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

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 beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• Anisotropic filtering fixes for GTX 200-series GPUs on Windows 7.
• Resolved visual corruption in Empire: Total War on SLI GeForce GTX 280 configurations in Windows 7.
• Resolve sluggish NVIDIA control panel performance on GeForce 9800 GX2 configurations in Windows 7.

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

UPDATE @ 3:39 PM, 5/19/2009: The official AMD blog now offers a rundown of the updates offered in Catalyst 9.5.

No longer locked in a pissing match with NVIDIA over the GTX 275, ATI has returned to its regular driver schedule and kicked Catalyst 9.5 into the public.

The release notes for this driver release are presently unavailable, so we cannot offer a summary of the GPU support or major changes at this time. Still feeling brave? Go get ‘em, tiger.

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

Now that Microsoft has opened the doors on WHQL certification for Windows 7, both ATI and NVIDIA have made the grade and received the cert for their most recent driver packages; NVIDIA has respun their latest 185.81 to bear v185.85, and ATI has posted an update to the GPU driver portion of Catalyst 9.4. Links to the new drivers for both companies and all operating systems can be found below.

NVIDIA 185.85 WHQL

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

ATI Catalyst 9.4 WHQL

Windows 7 x86-32: Here
Windows 7 x86-64: Here
Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows Vista 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 80MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• This driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD.
• Adds support for Ambient Occlusion: The newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
• Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso.
• Accelerates performance in several 3D applications over v182.xx drivers. See the driver’s release notes for more information.

There are a whole host of other minor tweaks and performance enhancements, so get your download on.

Download

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

It’s only been 22 days since AMD/ATI sprung Catalyst 9.3 on the public, but they’re back with a shiny new set for your discerning palette.  The newest kit from the boys in red is served with Radeon 2000/3000/4000-series support, performance enhancements and some new overclocking tricks. Check it:

• ATI Catalyst 9.4 includes a new ATI Overdrive™ auto-tune application to accurately determine the best over-clocked engine and memory values for ATI Radeon HD 4000-series products.
• High-definition video fixes
• Game fixes
• Some other stuff!

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 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista driver delivers the following changes:

• Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
• Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
• Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
  • Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
  • Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  • Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled

There are a whole host of other minor tweaks and performance enhancements, so get your download on.

Download

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

Realtek HD audio driver v2.21 was released today for users of Windows 7/Vista/XP. [Via]

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 and 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at 75-100MB, this WHQL Windows XP/Vista driver delivers the following changes:

• Optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games.
• Fixed support for AGP GeForce 6000 and 7000-series adapters.
• Fixed stuttering in BD-ROM playback of Resident Evil: Extinction on SLI 9500 GTs.

There are a whole host of other minor tweaks and performance enhancements, so get your download on.

Download

Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows Vista 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 and 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at 75-100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista driver delivers the following changes:

• Optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games.
• Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

There are also numerous performance optimizations for several of today’s hottest titles. Take a look after the jump to take a peek at the games that have received a boost with the new release.

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ATI has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for all Radeon 9500 and newer GPUs. Weighing in at 75-100MB, the WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

• ATI Catalyst^TM 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
• ATI Catalyst^TM 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
• ATI Catalyst^TM 9.3 – Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages
• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
• Improved Windows 7 gaming performance vs. Windows Vista
• Added WDDM v1.1 support for Radeon 4000/3000/2000 GPUs

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