HW News - Massive Intel Arc Driver Update, Wrong RTX Super BIOS, AMD Fluid Motion Frames Update

Summary

The video discusses recent PC hardware news including major performance improvements for Intel's Arc GPUs through driver updates, Nvidia launching open beta for RTX Remix to revamp old games with ray tracing and AI-enhanced textures, AMD adding frame generation to boost FPS by up to 97% in DX11/12 games, and a modder recovering full game data from a Game Boy Advance cartridge by recording its sound when crashing. There are also updates on MSI fixing performance issues with its RTX 4070 Ti cards, OpenAI seeking investments to manufacture its own chips, and Capcom breaking Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck.

Takeaways

• 😀 Intel released a new driver update for Arc GPUs that significantly improves performance in some games
• 📈 Nvidia launched its RTX Remix tool in open beta, allowing modders to add ray tracing and enhanced assets to classic games
• 🎮 AMD added its FidelityFX Fluid Motion Frames tech to improve FPS gains in DX11/12 games
• 🔧 MSI acknowledged its RTX 4070 Ti Ventus cards were underperforming and released VBIOS updates
• 🛠 OpenAI is seeking billions in investments to manufacture its own AI chips
• 🤖 A modder extracted and rebuilt a GBA ROM's code just by recording and decoding its crash sounds
• ⚡ AMD's new driver update with Fluid Motion Frames promises up to 97% FPS gains
• 💡 Gamers Nexus added new latency, efficiency, and ray tracing tests to its GPU reviews
• 👍 Intel acknowledged past Arc GPU issues candidly and continues working to resolve them
• 🎥 The video recapped recent GPU reviews and news in the hardware industry

Q & A

What new types of GPU benchmarking tests is Gamers Nexus adding to their methodology?

Gamers Nexus is adding latency testing, power efficiency testing (FPS per watt), Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing testing, Baldur's Gate 3 testing for lower-end GPUs, and Alien: Isolation testing.

What performance improvements did Intel's latest Arc GPU drivers bring in specific games?

Intel's latest Arc GPU drivers brought huge performance improvements in several games, including: 268% uplift in Just Cause 4, high double-digit gains in Just Cause 3 and elex 2, and 20-26% gains in popular games like Warframe and Apex Legends.

Why did MSI have to release BIOS updates for their RTX 4070 Ti Ventus cards?

MSI discovered the cards were underperforming versus spec. The BIOS updates are claimed to improve performance to meet or exceed expected benchmarks.

What does Nvidia's RTX Remix tool allow modders to do?

RTX Remix allows modders to add ray traced lighting, improved assets and models to older games that have fixed function graphics pipelines like DirectX 8/9. It helps revamp game graphics faster.

How did a recent update break Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck?

A DRM update from Capcom with enigma broke compatibility and performance. Capcom has since claimed to fix the issues caused.

Why does OpenAI want to manufacture its own AI chips?

OpenAI wants to break dependence on Nvidia/others for its AI power needs. It could help avoid future chip shortages and geopolitical fab issues.

What performance uplift does AMD claim from its new Fluid Motion Frames technology?

AMD claims Fluid Motion Frames can boost FPS by up to 97% with FSR 2 enabled. It works by adding frame generation to any DirectX 11/12 game.

How was a modder able to reconstruct GBA game data from just audio?

By recording the sounds from a GBA crash, the independent sound chip plays all cartridge data as audio. This audio can then be decoded back into code.

What limited edition Gamers Nexus shirts are being offered?

Gamers Nexus is selling limited tour date shirts marking the worst times of 2023 for the hardware industry, before they sell out.

Where can people go to support Gamers Nexus GPU/CPU benchmarking efforts?

People can support Gamers Nexus by shopping at their store for shirts/merch, supporting them on Patreon, or watching their reviews and content on YouTube.

Outlines

00:00

😊Initial recapping of new GPu testing methods

The first paragraph recaps new GPU testing methodologies that have been iteratively added recently, including latency testing, power efficiency testing, Cyberpunk RT testing, Baldur's Gate 3 testing for lower-end GPUs, and plans to add Alan Wake 2 testing. The goal is to expand benchmarking beyond just FPS testing.

05:01

🤓Details on new power efficiency testing methodology

The second paragraph provides more details on the new power efficiency testing, explaining how it is adapted from previous CPU testing methods. It discusses ideas for normalized charts to better isolate variables as well as testing both capped and uncapped scenarios. The goal is to help those sensitive to power costs and hopefully influence manufacturers to consider efficiency more.

10:03

💡Addition of Cyberpunk RT benchmarks in testing

The third paragraph explains how Cyberpunk RT testing has been added to the benchmark suite, running at both Ultra and Medium settings after discovering major performance differences between AMD and Nvidia at each setting.

15:04

🎮Plans to add Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 testing

The fourth paragraph notes Baldur's Gate 3 testing was added for lower-end GPUs like the RX 7600 XT. There are also plans to add Alan Wake 2 testing to continue expanding the variety of games tested.

20:04

😲OpenAI seeking massive funds to manufacture its own chips

The fifth paragraph covers news that OpenAI is seeking $8-10 billion to start manufacturing its own chips, an extremely ambitious goal. The aim is to reduce dependence on companies like Nvidia and avoid future chip shortages or geopolitical issues affecting production.

25:05

⚡AMD boasts huge gains with Fluid Motion Frames

The sixth paragraph discusses AMD boasting 90%+ performance gains with their new Fluid Motion Frames technology for inserting simulated frames. They claim it works for any DX11/DX12 game but independent testing is still needed.

Keywords

💡GPU reviews

The video discusses recent GPU reviews conducted by the speaker's team. They tested the performance of new GPUs like the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti using metrics like frames per second, latency, and power efficiency. The reviews provide technical analysis and recommendations for GPUs.

💡Driver updates

The video talks about driver updates for GPUs like the Intel Arc series that aim to fix bugs and boost performance. For example, the latest Intel driver improved performance in games by 200%+ in some cases. Drivers are critical for realizing the full potential of a GPU.

💡Power efficiency

With rising energy costs, the video emphasizes testing power efficiency of GPUs (frames per watt). This helps cost-conscious buyers pick GPUs that deliver performance without high electricity bills. The team is refining this test.

💡RTX Remix

RTX Remix is Nvidia software that makes it easy to mod old games with new graphics, assets, and ray tracing. The video is excited about this tool for revitalizing classic games with modern graphics through community mods.

💡Open beta

RTX Remix and AMD's fluid motion frames feature are now in open beta, allowing all users to try these new technologies and provide feedback before final release. Open betas help identify issues.

💡Frame generation

AMD's fluid motion frames technology uses AI to generate new frames, boosting frame rates substantially. This form of frame generation injects synthetic frames between real ones to increase fluidity.

💡Modding tools

The video covers new tools like RTX Remix that empower gaming community modders to upgrade visuals of classic games. It positively highlights mods as extending games' lifespans.

💡Data recovery

A modder recovered a Game Boy Advance game's data by recording its visual glitches as audio. This cool hack shows how data transforms across formats, enabling recovery.

💡Upcoming reviews

The team plans extensive upcoming reviews covering new GPUs like the RTX 4080, AMD CPUs, and features like AMD's fluid motion frames technology.

💡Community support

The video thanks the community for support and engagement that enables in-depth benchmarking and reviews. User feedback also helps refine new testing methodologies.

Highlights

Intel posted a driver update that improves Intel Arc performance by double digits

AI wants to fab its own chips which would be a massive piece of news if they're able to successfully do that

We've been iterating on our GPU testing methodology so we've been slowly adding new types of tests

We really think latency testing is the future of some of our benchmarks

We added power efficiency testing, FPS per watt for GPUs now

We added cyberpunk RT race testing and Baldur's Gate 3 for lower-end test

Intel's been really good about just acknowledging issues with Arc and then trying to fix them

MSI posted a public press release saying their new Ventus super cards were underperforming versus spec

Nvidia RTX Remix goes into open beta, allowing anyone to turn Skyrim's dragons into cursed abominations

Capcom broke Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck with a DRM update that completely breaks the game

OpenAI is seeking investment to manufacture its own chips and break dependence on Nvidia or others

AMD fluid motion frames boosts FPS by up to 97% across thousands of games

Modder rebuilds Game Boy Advance ROM by recording and decoding the audio from a crash

The process illustrates how data can be transformed into different formats like audio

The modder was able to get a functional ROM completely reborn from the pained screams as the game dies

Transcripts

[Music]

lot of news this week including Intel

posting a driver update that improves

Intel Arc performance by double digits

and a lot of cases and triple digits in

one particular case they get something

like

270% normally means goes from broken to

not broken anymore and also they added

pal world to their patch notes which

probably a good thing considering it is

somehow one of the most successful games

on Steam ever by concurrent player count

uh further still AI wants to Fab its own

chips which would be a massive piece of

news if they're able to successfully do

that and we'll recap some of the GPU

reviews that we just got through and by

the way there's a lot more reviews

coming up next week and it's not just

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first up we've published over 100 charts

in the last like 10 days or so between

all the GPU reviews so some quick

updates for you all we've been iterating

on our GPU testing methodology so we've

been slowly adding new type of tests

it's not just games uh it's been really

cool you can think of them kind of as

like mini pilot episodes of new

methodologies which gives us some time

to uh kind of refine the approach and

not fully lock it in so we can take

Community ideas and uh requests and try

to implement those requests as we refine

it so anyway uh quick recap for all of

you just in case you're not planning to

watch five GPU reviews uh sometime in

the next few days but the concepts and

experiment ments we've added included a

couple key things one is latency testing

power efficiency testing so FPS per watt

for gpus now which is a concept we took

from our CPU power efficiency testing

that you all seem to really like we're

pulling it forward to gpus and then we

also added cyberpunk R race tasting

that's now in the suite and we added

balers Gate 3 for the RX 7600 XT which

is kind of cringe to say it but the low

end of gpus right now it's more like

mid-range but should it should be low

end it's just the price isn't at the low

end and then finally we're working on

adding Allen wake too so some explainers

on those Concepts and why they're

interesting just kind of like a mini

methodology piece talking about it to to

recap the key points from each of those

uh and ignoring the products themselves

latency testing we ran that in the 4070

super non-ti reviews that was the first

one of this cycle done latency testing

in the past but it's been a while and

you know we really think this is the

future of some of our benchmarks not

replacing FPS but for games with stupid

High frame rate uh particularly

competitive titles or FPS titles games

where you want a lot of responsiveness

where you feel more connected to the

game through the input of the mouse uh

those are the ones we think it's more

important now potentially and we'll see

how this evolves to test and present

latency and not just the frame rate

because a lot of times what people are

communicating when they say I want a

high FPS in counter- strike or in

Rainbow Six Siege what the talking about

especially past the refresh rate of the

monitor uh is the responsiveness of the

input because there is a correlation

between FPS and latency as the FPS goes

up latency tends to go down but it's not

purely linear and so that makes it

interesting to test because there may be

certain advantages or disadvantages that

different gpus have for processing input

and uh and it will deviate a little bit

from a purely linear situation um so

that's what we're going to look at also

resets the scale so instead of looking

at 0 to 1,000 FPS we're looking at

something like 0 to 20 milliseconds

which kind of helps conceptualize it

just at a a human level so that's the

latency stuff uh we are hoping to get

into the 4080 super review if it doesn't

make it in then it's because we're right

now we're considering the idea of just

running a full Standalone in-depth

Benchmark so we'll look at that uh and

if it's not in there then that's why the

other one we added was power efficiency

testing so we debuted this for the CPUs

a while back with the Elmore PMD but now

we're running it for so we debuted that

in the 4070 TI super review we'll show

you a couple charts really quick from

that review where it started as FPS per

watt that is the same as saying frames

per jeel and it's very similar in

process to the CPU one we'll be

overhauling this as we continue

iterating as well some of the maybe

obvious current thoughts are doing FPS

normalized or power normalized charts

which would allow us to further isolate

for a variable and look at a a true

representation of what is the actual

efficiency now we probably want to test

it uncapped too an unlimited because

that's the okay here's the out of the

box um but it gets complicated obviously

because if they're producing different

frame rates it in a given period of time

it is a different unit of work

intrinsically which means the efficiency

is not a pure one to one so to get a

pure one to one we can do ISO FPS or ISO

power probably makes more sense for some

of the cards uh that scale will be it'll

be interesting to talk about because I

can see situations where it becomes

unintentionally unfair to certain cards

not say vendors but if you start

constraining a 4090 a lot it may be the

case that because it doesn't have the

power necessary to drive all those extra

cores the efficiency I don't know right

now if it'll be better or worse but it

could be significantly better or worse

uh depending on it so anyway we'll have

a lot to think about and talk about with

that stuff we're focusing on efficiency

testing a lot this year because uh first

of all power cost is going up in a lot

of places in the world for us we're

fortunate it hasn't with nuclear plant

nearby but for a lot of you in the

audience you've talked about extremely

expensive power especially in Europe and

so this will help people who are uh more

sensitive to the power cost because

their power cost is higher than ours to

make decisions on maybe you actually do

care if there only 10% difference in

performance but the difference is say 20

30% in what your effective power bill

might be you might care about that so

that's kind of the reason we're adding

this in secondarily uh manufacturers do

listen a little bit to what reviewers

are talking about it they don't make

their manufacturing decisions based on

us normally but they do make some of the

um the feature or the tuning decisions

based on what the wider Community

discussion is and so our hope is that if

as reviewers we're talking more about

power and efficiency it might be the

case that they start considering it more

in how they're designing different tiers

of product uh certainly we've seen that

in the past you know with GPS and CPS I

would say the influence of a review on

the company Standalone is is a lot less

uh but as a community they still will

react to what the review community and

their customer base talking about so

that's kind of the the big picture

dreams of it but the more realistic look

is hopefully it helps some of you who

care about the power cost uh make your

decisions okay cyber Punk is the next

one so for this uh I want to say on the

efficiency too a lot of you emailed us

with ideas and Concepts about it so

thank You' been reading them won't

respond to all them but some of those

concepts are getting kind of played

around with mathematically to see how we

want to introduce but cyberpunk RT we

discovered in our testing that ferar

site Ultra and medium have widely

different results for AMD and Nvidia

percent differences where Ultra

significantly favors Nvidia and medium

brings them a little closer together and

so instead of trying to pick we just

we're running both because that um we

don't even have to think about what's

fair that it's like here's both numbers

you get to decide how much you care

about ultra settings but that's in there

now balers Gate 3 again added for

lower-end test and then finally we're

working on Allen WG 2 so that is as fast

as possible possible as I can recap all

the cool stuff we're working on for GB

is really exciting time I personally

love doing this stuff and as always we

will have a full methodology piece on

this and a mega charts update with gpus

coming very soon because we have so many

gpus in the charts we can't fit them all

now we should have removed more probably

from the 7600 XT review because you

can't read them but I'm going to run a

mega charts thing on the website we'll

update you all you'll be able to get all

the data there uh without any any

vertical limitation like on YouTube uh

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everyone for that okay first uh news

story of the week we've reported on huge

gains for Intel gpus in the past for Arc

and they are continuing so the driver

updates will continue until the morale

improves this update includes support

for breakout success pal world or as a

lot of people call it Pokemon with guns

it has some massive uplift in specific

games as well our latest review cycle

didn't use these drivers they weren't

out yet publicly but we're planning to

run all the Intel Arc cards through with

them so we'll update you on what the

performance is but for Intel's official

note they say driver revision 5186 or

5234 shows the largest uplift in Just

Cause 4 at a staggering 268 per. which

means the game was probably functionally

unplayable before this driver that's

still important though because Intel's

been exceptional at taking an objective

approach to acknowledging past issues

while improving for Arc we've actually

really appreciated and continually

applauded the ark team's cander and

openness about saying hey we have

problems some of them are pretty big uh

and we're trying to fix them because

it's a big departure from what you see

with more incumbent parts of different

companies and Intel like the snake oil

team it's a welcome to departure from

that believe it or not so Intel's been

really good about just acknowledging it

and then trying to fix it there are a

couple really large improvements in Just

Cause 3 as well and elex 2 Space

Engineers all high in the double digits

of performance gain down from that but

still actually very respectable off lifs

are popular games like Warframe and Apex

Legends where respectively they saw 20%

and 26% Improvement overall it's pretty

long list so check it out if you're

using an arc GPU or considering one

almost all the titles here are dragx 11

which makes sense because Intel

initially focused it support on dx12

games and then it's been going back to

work on popular titles that use older

apis so we sincerely hope that the nextg

battle mage cards come to Market soon

the mid-range and lower end part of the

GPU Market seriously needs a reality

check uh this is not just like inflation

and and whatever it's there has been an

actual price creep in relative

performance the ASP has gone up for a

lot of these companies if you look at

their public information their earnings

so hopefully Intel helps reset that

seriously troubling for AMD though at

the cost effective range if intel can

kind of lock in the non- Enthusiast

customer base right now at least for us

haven't really looked at other reviewers

too much for Arc but probably similar I

would guess where uh our recommendation

is these cards are definitely worth

considering if you're an Enthusiast

you're kind of a core audience member

then go for it but you need some

patience you need some troubleshooting

experience because every now and then

you run into something that just doesn't

work quite right um and you don't

necessarily have the power to fix it

other than swapping cards so it's not

quite in that like mainstream would I

recommend this to a family member who I

am going to have to be tech support for

probably not yet but as soon as I can

get there Intel's going to be some

pretty serious trouble for AMD and

Nvidia in the cheaper Market because

Intel's probably more willing to go

after that lower margin Market just to

establish itself just like AMD did uh

with the RX 580 for example okay

embarrassingly one day after launch of

the 470 TI super MSI posted a public

press release MSI said their quote R&D

Department discovered that the new

Ventus model super cards were

underperforming versus spec as far as

we're aware or no other vendors cards

are affected by the issue and Nvidia has

not made any driver updates that would

contribute meaningful performance uplet

since the review the company has

released six bios revisions for various

Ventus and gaming X model RTX 470 TI

Super Cards specifically claiming to

improve performance to quote meet and

exceed the expected benchmarks going to

hit X for doubt on the exceed part of

that but meeting it is a is an admirable

objective it's always good to try and

meet expectations the BIOS updates are

available from msi's website and they

can be installed With Envy flash or you

can use the installer they include be

aware that flashing bios can cause

components to break irrecoverably in the

event of things like power loss so don't

flash the card during a thunderstorm or

turn it off in theory this would affect

any on shelf gpus that shipped prior to

availability as well and so it wouldn't

just be reviewers who were affected uh

but possibly I who bought a day one card

or if the card's sitting on the shelf

for a while you you should definitely

just check and see if it's if it's uh

updated to the correct revision which is

9503 454 F0 or whatever sequentially

after that in the sequence um and you

should be fine the company said this in

its post quote after a deep

investigation our R&D Department uh

discovered that our new 4070 TI super 16

GB Ventus 3x graphics card does not

deliver its full potential MSI sincerely

acknowledges and apologize for any

inconvenience so that's good at least

the good news is that you can now expect

me plus 5% performance with the new bios

revision we used the Asus tough car and

our reviews so our numbers aren't

affected At All by this uh however from

reports we've seen from those who have

tested MSI cards looks like it varies

from zero to 5% impact or so from this

bios update where zero is on the lower

load games five is on the higher so

maybe you call it an average of three or

something probably not enough to really

change anyone's conclusion as a reviewer

in most instances but definitely worth

installing if you're an actual user of

it or a reviewer for future testing okay

Nvidia RTX remix goes into open Beta

this pretty interesting software Nvidia

has officially launched it's RTX remix

game modding Suite now this goes into

open Beta so anyone can turn Skyrim's

dragons into cursed Abominations with

full path tracing halflife 2 is another

recent remake that was done with remix

and specifically in that scenario remix

serves to replace the renderer of the

game itself which is why it's pretty

interesting software this allows for an

old title like halflife 2 to be upfitted

with modern assets that otherwise would

be incompatible with the way the base

engine and game worked cuz it's too old

specifically replacing the Rend also

resolves memory usage limitations where

the game simply could not run with

models above a certain size or

complexity as a site that actually we

largely got our start covering mods of

games we think remix is a cool utility

that opens the door to tons of fan-made

Graphics overhauls and not just RT ones

we covered remix when it was first

announced but to briefly recap It remix

is part of nvidia's Omniverse and is a

platform for changing the assets this

also allows changing of lighting General

Graphics of fixed function pipelines

like DX8 and 9 games and video list Call

of Duty 2 Hitman 2 Silent Assassin and

Need for Speed Ong ground 2 as examples

of games that fit the bill mod DB is

maintaining a list of compatible games

and noting what functionality is

available through remix at the time of

writing there are 28 games listed as

playable there and 109 as partially

playable hopefully that grows over time

Nvidia covers remix's basic structure in

its news update as follows quote remix

consists of two components an

application for creating lights and

added remastered assets into a game

scene and a runtime for capturing

classic game scenes and injecting the

remastered assets back into the game at

playback this means that moders can add

not only fully R traced lights into

older games but we think maybe more

importantly also more easily add updated

models higher poly models higher res

textures materials such as modern

physically based assets that allow for

programmable levels of shine roughness

transparency and so forth an easy

example of this is the lamp shown

further down in the post where the

original's lamp shade is completely

opaque but remix allowed the light to

shine through realistically in order to

help speed up the process of modders

remastering games Nvidia also added

generative AI tools to revamp textures

can be used to not only upscale but also

to generate normal and roughness Maps

this is obviously a massive timesaver if

you're a solo or small group mod project

doing everything uh by hand for example

to this and assuming it works well and

is consistent then it'd be a good

addition for modders along with the open

Beta release Nvidia is promoting

halflife 2 RTX an RTX remix project it's

been worked on by 65 modders and the

video and screenshots are impressive for

another example of remix this is the

iconic bog map in COD 4 with path

tracing turned on and in the daylight

it's easy to pick apart Nvidia for a lot

of things that it does especially the

value consideration a lot of the gpus

the kind of meth 4070 TI super but

projects like this we actually do I mean

this kind of stuff is cool to me just

because um for playing PC games growing

up and even until now modding has always

been kind of a core part of that

experience to really make the game live

longer and be fun any tools that help

enable that uh especially in a non-

nefarious way which this appears to be

they're good tools to have so hopefully

some modders can make use of this and um

as stated it's not just RT stuff

although it can be used for that so it

benefits them but you could also use it

just to replace the renderer old things

so you can get higher quality assets

like models into the game all right

Capcom broke Monster Hunter rise on

Steam deck capcom's latest reasons for

being in the news include uh its usage

of enigma DRM and also this monster

hunter story earlier this month the

company added Enigma DRM to Resident

Evil Revelations mon others and this

apparently broke mod compatibility and

also ruined performance the latest

blunder is in Monster Hunter rise which

relative to Resident Evil Revelations is

newer at least patch

16.02.2013

is currently investigating this issue

we'll let you know as soon as we find

out more so please hold on for further

information we apologize for any

inconvenience this may cause as of the

latest update the company claims to have

fixed the issue uh definitely

inconvenient to completely break a game

from a DRM uh update which is already

kind of frustrating but if they had done

their own throrough testing they might

have noticed that it didn't launch it's

not one of the types of uh types of

flaws that's difficult to find as long

as you try to launch it on basically the

most popular handheld device uh open AI

is drumming up investment funds to try

and manufacture its own chips this is

pretty interesting so according to an

article on Bloomberg that we couldn't

read because it's paywalled so thanks

Tom's Hardware for re-reporting it open

AI is seeking at least 8 to 10 billion

dollar for this Venture but that's a

meager budget when it comes to

top-of-the-line Fabs these days CEO Sam

Alman thinks the right direction for

open AI is to eventually break away from

dependence on Nvidia or any other

company for its AI processing power

starting up new fact is ludicrously

expensive Intel for example has spent

tens of billions on the newest ones tsmc

as well so it's bound to be even more

difficult for an outsider to start from

scratch this is an even more aggressive

strategy than Google or Amazon or

actually AMD uh because these companies

do design their own chips Google and

Amazon maybe most directly relatable

here but they don't manufacture them

themselves um the plan here is likely an

attempt to get ahead of any future chip

shortages to decou some of the control

that third party Fabs might have over

your scheduling or your technology

capabilities and it could also

theoretically help circumvent whatever

future geopolitical issues might

surround the various Fabs that exist

today uh because they are relatively low

uh availability so it'll be interesting

to see if they're successful in

recruiting that investment type of thing

that various governments normally also

are interested in investing in because

they they want Fabs uh on their Turf up

next Andy fluid motion frames Finds Its

way into driver updates so big changes

here where AMD is boasting upwards of 90

plus% change in performance fluid motion

frames as a reminder is amd's naming for

frame generation so it's the process of

inserting or injecting additional frames

to increase the frame rate with frames

that are created based upon other real

Frame data according to AMD this should

work with in theory any DirectX 11 or 12

games as for uplift AMD claim CLS up to

103% with 1440p or up to 97% with 1080p

when using FSR 2 quality and this new

fluid motion frames Tech and the also

explicitly States support for the RX

6000 Series Desktop uh gpus and 700m

Graphics amd's Frank AER tweeted the

following quote it's here if you haven't

tried it yet you're missing out on huge

frame rate gains across thousands of

games AMD fluid motion frames or FMF

boosts FPS up to 97% for a smoother

gaming experience by adding frame

generation technology to any dx1 and 12

game now I'd like to test this we'll see

what our timing and availability is we

just did the 7600 XT we've got the 480

super and then it's public information

that AMD has a bunch of CPUs coming out

so we will be reviewing probably all of

those uh maybe we'll skip the the least

interesting one whatever that is but

there's a lot going on already so fluid

motion frames testing for us wouldn't

happen until after the GPU and CPU

review cycle concludes um if I'm still

alive after it next one and last one

there's a modder this is super cool

actually who rebuilt a Game Boy advanced

ROM by playing the audio uh from

basically a bug and this is really cool

so modern known as the ZZ ZZ glitch is

that zaz I don't know has shown off a

unique technique to dump all the data

off a gba game cartridge the method

involves recording the sound the

handheld console makes when the game

crashes for several hours and then turn

turning the noise back into code we

wanted to cover this because this is

simultaneously like it's one of the

hacki but most impressive uh pieces of

software projects we've had the

opportunity to cover in news it's really

cool because it gets to the the heart of

just doing cool things with technology

where it's kind of educational like to

recover uh data and code from audio it

makes sense but it's not really a common

way to do things the basic mechanism for

how the dump Works goes like this the

GBA sound chip is independent of the

main processor and it's capable of

reading data completely on its own under

normal conditions the process is

restricted to a small sound buffer in

[Music]

memory when the game crashes the sound

chip will basically freerun and it'll

just start playing the whole cart

as audio to the extent that when it

starts hitting actual audio data like

game music game sound effects you'll

still hear those just like you would

normally hear in the game but then as

for everything else in code uh each one

has a a particular tone assigned to it

since it's a sound chip the data is

indiscriminately interpreted as audio

because almost all the data isn't

actually muic or sound effects obviously

most of it comes out as kind of a

garbled

mess

it sounds awful to the human ear but

it's actually useful because you can

start reconstructing The Code by taking

this audio um is it's B it's code it's

just format shifted into a different

format which is audio playback so the

the really cool part will play for you

is in the middle when the Glitchy noises

and static are interrupted by The Game's

actual sound

[Music]

effects good parallel to think about

this is how some old PCS like the

Commodore 64 could use cassette tapes to

load games when normally those tapes

were associated with music it's not a

perfect process so the zaz glitch goes

into details of making the process work

and also proves the concept by comparing

it to actual hardware and to an emulator

in a more standard way and using a

well-loved Nintendo DS to produce the

noise and capture it on the PC

eventually after days of work uh the zaz

glitch stated they were able to get a

functional copy of the ROM completely

reborn from the pain to screams uh of

the same video game as it dies we just

wanted to add this in because it's

really cool it's fun and it serves as a

great way to illustrate how data can be

transformed into many different formats

and uh you could do cool things with it

like recovery for example on top of that

normally backing up or dumping game

cartridges requires things like separate

purchased hardware for it special

Hardware but this one it doesn't

technically need any tools it needs time

uh and that's cool in its own way so if

this interests you at all go check out

the original videos from the zaz glitch

for the buet so I you can check it out

on YouTube all right that's it for this

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