Join me as I discuss how anisotropic texture filtering works, before moving on to investigating what's up in the current drivers, followed by a look at what NVIDIA has done in a very recent driver build to fix one of their user-selectable quality modes.

The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with better performance and image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 78.01 WHQL Certified for Windows 2000/XP and for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition! Dated: September 2, 2005

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 78.03 Beta for Windows 2000/XP and for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition! Dated: September 2, 2005

This morning, TweaksRUs released two XTreme-G drivers sets; XG 77.56-HD based on nVidia Forceware 77.56 WHQL and XG 78.11-HD based on Forceware 78.11.

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A new folder has been created on nVidia's FTP. It seems the official 78.01 is coming very soon. Apparently it seems to fix the shimmering issue among the Geforce 7 series.

Realtek released version 3.76 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.

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:

A new week a new NVIDIA ForceWare driver release. This time is is version 78.01. The driver has been virus and pest checked and is 100% clean. Seems to be a good one.

This full driver includes updates and fixes for Sound Blaster X-Fi? on Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating systems. It may be used by those who may have misplaced the Sound Blaster X-Fi Installation CD.

Through Creative's Auto Update user can now download the new software that was earlier only avaible on newer cards like X-FI and Audigy 4. Now these new software are available for download on the Audigy 1 - 2 ZS including Media Source 3.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 78.11 for Windows 2000/XP! These Drivers come from Dell . A modded inf (from Pieter at LapTopVideo2Go) is included to allow the use of these drivers with many more cards than they were released for!

ATI has just released the latest Catalyst drivers for their Radeon series of graphics cards. The newest version includes a massive amount of fixes for games like Battlefield 2, GTA: Vice City, Quake 3 and Warcraft III but what about performance changes?

A new beta ForceWare driver has been leaked by OSNN. You have to install it manually through the Device Manager because of the Installer lack.

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.8 for your download pleasure.

This web release installs the Audio Console application for the following Creative Sound Blaster® series audio devices only:

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy®, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum and Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX series
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX and Value series
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro

Update: Some of you guy's have been trying to install this update on your XP x64 Bit OS? the link below is for Windows 2000/XP! Click Here for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

The Latest driver for the Creative Sound Blaster Live! Thanks to MajorGeeks.

The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and better image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.

Thanks to the very cool people in ATI.com they have agreed to let Driverheaven host Catalyst 5.8 CCC before they go live on www.ati.com on Wednesday.

There are three main differences between a VIA Hyperion 4in1 driver package and a VIA HyperionPro package, detailed below. All other recommendations remain.