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New Nvidia Drivers (XP/Vista)

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# WHQL certified driver for GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
# Added support for the following Motherboard GPUs:
* GeForce 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i
* GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
* GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i
# Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, and OpenGL applications.
# Game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

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Catalyst 7.10 Are Out

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[H]ardOCP broke the news!

AMD / ATi let us know that the new Catalyst 7.10 drivers are out now for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Linux drivers are coming soon. Aside from a host of performance improvements in BioShock, World In Conflict, Lost Planet, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and others, the new drivers also include a few new features:

Speaking of [H], they’ve got a review up of the motherboard you don’t want to buy.

Half Life 2: Episode 2 Quick Performance Preview

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While Episode 2 may not push the boundaries of graphics by offering DirectX 10 graphical effects, it none the less offers spectacular DirectX 9 graphics with a few tricks up its sleeves, including the ability to offload particle effects to the GPU and of course massively fun gameplay…we’d like to share with you our first performance experiences with the game with a quick apples-to-apples performance comparison.

Gamers, you’ll want to hit up The [H] to see the screenshots.

New Nvidia Drivers for Vista

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ForceWare Release 163.69 WHQL

# WHQL Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
# Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
# Improved compatibility for The Way It’s Meant To Be Played™ game titles: BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, and World in Conflict.
# Added HD video post-processing for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD content on the GeForce 8500 and 8600 series GPUs.
# Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

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Vista users should also check out these MS/Nvidia Hotfixes.