VISTA has no control panel with the LDDM drivers. So I tried to install the normal XP drivers and found these worked with Vista and gave a Control panel just like in XP, but then there was no glass effect. From here I worked on an INF that would work with Vista and XP, after some testing and tweaking I think I have it sorted.

Here's two new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 85.05 and 86.70 for Windows Vista! Your going to need a modified .inf file if your card is not listed! Dated December 22 , 2005

As we enter 2006 we see the first Catalyst driver set for the New Year labeled as the 6.1s. These come out just in time for the release of the latest FutureMark benchmark application labeled 3DMark06 funnily enough.

The new Radeon Omega Drivers based on the Official Catalyst 6.1 Drivers are out!

What's New in Omega Drivers?
v3.8.205

[*] Based on the Catalyst 6.1 Official drivers.
[+] Starting from this set, I will use my own version internally for the Catalyst drivers, instead of using 6.1, 6.2, etc, I will be naming them 6.01, 6.02, etc, this will make the Cat versions less confusing and more "logical".
[*] Updated Multires to v1.56. (fixes the "non-supported" resolutions bug)
[+] New version naming scheme for the Omega Drivers, now is based on the internal ATI version number than in the 2D Display version.

Just got an email that Catalyst 6.1 is available from ATI.
This release is mainly a maintenance driver and cleans up a few bugs.
Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.1 BattleField 2 Special Forces: A blooming or ghosting effect is no longer noticed when playing the game in night vision mode. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-21263 Beyond Good and Evil: Flickering artifacts are no longer noticed on the game characters after approximately 15 minutes of game play. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-20795 Read more

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send word that they've snagged a WHQL set of ATi Catalyst 5.13 Build 8.203 drivers with CCC: 1.2.2044.266 and supports ATI's Radeon X1900 for Windows 2000/XP! Dated 23/12/2005

TweaksRUs has released their modded version of NVIDIA's Forceware 82.65; XTreme-G 82.65.v2 in both winXP2k and x64 versions.

Guru3D are saying that they are looking good for sure, we virus and pest controlled them and they came out clean.
They repacked the archive and it's down from a 32 MB filesize towards 19 MB right now for a faster download. Interesting facts .. these drivers support a GeForce 7800 GT and 7300 LE. Read more for download

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 81.97 for Windows 2000/XP! These Drivers come from Dell for their 7800 GTX based machines (Desktop). Your going to need a modified .inf file if your card is not listed! Dated December 1, 2005

IntelliPoint software enables you to customize the unique features of your Microsoft® mouse. You can reassign mouse buttons to perform commands, shortcuts, and application-specific functions. You can also modify mouse settings, such as pointer speed and updated horizontal scrolling.

IntelliType Pro software enables you to customize the unique features of your Microsoft® keyboard to fit your needs. With IntelliType Pro software, you can reassign many of the keys to open a program, file, or Web page, or to perform commands, such as Find, Show Desktop, or other application-specific functions.

Thanks to forumgod Mertsch in our forums fyi New VIA Hyperion Pro version 5.07A out now !
The new package includes:
INF Driver V2.70A
AGP Driver V4.50D
IDE Filter Driver V1.20D
RAID Driver V5.20A,
Raid Tools V5.26
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The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with better performance and image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.

This is NVIDIA ForceWare 83.10

83.10 is a beta whql release so please use and abuse it at your own risk of course. We repackaged the drivers towards 17MB. The drivers originally only supported Leadtek cards, yet the .inf has been modified to support all modern GeForce graphics cards which resulted into loss of the that very same WHQL certification. We have pest and virus checked these drivers before placing them on-line and they came out 100% clean.

The archive includes all international files and an easy to use setup.exe for installation.

Have fun.

Intel Matrix Storage Technology includes support for Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), providing advanced features such as native command queuing, hot plug, and power management. Native command queuing, when paired with capable hard disk drives, increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. This provides increased performance for today's multi tasking environments and demanding applications.

Realtek released version 3.81 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC850 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

TweaksRUs has released their tweaked version of NVIDIA's Forceware 81.98 WHQL. This time they included nHancer 1.2.2, hence the 'Plus'.

Nvidia has cleared us to release the registry fix information for their 80 series drivers with dual core support that disables this support so that there is no conflict with the Quake 4 1.05 beta patch.

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.13 for your download pleasure.

Catalyst® 5.13 software suite introduces H.264 hardware acceleration for the ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 product line. H.264 is advanced video coding that provides significant reduction in bit-rate compared to standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 products provide hardware acceleration for the playback of high-definition content that is encoded using H.264. Using the Catalyst® software suite 5.13, along with the Cyberlink H.264 decoder available from http://www.ati.com/technology/h264.html provides H.264 hardware acceleration.

On Nvidia's FTP server you can see a empty folder 82.12 We waiting for 81.98 and 82.12

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