ATI released a new set of drivers for their Radeon based graphics cards. The new 9.3 Cats are available for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

* Lost Planet: Colonies – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series, and performance gains of up to 50% were seen on the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4500 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 4300 Series of products
* Unigine Tropics Demo DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 – performance gains of up to 20% were seen on ATI CrossFireX configurations using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series of products
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New Features

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – the industries first Unified graphics driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

* AMD has delivered a single unified graphics driver for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista – demonstrating AMD’s Windows 7 graphics driver leadership and focus on delivering a stable and robust Windows 7 experience on AMD hardware
* Delivers full WDDM 1.1 support under Windows 7 on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products
* All future ATI Catalyst postings will deliver one single unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
o Please note that the AVIVO Video Converter is not currently supported under Windows 7

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements

* Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages

As of ATI Catalyst 9.3 and future ATI Catalyst releases, the AMD Windows Vista HDMI audio driver is automatically included

* The HDMI audio driver will only be installed if the AMD graphics accelerator has an HDMI display connector and there is no 3rd party HDMI audio driver installed.

Download:

ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Windows XP 32-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Windows XP 64-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Vista | Windows 7 64-bit
ATI Catalyst 9.3 WHQL Vista | Windows 7 32-bit

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NVIDIA released yet anotehr nForce driver, this time for another set of NFORCE motherboards. This is WHQL driver 15.25. NVIDIA released a new driver package for their nForce motherboard series. The new binaries include:

Driver Versions:

* Ethernet Driver (v67.89) WHQL
* Network Management Tools (v67.96) “Sedona”
* SATAIDE Driver (v10.3.0.46) WHQL
* SATARAID Driver (v10.3.0.46) WHQL
* RAIDTOOL Application (v10.3.0.46)
* SMU Driver (v1.61) WHQL
* SMBus Driver (v4.69) WHQL
* Away Mode Driver (v6.0.6000.107) WHQL
* Installer (v6.69)

Product Supported:

* nForce 790i Ultra SLI
* nForce 790i SLI
* nForce 780i SLI
* nForce 750i SLI
* nForce 740a SLI
* nForce 710a SLI
* nForce 680i SLI
* nForce 680a SLI
* nForce 680i LT SLI
* nForce 650i SLI
* nForce 650i Ultra
* nForce 590 SLI Intel
* nForce 590 SLI AMD
* nForce 570 SLI Intel
* nForce 570 SLI AMD
* nForce 570 Ultra AMD
* nForce 550

Download:

NVIDIA nForce 15.25 WHQL Vista 32-bit
NVIDIA nForce 15.25 WHQL XP 32-bit
NVIDIA nForce 15.25 WHQL XP 64-bit
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NVIDIA released a new driver package for their nForce motherboard series. The new binaries include:

Windows Vista 32-bit Driver Versions:

* Ethernet Driver (v67.89) WHQL
* Network Management Tools (v67.96) “Sedona”
* SATAIDE Driver (v10.3.0.46) WHQL
* SATARAID Driver (v10.3.0.46) WHQL
* RAIDTOOL Application (v10.3.0.46)
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* SMBus Driver (v4.69) WHQL
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* nForce 980a
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* nForce 730a – GeForce 8300/8200
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* nForce 630i/GeForce 7150
* nForce 630i/GeForce 7100
* nForce 610i/GeForce 7050

Download:

NVIDIA nForce 15.26 WHQL International XP 32-bit
NVIDIA nForce 15.26 WHQL International XP 64-bit
NVIDIA nForce 15.26 WHQL International Vista 64-bit
NVIDIA nForce 15.26 WHQL International Vista 32-bit

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Microsoft has released a Release Candidate (RC) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Note that this RC release incorporates both Vista SP2 and Windows 2008 SP2 in one package, and that it also says it’s still a Beta when in reality the file is the RC version.

The notable changes in Vista SP2 RC are detailed here. To Download Service Pack 2 Click here.
The release date for the final version of SP2 has not been confirmed but it is due before the end of June 2009.

Notable Changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 RC and Windows Vista SP2 RC:

Microsoft® continuously improves the Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008 operating systems by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to help them deliver improved compatibility, reliability, and performance. These updates are provided to customers by Microsoft’s hardware and software partners, as well as directly from Microsoft in the form of regularly distributed updates delivered via Windows Update. Updates to Windows are also delivered directly to some affected customers and preinstalled by PC manufacturers.

Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 are updates to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that address feedback from our customers and partners. By providing these fixes integrated into a single service pack, which will be thoroughly tested by Microsoft and by industry partners and customers during the RC cycle, Microsoft provides a single high-quality update that minimizes deployment and testing complexity for customers.

In addition to all previously released updates, SP2 will contain changes focused on supporting new types of hardware and adding support for several emerging standards. SP2 will also continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage large installations of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Setup prerequisites

There are only two prerequisites for installing SP2:

Your operating system, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista must have Service Pack 1 installed.

NVIDIA issued a new WHQL release GeForce driver today. This is a WHQL driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

New in Release 182.08:

* Added support for GeForce GTS 250.
* Added SLI profile support for some newly released games.
* Additional information on specific bug fixes can be found in the release documentation notes.

New in Release 182 Drivers:

* Recommended for the best experience in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
* Boosts performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 182 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
o Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.
o Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
o Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.
o Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.
o Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.
* Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
* Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.

Download:

GeForce ForceWare 182.08 WHQL Vista (32-bit)
GeForce ForceWare 182.08 WHQL Vista (64-bit)
GeForce ForceWare 182.08 WHQL XP (64-bit)
GeForce ForceWare 182.08 WHQL XP (32-bit)

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Last year  some changes for Windows Vista that were released with SP1. Those changes included an update for Windows Vista users which helps detect the presence of activation exploits, then alerts the customer (if affected) and provides some guidance and a Web link to learn more about what can be done to fix it.

I’m excited to announce that beginning this week, and over the next several weeks depending on where you are, we will be releasing an update to that particular technology to help Windows Vista Ultimate Edition based systems detect the presence of additional activation exploits, namely the activation exploit commonly referred to as the ‘SoftMod hack’. We’re releasing this update to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition only at this time and only to systems with English as their primary language. As I’ve said before, we continuously evaluate the risk each reported hack poses to our customers, our partners and the protection of Microsoft’s intellectual property; then we plan our activities accordingly.

Below is a screenshot showing what a user would see on a system that has detected the SoftMod activation exploit.

AMD has just released ATI Catalyst version 9.2.

Catalyst™ 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:

* Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
* Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
* World in Conflict gains up to 5% .

Now the new driver also enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications in Windows Vista and fixes some minor issues that occured in previous versions.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

* Catalyst Control Center now enables Anisotropic Filtering for DirectX 10 applications.
* Resolved Catalyst Control Center displaying the following warning message “The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version.”
* Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager correctly shows connected monitor maximum refresh rates
* Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are retained on system restart
* Minor screen corruption no longer occurs at the top left of some Samsung panels when connected to ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
* In Call of Duty 4, some intermittent game corruption no longer occurs when soften smoke edges is enabled
* Resinstalling the display driver using the INF method on a multi-display (ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870) system does not cause the operating system to fail
* Resolved minor flickering in the playback of a Blu-ray title that may be noticed when moving to the extended desktop
* Catalyst Control Center, Crossfire Overdrive, changing the GPU Clock and Memory Clock from the default settings no longer causes a failure in the Test Custom Clocks test
* With Anti-Alias enabled Doom3 no longer intermittently fails to start on some Crossfire systems
* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars corruption observed in the globe in the main menu no longer occurs
* The display driver no longer fails to load on some systems with more than 8 GB of system RAM
* Catalyst Control Center, some HDMI monitor are not longer incorrectly reported back as DVI
* Resolved video displaying in black and white when playing back high bitrate AVCHD files
* Playing back some Blu-ray content with video acceleration disabled on Cyberlink Power DVD_Cinema no longer results in no video rendering
* Fixed H.264 videos not rendering (black video) when Closed Captioning was enabled
* Overlay Theater Mode now enables with a component video or composite video in extended modes
* Playing some Blu-ray DVD titles on PowerDVD no longer shows the lower portion of the player window intermittently appear shaky when playing Special Features
* Some video shake is no longer observed when fast forwarding with certain Blue-ray titles
* Resolved intermittent system instability with catalyst 8.12 and some ATI Radeon HD 4800 CrossFire configurations
* Video tearing no longer noticed when playing back some DVD titles on WinDVD with all hardware acceleration options enabled
* Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
* The OS is no longer unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is enabled

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

* System instabilities no longer happens after mode switching in extended mode while playing some copy protected DVDs
* Catalyst Control Center, CrossFire option can no longer be toggled on/off during playback of video on a CrossFire enabled system
* Creating any type of an OpenGL 3.0 context (normal or forward compatible) and then requesting the version string no longer causes the driver to stop responding
* With Overlay Theater Mode and stretched desktop enabled, dragging media player to extended desktop no longer shows corruption or causes system instability
* High CPU usage and choppy playback issues have been resolved during Blu-ray playback on WinDVD 9
* Catalysts Control Center, component video pixel format settings are now retained on system restart

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

* AVIVO converter may fail to convert h.264 avi video to another format
* “Unsupported file formats” error message dialog may occur when selecting H.264,.mp4 and VC1 file formats
* “CCC Host application…” error message dialog may occur when cancelling a transcoding process
* Output media file size differs after transcoding multiple times to the same format
* Catalyst Control Center, advanced color page is grayed out and preview is blank on some Radeon ASICS
* Drop frames may be noticed when playing interlaced DVD content
* The ATI AVIVO video transcoder does not currently use GPU acceleration under Windows Vista 64-bit edition
* Catalyst Control Center: error message dialog ‘CCC Host Application’ may be displayed when cancelling a transcoding process

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

* Transcoding a VOB DVD file (18min source file) results in 2.27min output file
* Transcoding falls back to CPU after transcoding to DVD/ MPEG2 multiple times in XP
* Media files transcoded using CPU instead of GPU in XP MCE OS
* AVIVO Video color settings may fail to be applied in the video when played using PowerDVD
* Mode switching while playing videos with WinDVD7 may cause the video color to become darker

Download:

ATI Catalyst 9.2 XP 32-bit WHQL

ATI Catalyst 9.2 XP 64-bit WHQL

ATI Catalyst 9.2 Vista 64-bit WHQL

ATI Catalyst 9.2 Vista 32-bit WHQL

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* Support for recording data to Blu-ray media
* Windows Search 4.0
* Bluetooth 2.1 support
* VIA 64-bit CPU support
* Improved performance for Wi-Fi connections after resuming from sleep mode

An interesting detail is that apparently even the final build requires you to have the first SP installed in order to use the SP2. The main reason for this seems to be the sheer size such a cumulative update consisting out of SP1 and SP2 would have …

This is a WHQL driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

New in Release 182.06:

Recommended for the best experience in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
Boosts performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 182.06 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.
Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.
Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.
Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.
Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.
Additional information on specific bug fixes can be found in the release documentation notes.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Existing Support:

Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
Supports NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Learn more here.
Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here. Note: GPU PhysX is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #2. Download these free PhysX and CUDA applications now!
Supports CUDA.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

Download:

GeForce Forceware 182.06 WHQL XP 32-bit
GeForce Forceware 182.06 WHQL XP 64-bit
GeForce Forceware 182.06 WHQL Vista 64-bit
GeForce Forceware 182.06 WHQL Vista 32-bit

This is a new driver release for the 260 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in Release 260.89

Performance

* Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v258.96 WHQL drivers. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 480:
+ Up to 10% in StarCraft II (2560×1600 4xAA/16xAF Ultra)
+ Up to 14% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 16% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 2560×1600 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 6% in Aliens vs. Predator (SLI – 1920×1200 noAA – Tessellation on)

GeForce GTX 460:
+ Up to 19% in StarCraft II (SLI – 1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF Ultra)
+ Up to 15% in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (SLI – 2560×1600 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 12% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (2560×1600 noAA)
+ Up to 9% in Aliens vs. Predator (1680×1050 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
+ Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1680×1050 noAA – Tessellation on)
+ Up to 11% in Dirt 2 (SLI – 2560×1600 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 12% in Crysis:Warhead (SLI – 1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF Gamer)
+ Up to 13% in Far Cry 2 (2560×1600 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 12% in H.A.W.X (SLI – 1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF SSAO Very High)
+ Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 (1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF)
+ Up to 22% in Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (1920×1200 noAA)
+ Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Extreme Preset)

NVIDIA 3D Vision

* With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed.
* Adds NVIDIA 3D Vision streaming support for Firefox 4 and Google Chrome web browsers.
* Adds support for Sony’s 3D Sweep Panorama picture format added to NVIDIA 3D Photo Viewer (Sony digital cameras that can capture 3D Sweep Panorama pictures include NEX-5/NEX-3, Alpha a560/a580 and Cyber-shot DSC-WX5/DSC-TX9/DSC-T99 models).
* Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: BenQ X2410 and NEC F23W2A
* Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Sanyo PDG-DWL2500 and ViewSonic PJD6251
* Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:

o Arcania: Gothic 4
o Fallout: New Vegas
o FIFA 11
o Formula 1 Racing
o Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark
o Guild Wars 2
o Kane & Lynch 2 – Dog Days
o Lead and Gold
o Lego Harry Potter
o Live For Speed
o Lost Planet 2
o Moonbase Alpha
o Serious Sam HD – The Second Encounter
o Shrek Forever After
o Singularity
o Vitua Tennis 2009
o Virtua Tennis 3

* Update the following 3D Vision game profiles

o Drakensang: The Dark Eye – updated in-game compatibility text
o Mafia II – updated profile to properly for 3D Vision-Rating
o StarCraft II – fixed profile to properly recognize the retail game executable name and match the 3D Vision rating of “Good”
o Super Commander – fixed HUD elements
o TRINE – new profiles fixes that allow the game to be rated “3D Vision-Ready” when used with the TRINE patch v1.08, available via Steam.

NVIDIA SLI

* Adds or enhances SLI profiles for the following PC games:

o City of Heroes: Going Rogue
o Alien Swarm
o Dead Rising 2
o Front Mission Evolved
o Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days
o LEGO: Harry Potter

Other Improvements

* Adds support for OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series GPUs.
* Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
* Improves compatibility for older PC games (DirectX 7 to DirectX 9) running on Windows 7 (examples: Gothic, Gothic II, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force, Links 2003, Independence War II – Edge of Chaos, and X2: Wolverine\\\’s Revenge).
* Adds drag and drop display arrangement support to the “Set up multiple displays” page.
* Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
* Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver.

Additional Information

* Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
* Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
* Supports the new version of MotionDSP’s video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
* Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
* Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
* Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
* Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

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GeForce Forceware 260.89 Windows XP 32-bit
GeForce Forceware 260.89 Win 7 | Vista 32-bit
GeForce Forceware 260.89 Win 7 | Vista 64-bit