Realtek released version 3.73a 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.
Now we can present the bigest drivers comparison that was ever made on 3DChip. We have testet 7 ForceWare drivers in two conduits with the single GPU and SLI GPU power in one review with 420 benchmark results! We have tested the ForceWare v.71.89, v.73..00 Beta, v.76.44 Beta, v.76.50 Beta and the newer v.77.13 Beta, 77.62 Beta and the new ForceWare 77.72 from nVIDIA. Whitch driver is the best in single and SLI perfornace? Get the information in our newest driver's comparisonon on 3DChip.
These drivers are based on the Cat 5.6 (Cat 5.5 where skipped) and they now include a customized version of ATI Tray Tools instead of Radlinker. Go to the ATI Radeon section and take a look at the readme while downloading so you know the latest changes and additions to this set.
As you know ATI has released the Catalyst 5.6 driver for the Microsoft Windows x64 platform, unfortunately this driver only supports Radeon 9500 and above. Have no FEAR! The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is here with support for ALL desktop and mobile radeon cards.
If you were using Logitech MouseWare with a Cordless Click! or a Cordless Click! Plus mouse, installing SetPoint on top of MouseWare will transfer control of your mouse from MouseWare to SetPoint. MouseWare will no longer recognize your mouse. If you were only using one mouse with MouseWare, you can now uninstall MouseWare and use SetPoint!
The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and a better image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.
Today, NVIDIA announce that the 6600 will be able to run in SLI. It wouldn't be difficult to guess that both cards do not need any BRIDGE to interconnect the cards to run in SLI mode.
Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 77.72 for Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP and for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition! Dated: June 22, 2005
The sad news, the old control panel as we know it will cease to exsist after August ! The 8.16 driver is the last one with the old control panel. Starting at 8.17 only the CCC version will be released. And thuss all next generation products will need to be configured through the CCC.
HEXUS have managed to get a peek at the latest Catalyst Report from ATI, which gives us the rundown on what's happened so far and, more importantly, what Catalyst has got up it's sleeve in the future.