NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
• Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
• Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for Borderlands, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, G-Force, FIFA Soccer 2010, League of Legends: Clash of Fates, NHL 2009, Order of War, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Race On, Star Trek: D-A-C. Improved SLI and multi-GPU support for Champions: Online and Dragon Age: Origins.
• Includes over 200 bug fixes. Refer to the release notes (PDF) for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

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Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

Fresh out of the oven, ATI has just served up a brand new Catalyst driver for Radeon HD 3000, 4000 and 5000-series GPUs. Weighing in at about 100MB, the WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Full GPU support for the Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs.
• Enables Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) in the Radeon HD 5000-series cards.
• Adds support for Ubuntu 9.10.
• Several fixes for CrossFire, HDMI and Avivo configurations.

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Windows 7 x86-64: Here
Windows 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista x86-64: Here
Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Adds support for OpenGL 3.2 for ION, GeForce 100, 200, 8000 and 9000-series GPUs.
• Big anti-aliasing or SLI performance improvements for a handful of titles.
• For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application. This will have big power savings for impacted users.
• Adds support for DirectX 11’s DirectCompute (Compute Shaders) API on GeForce 8000, 9000, 100 and 200 GPUs.
• Added support for 3D Vision Discover, a feature to enable stereoscopic 3D for games.

This is a fairly important release, particularly due to the inclusion of the DirectCompute API. Note that this does not mean the compatible GPUs are DX11-ready; DirectCompute merely requires stream processors, and all recent GPUs have them. It can be expected that ATI will do the same thing with their next driver release.

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Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

A modder has released a patch which restores PhysX support to NVIDIA GPUs operating in a system with an ATI card.

Over the last few weeks, it has come to light that NVIDIA GPUs completely disable PhysX if an ATI card is also detected in the system. It’s a matter of R&D cost, says NVIDIA.

NVIDIA performs extensive Engineering, Development, and QA work that makes PhysX a great experience for customers. For a variety of reasons–some development expense some quality assurance and some business reasons–NVIDIA will not support GPU accelerated PhysX with NVIDIA GPUs while GPU rendering is happening on non-NVIDIA GPUs.

The stance has irritated gamers as, prior to ForceWare version 186.x, NVIDIA cards happily functioned as a PPU even if an ATI card was acting as the primary renderer. Similarly, NVIDIA cards configured as the primary renderer would perform physics even if an ATI card happened to be installed (such as for a third display). Now neither is officially true.

But not all is lost, however, as an enterprising modder has released a patch which at least partially restores PhysX to systems with a mixed-GPU environment.

DESCRIPTION:
This mod will enable hardware PhysX support for NVIDIA GPU, when non-NVIDIA GPU
is used as a primary display device:

-Intended only for WDDM 1.1 OS (Windows 7).
-Only for multi-vendor/multi-GPU configurations.

At time of writing, the patch is on version 1.04. It seems only a matter of time until NVIDIA slaps this mutiny down, so make sure to grab the patch quickly if you need it.

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Adds support for OpenGL 3.2 for ION, GeForce 100, 200, 8000 and 9000-series GPUs.
• Big anti-aliasing or SLI performance improvements for a handful of titles.
• For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application. This will have big power savings for impacted users.
• Adds support for DirectX 11’s DirectCompute (Compute Shaders) API on GeForce 8000, 9000, 100 and 200 GPUs.
• Added support for 3D Vision Discover, a feature to enable stereoscopic 3D for games.

This is a fairly important release, particularly due to the inclusion of the DirectCompute API. Note that this does not mean the compatible GPUs are DX11-ready; DirectCompute merely requires stream processors, and all recent GPUs have them. It can be expected that ATI will do the same thing with their next driver release.

Download

Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

ATI has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for all Radeon 2000, 3000 and 4000-series GPUs. Weighing in at 75-100MB, the WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Removed a noticeable delay when alt+tabbing between a 3D-accelerated application and another app in Windows Vista.
• OpenGL apps will no longer cause the second monitor to blank on some GPUs in Windows 7.
• Several AVIVO/HDMI fixes specifically for Windows XP.
• Several AVIVO/HDMI fixes for all Windows OSes.

There is also a huge chunk of bug fixes for both Vista and XP, so be sure to check the release notes (PDF).

Downloads

Windows 7 x86-64: Here
Windows 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista x86-64: Here
Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 80-120MB, this WHQL Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
• Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
• Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (only available on cards that already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
• Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.

There is nothing earth shattering in this release, but it’s always a cozy feeling to have the newest drivers, so get your fix below.

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Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

Deep within the halls of QuakeCon, ATI’s @IanMcNaughton is drummin’ up support for a future all in red. Though not all of us can be on the ground in Texas, big red is doing a fine job keeping us in the loop with their efforts from afar.

As a consolation prize for those of us who have been doing just that, ATI has used the blog to introduce the so-fresh-we-don’t-even-know-what’s-changed-and-they’re-not-available-anywhere-else Catalyst 9.8 drivers.

Go on. Take a leap of faith.

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All OSes: Here

A new set of drivers have crept onto the NVIDIA developer zone — 190.56, to be exact — offering support for OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.50. As this is an OpenGL 3.2 driver, it only supports NVIDIA parts capable of executing OGL 3.2 code: GeForce 8000, 9000, G100, GT120, GT130, GT220, GTS150, GTS254, GTX 260 or better, and ION.

Before you go runnin’ off all excited about OpenGL 3.2, realize that its inclusion will not inherently offer any advantage over the current crop of 3.1 drivers. Adding 3.2 to the mixing bowl simply allows developers to take advantage of new rendering techniques OpenGL’s handlers have added in recent times.

That said, we like pushing those driver revisions upwards just like you do, so you can bet we already have our copy on ice.

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Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
Linux/FreeBSD: Here

OS-provided drivers are the ickiest of the icky

Ever since Windows 7 became a talking point for enthusiasts, AMD has been on hand with driver support for graphics adapters and chipsets alike. Rival chip titan Intel, meanwhile, has been content to sit the sidelines and offer nary a peep about their support plans. However, it seems the recent Windows 7 Release Candidate (or the RTM, judging by the driver dates) has inspired a change of heart in ol’ blue. We’ve done some digging and discovered that Intel has recently booted a whole suite of Windows 7 GMA, AHCI/SATA and chipset drivers out the door for our consumption!

Chipset

Chipset Device Software 9.1.1.1015

The Intel® Chipset Device Software installs the Windows* INF files. The INF files inform the operating system how to properly configure the chipset for specific functionality, such as USB and core PCI.

AHCI/SATA

Matrix Storage Manager 8.9.0.1023

This driver provides support for high-capacity & fault-tolerant Serial ATA (SATA) RAID 5 arrays and high-performance & fault-tolerant SATA RAID 10 arrays on select Intel® 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X and 945 chipset-based platforms. It provides support for high-performance SATA RAID 0 arrays & redundant SATA RAID 1 arrays on select Intel® 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X, 945, 925, 915 chipset-based platforms. It also provides AHCI support on select Intel® 4 Series, 3 Series, 965, 975X, 955X, 945, 925 and 915 chipset-based platforms, as well as on Mobile Intel® 915/910 chipset-based platforms.

Prepped for the install process

You might note that these AHCI/SATA drivers come bundled in an executable which puts the kibosh on using them during the Windows 7 install. This isn’t a deal-breaker as Microsoft provides generic AHCI/SATA drivers for just such an occasion, but we busted ‘em loose so you can use Intel’s goods during the install routine. Grab the drivers from this link: Right here!

GMA Graphics

Integrated Intel GMA Drivers

These are going to be hit and miss for users with older integrated adapters, as many of them were retired long ago. Owners of a mobile or desktop product featuring the 910, 915, 945, 946, 963, Q965, G965, 965 Express, G/Q4x or G/Q3x chipsets are in luck, however, as an official Windows 7 driver is available for your adapter.

What’s the catch?

These drivers are provided AS IS warns Intel in scary bold letters. Keep in mind that beta drivers can trigger unwanted side effects like blue screens, boot failures, choppy performance and hairy palms. That said, you can bet your asses we’ll be taking our chances right along with you.

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 120MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• A PhysX update (v9.09.0428).
• The primary display in a multi-monitor configuration on the GeForce GTX 285 will no longer switch to a custom resolution being set for a secondary display under Windows 7.
• A Windows Vista system will now properly recover from standby if the system is configured with a GeForce 9800 GX2.

Clearly there is nothing earth shattering in this release, but it’s always a cozy feeling to have the newest drivers, so get your fix below.

Download

Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this WHQL Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• NVIDIA control panel settings are now saved when using a GeForce 9500 GS on Windows 7.
• The SLI focus display can now be properly selected with SLI GeForce GTX 260s on Windows 7.
• The SLI focus display can now be properly selected with SLI GeForce 9500 GS on Windows 7.
• The system can now be resumed from standby on Windows Vista and Windows 7 x64 when using a GeForce 9800 GX2.

Clearly there is nothing earth shattering in this release, but it’s always a cozy feeling to have the newest drivers, so get your fix below.

Download

Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here