A couple of days ago nVidia released their much talked about ForceWare Release 80 graphics card driver to the world. The new nVidia ForceWare 81.84 BETA drivers offer such things as performance optimizations when using Dual-Core processors, mixed vendor support for SLI and Black and White 2 support. We examine the drivers in our typical fashion against the last official release driver, ForceWare 78.01. Do the new drivers give some more punch to nVidia?s current line-up of GPU?s? Read on for the answers!

Below are two views of the two 6600GT cards we got to work in SLI mode. It is nice that we can fit in the SLI bridge. The cards used are Gigabyte's and Pixeview's 6600GT.

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Realtek released version 3.77 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.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 81.84 for Windows 2000/XP and Windows XP 64bits!

NVIDIA nTune is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels. Overclock your system for highest performance or underclock it for near silent operation. All changes are performed within the Microsoft Windows interface ? enabling full functionality without the need to make changes in the BIOS and reboot your system.

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send word that they've snagged a Beta set of Nvidia ForceWare 81.40 Beta drivers for Windows 2000/XP! dated 16/08/2005. This set has the new nVidia Control Panel! All Cards Supported

It seems as the time for the new ForceWare 80 series has come. One 80er Beta ForceWare after the other finds its way into the world wide web. The word is that the new 80 series produce a performance increase up to 20% and some new features. But are these new features already integrated into the Beta drivers? This we want to find out in our actual driver-comaparison. We compared the 81.26 beta and 80.40 beta with the official ForceWare 78.01 WHQL. How the drivers performened on our Geforce 7800 GT you can read in our driver comparison.

mobilenvidia and Rewt were playing with FW 81.28 and discovered the new Control panel. This will probably become the replacement Control Panel, sometime in the 80's drivers.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 81.82 for Windows 2000/XP!

After intense tweaking and testing, WarAnakin brings you the XT version of the XG WarCats 5.9. This version is surpassing the XG WarCats 5.9 PRO in everything!

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send word that they've snagged a Beta set of Nvidia ForceWare 81.33 drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Windows XP 64bits! A modded inf (from Station-Drivers) is included to allow the use of these drivers with many more cards than they were released for! dated 16/09/2005

They are compatible with most current GeForce and Quadro graphics cards from NVIDIA starting at GeForce FX and thus making this a very interesting release. It will not work with the standard versions of Windows XP, so if you aren't using one of the WindowsXP 64 bit releases then don't even try these drivers.

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Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 81.26 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP! Dated August 26, 2005! Microsoft WHQL support for GeForce 6 and GeForce 7.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 77.79 WHQL for Windows XP MCE!

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

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send word that they've snagged a Beta set of ATi Catalyst 8.18 beta drivers, that were meant for ATi's upcoming R5XX series! A modded inf (from Station-Drivers) is included to allow the use of these drivers with many more cards than they were released for! dated 06/09/2005

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 78.05 Beta for Windows 2000/XP! Dated: September 26, 2005

Just a few days ago, a set of NVIDIA Forceware drivers were leaked on the internet. Now this is nothing new really, leaks of drivers are occuring so often it is nothing extraordinary. However, this new set of drivers, the 81.26 Beta Forware drivers, is the first set we see of the upcoming Forceware which will feature many new features such as individual card clocking in SLI mode and Dual Core CPU optimizations.

Well here it is version 2 of the 78.03-HD set. This set is aimed towards games such as BF2 and EQ2, games that just love to consume your gpu's Video Ram. Through extensive testing I have found that hitching or stuttering is mainly caused by games loading tons and tons of textures into your Video Cards Memory. We have changed a few things in the drivers to counter the hitching issue many users have experienced without lowering Image Quality even the slightest. Read on for a List of changes.

Compares Catalyst 5.6-5.9 along with DNA and Omega mods on an AMD Athlon64 machine with a X800XT.

Catalyst 5.9 Performance