Our German bro's over at ComputerBase.de have found a new optimization for anisotropic filtering in ForceWare 65.62, nVidia has added an option to their control panel! Here's a translation by Google.

yesterday we notices, there is a new optimization to admire in the driver menu, those the names ?Anisotropic SAM-polarizes Optimization? carries

Former NGO Driver author released new build of Optimized drivers for Counter-Strike (for the pros/dedicated players) read more for details and download links

IntelliPoint software enables you to customize the unique features of your Microsoft® mouse to fit your needs. With IntelliPoint mouse software, you can reassign each mouse button?including the wheel button?to perform a command or keyboard shortcut, like Undo, Close, or an application-specific function. You can also modify mouse settings, such as pointer speed and updated horizontal scrolling. IntelliPoint 5.2 even offers biometrics support for advanced identity management. If you have a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard, you will need to have Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed.

Our bro's over at Station-drivers send news that they've snagged a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 65.62 from Dell for Windows 2000/XP! The files are dated 26 July 2004! All Cards Supported after a ini alteration as these drivers were meant for Nvidia's Quadro series.

I've been talking back and forth to a driver tester for nVidia and he has spat back some results of a beta 65.xx driver that is in his possession. Now you can take this as a grain of salt or otherwise. I'm here to be the medium for him to share what his results are of this driver on his test system he uses for work. He also sent me 2 files along with the excel file of 3DMark03 and the results listed below. The 2 files are one from 65.05 DLL and the other from a pre-alpha 70.01 DLL. Check out the results of the 65.xx driver over the official 61.77 forceware driver:

I made a small analysis about DOOM3 and different ATI OGL implementations of the OGL driver. Hope you like it.

There has been quite a controversy about DOOM3 and ATI OpenGl drivers. We know already that the ATI driver is not up to par with NVIDIA?s best, kind of like the other side of the coin. The driver is functional, and lately it has become quite stable, but the performance has always been questioned.

Just got word that Radeonthetop has posted a new version of the Sprit Driver V1.4.1b based on the Catalyst 4.9 beta.

Realtek released version 3.62 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.

This driver is beta only. This package contains the drivers for Windows XP 64 and Windows Server 2003 64 bit only, supporting the components for K8T800, K8T800Pro and K8M800 including VT8237 South Bridge: : AC97 audio, RAID drivers and the RAID tool have all been updated. But don't get confused people! If you're not using a 64 bit operating system, these are not for you!

Just got word that Radeonthetop has posted a new version of the Sprit Driver V1.4b based on the Catalyst 4.9 beta.

The Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Edition software package provides support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays and redundant RAID 1 arrays on select Intel® 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows* XP or Windows 2000.

ATI is providing an early version of CATALYST 4.9 to users interested in increasing performance of Doom 3.

Computer Base are reporting that ATI will add suport for Doom3 in Catalyst 4.9, which are in an alpha stage and should be out in the middle of September ! as the sites in german here's a translation by Google

Intel Network driver V9.0 Final is out.... Intel® PRO Network Adapters base drivers only for Windows* 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

Just got a Word that Radeonthetop has posted an update of their driver comparison including the new Spirit Driver V1.3 which is based on the Beta Catalyst 4.8 Driver comparison

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 5.50a number and works on Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP.

They also tell they have a new set of VT64xx Raid series & VT8237 SATA RAID drivers v3.10e.

Realtek have released new Drivers for the RTL8139 (A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series, version 6.15 for windows 98/ME/ 2000/XP! Dated 2004/07/28.

Creative have updated their Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS driver to v5.12.01.444! Dated: 29/07/2004. This update combines the features and fixes of two previous updates:

4.0 ADVANCED HD Driver Patch Update for Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS (released on 29 March 2004) 4.0 ADVANCED HD Driver Update for Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS (released on 19 November 2003)

Dark-Tweaker have thrown up their benchies for ATi's latest Catalyst 4.8 Beta 8.04 Drivers plus a performance comparsion againist Catalyst 4.6 , and Catalyst 4.7.

ATi have released Catalyst 4.7 for Windows 98/ME! Dated 07/27/04.