ATI Catalyst 8-451-2-080123a:

Not a WHQL driver. As this dates as Jan 23. The release site said it is for HD 3870 X2 launch, but as always its useable by other ATI cards. It includes both Vista and XP driver versions.

* Contains no change log or release notes.

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ATI Catalyst v8.2 Released:


ATI has released a new version of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon family of graphics cards. Check the ATI has released a new version of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon family of graphics cards. Check the release notes for details Release Notes for details. Enjoy!


ATI Catalyst v8.2 for Windows XP (32-bit)
ATI Catalyst v8.2 for Windows XP (64-bit)
ATI Catalyst v8.2 for Windows Vista (32-bit)
ATI Catalyst v8.2 for Windows Vista (64-bit)


Resolved Issue highlights:

* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Corruption is no longer noticed when editing levels

* World of Warcraft: Flickering and missing objects are no longer noticed when playing the game in OpenGL mode.

* Doom3: Running an OpenGL application with CrossFire™ enabled and AA set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when the display resolution is set to 2048x1536 or higher.

* TianXia2: Launching the game no longer results in the Windows XP operating system rebooting.

* .NET Framework an Unhandled Exception error no longer occurs when upon booting or
re-booting the system.

* A white dot no longer appears on the windows desktop when launching the Catalyst Control Center. However, this issue may still be experienced under the Windows XP operating system.

* Audio stutter is no longer noticed when using the HDMI connector.

* The Catalyst Control Center options are no longer missing for the secondary extended display when hot unplugging and hot plugging the display device.

* Native CrossFire™ can now be enabled when the primary display device is connected to the master card using a CV or TV.

ForceWare 169.38:

In collaboration with the game Pirates of the Burning Sea a new NVIDIA driver was released. This driver next to being a generic update to the official ForceWare drivers from NVIDIA entails drivers fix display bugs you might experience while playing Pirates of the Burning Sea.

ForceWare 169.38 Vista 32-bit
ForceWare 169.38 Vista 64-bit
ForceWare 169.38 XP 32-bit


Forceware 173.65:


A new NVIDIA ForceWare driver appeared on the web which is being served on-line by one of NVIDIA's partners (Clevo) . This driver set is commonly distributed and it is receiving pretty good feedback.

The driver originally was intended for mobile platforms. We however included the modded.inf from the colleagues over at laptopvideo2go to make the drivers compatible with all GeForce graphics cards. Overall these drivers seem to work well/. They do not have the FAN bug reported in ForceWare 171.16

The drivers seem to be a bit faster than that driver and was tested with Crysis, The Witcher, UT3, World In Conflict. Hardware Video Acceleration, Digital Vibrance. Everything is working.

NVIDIA also redesigned the Video and Color controls in the control panel. There are now more options:

* Custom timings have returned
* You can choose if you want to use NVIDIA video and color controls or player controls.
* New edge enhancement and noise reduction sliders.
* Dynamic contrast function.
* Color improvement function.

- It is discouraged for SLi users to use this drives, according to reports and evalutaions.

Forceware 173.65 Vista beta (32-bit)

ATI Catalyst 8.3 Released

Yes the new Catalyst driver has been released for all you ATI people out there with some nice upgrades like:

*CrossFireX™ (Quad) Support 3 or 4 GPUs in CrossFireX™ Mode

*Hybrid Graphics Support

*DirectX 10.1 Support

*Anti-Aliasing Enhancements

*ATI Catalyst™ Control Center: HydraVision support for Windows Vista

*Digital Panel GPU image scaling

*Catalyst™ Control Center: Advanced Video Quality Controls

*ATI Catalyst™ driver: Tessellation support

Release notes here.


Gamershell DL Links
XP 32bit
XP 64bit
Vista 32bit
Vista 64bit




Enjoy.


And sry for messing up ur fine thread Rez