TweakTown benchmarks NVIDIA’s latest drivers, the Forceware 180.47 suite.

TweakTown benchmarks the ATI Catalyst 8.10 drivers in Vista and XP.

Upcoming Forceware drivers should enable multi-monitor SLI support. It’s about time.

ATI has released the Catalyst 8.10 driver suite for Windows today. Tweaks include fan controls for HD 4000-series cards, the ability to force component video out, and compatibility enhancement for Vista. Reported performance gains include a 15 percent boost in Unreal Tournament 3 and Prey on HD 3800 and HD 4000-series cards.

Supporting both Windows XP and Vista in x86-32 and x86-64 varieties, this WHQL release adds a host of new features and fixes to the popular ForceWare drivers. Hit the jump for a list of features or proceed directly to the download for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 and GTX 200-series GPUs.

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Linux users running X Server 1.5 now get full 3D ATI Catalyst driver support thanks to new Catalyst 8.10 beta drivers from an unlikely source.

TechConnect Magazine quickly tests the differences between GeForce 177 and 178 drivers.

The PC functions through a set of complex interactions between hardware and software. It may be surprising to learn that the operating system is often incapable of controlling the computer’s hardware by itself. In a sense, the operating system needs an interpreter to talk to the hardware. The interpreter that the operating system uses to talk to a specific piece of hardware is called a driver. Manufacturers often release newer versions of drivers in order to leverage their hardware more efficiently, fix bugs, or to improve performance.

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ATI Catalyst 8.8 drivers are out. This set has an extensive list of bug-fixes in XP and Vista and offers little in terms of performance gains. Grab the new drivers here.

Catalyst 8.8 beta hits Linux today with full CrossFire support.

NVIDIA has dropped their bomb on the first day of SIGGRAPH:
PhysX for NVIDIA GPUs has landed.

After nearly 18 months since Vista’s release, Creative has released X-Fi drivers that include DVD Audio playback and fix the janky Dolby Digital and DTS playback issues in Microsoft’s darling OS. The driver also is supposed to keep computers from crashing in Audio Creation mode. You can get the new drivers here.

Nice of Creative to get around to fixing these issues, right? Oh yeah, and the update only applies to some X-Fi cards. The Xtreme Audio gets no love.

Tweak Town shares thoughts on ATI’s Catalyst 8.7 drivers.

It’s that time again, folks! AMD has up and released revision 8.7 of the Catalyst-series drivers for their Radeons. They’re a little sparse in the way of new features, but could provide performance enhancements that will make some gamers happy:

• 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx or ATI Radeon™ HD 34xx products
• Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon ™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
• Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
• Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx product
  Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire™ scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all Radeon products when AA and AF is enabled

You can get your hands on the goods from the boys in red green over here.

You’ve come a long way baby!