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Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

Does the ATI Driver work in Windows 7 unlike the previous versions??
 
Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

@ faheem i recommed download the first one :P

cause it has full catalyst control panel and it is recommend list :P

or why not try 9.6 it has buit in HDMI audio ready ;)

@rockfella it will work same backward as vista 64 bit or 32bit :P
 
Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

The previous versions did not work in windows 7 for me. But this one works, along with the HDMI driver :rofl:


Arun.P said:
@rockfella it will work same backward as vista 64 bit or 32bit :P
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Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

Double post, still getting used to the edit key on the left!
 
Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

NVIDA GeForce Driver Release 186.18 WHQL

New in Release 186.18

* Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
* Installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
* Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

New in Release 185/186 drivers:

* Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA for more details.
* 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. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185/186 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
o Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
o Up to 22% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
o Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
* Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!

NVIDA GeForce Driver Release 186.18 xp 32-bit

NVIDA GeForce Driver Release 186.18 xp 64-bit

NVIDA GeForce Driver Release 186.18 Vista/7 32-bit

NVIDA GeForce Driver Release 186.18 Vista/7 64-bit
 
Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 190.38 WHQL Drivers Released

NVIDIA's GeForce 190.38 driver suite which arrived in beta form about a week ago, received its official status with WHQL-certification. The driver, like its beta version, introduces a list of changes as described in the release notes documents for for Windows 7, Vista, and XP, including a new release of the PhysX system software, version 9.09.0428. It supports the entire range of NVIDIA GPUs from GeForce 6 series and upwards, and NVIDIA ION, ION LE platforms. Important changes over the previous 186 series drivers include:

* Support for the OpenGL 3.1 API

* CUDA 2.3 support for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details

* A new user-controlled power management setting for GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards. 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

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Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

Catalyst 9.7 is up for grabs, for Vista and Win7 folks right now... XP drivers should be coming up by tomorrow.

ATi Catalyst 9.7 Release Notes said:
New Features

ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 – AMD’s first official unified Windows7 / Windows Vista Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver for the Windows 7 RTM

AMD has delivered its first official unified WHQL certified graphics driver designed for the Windows 7 RTM (Release To Manufacturing)

ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.7 delivers a superior Windows 7 experience:

  • Great gaming performance – superior performance compared to Windows Vista for single
  • GPU configurations and ATI CrossFireXâ„¢ configurations
  • Stability – through AMD’s WHQL certified, unified Windows 7 / Windows Vista graphics driver
  • Leadership in Innovation – support for all the Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 features and AMD ATI Catalyst features on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series of products

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center Updates

The ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center now features:

  • A newly designed Desktops & Displays Manager - enabling users to more quickly configure and arrange their displays
  • Full support for HydraVision under Windows 7

The new ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center is supported under Windows 7 and Windows

Vista

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Release Note Version 9.7 5

ATI Video encoder update – support for Windows 7

  • ATI Catalystâ„¢ 9.7 introduces support for the ATI Video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
  • Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files

Performance Improvements

Catalystâ„¢ 9.7 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.

Some measured examples are:

  • Crysis - performance at very high quality preset increases by up to 8% on HD4800 series products
  • Lost Planet Colonies - performance increases by 7-11% when 8x Anti-Aliasing is used on the HD4800 series products

Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalystâ„¢

Software Suite for all Windows OS. These include:

  • Added support for OpenGL extensions: EXT_provoking_vertex and EXT_vertex_array_bgra
  • Catalyst Control Center in some multi-display configurations Extend Desktop no longer causes the secondary display to become the primary display
  • Catalyst Control Center, "Make Primary" option no longer fails to function in some "Extended Desktop" modes
  • Opening Catalyst Control Center no longer results in an error message when using Dual Adapters with a non-ATI ASIC and ATI ASIC
  • Catalyst Control Center, HDMI configuration aspects no longer fail to launch on some systems
  • Catalyst Control Center hotkeys now toggle through all desktop modes
  • Catalyst Control Center: Default HDTV modes can now be enabled properly
  • Catalyst Control Center duplicated display options no longeer become available in some multi-adapter configurations
  • Interlaced modes can now be applied on HDTV supported DFP panels even when forced via Catalyst Control Center
  • Confirmation dialog box now appears when applying HDTV 720p and 1080i formats; the resolution will be applied automatically
  • Catalyst Control Center, add custom modes is now available in the Digital Panel HDTV support page
  • Catalyst Control Center Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window no longer blanks out
  • Catalyst Control Center Overdrive Auto-Tune no longer stops responding on some CrossFire configurations
  • Catalyst Control Center does not show a "System restart required ... " message for some multi adapter CrossFire configurations
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Re: Recently released ATI Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

Forceware 190.40 out too....Try em if u want to...!
 
ATI catalyst 9.8

AMD has released a new set of Catalyst graphics drivers, and there's a twist. The drivers shouldn't hit the AMD Game website until Monday, but AMD marketing chief Ian McNaughton has posted links to them on his blog.

You can grab the drivers right now for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 in their 32-bit and 64-bit variants. We can't link the actual files, though; some sort of anti-leeching technology is afoot. (Oh, and we were asked not to post hard links, too.)

AMD tells us the drivers deliver "enhancements specific to Performance Platforms that improve system performance in CPU bound situations." What does that mean? Well, using a system based on the Dragon platform (so Phenom II, 790GX, and Radeon HD 4800 graphics), the company says it measured considerable gains with multi-GPU configurations running at resolutions of 1680x1050 and higher.

Purportedly, performance can increase by as much as 50% in Far Cry 2, and you can also expect meaty gains in Battleforge, Company of Heroes, Crysis, H.A.W.X., S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, and World in Conflict. AMD notes that the gains apply to both conventional CrossFire setups and the single-board Radeon HD 4870 X2.
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This month we are seeing a massive performance increase with a whole host of games as compared to the ATI Catalyst 9.7 driver. Detailed release notes are available for most of the game optimizations; here are the highlights:

�Battleforge DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance improves of up to 50% with the largest gains in configurations using ATI CrossFireX� technology.

�Company of Heroes DirectX 10 performance improves of up to 77%.

�Crysis DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 10% and quad mode performance improves of up to 34%.

�Crysis Warhead DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 7% and quad mode performance improves of up to 69%.

�Far Cry 2 DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 50% and quad mode performance improves of up to 88%.

�Tom Clancy�s H.A.W.X. DirectX 10/DirectX 10.1 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in dual mode improves of up to 40% and with quad mode performance improving of up to 60%.

�UnigineTropics OpenGL performance improvements of up to 20%.

�UnigineTropics DirectX 10 performance of ATI CrossFireX technology in quad mode improvements of up to 20%.

�World in Conflict DirectX 10 performance improvements of up to by 10%.

This release of the ATI Catalyst driver provides OpenGL 3.1 extension support. The following is a list of OpenGL 3.1 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst 9.8:
�Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40.

�Instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GL ARB draw instanced).
�Data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer).

�Primitive restart (NV primitive restart). Because client enable/disable no longer exists in OpenGL 3.1, the PRIMITIVE RESTART state has become server state, unlike the Nvidia extension where it is client state. As a result, the numeric values assigned to PRIMITIVE RESTART and PRIMITIVE RESTART INDEX differ from the NV versions of those tokens. o At least 16 texture image units must be accessible to vertex shaders, in addition to the 16 already guaranteed to be accessible to fragment shaders.

�Texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object).

� Rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle). o Uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object)
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techPowerUp! :: Download ATI Catalyst 9.8 Software Suite Vista/7 32-bit
techPowerUp! :: Download ATI Catalyst 9.8 Software Suite Vista/7 64-bit
techPowerUp! :: Download ATI Catalyst 9.8 Software Suite WinXP 32-bit
techPowerUp! :: Download ATI Catalyst 9.8 Software Suite WinXP 64-bit
 
Re: ATI catalyst 9.8

shall be on official source by tomorrow..

(most of the times the links are updated on ati site ater the release date ...dunno why.. :( )
 
Re: Recently released ATi Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

NVIDIA GeForce 190.62 WHQL Drivers Released

Adds WHQL support on Windows 7 for Microsoft’s new DirectX GPU Computing API: DirectCompute.

Optimized for the latest PhysX gaming titles: Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darkest of Days.

Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0814.

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.

Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver

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ForceWare 186.91 WHQL



Win 7/Vista 32 Bit

http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-186.91-WHQL-Win-7-|-Vista-(32-bit)-download-2365.html

Win 7/Vista 64 Bit

http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-186.91-WHQL-Win-7-|-Vista-(64-bit)-download-2366.html

Courtesy of Microsoft (Microsoft Update to be exact) comes a new WHQL-certified GeForce driver that includes support for a heap of Nvidia cards, including some that haven't been released or announced. Available for Windows Vista and 7, the GeForce 186.91 is dated September 1st and provides support for Quadro cards, ION, various other IGPs, GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200 series models and these previously-unknown (hopefully DirectX 11-ready) babies:

- NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0A2B.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0A66.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce 310"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0A6E.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce 305M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0A75.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce 310M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0CAF.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0CB0.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M"

- NVIDIA_DEV.0CB1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M"

By the looks of it Nvidia is preparing the introduction of just one low-end 300 series desktop card and seven mobile models in the relatively near future. It's certainly not much on the desktop side considering the expected AMD DX11 line-up but the Green Goblin may have more up its sleeve. If not, Radeon HD 5800s for everyone, right?
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Source: TechConnect Magazine - GeForce 300 series cards mentioned in 186.91 driver
 
Re: Recently released ATi Catalyst & nVidia Forceware drivers

Catalyst 9.9 WHQL released

AMD released version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that provides drivers and related essential software for ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series core-logic, and ATI Multimedia products. This release mainly intends to fix application-specific issues, and features related to Catalyst Control Center application. For more details, refer to the Release Notes document. Highlights include:

* Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters

* ATI CrossFireX support for Resident Evil 5

* Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3

* Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust Video Settings

* Edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center no longer lags or appears out of sync with mouse movement

* Launching Hotkeys Manager in Catalyst Control Center no longer causes an unhandled exception error

* The "Desktop Rotation" page in Catalyst Control Center no longer shows additional information for the second display when the secondary adapter is connected

* HDMI is now detected properly as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hotplugged for the first time

* Catalyst Control Center no longer displays error message when specific HDMI displays are hot unplugged and hotplugged back

* Intermittent failures no longer occur with MediaShow Espresso once a transcoding process has been completed

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