Catalyst 11.6 WHQL available

This months WHQL driver set brings support for the new A-Series APU’s (Llano), a new APP accelerated video feature called AMD Steady Video bringing image stabilization for your shaky videos even on YouTube. The set also has performance improvements for Crysis, F1 2010, Far Cry 2, HawX and Unigine OpenGL tests. Oh and that annoying sticky feeling on the upper right corner of your screen is also gone. For the rest of resolved issues please check the release notes.

Release Notes
Download – WinXP 32bit | WinXP 64bit | Vista/Win7 32bit | Vista/Win7 64bit | CAP (Win All)

nVIDIA ForceWare 275.33 WHQL released

nVIDIA released new WHQL driver suite. This new set brings performance improvements in Crysis 2, Portal 2, Civilization V with SLi, Bulletstorm with AA enabled and with PhysX in Batman: Arkham Asylum. They’ve also implemented some multi-threading tweaks, so you can get up to 12% more performance with dual-core CPUs, where the CPU is the bottleneck. The built in nVIDIA update will now automatically and silently updates the game profiles with the latest SLi, Anti-Aliasing and other tweaks.

Release Notes
Download – WinVista / Win7 32bit | WinVista / Win7 64 bit | WinXP 32bit | WinXP 64bit

Absence

Sorry for my absence as I was doing some renovation works for almost a month and some family time. Now I’m back in business and hopefully provide a steady daily stream of graphics related news.

Catalyst 11.4 WHQL available

AMD released this months WHQL driver set. They obviously come with the performance improvements of the 11.4 Previews, but also fix a couple of rendering issues in games and a couple of video playback related problems as well. They’ve also tweaked display management and the Eyefinity setup for ease of use. After 11.4 the new drivers or rather the Control Center will include an update notification that will check for updates and notify you if there is a new version available.

Release Notes
Download – WinXP 32bit | WinXP 64bit | Vista/Win7 32bit | Vista/Win7 6.as4bit | CAP (Win All)

Non-Ti version of the GTX 560 launches on May 17th.

The guys over at Expreview say that nVIDIA will launch a non-Ti version of the GTX 560 as counter part to AMD’s HD 6790 card. It’ll boost the same specs as the GTX 460 – meaning it will come with 32 ROPs, 56 TMUs, 336 CUDA Cores enabled, but it will be based on the newer GF114 GPU operating at 800MHz instead of 675MHz on the GTX 460. The new card will be launching on the 17th of May, possibly carrying a 149USD price.