Matrox has released a driver update for its Parhelia, P750, and P650 graphics cards, fixing a nagging bug that impeded performance in SPEC's viewperf workstation graphics benchmark. The P750's performance with the latest 1.05.01.008 drivers is much improved.

The ALC650 is an 18-bit, full duplex AC'97 2.2 compatible stereo audio CODEC designed for PC multimedia systems, including host/soft audio and AMR/CNR based designs.

New set of Soundstorm Audio Drivers and Control Panel version 3.75 (Abit AN7 release) posted on NForcersHQ Forum! Get them here for XP/2K & 98/Me (3rd post)

Non WHQL, but I have installed with no problems and the bass is much better then previous versions...!

Poppi told us that ATI has released a Call of Duty driver hotfix for people which are using the ATI Radeon series. The drivers are at packaging version 7.96. Some users have reported that after the game is launched, the system may hang or produce a VPU recover error. Other boards than RADEON 9500/9600/9700/9800 series may be affected.

eVGA has released a new set of Nvidia ForceWare drivers 53.03 for Windows 2K/XP!

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Just got word that the Software Mod For Turning Your Radeon 9500 Non-Pro Into A 9700 , 9800SE and 9800 PRO guide has been updated for combination with the Catalyst 3.9 drivers! If the softmod succeeds your card will behave exactly like a 9700 and 9800 PRO (8 pipelines, 256bit bus) card.

A new processor driver is now available. This driver supports processor performance control via the processor objects defined in the ACPI 2.0 specification.

The Firing Squad have thrown up their Catalyst 3.9 Driver Report!

They tested Catalyst 3.8 against the newly released Catalyst 3.9 using the following Radeon cards 9800 XT , 9800 Pro 128 MB, 9700 Pro, 9600 Pro, 9500 Pro, 9500, 8500 and using the following benchmarks NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, Quake III: Arena version 1.32, Unreal Tournament 2003, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, Splinter Cell and Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness.

Just got word that Guru 3D have snagged Detonator 52.70 for Windows 2000/XP from MSI.

Oh and I also found an interesting new enrty in the .inf file, for real:

NVIDIA_NV35.DEV_0332.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT"

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:

Gigabyte released a CK343 driver package containing new AGP and SMBUS drivers :
DriverVer = 05/27/2003, 3.4.3 (both drivers)
-> Package contains older network and IDE-drivers - I recommend manual install of AGP/SMBUS drivers only ! Grab the drivers here : Win98/ME - Win2000 - WinXP
Edit:it's possible Network drivers are 3.4.3,too but using older .INF files (I have no nForce board to check this)

Just got word from Veridian3 at Driver Heaven "Don't forget registration required. "that Neon Cowboy has performed investigations on the Catalyst 3.9's as a follow up to his recent article on Catalyst 3.8 temperatures!

Recently, we had all had a heard a bunch of rumors about cat 3.8?s having thermal issues. So as most of you know. I went through and did some testing to get past the myth and get down to the facts. For those of you who missed it the article can be found here: Ati Drivers Put To The Test: Surprising results. Well I?m back again to follow through on the commitment and bring you the same test with the new official 3.9?s

Just got word that Omegadrive has released his new set of Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.96c for windows 2000/XP based on cat 3.9!

New Neutral Catalyst ATIPOWER pack v2.7.0.1 based on Catalyst 3.9 are available to download.

Creative Labs Asia has released a couple of software updates for their original Audigy 1 lineup of soundcards. These updates include: Audigy Driver ? AUD_EAX4DRV_031031.exe (13.4 MB) Creative Audio HQ ? AHQ20031017.exe (6.84 MB) Creative PlayCenter ? PLC20031009.exe (21.6 MB) Creative Recorder ? CTREC20030910.exe (6.18 MB) Creative Taskbar ? TBAR20030910.exe (3.6 MB) This web update is for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP users only.

Creative Labs Asia has released a new driver update for their Audigy 2 lineup of soundcards. This driver update contains enhancements and fixes to improve the performance of your Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 or Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS product.

ATI just informed me that Catalyst 3.9 is now available for download. The package contains: Display driver: 6.14.10.6396 (XP/2K) Display driver: 4.14.01.9125 (ME/9x) Control panel: 6.14.10.5061 WDM Capture driver: 6.14.10.6217

Nvidia has released a new set of nForce drivers version 3.13 WHQL for Windows 2K/XP!

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I found that PowerVR has released the new set KYRO driver ver 2.1 (Build 2.01.21.0007) for Win9x/Me/2k/XP. Here is the link:

Download - Version: 2.1 (Build 2.01.21.0007)


My name is JUN, a guy from HongKong. :P

PowerVR released new generic drivers for their Kyro-1 and Kyro-2 VGA cards. Tagged as driver 2.1 (Build 2.01.21.0007) it is available for Win9x/W2K/XP and Linux. -> No words about improvements - maybe better game compatibility (I hope for EA games)

Available for download here