The Great DOOM3 and ATI OpenGl Drivers Controversy

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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.

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.62

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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.

VIA Hyperion Pro 64 0.99 Beta Drivers

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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!

Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 4.5.0.6515

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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.

Catalyst 4.9 Beta out...

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

Catalyst 4.9 brings support for Doom 3

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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

Driver Comparison Update

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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

New VIA Audio Drivers

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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.

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS Driver Update v5.12.01.444

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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)

ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide

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TweakGuides have thrown up their latest guide that looks at tweaking your ATI Catalyst Drivers!

The ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide - an ambitious guide which covers everything from optimizing graphics-related BIOS settings, through to clean installation of the Catalysts, detailed descriptions and recommendations for every setting in the ATI Control Panel, how to access and tweak hidden registry settings for your ATI graphics card, and finally some information on overclocking and benchmarking. It should be the single source for all your ATI graphics card optimization needs.

Official NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77 WHQL

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NVIDIA has now released their newest set of drivers, just a few days after their last official release, with the 61.77 Forceware drivers.

Catalyst 4.8 Beta 8.04

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Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send news that they've snagged a new set of Catalyst Drivers in the shape of 4.8 Beta 8.04 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported Radeon 7xxx/8xxx/9xxx/X8XX

dgVoodoo 1.30 available

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The new dgVoodoo, version 1.30, is now available for download on VolariGamers. DgVoodoo is the ONLY Glide wrapper available which allows you to play Glide-based games on any DirectX 7 capable video card, and works for BOTH Windows and DOS games. This allows you to play all-time classics such as Tomb Raider, GTA, Red Baron 3D, UT or Carmaggeddon in Glide mode.