ATI Catalyst vs NVIDIA ForceWare - The Bare Necessities

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We often talk about ATI vs NVIDIA in terms of hardware, or in somewhat abstract terms about their driver quality and performance, but this article takes things one step further, by putting ATI's Catalyst and NVIDIA's ForceWare drivers head-to-head in a series of tests, mainly designed around their speed and useability in every day tasks.

Elite Bastards

ForceWare 76.10

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Originating from ELSA, this is ForceWare 76.10 !! These drivers are date stamped at the 24th of February 2005 making them the absolute newest set to date.

Judging from the .inf files about almost any GeForce card is supported. This could be the next NVIDIA official driver from the looks of it.

Update: From 3DChipset:

Splinter Cell (Chaos Theory demo) lightning bug is fixed Shiny grass in Counter Strike is fixed Temperature bug is fixed

Catalyst 5.3 Out

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Today ATI released Catalyst 5.3 for your download pleasure.

YouP PAX VI v.2.0 for SBLive! only

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YouP-PAX VI v.2.0 is based on the official 5.12.04.0291 version of driver associated with the Live! Benefit Special Edition. It supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Window Server 2003, Longhorn operating systems. Though modification, it supports all series of SoundBlaster Live! sound cards (excluding the Dell 0200 version) and with Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and English installation and driver nterfaces.

ATI Optimized Driver v2.1 by NGO

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This driver has been created by ATI Corporation and Modified by NGO.

We designed this driver to provide the maximum performance and Quality.

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.70 whql

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Realtek released version 3.70 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC850 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

ForceWare 71.90 WHQL

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Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 71.90 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported including the Quadro Series! Dated 27th of January 2005

Thanks to Station-Drivers.com

Xtreme G 71.84 Release

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The New Xtreme G Drivers based on the Forceware 71.84 Beta's has just been released. You can obtain the drivers HERE Along with the release notes.

ATI Catalyst 5.2 (8.102) WHQL

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Just got word from our bro's over at Station-Drivers.com that they've snagged a new set of Catalyst Drivers version 5.2 (6.14.10.6512) with control Center : 1.1.1858.40280 for Windows XP/2000! Dated 17/02/2005!

Forceware 71.84 Beta

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Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 71.84 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported including the Mobile and Quadro Series! Dated 24th of Ferbruary 2005

Thanks to Station-Drivers.com

ForceWare Driver 75.90 Performance Comparison

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Just got word that Origo3D have thrown up their ForceWare 75.90 Driver Comparisons!

They tested ForceWare 75.90 against ForceWare 71.50 ,71.25 ,71.80, 71.81 and 67.71 using a Geforce 6800 Ultra and using the following benchmarks Half Life 2 , Farcry, Doom 3, Aquamark 3, Futuremark 3D Mark 2005 120.

Forceware 75.90 Beta

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Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 75.90 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported! Dated 10th of Ferbruary 2005

Thanks to Station-Drivers.com

Xtreme G 71.81

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Here it is folks the new Xtreme G Drivers based on the 71.81 drivers. This is the Xtreme G driver for Windows 2000/XP (ForceWare modified drivers) which includes many performance and Image Quality tweaks.