OnlyNewZ has tested the drivers now in 3DMark 2005, CounterStrike Source and in Doom 3. They had several bugs and NGO updated their drivers to fix some issues. Like the major bug in Doom 3. Check out the results and stay tuned for an update!

OSNN.net after a full week of abuse from teenagers I have succumbed and decided to release the NVIDIA Forceware 70.41 to tide you over until a release that may or may not currently be under WHQL testing.

All nVidia cards are supported in this release dated: October 9, 2004

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!

Guru of 3D have put several ForceWare series 6 drivers to the test.

Armed with a 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 rig with GeForce 6800 GT PCI-Express they tested nVIDIA's ForceWare 61.77, 61.82, 62.20, 65.73, 66.29, 66.51 and of course the new 66.81 drivers with titles like SplinterCell, Far Cry, 3DMark05 Unreal Tournament 2004, Halo and of course Doom3.

Since future OmegaDrivers will not include few builds of OpenGL drivers and there is few incompatibles
with the new ATI drivers and CCC. but The NGO Group wont leave you behind!
Introducing new version of the fastest ATI modified driver around:

This driver is beta only. This package contains the drivers for Windows XP 64 and Windows Server 2003 64 bit only, supporting the components for K8T800, K8T800Pro and K8M800 including VT8237 South Bridge: : AC97 audio, RAID drivers and the RAID tool have all been updated. But don't get confused people! If you're not using a 64 bit operating system, these are not for you!

Realtek High Definition Audio System Software R1.09 for ALC880, ALC260, ALC861 chipsets released.

WDM driver for Win2000/WinXP : 5.10.0.5033
Realtek Soundman : 1.0.0.14
Realtek Sound Effect Manager(CPL) : 1.0.0.5
Realtek Sound Effect Manager(RtlCpl) : 1.0.1.33

Nvidia have released a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 66.81 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP! The files are dated October 19, 2004! The driver is compatible with ALL NVIDIA graphics cards.

Well, some of you may say is a miracle, but is true, the Nvidia Omega Drivers based on the official 61.77 drivers are ready.

What's New? (2k/XP 1.6177)

Just got the information that a new set of ATI Catalyst Drivers have been posted on ATI website. New Features: Enhanced Rotation Support for Extended Desktop View The CATALYST(tm) Software Suite 4.10 provides support for Rotation mode in extended desktop view. Currently rotation hotkeys are implemented for simultaneous view but are disabled when the system is in extended desktop mode. This feature will be supported under the Windows XP operating system and is supported on all currently shipping ATI Desktop products. Read more

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:

Thanks to Guru 3D for the heads up!

Well, don't you ever say we stopped supporting 3dfx ! For the few of you still running them, we can offer you new 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 alpha 14 SFFT drivers. Oh and hey .. SFFT is not a technical term, no it's the makers -> SuperFurryFlurryThing or something like that.

The New Nvidia drivers have just been released, but are they worth downloading? The NVidia Forceware 66.82 WHQL drivers have just been released. We decided to run some benchmarks and try them. We ran two games: Doom 3 and CS Source.

Thanks to Cellar_Dweller and all the other Guy's for the heads up that Nvidia have released a new set of official WHQL 61.82 ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP!

A new set of nForce1/2 Win2k/XP AUDIO drivers has been leaked. These are newer then the drivers in the latest official 5.10 pack from nVidia. Audio version 4.54 and nVMixer version 4.48 has been through limited testing by the nForcersHQ forum members, and so far there is no complaints. The driver was released by a forum member "Pav" and the driver is set to be originated from an OEM FTP.

nforcershq.com

ATi has released a new beta driver for the A64 and Windows 64 bit OS.

XGI Volari Reactor driver 1.06.57 (beta) has been leaked and is now available for download. The driver supports the Volari V5, V8 and XT models.
Supported OS are Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/XP64.
This driver improves Doom III gameplay.

New Volari V3 drivers are now available, driver 1.06 WHQL.
The driver only weighs 4,24 Mb and supports Win9x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. There is no word on what's new in this new driver set.

Cornelious0_0 over at [H]ardOCP's Forum has thrown up his 3DMark05 Forceware Comparison!

That's right guys, you guessed right, I'm back in action.....this time with 3DMark05. I just finished downloading it myself and have yet to run it.....but starting tonight I'm going to be running 3DMark05 through with all 30 or so releases of the 60series Forceware drivers.....just to give a wide range of numbers....to see how one might expect certain drivers to react, and because I've got nothing better to do then pump you guys full of numbers.

TechSpot's Drivers section that opened last year has now over 2,000 files listed and it's now being updated on a daily basis, during the last 48 hours for example, They have listed new BIOS updates for MSI, AOpen and Gigabyte motherboards. Then of course you'll be able to find much more, from videocard and soundcard drivers, to network adapters and firmware for optical devices.