Game Engines
What Is a Game Engine? The Building Blocks Behind Every Game
What a game engine is, the subsystems inside it (rendering, physics, audio, scripting, tools), and why studios license engines like Unreal or build their own.
Elliot Varga
Elliot Varga is the pen name of the small independent editorial team behind Rendered News.
Graphics Settings
V-Sync, Adaptive Sync and Screen Tearing Explained
Why screen tearing happens, what V-Sync, double and triple buffering really do, and how VRR, G-Sync, FreeSync and frame caps fit together.
Graphics Settings
HDR in Games Explained: Peak Brightness, Paper White and Tone Mapping
What HDR changes in games, how peak brightness, paper white and black level sliders work, what tone mapping does, and how to fix washed-out or crushed HDR.
Upscaling & Performance
Render Resolution vs Output Resolution: What Render Scale Really Means
Render vs output resolution explained: render scale sliders, upscaler mode percentages, per-axis vs total pixels, and why pixel count drives cost.
Graphics Settings
PC Graphics Settings Explained: What Every Common Option Actually Does
A plain guide to a typical PC graphics menu: what resolution, textures, shadows, AO, reflections, upscalers, frame caps and other options really change.
Graphics Settings
Anti-Aliasing Explained: MSAA, FXAA, SMAA, TAA and DLAA
Why jaggies and shimmering happen, and how SSAA, MSAA, FXAA, SMAA, TAA and ML-based DLAA each try to fix them, with their trade-offs.
Upscaling & Performance
Frame Generation Explained: How Games Create Frames That Were Never Rendered
How frame generation builds in-between frames from motion data, why it adds latency, why base frame rate matters, and how 2x differs from multi-frame.
Upscaling & Performance
AMD FSR Explained: From FSR 1 to FSR Redstone
How AMD FSR evolved from a simple spatial upscaler to the ML-based Redstone suite, and what FSR Upscaling, Frame Generation and Ray Regeneration do.
Upscaling & Performance
What Is DLSS? NVIDIA’s AI Upscaling Explained
DLSS explained: Super Resolution modes, DLAA, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction, plus how versions evolved up to DLSS 4.5.
Rendering Explained
How Rasterization Works: The Real-Time Graphics Pipeline Step by Step
A step-by-step tour of the real-time graphics pipeline, from vertices and triangles to pixel shading, the depth buffer and the final frame.