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.
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 5.10C number and works on Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP.
US Robotics has released new drivers (v. 5.0j) for their USR805416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter.
What's New: 1) Improved connection reliability due to random losses in wireless signal strength. 2) Enhanced support for Hyper-Threading and dual processor computers. 3) Enhanced stability on certain systems that experience blue screen (NMI or parity) errors on shutdown.
The information in this article applies to the following:CATALYST 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 Display Drivers Upon making changes to certain monitor calibration software, the gamma settings will not be applied or loaded for the display. Color and gamma profiles for third party applications and games are also affected.
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy2, Audigy2 ZS Newest YouP-PAX ZS Driver ver. 1.2 for Win98SE/ME/XP/2003 (released on 4/12/2004). This package includes official 5.12.01.0443 and YouP-PAX ZS Optimized for audio quality driver based on 5.12.01.0443 core.
New MesaFX 6.1 is online! This new dll contains a rewrited T&L ENGINE, with a good 5%-8% in speed improvement. The package, as always,includes (in Voodoo2 dir) a specific file for Voodoo2 users: a Glide3x for Win9x/me - Win2k - WinXP and FXmemmap for win9x/ME user only. Another Glide3x (in the root) should be used for voodoo 3/4/5 User.
Omega today released some new Omega drivers for the ATi catalyst 4.4
Is this soon enough? The new Omega Drivers for Windows 2k/XP based on the Official Catalyst 4.4 are ready for download, go get them in my ATI Radeon section
AMD-Insight.de have thrown up their Catalyst 4.4 Driver Comparison! They tested Catalyst 3.0 to 4.3 against the newly released Catalyst 4.4 using the following benchmarks 3D Mark 2003, Aquamark 3.0 , Call of Duty, Serious Sam 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Comanche 4.
I would like to thank Terry Makedon (Senior Software Manager at ATi). He gave me the opportunity to test the drivers before the official release.
Look like Xaero001 has released his new StarStorm 56.72 Forceware based off the Official WHQL Nvidia 56.72's. He has released the X/XQ/B versions for 2K/XP and is due to release his StarStorm 57.30 64-bit Forceware soon.
Nvidia released seperate ide and audio drivers instead of providing a unified package. Plus they provided a sleek new installer that lets you select which drivers you want to install. This package also includes the better network drivers then the official. Newer Gart drivers then in the official UDP and newer SMBus drivers that have been obtained from leaked packages.
TechConnect reports that we just got some information about a new Forceware driver 60.30 for Win2000/XP. This one has been built for PCI Express, but is backwards compatible for all other cards. This driver should also include some performance enhancements and minor fixes. We still havent got our hands on the driver, but maybe soon....