ATI's Avivo Update - H.264 Acceleration

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ATI promised us H.264 decode acceleration, offloading some of the most CPU intensive tasks for media PCs today onto their brand new GPUs. ATI also alluded to a transcode utility, which would aid in the conversion between video formats and potentially even accelerating it on the GPU as well.

AnandTech

Catalyst 5.13: ATI's Video Domination?

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ATI owners (and prospective owners) must have been good this year because Santa has brought the thirteenth Catalyst driver release of 2005. With this new version, ATI claims that they've raised the bar in video performance and set the stage for worldwide "video dominATIon."

ATI's AVIVO Technology, Part Deux - CATALYST 5.13

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Last week in London, ATI gathered members of the press to show off what will be ATI's final driver release of 2005 - CATALYST 5.13. The name of the game with this driver set is improvements and additions to ATI's video processing abilities, in line with their AVIVO technology. Elite Bastards was there to take a look at what was on show.

EliteBastards

Catalyst 5.12 Dual-Core Optimisations

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Today we are taking a short look at a feature included in ATI's Catalyst 5.12 drivers - Dual Core optimisations. The article also includes a Q+A session with Phil Rogers. Phil is ATI's senior software architect and as a whole it makes for very interesting reading.

Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.87 (Cat 5.12)

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This one didn't took long! :D My new Omega Drivers based on the Cat 5.12 are ready! Go to the ATI Radeon section and take a look at the Readme while downloading so you know the latest changes, additions to this set and some important notes or warnings.

Catalyst 5.13 Next Week

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The driver isn't just bug-fixes and X1600 support, but rather has some interesting features to boot. When we talked to the father of Catalyst suite, we learned that the goal of 5.13 is being a "video driver" and bringing a lot of AVIVO marchitecture to life.

TheInquirer

ATI Catalyst 5.12 Released

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The new set of drivers for ATi- powered graphic cards is finally out! Version 5.12 brings some nice fat improvements in performance. Read more for the Changelog and Download links.

Nvidia Unified (nforce 2/3/4) 8.22

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This driver set was assembled (remixed) by our forum user HLH & semi-forum user Squall and have been tested on NFORCE 2 and 4 platforms. It contains all of the latest drivers, install at YOUR OWN RISK of course.

Guru of 3D

Logitech SetPoint 2.47

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If you were using Logitech MouseWare with a Cordless Click! or a Cordless Click! Plus mouse, installing SetPoint on top of MouseWare will transfer control of your mouse from MouseWare to SetPoint. MouseWare will no longer recognize your mouse. If you were only using one mouse with MouseWare, you can now uninstall MouseWare and use SetPoint!

Catalyst 5.12 More Dual Core Friendly?

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Friday afternoon we got an email pointing us to the latest beta driver from ATI. One of the key features of this driver is a performance boost for dual core systems. Building a driver to take advantage of parallel processing is quite a task, and extracting any noticeable performance gain out of it is even more difficult. So we are here today to see just what ATI has gotten out of their efforts thus far.

Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.83 (Catalyst 5.11)

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Ok, it took me a little while cause I was beta testing something new for this release and I wanted to make sure it worked. Now all the work is done and my new Omega Drivers based on the Cat 5.11 are ready for public release!

Realtek AC97 Driver v3.80

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Realtek released version 3.80 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.

XG WarCat 5.11 XT

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Today TweaksRUs releases, the long awaited, XG WarCat 5.11 XT , tweaked ATI display driver .

VIA HyperionPro 5.06A

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

Official Forceware 81.95 WHQL

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Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 81.95 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP and Windows XP 64bits!