TweaksRUs has released their tweaked version of NVIDIA's Forceware 81.98 WHQL. This time they included nHancer 1.2.2, hence the 'Plus'.

Nvidia has cleared us to release the registry fix information for their 80 series drivers with dual core support that disables this support so that there is no conflict with the Quake 4 1.05 beta patch.

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.13 for your download pleasure.

Catalyst® 5.13 software suite introduces H.264 hardware acceleration for the ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 product line. H.264 is advanced video coding that provides significant reduction in bit-rate compared to standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 products provide hardware acceleration for the playback of high-definition content that is encoded using H.264. Using the Catalyst® software suite 5.13, along with the Cyberlink H.264 decoder available from http://www.ati.com/technology/h264.html provides H.264 hardware acceleration.

On Nvidia's FTP server you can see a empty folder 82.12 We waiting for 81.98 and 82.12

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What has over 700 benchmarks, more then 30 graphs and takes a week to test? Give up already? Well don?t be lazy and read the title! It is a years worth of ATI Catalyst drivers, if you couldn?t be bothered moving your head a few degrees up.

ALI has a new integrated (All-in-One) driver package on their server . It includes chipset drivers (IDE/AGP) + Audio/LAN/USB and some more.

TweaksRUs has released the XTreme-G WarCat drivers for both 32 and 64 Bit Windows. The WarCat drivers are based on ATi's Catalyst drivers 5.12.

During our look at ATI's AVIVO technnology enablement in CATALYST 5.13, my biggest gripe was with the Canadian firm's decision to limit use of the AVIVO Video Converter application to only Radeon X1800 users, despite the software only using CPU power to deal with transcoding files.

Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, Avivo, in other words HDTV.

Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, Avivo, in othe words HDTV.

Here's the Beta version of Calalyst 5.13 drivers that are optimized for quality video playback, AVIVO, in othe words HDTV.

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

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."

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

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.

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.

The final ATI driver for 2005 is Catalyst 5.12 - we examine the performance as usual and find out if you should upgrade.

TweakTown

We take a look at how ATI's Catalyst performance changed over the years on a Radeon 9700 Pro.

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.

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