New ATI and NVDIA Driver Updates Released Today

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And to make everything else more fun, ATI and NVIDIA have released new Drivers today :-?

[Skw]

Ty!

[GreatEmerald]

Yay!!! Catalyst 8.10! At last! Maybe this will fix the screen corruption problems on Linux!

[Smirftsch]

keep me updated (although lighting bug was some compiler issue which can't be fixed by driver)

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My Game runs so good at the moment, I'm hesitant to install the new nvidia drivers yet.
They are bad about releasing and removing them and later rereleasing them because of issues they missed the first go round.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

I still have version 97.51 of nVidia drivers.

[Hyper]

178.24_geforce_winvista_64bit_english_whql still has OpenGL issues with Unreal 227. Fortunately D3D9 works like a charm here.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

Do you recommend me to install the new drivers or stay at 97.51?

[GreatEmerald]

Can't see any difference between Catalyst 8.8 and Catalyst 8.10...

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The best experience I've had with nvidia drivers are the 175.13 for me.

[Hyper]

Do you recommend me to install the new drivers or stay at 97.51?

178.24 is generally recommended, it's Nvidia's next gen driver with support for CUDA and PhysX on GeForce 8 or newer cards. Generally these drivers will yield better performance in heavy DX10 rendering, Like in 3DMark Vantage.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

LOL I have nVidia GeForce 6800 (AGP) and it's about 3-4 yrs old...

[Hyper]

LOL I have nVidia GeForce 6800 (AGP) and it's about 3-4 yrs old...

Then there's not much reason to update.

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

LOL I have nVidia GeForce 6800 (AGP) and it's about 3-4 yrs old...

Then there's not much reason to update.

Thx for advice, Hyper.
I don't wanna download large files over dial-up for no reason.

[GreatEmerald]

Hey, these drivers actually seem to boost UT3 performace (15%)! Now I get 25FPS on 3/4 resolution with world detail 2! After disabling that bloom I should get even more!

[[§Ŕ] ŤhěxĐâŕkśîđěŕ]

That is nice. Did you tweak the setting in your grafix card's control panel or you don't have one?

[Chaos13]

GreatEmerald what is your grafix card?

[GreatEmerald]

I've left it on Max Quality.
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT.

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ATI Catalyst 8.11
13 November 2008


ATI has released the Catalyst 8.11 graphics drivers. This version adds the ability to verify CrossFireX mode, HydraVision support for XP, performance improvements in Far Cry 2 and STALKER: Clear Sky on HD4000 and HD3000 series cards, as well as resolving a range of bugs.

[GreatEmerald]

... for Windows only.
But instead, [url=http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg0Nw]NVIDIA Releases 177.82 Linux Driver[/url].

[GreatEmerald]

Update:
ATI complied it for Linux now too. Not yet on the repositories though, and I still won't get it until the timer in my sig expires
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg0OQ

While there isn't much that's exciting with the Catalyst 8.11 Linux driver release, to download the x86/x86_64 binary driver head on over to their Linux download page.

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ATI Catalyst 8.12
11 December 2008


ATI has released the Catalyst 8.12 graphics drivers. This version is a major release containing support for Stream Computing, a new Noise Reduction feature for improving video quality, and a range of performance improvements in games such as Crysis, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, STALKER: Clear Sky and Call of Duty: World at War.

[GreatEmerald]

Not for Linux yet. Guess it will be released once my counter in the sig is up
EDIT: Aha! Planet Unreal says this:

ATI Catalyst 8.12 is out, and includes a whole host of performance improvements for a variety of games, including Grand Theft Auto IV, Prince of Persia and Unreal Tournament 3 on ATI Radeon graphics cards.

Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 – Performance gains of up to 18% for Single card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Radeon riders can click here for Windows XP/Vista 32/64-bit download links.

Ownage.
http://planetunreal.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=155575

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Nvidia Beta Forceware 181.00
17 December 2008


Nvidia has released a new Beta Forceware 181.00 driver for Windows XP and Vista. These drivers are for GeForce 8, 9 and 200 series cards and are designed to provide full OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 support.

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Nvidia Official Forceware 181.20
9 January 2009
NVIDIA 181.20 WHQL Driver Update

Nvidia has released the Official Forceware 181.20 WHQL drivers for Windows XP and Vista. These drivers add support for the new GTX 295 and 285 cards, as well as supporting the GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 and 200 series. This version contains a range of fixes, as well as performance improvements in a range of games when compared with the 178 series WHQL Forceware drivers. Note that the package also contains the 8.10.13 PhysX drivers.