Nvidia releases Athlon 64 driver

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GRAPHICS FIRM Nvidia has released a 64-bit driver for Windows XP 64. The 12MB or so download is the first release to support Opterons, Athlon 64 and Athlon FX51 microprocessors. Nvidia claims it gives better image quality for certain graphics features, and also has a special version of Nview.

The firm also said it has a new user friendly interface – as opposed, presumably, to the old user hostile one. What's interesting here is that we reckon this is a precursor to some 64-bit Athlon games. Also, workstations that use the AMD chip no doubt will benefit from the driver.

Download: Athlon 64 driver

News source: The Inq

Features

* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3
* Audio formats supported through official addons: MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

No Changelog yet.

(1 reply) #1 goofydave on 24 Oct 2003 - 08:47

I wonder if these were in part a port of the WinXP 52.14 beta's that i installed a while ago, they seemed buggy as hell for me.. now that 52.16 for WinXP are out I was not sure if a .2 version difference was enough for me to assume they were fixed and safe to install them..

#1.1 DsnBehind on 24 Oct 2003 - 21:25

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I was not sure if a .2 version difference was enough for me to assume they were fixed and safe to install them..

Version numbers mean less than the pattern on your toilet paper.

(1 reply) #2 Brains on 24 Oct 2003 - 14:27

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What's interesting here is that we reckon this is a precursor to some 64-bit Athlon games.

wtf does that mean? smells like unfounded Inquirer garbage.

#2.1 nullie on 24 Oct 2003 - 15:13

Not really.. There's several 64-bit games due out this Winter/Spring. Most will ship with both x86 & AMD64 versions on the same CD. A few of the bigger 64-bit titles to come are UT2004 (and an update for 2003), and Half-Life 2.