What has over 700 benchmarks, more then 30 graphs and takes a week to test? Give up already? Well don?t be lazy and read the title! It is a years worth of ATI Catalyst drivers, if you couldn?t be bothered moving your head a few degrees up.
ALi Integrated Driver 2.13 WHQL
ALI has a new integrated (All-in-One) driver package on their server . It includes chipset drivers (IDE/AGP) + Audio/LAN/USB and some more.
XTreme-G WarCat 5.12 for 32/64 Bits
TweaksRUs has released the XTreme-G WarCat drivers for both 32 and 64 Bit Windows. The WarCat drivers are based on ATi's Catalyst drivers 5.12.
ATI AVIVO Video Converter 1.12 download for ALL ATI video cards
During our look at ATI's AVIVO technnology enablement in CATALYST 5.13, my biggest gripe was with the Canadian firm's decision to limit use of the AVIVO Video Converter application to only Radeon X1800 users, despite the software only using CPU power to deal with transcoding files.
ATI Calalyst 5.13 Beta + Avivo Codec Xcode
Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, Avivo, in other words HDTV.
ATI Calalyst 5.13 Beta + Avivo Codec Xcode
Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, Avivo, in othe words HDTV.
ATI Calalyst 5.13 Beta + Avivo Codec Xcode
Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, AVIVO, in othe words HDTV.
ATI's Avivo Update - H.264 Acceleration
ATI promised us H.264 decode acceleration, offloading some of the most CPU intensive tasks for media PCs today onto their brand new GPUs. ATI also alluded to a transcode utility, which would aid in the conversion between video formats and potentially even accelerating it on the GPU as well.
AnandTech
AnandTech
Catalyst 5.13: ATI's Video Domination?
ATI owners (and prospective owners) must have been good this year because Santa has brought the thirteenth Catalyst driver release of 2005. With this new version, ATI claims that they've raised the bar in video performance and set the stage for worldwide "video dominATIon."
ATI's AVIVO Technology, Part Deux - CATALYST 5.13
Last week in London, ATI gathered members of the press to show off what will be ATI's final driver release of 2005 - CATALYST 5.13. The name of the game with this driver set is improvements and additions to ATI's video processing abilities, in line with their AVIVO technology. Elite Bastards was there to take a look at what was on show.
EliteBastards
EliteBastards
NGO NVIDIA Optimized Driver v1.8195
The NGO NVIDIA Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the NVIDIA ForceWare driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with better performance and image quality. The Driver has support for all Geforce cards.
Catalyst 5.12 Dual-Core Optimisations
Today we are taking a short look at a feature included in ATI's Catalyst 5.12 drivers - Dual Core optimisations. The article also includes a Q+A session with Phil Rogers. Phil is ATI's senior software architect and as a whole it makes for very interesting reading.
ATI Catalyst 5.12 Performance Analysis
The final ATI driver for 2005 is Catalyst 5.12 - we examine the performance as usual and find out if you should upgrade.
TweakTown
TweakTown
Looking Back: ATI's Catalyst Drivers Exposed
We take a look at how ATI's Catalyst performance changed over the years on a Radeon 9700 Pro.
Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.87 (Cat 5.12)
This one didn't took long! :D My new Omega Drivers based on the Cat 5.12 are ready! Go to the ATI Radeon section and take a look at the Readme while downloading so you know the latest changes, additions to this set and some important notes or warnings.
Catalyst 5.13 Next Week
The driver isn't just bug-fixes and X1600 support, but rather has some interesting features to boot. When we talked to the father of Catalyst suite, we learned that the goal of 5.13 is being a "video driver" and bringing a lot of AVIVO marchitecture to life.
TheInquirer
TheInquirer
ATI Catalyst 5.12 Released
The new set of drivers for ATi- powered graphic cards is finally out! Version 5.12 brings some nice fat improvements in performance. Read more for the Changelog and Download links.
Nvidia Unified (nforce 2/3/4) 8.22
This driver set was assembled (remixed) by our forum user HLH & semi-forum user Squall and have been tested on NFORCE 2 and 4 platforms. It contains all of the latest drivers, install at YOUR OWN RISK of course.
Guru of 3D
Guru of 3D
Logitech SetPoint 2.47
If you were using Logitech MouseWare with a Cordless Click! or a Cordless Click! Plus mouse, installing SetPoint on top of MouseWare will transfer control of your mouse from MouseWare to SetPoint. MouseWare will no longer recognize your mouse. If you were only using one mouse with MouseWare, you can now uninstall MouseWare and use SetPoint!
Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?
Friday afternoon we got an email pointing us to the latest beta driver from ATI. One of the key features of this driver is a performance boost for dual core systems. Building a driver to take advantage of parallel processing is quite a task, and extracting any noticeable performance gain out of it is even more difficult. So we are here today to see just what ATI has gotten out of their efforts thus far.