Drivers
As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
NVIDIA Releases 378.66 WHQL Driver: Game Ready, More Ansel, With 10 and 12-bit video
Not wanting to be left out of the Valentine’s day fray, NVIDIA has swung by to drop off their driver updates in preparation for this week’s releases and next...
4 by Daniel Williams on 2/14/2017
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.2.1
Despite the arrival of Valentine’s day, gamers are still gonna game, and AMD is in to prepare us for this week’s game releases. The new update for Radeon Software...
18 by Daniel Williams on 2/14/2017
NVIDIA Releases 378.49 WHQL Driver Update
A little over half a month in, and we have our first driver release from NVIDIA for the new year. Both camps were so rapid fire with driver releases...
22 by Daniel Williams on 1/25/2017
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 16.12.2 Update
We are not even two weeks out from the release of AMD's Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition and we have been given an update. The 16.12.2 update brings the...
3 by Daniel Williams on 12/21/2016
NVIDIA Releases 376.19 WHQL Driver Update: Game Ready Oculus Touch and Two Giveaways
This week we are finally seeing the long-awaited release of the Oculus touch controllers and the collection of games following in its wake. As a result, we also seem...
21 by Daniel Williams on 12/6/2016
NVIDIA Releases 376.09 WHQL Driver Update
Watchdogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new NVIDIA driver update, bundled in with a few fixes. The 376.09 update continues the Release...
15 by Daniel Williams on 11/29/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.5 Hotfix
Watch Dogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new driver update from AMD bundled in with a couple of fixes. As a result...
2 by Daniel Williams on 11/29/2016
NVIDIA Releases 375.86 WHQL Driver Update
Two more weeks after NVIDIA’s last hotfix we have another WHQL update to cement those fixes, optimize more games, and prepare for more releases. Releases and updates have been...
20 by Daniel Williams on 11/18/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.4 Hotfix
Continuing with a steady stream of updates, we are here with a new driver from AMD. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.4 brings the core driver version up to 16.40.3211...
8 by Daniel Williams on 11/18/2016
Update: NVIDIA Releases 375.63 WHQL Driver update
Update 10/23: NVIDIA has yanked the 375.57 drivers this weekend and replaced them with a new build, 375.63. The updated driver set fixes an especially annoying bug with tiles...
12 by Daniel Williams on 10/22/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2
We are now wading through the blockbuster season for the PC gaming industry. Consequently, the list of fixes is on the shorter side this time around, but AMD is...
17 by Daniel Williams on 10/21/2016
NVIDIA Releases 373.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver - Support for Mafia III, GoW 4 and Shadow Warrior 2
Not to miss out on the many releases this fall NVIDIA is working hard to keep our computers ready for the newest and upcoming games. In another iteration of...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/7/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 Hotfix - Support for GoW 4 and Mafia III
As the new games continue to roll in I’m sure the driver developers are hard at work keeping up with all the big release. With AMD Radeon Software Crimson...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/5/2016
NVIDIA Releases 372.90 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not to be outdone by AMD, NVIDIA also has their own driver release this evening, with the release of driver version 372.90. Among the fixes in this latest drivers includes...
32 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.2 - Support for Forza Horizon 3
As more games approach this fall, we can expect GPU manufacturers to keep updates rolling out so that our cards can be ready for the latest games as they...
22 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1, Adds Deus Ex Mankind Divided DX12 Support
AMD has released their first Radeon driver update for September this week with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1. Notable in this release is that along with the usual batch...
17 by Daniel Williams on 9/9/2016
NVIDIA Releases 372.70 WHQL Game Ready Driver
It’s driver update time again. This time with a small list of fixes and a relatively large list of game ready titles. Though the list is a bit inflated...
2 by Daniel Williams on 8/31/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.2 Hotfix
In very short order AMD has dropped another driver update in response to the latest. The 16.8.2 hotfix gives the driver version a minor bump to 16.30.2511.1001. With only...
3 by Daniel Williams on 8/16/2016
NVIDIA Releases 372.54 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Yesterday NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce GTX 10 Series for notebooks. Following through they have sent out the new 372.54 driver update with support for the new notebooks and in...
4 by Daniel Williams on 8/16/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.1 Hotfix
Hardly a week and a half has gone by and AMD has released another driver update. Of course with the flood of newly released cards we have seen released...
11 by Daniel Williams on 8/9/2016
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