Mayukh's Column

Starfield 2023, PC (Windows/ Steam) Disclaimer: This is a long post, including rants from someone who has played Bethesda games since Morrowind (2001). As for spoilers, if you have not played a Bethesda game before, now is the time to walk away. If...

If you have a 70 and above model of GTX 900/ 10 series GPU (or even a 5700 XT or so from AMD), congratulations! You are one of the few old hardware owners who can still run many latest games at 60 fps albeit with a few tweaks or compromises. Here are...

In late 2018, NVIDIA had launched RTX (Ray Traced Texel Extreme) with their 20 series cards. RTX is supposed to be image rendering using real time light path tracing, instead of pre-compiled shadows and light effects in rasterization which has been t...

The Forest 2018, PC, Single Player (Steam/ Proton on Linux) Bad combat is aplenty in the video game industry. Depending on the perspective, it can often be masked as “difficult” game that “noobs” don’t get. With support...

The GRUB bootloader is old but works, and if the computer is about 5+ years old, it is still relevant today. As such, computers with legacy BIOS wanting to dual-boot have to put up with a typical no-mans-land nowadays, with the newer EFI BIOS and sys...

Balena Etcher is usually the most sought after app to create a bootable disk on Linux. But it warns while attempting to burn a Windows ISO, because Windows file naming/ sizing conventions are not standard so there may be issues. On Windows, apart fro...

Imagine yourself as the developer of a beloved video game franchise. A franchise that created a revolution in narrative-driven open worlds, no matter how bad the missions design were, no matter how poorly optimised PC ports were, no matter if some we...