Microsoft originally released Tweak UI as a value add tool with Windows 98. Since then, its popularity has grown and its usage expanded, and with it, its power as well. Today, Tweak UI is the best tweaking tool out there for the important changes, and Microsoft has refused to provide official support for it. While that is not an issue, i.e. there are hundreds of support websites on the web, the fact that Microsoft has not yet released a version compatible with the ever-growing true 64-bit PC's, starting with the AMD series and the upcoming Intel series.

There's a new beta of nHancer available. This test version adds support for the new anti-aliasing modes introduced with the 7800GTX (transparent AA and gamma corrected AA). In addition, the new options nVidia added to their profiles in the latest drivers are also supported now. This enables SLI users to fine tune games with the new OpenGL option bits and the new "Dynamic Tiling Mode" option.

nHancer 1.1.2 Beta

Freeware Cuttermaran is a cut program for MPEG1 or MPEG2 video streams. The streams can be cut without recalculation. The asynchronous between audio and video will be minimized.

Watch videos on your desktop PC, notebook PC, or HDTV without the annoying artifacts and imperfections of traditional PC-based video solutions. NVIDIA® PureVideo? technology delivers smooth HD video in all formats and with superb picture clarity. And the high-precision subpixel processing enables videos to be scaled to any size so that even small videos look like high-resolution videos.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

On MVKTech, NiBiTor v2.2a has just been released. A new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software is available as some fixes hd to be made... This tool allows users to tune and edit the NVIDIA GeForce BIOS. This to gain some extra performance and stability on the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

A collection of codecs for playing DivX movies. All you need to see DivX movies: DivX, XviD, AC3...

Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points.

Freeware QuickRip XP Professional is a fast and stable Audio CD ripper. It can encode audio CD's to some of the most popular formats like WAV, MP3, OGG, APE and WMA.

PowerStrip 3.61 has been released, with improved digital timing support for the ATI Radeons, and preliminary support for S3's new GammaChrome and NVidia's latest 7800GTS graphics controllers. Year after year, it continues to be the only program of its type to provide driver-independent hardware support to multiple graphics cards from multiple vendors, under every OS from the original retail release of Windows 95 to the latest 64-bit Edition of Windows XP.

Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It has a multilingual interface (supports 30 languages) and offers the most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.

Many OpenGL extensions, as well as extensions to related APIs like GLU, GLX, and WGL, have been defined by vendors and groups of vendors.The extension registry is maintained by SGI and contains specifications for all known extensions, written as modifications to the appropriate specification documents.

MultiRes is a small, free, 32-bit alternative to QuickRes, with refresh rate and multi-monitor support for up to nine display devices under Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP. This release of the award-winning utility includes improved scripting support for dynamic monitor arrays and support for fast user switching.

Freeware SubtitleCreator allows you to convert ASCII based text files in SubRip?s SRT or SUB format to the binary format expected by DVD authoring tools such as IfoEdit or ReJig.

RivaTuner is the most powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA display adapters running under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of the Detonator drivers. All versions of the Detonator drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don?t affect anything, but there are some that are very useful.

Ray Adams has released a new version of his tweaker for Radeon cards: ATI Tray Tools 1.0.2.705!

On MVKTech, NiBiTor has just been released. A new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software is available... This tool allows users to tune and edit the NVIDIA GeForce BIOS. This to gain some extra performance and stability on the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Central Brain Identifier 7.50 Final has been released! It has a lot of new features and improvements, including: ability to tune up speed parameters of the VIA V-Link interface for VIA KT266/A, KT333, KT400 and KT600 chipsets (you can easily change the speed rate, bus width, command priority, link disconnection and control its frequency boosting the link performance), option to set the Bank Interleave parameter for VIA KZ133, KT133A, KX133, KT266/A, KT333, KT400/A and KT600 chipsets, ability to enable/disable instruction sets, including MMX, 3DNow!, SSE2, Long Mode, NX-bit, etc.