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.
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.
Alexey, (Rivatuner programmer) replaced his 9800PRO with a GeForce FX5950 in his primary PC to add some ForceWare 56.xx specific things to upcoming RivaTuner 2.0 RC15. He was rather disappointed when he saw that annoying image sharpening bug is still not fixed in the control panel. Funny as Alexey can get irritated by these things, and he did ...So he decided to fix it himself.
Creative have released some Beta Creative 64-Bit Audio Driver For SoundBlaster Live/Audigy/Audigy 2 Series for Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Operating Systems February 24, 2004
Realtek released version 3.56 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC650 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.
Is available to download a new driver set called UniAN, Unified Asura-Neutral.
Luciferl, coder of Neutral Catalyst and Asura, coder of Asura Catalyst (a driver with great performance released only in Korea), worked together to release this complete package based on Catalyst 4.2.
Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new sets of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 53.81 for Windows 2000/XP for the following Mobile cards GeForce FX Go 5650 - Quadro FX Go 700/1000.