Overdrive

Overdrive! It sounds cool and it is, but you might not have it enabled in your monitor's settings because what it does is not exactly obvious. But you should, because it can actually improve how fast motion looks on your screen, helping to eliminate ghosting and improving clarity in competitive games. Just don't overdo it, or you might make the problem worse. Here's how to enable your monitor's overdrive. It's hard to capture with a camera, but the artifacts at the highest overdrive level are too…

Audiobooks are an incredibly convenient format for those who enjoy reading but struggle to make time for it in their everyday lives. They’re portable. You can listen to them on the way to work, while you’re exercising, or even when you’re doing chores around the house. And along with their ease of use, quite a few audiobooks can be accessed for free, if you know where to look. That’s where we come in. In the guide below, we’ll go over some of the best options around for downloading audiobooks for free. So you can get…

Post Malone has dropped a new single, “Overdrive.” The song is the third track to emerge from his upcoming fifth album, Austin, out July 28 via Mercury Records/Republic Records. A Vevo Official Live Performance of “Overdrive” will arrive on Friday. The acoustic guitar-led single sees Malone pensively reflecting on a relationship. “I’ll remove my tattoos if that’s cool to you,” he sings on the mid-tempo rock track. “I’ll do anything to be cool to you.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdVQE9CZMDU…

Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive is mourning the loss of founding guitarist Tim Bachman, who died Friday. The singer died at age 71 after a battle with cancer, his son, Paxton Bachman, confirmed with an announcement shared on Facebook. Tim Bachman formed the rock group with brothers Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman, along with bassist Fred Turner. “My Dad passed this afternoon. Thank You Everyone for the kind words,” wrote Paxton, a guitarist who goes by Ryder professionally. “Grateful I got to spend some…

Cyberpunk 2077 is going into overdrive mode. Literally. With the announcement of the game’s latest patch this week, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a new mode for PC called ‘Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode’ that cranks the graphics up to 11. If you thought the game world was gorgeous before, this new graphical upgrade is going to blow your socks off.There is, one pretty mega huge caveat with this new graphical mode though. It only supports PC players. In the patch 1.62 patch notes, CD PROJEKT RED states that the new feature is…

On Tuesday, CD Projekt Red rolled out patch 1.62 for Cyberpunk 2077, bringing Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode to the masses. Well, the masses with seriously powerful computers, anyway. Currently, the new graphics preset is only supported by NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series (4070 Ti and up) graphics cards. You can also play it on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, but only at 1080p and 30FPS. If your graphics card isn’t up to snuff, you’re out of luck. What is Cyberpunk 2077’s RT: Overdrive Mode? As CD Projekt Red…

Cyberpunk 2077‘s long-awaited Overdrive feature is here. Announced alongside the Nvidia RTX 4090, the new ray tracing mode brings full path tracing to the world of Night City — and it looks incredible. It’s also extremely demanding, and although there’s some argument that the visual improvements are worth it, after testing it myself, the new ray tracing mode doesn’t feel like a reason to go out and buy a new graphics card. Path tracing is essentially the hard way of doing ray tracing, and it’s only possible now with…

A new sheen hits Night City today A brand-new look for Night City is hitting PC today. Patch 1.62 for Cyberpunk 2077 is rolling out on PC today, with the tech preview for Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode arriving as part of it. This new ray-tracing mode is a hefty bit of tech. It uses fully ray-traced, or path-traced, rendering in partnership with NVIDIA. CD Projekt Red acknowledges that it’s early-on, and so it’s characterizing this new mode of visuals as a Technology Preview. Basically, if things get weird, it’s still a…

CD Projekt Red and Nvidia have shared a preview of Cyberpunk 2077 running with an “Overdrive Mode” of ray tracing, though only high-end gaming PCs will be able to run it. Cyberpunk 2077‘s Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode will be released next Tuesday (April 11), and ahead of the launch, Nvidia has shared a brief clip highlighting how the upgraded ray tracing feature will affect Night City’s visuals. “This demo showcases path tracing, also known as full ray tracing, an advanced, GPU-intensive form of ray tracing that…

Starting on May 1st, OverDrive app users who still use it to digitally access a library’s collection will need to upgrade to Libby, a newer app from the same company that also lets you rent library ebooks for free.OverDrive’s digital platform started in 2002 and continued to operate separately even after Libby launched in 2017. OverDrive is often accessed via a library’s own OverDrive website instance, but the app effectively has the same purpose of distributing publisher books digitally for free, just like Libby. The…