Nordic Hardware have news that Creative released a new driver patch for their Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS sound cards! after checking Creative's site , I've not been able to locate the Driver Patch! if you have better luck can you please post a link to the patch in the comments section! Thanks

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Update 1: Thanks Mertsch for the Audigy 2 Update Mirror

Update 2:Thanks to dvdkingdom for the heads up!

Creative has also released an update for Audigy1 series cards, but it is only downloadable through autoupdate. Here is the name autoupdate uses "AUD_WEBUP_PCWDRV_1-84-40.exe" this file is 6.44MB file date same as Audigy2.

Just got word that the Software Mod For Turning Your Radeon 9500 Non-Pro Into A 9700 , 9800SE and 9800 PRO guide has been updated for combination with the Catalyst 4.3 drivers! If the softmod succeeds your card will behave exactly like a 9700 and 9800 PRO (8 pipelines, 256bit bus) card.

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 56.63 for Windows 2000/XP for the following Geforce cards Tnt/Geforce FX / Quadro Series and the following Mobile cards GeForce2/GeForce4 4xx Go/FX Go5xxx!

The DefilerPak is a minimalist collection of video and audio codecs designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments.

What's included?

- ffdshow: It has its flaws, but it's still the best and most versatile MPEG-4 decoder out there.
- AC3Filter: Decodes AC-3 audio streams.
- CoreAAC DirectShow filter: Decodes AAC audio streams.
- CoreVorbis: Decodes Vorbis audio streams.
- Ogg DirectShow filter: Enables support for .OGM containers.
- Matroska DirectShow filter: Supports the powerful new Matroska A/V container format.
- VSFilter: Supports a wide variety of subtitle formats.
- DivX ;-) Audio - Just in case.

VIA released this month three new driver updates for VT8231, VT8233, VT8235, VT8237, VT6105M, VT6105, VT6105L and VT6105LOM Ethernet/LAN/Networking products. The drivers support Microsoft Windows 9X range, 2K/NT/XP/Unixware/FreeBSD/Linux/Lan Server DOS and LANTASTIC. There is no changelog available at this moment.

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 54.01 for Windows 2000/XP for the following Mobile cards GeForce4 448Go - GeForce FX Go 5200/ 5600/ 5700! Thanks DB

ASUS released a bunch of new bios updates for several mainboards: ASUS P4V800-X/ASUS P4P8X/ASUS P4P8X-SE/ASUS P4P800S-E Deluxe/ASUS P4P800-SE.

Realtek has released a new WHQL certified driver for windows 2000 and XP aswell. Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series Drivers 6.11

Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this aticle posted over at NVPlanet.

If you want to test out the new nVMixer on Windows XP 32-bit, then this is for you. We made a package available that includes the latest audio drivers from Windows Update and the nVMixer from the 64-bit nForce drivers set released today and tried it out on XP 32-bit.

Thanks to Garikfox in our forum for the heads up! that Nvidia have released new Forceware 64Bit 57.30 & nForce 64Bit 4.34a Drivers

The latest 64-bit Windows IDE driver for the SiI3x12 SATA Controller chip version 1105! Dated 3/18/2004.

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Omega today released some new Omega drivers for the ATi catalyst 4.3

Sorry for the delay, ATI changed the code at the last moment and I had to do some testing again. The new Omega Drivers for Windows 2k/XP based on the Official Catalyst 4.3 are ready for download, go get them in my ATI Radeon section

Thanks to Guru 3D for the Heads up!

These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers. The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI.

Just got word that Station Drivers have snagged the latest Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Drivers v5.12.6.402 for windows 2000/XP from Compaq

The Firing Squad have thrown up their Catalyst 4.3 Driver Report!

They tested Catalyst 4.2 against the newly released Catalyst 4.3 using the following Radeon cards 9800 XT , 9800 Pro 128 MB, 9700 Pro, 9600 Pro, 9500 Pro, 9500, 8500 and using the following benchmarks NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, Quake III: Arena version 1.32, Unreal Tournament 2003, IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles, Splinter Cell and Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness.

NTCompatible.com reports that Matrox has released new Matrox Parhelia beta drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Matrox Parhelia BETA drivers 16 Mar 04
Windows 2000 and Windows XP driver
File Name: Release Date: Version: Size:
2kxp_106_beta_dx9.zip Mar 16, 2004
1.06.00.99 Beta DX9 9.41 MB

Station-Drivers reports that VIA Tech has released new drivers for the internal AC97 sound in their chipsets i.e. south bridges T82C686x , VT8231 , VT8233x , VT8235 and VT8237. The version carries the 5.10b number and works on Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP.

TCMagazine have got their hands on a new Forceware driver version 56.82 from Toshiba/nVidia and have modified it to work on all nVidia videocards from TNT upto GeForceFX

Nvidia just released a new set of ForceWare Drivers for your download pleasure.
All operating systems are supported. The Nvidia Website hasn´t updated yet but we have a official pressrelease which announced this drivers for today, also a huge list of improvements is included.

Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 53.82 for Windows 2000/XP for the following Mobile cards GeForce FX Go 5650 - Quadro FX Go 700/1000.

The korean site DarkCrow have thrown up their Catalyst 4.3 benchmarks. The performance improvement of the new ATI drivers is as high as 19%! you can also check out Dark Tweaker's comparsion Here.