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Download NVIDIA GeForce Driver 191.07 WHQL

NVIDIA, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker, has just released a new set of GeForce graphics drivers, specifically designed to deliver support for users of the company's GeForce and ION desktop GPUs. The new release, version 191.07 WHQL, delivers a number of updates among which a couple of perf...

6 October 2009
02:54 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce/Ion 190.62 Driver Release

Late last week, NVIDIA announced that Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft had validated a new suite of graphics drivers that would provide users of GeForce graphics products with support for the new DirectCompute technology, available in the upcoming version of Microsoft's operating system, the mu...

24 August 2009
03:38 GMT

Cybercar Fleets to Take Over the Streets

European researchers have recently developed a new type of control system that will in the near future allow driver-less cybercars to take over the streets. Fleets of high throughput rapid transit systems could become the most common means of transportation, all components working without flaw and in perfect cooperat...

22 August 2009
05:56 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 190.38 Beta Drivers

Following the release of the company's latest set of Quadro-supporting drivers, the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has published today a new pack of Windows drivers for GeForce graphics processing units. The new pack is still in its beta form, but adds a number of new features and fixes numerous bugs, enab...

16 July 2009
09:38 GMT

What Makes Drivers Get Road Rage

Road rage is perhaps the thing that most drivers have in common, regardless of where they live and what car they drive. While individuals with aggressive-type personalities are more prone to screaming and bellowing from the windows of their cars in the intersection or in a traffic jam, otherwise peaceful individuals ...

17 June 2009
03:16 GMT

ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver Suite Available for Download

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest vendor of computer processors and graphics processors has just announced the release of its latest Catalyst Driver Suite, version 9.6. As with previous driver releases, the new version has been designed to provide users with a number of performance increases, wh...

16 June 2009
05:36 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce Driver 186.08 BETA Release

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just announced the introduction of its new BETA version of the upcoming GeForce/ION drive release. Designed to provide users with support for NVIDIA's latest series of GeForce GPUs, from the 6-series to the more recent 200-series, the new 186.08 Driver release will also i...

4 June 2009
03:00 GMT

Airplanes Are Still the Safest Way to Travel

Despite a relatively large number of high-profile plane crashes taking place over the last months, statistically speaking, traveling by air is still the safest way of getting from point A to point B, hundreds or thousands of miles away. Large, commercial aircraft, especially, are best equipped to handle large number ...

2 June 2009
10:04 GMT

NVIDIA Releases First GeForce 3D Vision Drivers for Windows 7 – Download Here

As some of you (well, especially those of you who've paid a visit to our Gadgets section) probably know already, a Softpedia team has recently had the chance to take NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision system for a quick test and we were very impressed by the potential of this amazing technology. However, back then,...

15 May 2009
03:29 GMT

Download ATI WHQL-Certified Graphics Driver 8.612 for Windows 7

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced the availability of a new set of WHQL-certified drivers for its line of Radeon graphics cards, coming to support the recent public release of Microsoft's next-generation Windows 7 RC1 operating system. The new drivers are available for dow...

6 May 2009
02:58 GMT

Download NVIDIA Quadro Drivers Release 182.65

After having updated its Beta drivers for GeForce consumer graphics cards, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has recently refreshed the set of drivers for its line of Quadro graphics products, focused on the professional graphics market. The new 182.65 version is WHQL-certified and delivers support for some of the...

5 May 2009
08:51 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 185.81 Beta Drivers

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has recently introduced a new series of GeForce graphics drivers with a new Beta release of their 185 series. The new release offers support for all of the company's latest graphics accelerators, including the most recent GeForce GTX 275, as well as other previously-released ...

4 May 2009
05:22 GMT

People with Higher IQs Make Sounder Economic Decisions

Experts from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities and Morris campuses have proven in a recent study that people with a higher measure of cognitive abilities than the average are more likely to take better economic decisions, at least in some cases. The new research, which focused on about 1,000 trainee truc...

28 April 2009
03:28 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 185.68 Graphics Drivers

Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA has rolled out today a new version of its GeForce graphics drivers, coming in the form of the Beta GeForce Release 185.68. As with all of the company's new driver releases, the new Beta version of the next-generation driver release 185 offers support for t...

8 April 2009
07:05 GMT

REDFLY Sees New Driver Release

The REDFLY driver set has seen a new update recently, as Celio works on providing users with more improvements and compatibility options. One thing that should be noted about the new version 01.04.00.147 of the REDFLY driver is that users should perform the update on both the mobile phone and REDFLY so that they make...

26 March 2009
06:14 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 179.48 Drivers for Notebooks

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just announced a new series of drivers, specifically designed to add support for users of portable computer systems equipped with one of the company's latest graphics processing units. In addition, the new pack will provide users with a new PhysX System Software driver, w...

12 February 2009
10:51 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 182.05 Beta Drivers

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just released a brand new set of beta graphics drivers, in the form of the GeForce 182.05. The new Beta release follows NVIDIA's recently introduced GeForce 181.22 drivers that were designed to provide users with support for the latest and most anticipated game released b...

10 February 2009
10:44 GMT

New Sensor Identifies Sleepy Drivers

Toyota reaffirms its role as innovation spearhead with the development of a new type of sensor that is capable of understanding when a driver is tired or has fallen asleep while behind the wheel and wakes him up immediately. Estimates say that about one in five highway accidents occur as a result of driver fatigue, s...

24 January 2009
07:18 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce 181.22 Drivers Available for Download

Two weeks after the release of the GeForce 181.21 Drivers, which added support for the highly-anticipated GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 graphics cards, NVIDIA has just updated its support with the addition of the new GeForce Drivers, Release 181.22. They are WHQL-certified and provide users of NVIDIA's GeForce gra...

22 January 2009
11:08 GMT

Titanium Golf Clubs Damage Hearing

Recent medical investigations showed that the extremely loud noise made by the new-generation titanium head golf drivers may have an unwanted impact on the golf players' ears, which could even lead to partial or total loss of hearing. The discovery was made by ENT specialist, Dr. Malcolm Buchanan, from England&#...

8 January 2009
05:10 GMT

GeForce 185.20 Beta Drivers Confirm Six New GT200 Graphics Cards

Up to this point, the Santa Clara, California-based NIVIDA has omitted to discuss any plans that go beyond the company's upcoming 55nm-based GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 cards. However, according to some ongoing rumors on the Internet, the graphics maker is expected to debut its first 40nm-based graphics card lin...

5 January 2009
11:57 GMT

Notebook Graphics Drivers Now Available on NVIDIA.com

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just announced that notebook users will now be able to download upgradeable graphics drivers directly from the company's website. The new drivers are meant to enable notebooks that are powered by an NVIDIA mobile graphics processing unit to take advantage of new features ...

18 December 2008
10:23 GMT

NVIDIA Updates GeForce 180 Drivers - Download Available

Santa Clara, California-based graphics manufacturer NVIDIA has just updated its GeForce drivers with the release of the 180.48 version. The new WHQL-certified driver has been designed for the company's GeForce 200-series, 9-series and 8800-series of desktop graphics processors. With the new release, NVIDIA enabl...

19 November 2008
11:20 GMT

Larrabee for Workstations in 2009, No XP Drivers

The latest news on Larrabee unveils that it will come as a workstation product. It seems that Intel intends to release it in the second half of the next year, targeting the high-end market. The giant chip manufacturer appears to be planning to have the new chip on that segment of the market considered to be the most ...

7 November 2008
05:43 GMT

Latest NVIDIA and ATI Drivers - Download Available

After the Santa Clara, California-based green company we all know as NVIDIA has launched its highly anticipated GeForce 9300 and 9400 series of motherboard GPUs, it appears that it has now announced a new set of GeForce and nForce drivers. In addition, rival ATI has also released a new version of its Catalyst Softwar...

16 October 2008
09:57 GMT

Cartoon Network Racing Unlockables (DS)

Cartoon Network Racing is the creation of Cartoon Network Interactive, Eutechnyx and The Game Factory. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo DS. There is one driver on each kart. In the DS version, there are 20 characters and the Powerpuff Girls have separate karts. Theirs are similar to the PS2 kar...

9 October 2008
13:11 GMT

ATI to Show Linux Some Love

According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS. The new drivers should become available sometime i...

3 September 2008
11:40 GMT

Vista SP1 Loses Installed Drivers

Windows Vista, both the RTM and Service Pack 1 versions, can lose installed drivers in scenarios in which the computer is started via the Last Known Good Configuration feature. According to Microsoft not only Vista RTM/SP1 is affected, but also Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1. Machines booted with the Last Known Good Con...

18 August 2008
05:35 GMT

The RTM Legacy, Vista SP1 Fails to Play Nice with Drivers

Some of the sins of the RTM version of Windows Vista have not been exorcised with the advent of Service Pack 1. The gold Build of Vista was plagued from the get go with hardware incompatibility problems, mainly due to the lack of compatible drivers. However, while incompatible drivers can be blamed on hardware develo...

12 August 2008
11:39 GMT

Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Kernel Mode Driver Framework

On June 2, 2008 Microsoft made available for download the Community Technology Preview of Windows Embedded Standard 2009. The successor of Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is planned for availability in the second half of 2008, and will bring to the table some new features addressed specifically to...

20 June 2008
12:51 GMT

Vista SP1 Driver Incompatibility Issues Still Unresolved

Four months since Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing, the driver incompatibility issues affecting the implementation of the service pack are still unresolved. Vista SP1 RTM'd on February 4, 2008 along with Windows Server 2008. At that time, Microsoft informed that it was postponing the general avail...

6 June 2008
06:00 GMT

VIA Goes Open-Source, Embraces Linux

Taiwanese chip manufacturer VIA has announced a new project aimed at supporting the open-source development community in writing software for the company's processors and chipsets. The company has also announced its official VIA Linux website that will welcome its first visitors later this month.When the website...

9 April 2008
09:29 GMT

Creative: You Fix Our Sound Drivers, We Throw You In Jail

Soundcard specialist Creative has been marketing its sound-related products as "Vista Ready" since the release of the new operating system from Microsoft. However, things are not quite exactly true, and many of the company's customers have fallen for this "misunderstanding". The issue relies in the Windows Vista...

31 March 2008
12:40 GMT

AMD to Deliver Open Source Drivers for Their Graphic Cards

Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales and marketing has recently made an incredible announcement at the Red Hat Summit. Henri Richard stated that AMD would deliver open source graphics drivers. This announcement has been anticipated by some people since last year, when AMD acquired ATI. Even though it was not mention...

14 May 2007
06:01 GMT

AMD: Windows Vista Not as Stable as Windows XP

Driver performance in Windows Vista compared to Windows XP is one of the subjects addressed by Henri Richard, executive vice president and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at AMD, during a company webcast event for bloggers. In terms of performance, Windows Vista has suffered numerous comparisons with the predecesso...

10 May 2007
05:25 GMT

Windows Vista Driver Installation Failures

Driver installation issues represent an inherent result in the evolution of the code in Windows Vista in comparison with Windows XP. The fact of the matter is that the modifications introduced to Windows Vista affect the driver for approximately all device classes. Microsoft argued that all changes were implemented f...

4 May 2007
06:06 GMT

The Hunt for Windows Vista Drivers

Together with the launching of Windows XP back in 2001, Microsoft also introduced Windows Update. And Windows Update proved to be a breath of fresh air from the Plug and Play technology. But with Windows Vista you are no longer at the mercy of driver disks from the manufacturers. Microsoft has streamlined and automat...

26 March 2007
05:58 GMT

Windows Vista Drivers Database - No More Driver Problems!

Support and compatibility issues are among the top shortcomings of Windows Vista since its commercial launch on January 30 2007. Moreover, among the static associated with both these problems I even caught criticisms directed at Microsoft. Some users have failed to comprehend that it is the responsibility of the soft...

19 March 2007
07:55 GMT


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