Official ATI Catalyst 3.6 Out - Release Notes Available

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These release notes provide information on the latest posting of ATI's industry leading software suite, Catalyst. This particular posting updates the ATI Display Driver to version 7.91. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. This maintenance release focuses on stability fixes and as such, there are no display driver performance improvements with this release of Catalyst.

VIA Onboard Sound Drivers 3.70b

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VIA has released a new combo audio driver version 3.70b. This driver supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound, including VT8231 / VT82C686A / VT82C686B, VT8233 / VT8233A / VT8233C / VT8235 and VT8237.

New Nvidia Detonator Drivers - Beta

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There are two new versions out for you to test. The first comes right from Nvidia itself. It is a Quadro certified driver at ~9MB: Download Nvidia Quadro Detonator 44.65 Windows 2000 - XP The second driver set comes from Dell. It's also for Windows 2000 and XP. It's a multilanguage WHQL release and has vendor specific installation instructions (.inf file). It includes generic support for GeForce FX Go models however and weighs in at 15.4MB: Download Nvidia Detonator 44.68 Windows XP - 2000 Dell

DNA Drivers 1.4.3.5HFSU

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Here's a new set of modded drivers from KillerSneak called "DNA Drivers", based on the Catalyst 3.5 ATI drivers. Early reports suggest a gain in 3DMark points of about 300 and texture problems in BF1942 supposedly have been fixed.

ASUS Detonator 44.69 Windows 9x - ME

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Asus has released a new Nvidia Detonator driver for Windows 9x and ME. This driver is specifically for Asus graphics cards only. It's a multilanguage release at 18MB. At the time of posting it is not known if these drivers contain the massive Pixel Shader "optimisations" from the 44.67 Windows 2000/XP set. A modded .inf file is also not yet available. The driver is suitable for the complete range of Asus VGA cards: V3xxx / 6xxx / 7xxx / 8xxx / 9xxx.

Nvidia Detonator 44.90 Emerged

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Our valued korean affiliates from Darkcrow have discovered a new Detonator 44.90. They also did a small performance comparison with 3DMark 03 build 330 at 1280x1024 and Quake3. While 44.90 has better Vertex Shader performance the extreme Pixel Shader Improvements from 44.67 are missing. Detonator 44.90 is not WHQL certified and is dated 06/20/2003.

Nvidia Detonator 44.71 WHQL Windows 2000/XP

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I just saw over @ Station-drivers that they've snagged Nvidia Detonator 44.71 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP! The driver supports the following cards: GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, GeForce FX 5800, Quadro FX 2000, Quadro FX 1000, GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, GeForce FX 5600, GeForce FX 5600SE, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, GeForce FX 5200, Quadro FX 500, GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, GeForce FX 5900, Quadro FX 3000. Note: They also got a modified INF file to support ALL cards. Click on Read More... for more information and download link.

Nvidia 44.03 Stereo Control Panel - Nvidia WDM 2.03

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Just got word that Guru 3D have snagged the latest Nvidia 44.03 driver stereo control panel, to enable 3D glasses support. This release comes from Gainward.

It's been a while but we finally have a new set of Stereo drivers available for Detonator drivers 44.xx. It's 100% Nvidia authentic. Read more...

Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.5 - Now With RAID 1

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Intel released a new version of it's IAA RAID Edition for the new i865/875 chipsets. It improves data transfer rate with SATA RAID using the integrated chipset features. According to the release notes bugs and problems were ironed out and some goodies were added. Most interesting of those is the addition of redundant RAID 1 arrays on select Intel 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows XP or Windows 2000. Read More for the links.

eVGA Releases Full Reference Detonator 44.67

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Jumping the gun eVGA has released a full reference Nvidia Detonator driver for Windows 2000 and XP. The 20.9MB download is a WHQL certified multilanguage release. More importantly eVGA states in the release notes, that all 3DMark 2003 issues have been corrected. If this note corresponds to the much disputed 'optimzations' remains to be seen. Looks like another round of Antidetector testing is coming at us. You can discuss your findings, benchmarks etc in this forum thread.

nForce Drivers 3.44 Beta Windows 2000/XP

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Our french pals at Station-Drivers have scored another neat driver download. They found some nForce 1/2 ( 220/230/415/420/430) drivers version 3.44 WHQL, non officiel for Windows 2000/XP. This is not a full driver release but includes audio, ethernet, IDE and GART drivers.

Unwinder's Detection Script: Catalyst 3.5 On Test

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Just got word that Elitebastards.com have thrown up Hanner's Catalyst 3.5 On Test article using Unwinder's Detection scripts on ATI's latest drivers. There's a good bit of thought inside! Benchmarks included.

Recent months have been nothing short of a soap opera for both ATI and Nvidia and the followers of the two companies ? A soap opera that shows no sign of abating. I have no intention of going over the details of recent events yet again, as I?m sure anybody whose been living on planet Hardware recently will be more than aware of all the recent goings on. Instead, I?ll step in to the story at the point of the most recent allegations levelled against the two IHVs in Digit Life?s recent article. For those of you that missed it, Aleksei Nikolaichuk (better known to most as ?Unwinder?, the creator of RivaTuner) set about creating a script to disable the ability of both nVidia?s Detonator and ATi?s Catalyst drivers to detect when specific applications were running , thus eliminating their ability to optimize for those applications in any way.