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AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking

By Paul Alcorn published 5 April 22

AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its Adrenalin GPU drivers is causing changes to CPU settings in the BIOS, which results in the CPU being overclocked without the user's permission.

Intel Alder Lake Users Get First New iGPU Driver in Three Months

By Mark Tyson published 8 February 22

PC enthusiasts and DIYers who had bought into one of the new Alder Lake platforms with chips announced at CES 2022 were stuck on an iGPU driver dated August 2021, until now.

Nvidia Delivers Important Security Update Driver for Kepler GPUs

By Mark Tyson published 1 February 22

Driver 473.04 and 472.98 WHQL patch "multiple security" threats.

Nvidia Announces AI-Powered DLDSR in Upcoming Game Ready Driver

By Isaac Rouse published 11 January 22

Nvidia announced several features, including the AI-powered DLDSR, in it's upcoming Game Ready Driver.

Promotional image for the driver release.

New Nvidia Game Ready Driver Makes You a Guardian of the Galaxy

By Francisco Pires published 26 October 21

Performance improvements abound for other upcoming games.

AMD Radeon Open-Source Workstation GPU Driver Gets 10 Percent Performance Bump

By Aleksandar Kostovic published 10 September 21

The open-source RadeonSI driver for workstation-grade software has been updated with new code, gaining 10% more performance.

Radeon R9 Fury X, hailing from 2015, a bit worse for wear. Sorry about the dust!

AMD Is Retiring Driver Support for R9 Fury and Older Cards Including Pre-Ryzen APUs

By Aaron Klotz published 22 June 21

AMD has officially ended support for GPUs that are older than the RX 400 series. The same will also apply to pre-Ryzen APUs and Windows 7.

Windows 10 Update Fail: New AMD Driver Reportedly Causes Boot Issues

By Nathaniel Mott published 7 May 21

A new AMD SCSIAdapter driver update has reportedly caused Windows 10 boot issues on some hardware configurations.

New Nvidia Driver Adds Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions

By Aaron Klotz published 15 December 20

New GeForce Game Ready Driver Adds Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions

Latest Adrenalin Driver: Support for RX 6900 XT and Cyberpunk 2077

By Aaron Klotz published 8 December 20

AMD's latest Adrenalin driver 20.12.1 adds support for RX 6900 XT and Cyberpunk 2077

New GeForce Game Ready Driver Adds Support for RTX 3070 and Watch Dogs: Legion

By Aaron Klotz published 29 October 20

New GeForce Game Ready Driver 457.09 adds support for the new RTX 3070 and five new titles including Watch Dogs: Legion

Nvidia Game Driver 456.71 Ready for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

By Aaron Klotz published 7 October 20

Nvidia Game Driver 456.71 Ready for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Reflex and hotfixes for Original Sin 2 and Fortnite.

Intel's Linux Ice Lake Gen11 Drivers Are Feature-Complete

By Arne Verheyde published 5 May 19

Intel now officially considers its open-source Linux drivers for Ice Lake’s Gen11 graphics feature-complete, more specifically its OpenGL and Vulkan drivers that are respectively called i915 and ANV

Alpha Status Removed from Intel Ice Lake Gen11 Graphics Driver

By Arne Verheyde published 25 March 19

New Intel Graphics Drivers Add Automatic Game Configuration Feature

By Derek Forrest published 14 February 18

Intel released a new graphics driver that introduces a Graphics Control Panel which automatically configures game settings for a handful of popular titles.

Nvidia's GeForce 388.71 WHQL Driver Is Ready For 'PUBG'

By Steven Lynch published 20 December 17

Nvidia released its final GeForce Game Ready driver of the year. This new driver brings support for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for Nvidia GPU owners today.

Nvidia Releases A Game Ready Driver For 'Fallout 4 VR'

By Steven Lynch published 8 December 17

Nvidia released a new Game Ready driver, so all of you GeForce owners out there with plans to play Fallout 4 VR should update to the GeForce Game Ready 388.59 WHQL driver.