ATI Radeon 4.5 (release notes)
nForce mobo drivers 4.24
Cant see anything exciting / worth bothering with in either of those tbh, unless you have problems. Also note a minor “known issue” with these radeon drivers:
That’s great… New catalyst that breaks ET… That’s so ATI… mumblings stupid idiots mumblings
That’s only when AA is set to 2x or 4x though.
But hey at least ATi doesn’t reduce texture quality for better performance…
Ive had a huge increase in performance since installing those nForce drivers… no longer need to use com_maxfps 43 as im sitting perfectly at 70-85 in most areas and 60+ in Radar Grass and such… 
big change from my 10/20 before… same old FX5200 too…
Shame tho, need to install XP SP1 now to update me USB as it wont support USB 2.0 without it…
Upon installing the latest nForce 2 drivers. I screamed my head off due to what they changed. The nVidia sound mixer is bollocks, the new sound storm is bollocks. Man they cocked up thier drivers 
I had to revert to the old ones
Those drivers work wonders here. Odd. I like NVMixer, I think it’s much better than the old app. But that’s just me.
Not even had time to look at anything else that came with em cos I installed em 5 minutes before our Unter game and upon teh celebrations after it I just smoked meself to sleep on comms watching teh demos lol…
I cannot use ET with my current 4.5 drivers, it just crashes almost instantly after joining a game. The Windows error reporting says it’s a known problem and was caused by “ATI”.
Where can I get the older 4.4 drivers?
Edit: OK I found em at last, damn that link on the ATI site is TINY
You can also find optimized versions of ATI drivers at Omega Corner that’s if you can stand God Loves You all stuff… :rolleyes:
ati catalyst driver 4.6
release notes
Improvements in OpenGL driver efficiency bring numerous small gains (1-3%) in Call of Duty, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Star Trek - Elite Force II, Serious Sam, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake III Arena.
A massive one, maybe even three whole percent! I can almost hear the collective gasp of wonder and astonishment.
Hmmm… If there’s 10 small gains of 1-3 % I’ll take those!
Oddly enough, nVidia leads most of the benchmarks on OpenGL compared to ATI. I wonder if ATI is finally starting to understand that and making the appropriate changes…
@DG, damn I looked this morning and it wasn’t there. ahhh well 
EDIT: Oh DG, could you change the thread’s name since I don’t think nVidia will change their nForce drivers anytime soon. 6 months is what it took for the last changes.
I read some completely unreliable rumour, pretending to have been started by an ati software engineer, that ati were re-writing their OpenGL driver from scratch. In the unlikely event this is true* I would assume that driver would be planned for sometime prior to doom3, or any doom3 benchmark.
Well, at least it is a little more honest than the “up to 40% performance improvement” nvidia has claimed for just about every driver from the original detonator on up 