After AMD released its Catalyst beta drivers for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we didn’t have to wait on NVIDIA for too long: the company added Windows 8 to its regular driver update portfolio.
NVIDIA has just released the first WHQL'd R295 series driver for GeForce graphics cards, 295.73 and with it comes some bold promises in terms of performance improvements in various popular game titles.
Software screenshots are generally not that exciting, but we've gotten our hands on a slide that unveils a lot of upcoming features that will make an appearance in Intel's upcoming Wi-Fi utility called My WiFi Dashboard which is finally getting some Wi-Fi Direct support. The significant thing here is that it allows you to connect to other Wi-Fi devices much in the same way as you connect to Bluetooth devices.
It's been a very long wait, but it looks like Intel is finally ready to bring TRIM support for SSD's in a RAID 0 configuration according to details appearing on Storage Review. That said, the details posted were very slim and VR-Zone is here to fill in the gaps with some exclusive details as to what to expect from Intel's upcoming Rapid Storage technology drivers.
GeForce 280.26 WHQL driver is now available for download and will support GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.
Six weeks after the release of Catalyst 11.6, AMD now introduces Catalyst 11.7 which appears to resolve several issues for the Windows 7 operating system. However, there is no mention of any performance enhancements in games.
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When it comes to toying around with operating systems that are specially designed for use with mobile computing devices and gadgets such as smartphones and tablets, the only players out there on the market are Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS, HP's webOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 operating systems, right? Well, not anymore; Mozilla, yes, Mozilla, has just announced its plans to introduce its own mobile OS into the fray. And the name of Mozilla's mobile OS project? Boot To Gecko, or B2G.
AMD Catalyst 11.6 is now officially released. The release notes indicated several resolved issues for the Windows operating system. It also featured AMD Steady Video, Image Stabilisation in YouTube. We ran the UNIGINE benchmark test to compare with the previous Catalyst 11.5 driver. More details inside.
If you've got a recent Intel powered notebook with an Intel network card in it, there's a big chance that you have WiDi support in your notebook without even knowing about it. That said, you'd need a little box that hooks up to your TV to take advantage of video streaming over Wi-Fi, but so far HDCP protected content hasn't been possible to stream. Well, that was until today when Intel launched new drivers which solved that problem.
NVIDIA today has finally released the first set of drivers from R270 branch which is version 270.51. It boasts numerous, notable performance gains in standard gaming modes, SLI gaming modes, and 3D Vision gaming modes. Games such as Dragon Age II is notably faster in GTX 580 SLI config while others have a few percent of performance improvements. 3D Vision and 3D Crosshair performance has been improved as well. Lastly, Forceware 270.51 comes bundled with a huge range of new 3D Vision profiles, enabling 3D Vision support in games such as Homefront, Richard Burns Rally and Test Drive Unlimited 2, and in titles yet to be released, such as Duke Nukem Forever, Portal 2, and Section 8: Prejudice.
NVIDIA has released a new driver today specifically for GeForce GTX 590 but not much information has been revealed. However, we suspect that it might somehow relate to the recent incidents of their flagship cards going up in smoke. NVIDIA has urged their partners to dump their few days old driver CD loaded with version 267.84 with this updated 267.92 WHQL.
If there is a good example of the classic 'good news bad news' situation, NVIDIA's latest graphics card for the Mac Pro has to be it. The good news: the Fermi-based Quadro 4000 which was previously available only to PC users has come to the Mac Pro. The bad news? OS X will not support its advanced OpenGL 4.1 features.
Read on to find out more.
We have decided to do away with a review of our Palit GeForce GTX 465 by coming up with this overclocking feature. With ATI's latest Catalyst 10.7 and NVIDIA's Release 258.96 drivers, we compare how much faster the custom-built Palit gets when it is overclocked against the Radeon HD 5850. Hit up the link for all the numbers.
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