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Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers

Scott Michaud — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:00:57 +0000

When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because web browsers need to be fast and resistant to malware. Their…

NVIDIA’s Gamescom Game Ready Driver Boosts Performance, Adds Low Latency and Integer Scaling

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:46:18 +0000

In what promises to be the biggest driver update of the year NVIDIA has dropped a "Gamescom Ready Driver" this morning that not only offers what the company claims to be up…

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition Adds Mobile & VR Game Streaming, Performance Tuning

Jim Tanous — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:01:00 +0000

AMD today released the latest major update to its Radeon software and driver suite. Building on the groundwork laid last year, AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition brings a number of new…

Logitech G433 7.1 Wired Surround Gaming Headset Review

Sebastian Peak — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:19:16 +0000

Introduction and Specifications We test out the newest Pro-G driven surround headset Logitech has been releasing gaming headphones with a steady regularity of late, and this summer we have another new model…

Logitech’s G433 7.1 Gaming Headset: Stylish Looks and Pro-G Drivers for $99

Sebastian Peak — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 22:23:29 +0000

Logitech has released their latest surround gaming headphones with the wired G433 Gaming Headset, a 7.1-channel (via DTS Headphone:X) model that is latest to use the company's Pro-G drivers. The style of…

NVIDIA Releases 355.82 WHQL Drivers

Scott Michaud — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:19:59 +0000

Unlike last week's 355.80 Hotfix, today's driver is fully certified by both NVIDIA and Microsoft (WHQL). According to users on GeForce Forums, this driver includes the hotfix changes, although I am still…

NVIDIA 355.80 Hotfix for Windows 10 SLI Memory Issues

Scott Michaud — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:23:12 +0000

While GeForce Hotfix driver 355.80 is not certified, or even beta, I know that a lot of our readers have issues with SLI in Windows 10. Especially in games like Battlefield 4,…

AMD Releases New WHQL Catalyst 15.7 Drivers

Josh Walrath — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:52:40 +0000

Sadly, it is not every month that we see a new AMD WHQL driver release. Several years back AMD made the promise that they would release WHQL drivers on a monthly basis,…

NVIDIA Releases 347.52 Drivers and Brothers for GRID

Scott Michaud — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:00:01 +0000

Update: Whoops! The title originally said "374.52", when it should be "347.52". My mistake. Thanks "Suddenly" in the comments! Two things from NVIDIA this week, a new driver and a new game…

Some NVIDIA R337.50 Driver Controversy

Scott Michaud — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 02:44:21 +0000

NVIDIA's GeForce 337.50 Driver was said to address performance when running DirectX 11-based software. Now that it is out, multiple sources are claiming the vendor-supplied benchmarks are exaggerated or simply untrue. ExtremeTech…

NVIDIA Releases 326.19 Beta Driver, Adds Support for 4K Tiled Displays!

Ryan Shrout — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:16:21 +0000

It would appear that NVIDIA was paying attention to our recent live stream where we unboxed and setup our new ASUS PQ321Q 4K 3840×2160 monitor. During our setup on the AMD and…

AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta Drivers For Windows and Linux Now Available

Tim Verry — Wed, 29 May 2013 07:32:42 +0000

AMD has released its Catalyst 13.6 beta graphics driver, and it fixes a number of issues under both Windows 8 and Linux. The new beta driver is also compatible with the existing…

AMD Releases Catalyst 13.1 GPU Drivers With Various Tweaks for Radeon HD 7000 Series

Tim Verry — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:33:12 +0000

AMD recently released a new set of Catalyst graphics card drivers with Catalyst 13.1. The new drivers are WHQL (Microsoft certified) and incorporate all of the fixes contained in the 12.11 beta…

New NVIDIA 304.79 Beta Drivers Add TXAA and Bug Fixes

Tim Verry — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:17:34 +0000

NVIDIA has made the latest version of its beta graphics card drivers available for download. With the new version 304.79 beta drivers comes TXAA support, numerous bug fixes, and the first unified…

NVIDIA Responds to Linus Torvalds’ Rant

Tim Verry — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:35:52 +0000

Last week, the founder of Linux – Linus Torvalds – gave a speech at the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship. The aspect that most people picked up on was a certain disparaging statement…