Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new set of ATI Catalyst Beta drivers in the shape of 4.6 Beta (8.02-040505) for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported. Click on Read More... for more information and a download link.

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:

The Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition software package provides support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays and redundant RAID 1 arrays on select Intel® 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows* XP or Windows 2000.

There are new drivers oficially released for the Volari family version number 1.04.51
Supposedly these drivers improve performance and image quality on Far Cry...

AC3Filter - it is DirectShow filter for AC3 decoding to play .AVI with AC3 audio tracks and MPEG2 (DVD). Distributed absolutely for free (FREEWARE, OpenSource).

The NGO Group updated their modified ATI driver (v1.4 Alpha)
NEW:
* Added Softmods (9500to9700 and 9800SEto9800XT)
* Added Support for IGP/Mobility/FireGL cards
* Added 3 sets of OpenGL Drivers for your selection (Avarage,Fast,Fastest)

click more for links and more information

Dark-Tweaker have thrown up their benchies for ATi's latest Catalyst 4.5 Drivers plus a performance comparsion againist DNA,Omega,NGO,UniAN,Forsage drivers based on Cat 4.5.

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! There's also a 64-bit edition available.

Realtek released version 3.59 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC650 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

AMDZone have thrown up their Performance figures for ATI's Catalyst windows XP 64-Bit edition Drivers!

Yesterday we were pleased to see ATI release Catalyst beta 1 AMD64 drivers for their Radeon line of video cards. Nvidia had beaten them to the punch, and only Windows drivers are available, but it is progress. Having tested the 64 bit UT2004 Linux demo with 64 bit Nvidia drivers we decided to see how well 32 bit games performed under the 64 bit OS and drivers. Armed with my eMachines M6805 laptop with Windows XP and Windows XP 64 loaded we were off.

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged 2 new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 60.85 for Windows 2000/XP and 60.86 for Windows 9X/ME! All Cards Supported

the most optimized driver for the OpenGL platform
has been updated. read more for release notes and known issues

This just in from my good mate Zardon over at DriverHeaven.

Just after chatting with Terry Makedon in ATI and he wanted me to pass on this information to the ATI community:

ATi has finally released a set of Catalyst windows XP 64-Bit Edition Driver version 8.01-040421a-015296E! Dated 05/20/04.

HighPoint has released new BIOS files and drivers for the HPT 374 RAID and the RocketRAID 404 - 454 version 3.04 for windows 98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP/2003. Download HighPoint Bioses and Drivers v3.04 for HPT 374 RAID Download HighPoint Bioses and Drivers 3.04 for RocketRAID 404 Download HighPoint Bioses and Drivers 3.04 for RocketRAID 454

ALI has a new integrated (All-in-One) driver package on their server .
It includes chipset drivers (IDE/AGP) + Audio/LAN/USB and some more .
Hit "Read More" for Link and driver version info !

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers sends word that there's a new Intel P4 Prescott driver out! version 5.1.2600.1331 for windows XP.

AMD have now posted a newer revision of the CPU Driver used with Windows XP after pulling their earlier May 04 offering.

Read More.

Here they are folks, a little late because of the MANY changes that have been made to this release, but worth the wait.

Nvidia has released 3 new sets of Forceware drivers for their range of workstation Quadro cards in the shape of 53.81 - 56.54 - 56.56 for windows 2000/XP! Dated 12th of May 2004.