Recently, we received a tip, some information claiming ATI's drivers exhibited some odd behavior in DOOM 3 and that the company might be compromising image quality for performance. What's more, this problem seemed to be specific to DOOM 3, raising the possibility that ATI was guilty of engaging in an application-specific optimization?a practice the firm has forsworn.

VolariGamers has laid their hands on the latest XGI beta Reactor driver for Volari, version 1.06.50. Keep in mind that it is a beta driver, so try it at your own risks. No word on what's new! The driver weighs 21,1 Mb and supports the following Windows versions : Win9X, ME, 2000 and XP. The supported boards are the Volari V5 Series, V8 Series, V3XT and Duo Series.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 65.73 WHQL from Fujitsu-Siemens for Windows 2000/XP! The files are dated August 2nd 2004! All Cards Supported.

Realtek have released new Drivers for the RTL8139 (A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series, version 6.16 for windows 98/ME/ 2000/XP! Dated 2004/08/23.

ATI have released two new driver updates for their HDTV Wonder and Remote Wonder

Last week ATI caused a stir in the enthusiast community by releasing a "Doom 3 Hotfix" driver labeled 4.9 BETA for users of Radeon graphics cards which promised increased OpenGL performance for the new game. They also released their official Catalyst 4.8 drivers which promise even more performance increases. Follow Shane over at TweakTown as he benchmarks all the new drivers and see all the results for yourself.

Follow this link for the NVIDIA ForceWare 66.00 2000/XP Download!. There is a new NVIDIA ForceWare driver available for Windows 2000 and XP. This driver is not WHQL certified, and are considerd beta! Release date: 08/12/2004 Note: Install the drivers via device manager! No setup executable! Use it at your own risk!

The Omega Drivers for Windows 2k/XP based on the Catalyst 4.8 are now up for download.

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Just got word from Maccell aka Italian Boy over at 3DFxzone.it that their new MesaFX 6.1: Voodoo 4/5 driver version 6.1.0.9 are out and are ready to test with Doom 3.

The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper functioning of the following features:

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!

3DChipset have thrown up a small comparison about Catalyst 4.7 and 4.8. Hope you can find what's improved! All in all, the performance increases are quite small to even bother upgrading. It's better to consider more if this new drivers help you resolving some bugs or other stability issues rather than speed.

Just got word that Knyz has posted a new version of the Spirit Driver. Spirit Driver V1.5 are based on Official Catalyst 4.8. Changelog :

ATi releases almost every month a new version of their Catalyst drivers. Often they improve the support for games or fix bugs, sometimes also the speed (unfortunately sometimes the improvements are cheats...). In this comparison we don't want to test the improvements in games or bug fixes, but the increase in speed with the newer versions. Beyond that we also tested the modded drivers Omega, DNA, Forsage, NGO and Unian, but not the beta-versions.

Dark-Tweaker have thrown up their benchies for Nvidia's latest Leaked ForceWare 65.62 Drivers plus a performance comparsion againist ForceWare 56.72 , 61.32 , 61.40 , 61.72 , 61.80, 62.01 and ForceWare 62.11.

Today ATI released Catalyst 4.8 for your download pleasure.

Fido over at The Inquirer reports the next generation Catalyst, possibly based on the 4.9 Catalyst Doom 3 booster, will come on September the second, The driver will have a whole new interface, very aesthetically designed with a side menu that awfully reminds us of Nvidia's.

From VIAArena

These drivers where posted one day early.
The latest VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers !!New!! Operating System WinME, Win2K, WinXP, Win Server 2003 (32 bit operating systems) VIA Chipset Any VIA chipset - but particularly recommended for KT4## series, P4X4## series and newer, for example: K7 chipsets: KT400, KT400A, KT600, KT880 K8 chipsets: K8T800, K8T800Pro P4 chipsets: P4X400, P4X400A, PT800, PT880 The correct driver HTTP Download FTP Download VIAHyperion4in1v4.53.zip VIAHyperion4in1v4.53.zip Notes: The difference between different versions of the VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers can be found by reading this release note file. The file is in word. Installation Guide Driver installation guide Release Date: 16 August 2004

Check out this screenshot of Multi GPU support in Forceware 65.62.

Just a quick update for you guy's that CATALYST 4.8 drivers should be released today!

Update: from Rage 3D, Just got off of the wire with Terry Makedon, aka CATALYSTmaker, in which it has been noted that ATi will be soon releasing their newest driver suite, CATALYST 4.8! Exact release date has yet to be announced, yet expect them to be ready for downloading early next week.