
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Microsoft wants to soothe a big pain for PC gamers: Shaders

Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s working to remove one of the frustrating headaches for PC gamers: the need to compile shaders. Microsoft said that it will release an AgilitySDK in September to solve this problem, speeding up your time from downloading a game to playing…