Welcome to Gaming Week!
This article is a part of the opening gaming week of Tom’s guide, which is a whole week of gaming content dedicated to gaming. From the sophisticated hardware insights, guide the best sports you can play today, to the essential accessories we cannot play without. Tom’s guide will guide you to the video games in Gaming Week 2025.
There is more in PC gaming that is just in addition to downloading an excellent PC games and drowning in gameplay hours. I mean, I have done the same for years, but once you invest in PC gaming setup, there is a frame rate, storage, storage and style element to think about it.
There is more to the valve’s essential steam than sports, as many tools (free and paid) will not only make a change to your gaming laptops or PCs, but will also help improve gaming performance, save valuable space, provide navigation around multi -tasking and make it free.
We have gone through hidden features on steam that you should know about, but what about apps on the valve’s famous gaming platform? These are the tools that you should check if you want to promote your gaming setup.
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If you haven’t heard about flexible scaling before, it’s time to know about it. Although there are Nvidia RTX 50-Series GPUs with DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame General, we have seen how they come to the GPUs at a terrible high cost. However, through this steam app, you can mandate the triple frame rate in PC Games at less than $ 10/£ 10.
Using a number of scaling options, unlimited scabling can increase your local PC gaming experience and collide frame rates for more and more rich, smooth gameplay. We have noted that the app frame is not like other major brand companies like NVIDIA’s DLSS or AMD’s FSR, but for single player experiences like Cypberpunk 2077, there is an equal difference here.
We recommend using “LSFG 2.2”. Select the Frame Generation option, then the “X2” option in the “Mode” tab.
That sweet wallpaper aesthetic
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If you want to seriously upgrade your desktop shape, there is a chance that PC Bofas will point you to a straight wallpaper engine. This is not just some basic wallpaper app. It is a powerhouse that a large group of artists supported thousands of eye -operated themes and living wall papers.
Want to compromise them in perfection? Now go ahead. In addition, all these bells and whistles have been found to convert your favorite static pictures into smart dynamic backdrops.
Although this may not be the ultimate gaming partner compared to some of the others, anyone who likes to deceive his computer with terrifying visuals, is the way to go to the wallpaper engine.
Easy streaming
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If you are starting to stream all the games of your game, there is a wonderful way to start the OBS studio. Why? Well, to record the series or video that you draw a kind of headshots, it’s completely free.
Really, this is a great way to record gameplay videos to save your hard drive to save your hard drive, but it also offers an easy way to connect and meet all your caught content and offers it an easy way to share it on several popular platforms, whether it is YouTube, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet.
It is highly versatile, with the support of hardware encoders for various GPUs, audio and video mixers that can be used from a number of sources caught and it is also a simple interface to get caught with it.
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Who said scrolling on your mouse is just fine, for scrolling? It can be the easiest app around it, but Just Scroll does everything that says, and it is easily controlled by your computer’s volume but scroll with your mouse. Easy, yet effective, no?
Whether you are getting away or watching the latest shows and there is a lot of noise from these speakers that will bother your neighbors, you all press the Windows key and press the script. You can also rotate on the Windows Task Bar and scroll your heart content up or down.
Just Here is a demo available, and is just annoying to activate this feature while spending $ 2/£ 2, this is not much much more if you are easily looking for an easy way to adjust your volume.
There is many gaming laptops that do not have a high -speed volume control button without pressing the function’s key or something like this. But if you want to keep your best gaming mouse in good use, this app will move.
Beyond borders
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This is for an old school concert. Whether I am returning to Castle Wolfstein or X -Men’s legends, some games (understandable) are not good for modern systems. This is where borderless gaming comes, as it forces sports to provide this border lace, full screen experience on your computer, even if the application is.
Yes, many modern games come with full screen options, but not all classics come with this option. If there is doubt, this app will help you. It can even hide the disturbing task bar if the classic titles do not get rid of it.
Also, if you are a multi -tasker that often uses the ALT + tab, you can close your mouse cursor on the game window if you mistakenly press something out of the game. Even better, there is the option to silence sports in the background when you scroll through the web for guides (what I do).
Bonuses: Compressors
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Do you always find extra space on your gaming PC? Well, if you regularly play AAA gaming titles, you will always be. It doesn’t matter if your gaming is PC and how big your storage is, the only place to fit the titles like Dome is: Dark Edges in 100 GB, Claire Tools: Campaign on 55GB and the last part of our Part II has been re -developed with 150 GB.
This is the compressor. This steam app will compress gaming apps on steam and shave valuable gigabytes on these large gaming files. I wrote about how the steam app saved me 100 GB storage by pressing its gaming files (something better than others), but it is only under check for the use of new technology file system (NTFS) compression that is already on Windows 11 (which is free to use).
I contacted the app developer, and he told me.
“The compressor X is based on the first version of our LLM compressor, which was developed in my AI lab in Tokyo. The model is specially designed to minimize the experimental risk in a major dataset while the CPU is lightly lightly to work effectively.
“Transparent compression Wee Wee, we apply a ‘hot patch’ technique to edit parts of Windows, which allows us to change functions within the current compression layer. If the compressor determines that the results will be lower than the local algorithm, such as LZX.
“One of the latest version of this model is currently in use by our enterprise clients to compress data on their cloud storage. My goal is to complete the development of background service functionality and release this better model on steam after completing the background service functionality and adding support for non -gaming applications.
If you want to check the compressor X, it will save you at the storage space. However, there are other ways to get it for free, such as the use of pressure tools on Windows or compact GUI.
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