Release Highlights:

• WHQL Certified.
• Adds support for GeForce 7200 GS
• NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD driver with support for the following features:
• Hardware acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD movie formats.
• Video post-processing image enhancements.
• Built-in support for HDCP content protection protocol via DVI or HDMI connectors.
• Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on building a PureVideo HD system.
• Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel. Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel website for more information.
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support

On June 1st NVIDIA released another set of official drivers for Windows Vista. They are for GeForce 6/7/8 line of GPUs, and are available in both 32bit and 64bit flavors. This is a WHQL release and it does not support GeForce Go mobile GPUs.

Release Highlights:

• WHQL Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
• Fixed a problem when trying to enable NVIDIA SLI using the international versions of Windows Vista.
• Please view the driver Release Notes for a list of all of the fixed issues in this driver release

Release Highlights:

• Improved performance for DirectX 10 version of Company of Heroes
• Improved 3D performance for single GPU and NVIDIA SLI
• Numerous game and application compatibility fixes
• This driver supports the following 3D features:
• Single GPU support
• DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
• DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
• OpenGL support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
• NVIDIA SLI support
• DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
• DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
• OpenGL support for GeForce 8 series GPUs

Performance Improvements

OpenGL performance is improved on the ATI Radeon™ X1950 XTX at high resolutions (1920x1200 or greater) with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled. Doom 3 and Quake 4 improves as much as 13-18%, and Prey improves at least 15.6%. The ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro and X1650 XT also sees improvements in Doom 3 and Quake 4 of up to 14.1% at higher resolutions with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

* Call of Duty: An error message no longer appears when task switching between the game and the Windows desktop. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26750
* Just Cause: The game no longer fails to run cinematic at 1600x1200 game resolution on ATI Radeon™ X1200/1250/1270 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27093
* Installing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Master and X1900 slave under Windows XP no longer results in AA settings failing to be retained when rebooting the system. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25808
* Uninstalling the graphics drivers no longer results in some of the files and folder failing to be removed in the Program File folder. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23715
* When operated from the Start Menu->All Programs->Catalyst™ Control Center, the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer fails to display the expected choices Catalyst™ Control Center->Wizard and Catalyst™ Control Center->Advanced on some hardware configurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27096

Catalyst 7.5
Catalyst 7.5 w/ Control Panel

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Download: Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.2

Release Notes 

Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla has been updated to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4. 

Download: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

Release Notes 

Microsoft is set to release not only Windows Server 2008, but also Windows XP Service Pack 3 later this year, according to a recent press release on Microsoft PressPass. It has been suspected in the past that Windows XP SP2 would end up as the final service pack released for the operating system, but apparently these suspicions can now be laid to rest. This information came in conjunction with the announcement that Windows XP SP3 as well as Windows Vista will gain support for interoperability between Microsoft's Network Address Protection (NAP) and Juniper Network's Unified Access Control (UAC) standards for network access control (NAC) deployments.

Source: techamok.com