Thanks to Dark Biene in our Forum for the Link! Neoseeker have thrown up their Preview of Forceware 56.56 Drivers.

One of the major features targeted at gamers in the 56.56 driverset is the inclusion of application specific profiles for games. What this allows is a different set of parameters to be launched with each particular game. For example, a user may want to play Call of Duty with 4x AA and 8x AF but would not want to do the same with Halo because AA / AF does not work properly with it.

Nvnews.net reports that Nvidia is planning to release a new set of WHQL ForceWare graphics drivers within the next couple of weeks. Referred to as the Release 55 drivers, version 56.56 was to have been posted today, but was delayed due to a bug that would have affected the performance of the new Unreal Tournament 2004 demo.

Update: I was just over at Gainward's ftp when I notice they have a Nvidia MCE Codec pack out! Date 17 feb 2004, I haven't download the pack and I don't know what's in it! but if your game here's the link and don't forget to report back?

Just a heads up for everybody that a little birdy tells me that Nvidia will be releasing Official ForceWare 55 graphics drivers today! Hehe I WONDER who's going to get them first?

BravoPunk send us the news that a new set of Nvidia WDM drivers has been released for Win2k/XP. We did not noticed the release before but BravoPunk found them in Nvidias driver archive. Release Date: 02/02/2004
Display Driver Version: 53.04
WDM Driver Version: 2.20
Size: 13,4 MB (international version)
Operating Systems: WinXP/2K
Read more for supported cards and download

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.

Thanks to Guru 3D for the Heads up!

These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers. The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI.

Just got word from Visionary over at VR-Zone that he's thrown up their Forceware 56.55 driver comparsion against Forceware driver 53.03 and using the following benchmarks 3DMark2001SE, UT2003, UT2004, SplinterCell , Quake III , Pixel Shader 2.0 test and Aquamark 3.

The Firing Squad have thrown up their Catalyst 4.2 Driver Report!

They tested Catalyst 4.1 against the newly released Catalyst 4.2 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.

M-Audio have released a new set of Revolution 7.1 Drivers version 1.0.2.8! Dated February 13, 2004

Our bro's over at Link-empire.com send news that they've snagged a new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 56.55 for Windows 2000/XP from Gainwards FTP and they are dated 01/29/2004! All Nvidia card supported.

Update: Thanks to DSC over at Nvnews forum for the info: New cards supported:

NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0326.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0343.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0344.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700VE

The new Omega Drivers for Windows 2k/XP/9x/ME based on the Official Catalyst 4.2 are out, go get them in my ATI downloads section. Make sure to see the Readme for Important Details! These are "optimized" drivers for the ATI Radeon family of video cards.

Just got word from Dreamer at SavageNews that he's snagged a new set of DeltaChrome Drivers v15.07.07.10 for windows XP.

Six games in this test, one based on DirectX 8 and the five others using the latest DirectX 9, view the list:

Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo, based DirectX version 8.1
Halo - Combat Evolved
Max Payne - The Fall of Max Payne
Need for Speed Underground Demo
X2 - The Threat Demo
Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

Today ATI released Catalyst 4.2 for your download pleasure.

Update: Zardon over at DriverHeaven tells me that there's a few more ATI surprises to come

This driver release supports Matrox Parhelia 128MB/256MB (AGP), Matrox Parhelia 256MB (PCI), Millennium P650 and Millennium P750 boards.

DriverHeaven have thrown up their Catalyst 4.1 Driver Round Up!

Neon Cowboy has done a roundup of the Catalyst 4.1 drivers including some not so well known modified sets such as the Asura set and the Neutral Catalyst set. Be assured the well known Omega's set is also included in this roundup.

Realtek have released new Drivers for ALC650 AC'97 Audio Codec , version Beta for windows 2003 server and XP 64-Bit Edition! Dated 2004/02/09.

Fudo over at The Inquirer is reporting that Nvidia will sooon be releasing Detonator 55 aka Forceware 2.0! as you all know it's been a bit quite on Detonator front as nvidia gears up for the release of their new NV40, NV41 and NV45 chipsets and the driver team have been busy making sure this set rocks with those chipsets as a few jobs rest on the launch! I bet The Inquirer don't have a set? Hehe

Planet AMD64 has launched a new download section with the latest Windows drivers for the AMD64 platform! the following section are now open:

Audio Drivers Video Drivers Storage drivers Chipset drivers LAN Driver

HighPoint have released a new windows 2003 AMD64 driver for the RocketRAID 1820 and a new SCO OpenServer driver v1.0 for the RocketRAID 1520.