Gateway has released Sound Blaster Audigy 2 driver, version 5.12.0001.0324 for windows 2000/XP! Dated 4/22/2003! No word on what's new.

CATALYST maker one of the peeps on the CATALYST development team has posted some Hint's to what going to be in Catalyst Drivers v3.4.

Ok guys here is my attempt to answer every question that has come to me. I am being as honest as possible and have hopefully answered some questions for you.

Just got word that the 3dfx Driver/BIOS source code has been leaked to the web!

Well, its happened, although it was released to the net about 3 weeks ago (but not posted publically)... Nu Angel from the x3dfx community forums has released the 3dfx driver / BIOS source to the world. Its spreadign like wildfire and would allow the community to build new drivers for their aging hardware.

Just got word from Station Drivers that they have found new HighPoint 2.34 BIOS files and drivers for the HPT370/370A RAID and the HPT372 RAID.

The kX Audio Driver which is an independent WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver for all EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or E-mu Sytems Inc., including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio Production Studio (APS) card, and the Audigy series of cards, has been updated.

Guru 3D sends word that they now have the Windows 98/ME/2000/XP WHQL versions of Nvidia Detonator 43.51. Two weeks ago we brought you Detonator drivers version 43.51, this time we have the WHQL versions available. WHQL simply means that Microsoft has tested and verified these drivers, after their approval the drivers are stamped with the WHQL logo and thus certification. Click on Read More... for a link to see more info & download links.

The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper functioning of the following features:

AMD have released their AMD-8000 series core logic (chipset) driver for the AMD Opteron? processor.

The AMD-8000 series core logic (chipset) driver EXE files listed on this page support the following language versions: English plus Dutch, Finish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish

Windows® 98/2000/ME/XP AGP Driver Version 8.5.0.1 : Microsoft digitally-signed, for platforms using AMD-8151? HyperTransport? AGP 3.0 graphics tunnel

ALI officially released their USB 2.0 driver 1.47
VIA hides the new USB 2.0 driver 2.54 on their FTP-Site
Officially available driver on the VIA website is the old 2.42
Hit "Read More" for links and some release notes

On Friday AVM Germany introduced a new software version of FritzDSL! - 01.03.06. The update works for the internal PCI card DSL modems FRITZCard! DSL SL as well as the predecessor the famous FRITZCard! DSL and the external FRITZCard! DSL USB. Read more for changes and download link.

Just got word that Per Hansson at Techspot.com has a fix for the Data Corruption Problem on Asus and Abit nForce2 motherboards that was found at Nordichardware.com.

Here's the latest update for SATA RAID-0 broken issue on NF7-S & Asus A7N8X Deluxe mainboards. After co-working with Silicon Image for one week, we finally found the SATA RAID-0 broken issue was caused by some improper register values.

Just got word that Hardware-Mag.de have posted a brief ATI Catalyst 3.2 vs 6.14.10.6334 driver comparison. The new drivers were found over at Dell's FTP by our very own Rancho*. Here's a quick translation.

By the use of the R350 of driver path an increase in output on Radeon should be possible 9700 and 9700 pro diagram maps of approximately 5 per cent. In our following article we analyzed this statement on the basis different bench marks. Whether the driver can hold which it promises [...]

SiS released new 3.11.53 Performance Drivers for their Xabre 3D VGA cards. It's very much possible that SiS 315 graphics cards are supported, too (but unofficially).

VIA released a new driver for their onboard AC97 audio chipset integrated into VIA mainboard chipsets. Supported chipsets include: 686A/B and 8231/8233/8235 integrated audio.

French site Station Drivers have found or compiled [?] a new driver set 285 for Windows XP. According to the site the driver reduces intermittent sound distortion during digital audio playback. Noteworthy is that the set includes new applications but only some: PlayCenter 3.02.61, Creative Recorder 2.00.36 and AudioHQ 1.20.02. This is proof that Creative is indeed working on the 'old' software but has not bothered to release it to customers.

The long awaited Catalyst 3.3 driver suite has been released earlier by a large OEM partner of ATI, which leaves the conclusion that the official generic drivers will see the light of day this week. The high anticipation results from ATI's unofficial announcement that the driver will include the R350 rendering path for R300 hardware, which should result in an overall performance increase of ~5%. Here is the low down on the release. OS: Windows XP Only Version: 6.14.10.6334; Control Panel included Supports: 9700TX/9700Pro/9800Pro Language: English WHQL Certificate: Yes Date stamp: 03/23/2003 Update: There was an error in our local mirror file. Please download again directly from Dell. The link is fixed and includes all driver files. Sorry for the inconvenience. Read more...

Thanks to Zardon at Driverheaven.net for the info. Just in case some of you missed the release earlier.

The new drivers are based on the official ones by Nvidia which are out.

Guru 3D sends word that they now have the Windows 98/ME & NT versions of Nvidia Detonator 43.51 that leaked last week.

What's interesting in this release is that NV35 (the new upcoming GeForce FX) has been included into installation information.

Matrox has released a new driver set for Parhelia 128 and 256Mbyte versions only. The driver is valid for Win 2K/XP. The new version number is 1.04.00.078; a release note list is scheduled for later today. A new utility called Monitor Manager is said to be released along with the changelog.

With the NDA lifted on the i875 'Canterwood' chipset Intel also lifted the ban on the updated chipset installation utility 5.00.1012 which has the Intel 82875P as target chipset. You can now officially download it.