Neowin News Feed for: Drivers

Intel's Wi-Fi adapters connectivity issues plague users

Byron Hinson — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:09:17 +0100

Many Intel Centrino 6230/6235 Wi-Fi adapter users have been suffering from disconnection and general poor performance issues for nearly a year now with no fix on the horizon. Read more...

NVIDIA drops the ball on Windows 8 RP driver release

Steven Parker — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:09:26 +0100

After promising a WHQL certified driver for the Windows 8 RP "early next week" last Friday, NVIDIA has now updated its blog to inform customers that they still don't have a driver to download. Read more...

AMD to stop monthly Catalyst driver updates

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:44:50 +0100

AMD has announced that it will stop its normal practice of releasing new Catalyst drivers for its Radeon graphics chips every month. AMD will now release new updates "when it makes sense." Read more...

New Windows 8 drivers from NVIDIA coming next week

John Callaham — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:27:16 +0100

NVIDIA announced that it has received WHQL approvals for Microsoft for a new set of GeForce graphics drivers made specifically for the just released Windows 8 Release Preview to be released next week. Read more...

Windows 8 AMD Catalyst preview drivers released

John Callaham — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:00:00 +0100

AMD has released new preview versions of its Catalyst drivers for its Radeon and FirePro graphics chip that are designed to work on the Windows 8 Release Preview build. Read more...

New NVIDIA drivers improve Battlefield 3 performance

John Callaham — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:35:41 +0100

NVIDIA has released new official drivers for its GeForce-based PC graphics chips that improve the performance of, among other games, the PC version off Battlefield 3. Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.7 for Windows

Steven Parker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:02:39 +0100

AMD's award-winning ATI Catalyst graphics and HD video configuration software delivers unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. ATI Catalyst drivers deliver stable performance and push the limits of innovation... Read more...

Group offers $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

Christopher White — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:28:52 +0000

Microsoft’s new Kinect for the Xbox 360 is expected to be a huge seller this holiday season. The technology packed inside of the little bar is advanced but currently can only be used on... Read more...

NVIDIA ForceWare 260.99 WHQL

Marcel Klum — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:53:22 +0100

NVIDIA ForceWare software unleashes the full power and features in NVIDIA's desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games... Read more...

AMD teams up with Valve to deliver drivers over steam

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:38:26 +0100

AMD recently announced that they are teaming up with Valve to release driver updates for their ATI Catalyst graphics drivers through steam. Steam users will now be able to automatically detect and install driver updates... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 10.7

Marcel Klum — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:36:06 +0100

AMD released version 10.7 of their ATI video card driver package. What's new: ATI Eyefinity - HydraVision enhancements Enhanced Pull-down detection ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays ATI Radeon GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player Resolved Issues... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 10.6

Marcel Klum — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:20:41 +0100

AMD released version 10.6 of their ATI video card driver package. What's new: GPU acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe® Flash Player 10.1 Video De-blocking support Mosquito noise reduction Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3 Resolved Issues... Read more...

NVIDIA ForceWare 257.21 WHQL

Marcel Klum — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:10:09 +0100

NVIDIA Forceware 197.75 WHQL

Marcel Klum — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:13:41 +0100

NVIDIA to unify desktop and notebook driver releases

Jonathan Downin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:10:02 +0100

NVIDIA announced that they are starting a new initiative to merge driver releases for desktops and notebooks with their Verde program. Starting with the 256 ‘Fermi’ series of cards, all future driver releases will be... Read more...

NVIDIA Geforce drivers 185.81 BETA for Windows 7

Marcus16 — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:50:08 +0100

This is a beta driver supporting GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs. This driver package installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series (DirectX 10) GPUs and WDDM v1.0 for... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 9.3 drivers

Marcel Klum — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:33:15 +0000

AMD released version 9.3 of their ATI video card driver package. These drivers include the following: ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Unified driver for Windows 7 and Windows Vista ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home... Read more...

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Drivers for Keyboard & Mice

C:Amie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:56:33 +0000

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If your computer is running a beta version of the Windows 7 operating system and have a Microsoft hardware product on your PC, then Microsoft have released beta releases of version 7.0 their IntelliType and... Read more...

nVidia GeForce 175.16 WHQL Drivers

wd40 — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:46:35 +0100

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Nvidia has released Vista drivers for the Geforce 6, 7 & 8 series. This is a WHQL release available in 32bit and 64bit flavours. International versions are not available. ForceWare ensures the best out-of-box experience... Read more...

NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007

Express — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:06 +0000

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Nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to a Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in... Read more...