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NVIDIA released its latest GeForce “Game Ready” drivers that make your machine ready for an upcoming AAA game. Version 355.82 WHQL offers optimizations for “Metal Gear Sold V: The Phantom Pain,” and “Mad Max.” These include single-GPU optimizations, SLI support, and optimal settings on GeForce Experience. The drivers also add/improve SLI profiles for a number of games, including Batman: Arkham Knight, DMC 4 Special Edition, Rocket League, and World of Tanks (improved Windows 10 support).

You can download the new GeForce 355.82 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

NVIDIA has launched its new GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card. The $159.99 priced Geforce GTX 950 is based on the same second generation Maxwell GPU as the Geforce GTX 960, the GM206. The new Geforce GTX 950 is mostly meant for MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) gamers. We have collected a large number of reviews and we’ve posted the links to them below for your convenience.

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NVIDIA released its latest version of the GeForce driver software. Version 355.60 WHQL features the “Game Ready” moniker, as it’s released just in time for “Ashes of the Singularity,” a new RTS in the space-opera setting. Developed by Stardock, this game is one of the first to feature DirectX 12 support. In addition, the drivers include a beta version of NVIDIA’s GameWorks VR SDK. Besides optimizations for “Ashes of the Singularity,” the drivers add SLI profiles for “Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition,” and “Next Car Game: Wreckfest.”

You can download the new GeForce 355.60 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

With the release of Windows 10 today, AMD has made available a minor update to its Catalyst drivers, version 15.7.1. This driver provides support for Windows 10 as well as full WDDM 2.0 and DirectX 12 support which is available on all AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) products, – AMD Radeon HD 7000 and newer graphics products. The new 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers also include a number of bug fixes. For more information, check out the release notes here.

You can download the AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers here.

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AMD’s Radeon Fury X is here, the AMD Radeon R9 Fury presents itself and we evaluate a full retail custom ASUS STRIX R9 Fury using ASUS’ new DirectCU III technology. We will compare this to a GeForce GTX 980 using the new drivers AMD just released and find out what kind of gameplay experience the R9 Fury has to offer.

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Written By: Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews

When the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X video card that is powered by the Fiji GPU was revealed to the world in June 2015 we were promised by AMD that the less powerful, but more affordable AMD Radeon R9 Fury video card would be coming. Reviewing the flagship AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB HBM memory card showed that AMD was able to catch back up to NVIDIA, but not everyone wants or can afford a $649 water cooled graphics cards for their gaming PC. The new AMD Radeon R9 Fury video card is basically a cut down version of the Fury X with slightly lower core clock speeds and air cooling for a suggested retail price of $549. Our friends over at Sapphire hooked us up with the Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X OC video card for this launch. The number of cards was very limited for this launch and we actually drove to meet Sapphire and picked up a card for testing that just came back from another site on June 9th. By the time we got the card on the test bench there was less than 16 hours before the embargo lifted, so that is why this review is posted up a little later in the day than usual. As soon as we are done we are packing the card back up and it’s out the door on Monday.

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AMD released the Catalyst 15.7 WHQL driver suite, its first WHQL-signed Catalyst driver in 212 days (since 14.12 Omega). These drivers add official support for all the new AMD Radeon R9 300 series and R9 Fury series graphics processors launched in the past two months, and comes with a ship load of new features and game optimizations. They also include WDDM 2.0 support, letting you use them with Windows 10.

To begin with, Catalyst 15.7 WHQL adds support for AMD FreeSync in CrossFire setups, on DirectX 10 and higher 3D applications. Features such as VSR (virtual super-resolution) and FRTC (frame-rate target control) are now official. CrossFire profiles have been added/improved for over a dozen games since 14.12 Omega. Frame-rates have been increased for Far Cry 4 and Tomb Raider.

You can download the AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL drivers here.

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NVIDIA today released GeForce 353.45 Hotfix drivers that resolve an issue where Sony Vegas Pro was crashing on some users. This driver build includes all the fixes that were in the previous 353.38 hotfix driver release, so this is the latest and greatest driver from NVIDIA. The NVIDIA forums have a number of users saying that GeForce 353.45 Hotfix drivers are causing issues on Windows 10 though, so you might want to avoid this driver if you are running Windows 10. You can download GeForce 353.45 Hotfix drivers here.

UPDATE: NVIDIA has released GeForce 353.49 Hotfix drivers that solve the Windows 10 issue introduced with GeForce 353.45 drivers, so be sure to download those!

By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

We review and benchmark that owl of a card, the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti STRIX, the graphics card is named after a beast, and is one. The product comes factory overclocked at great levels and has got that all new three fan cooling. Albeit not the best performing cooler, it is the most silent one we’ve tested thus far. Merge all that with the default goodness the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has to offer like the 6 GB graphics memory and this product simply is a h00t.

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NVIDIA has just released GeForce Hotfix driver version 353.38, that addresses a number of issues that users have been complaining about. The largest fix is for those that have been having some trouble with Google Chrome crashing or freezing up on their system when using the browser.

NVIDIA GeForce Hot Driver Version 353.38 Fixed Issues:

• Chrome Crashes. Freezes and Timeout Detection and Recovery errors (TDRs)
• Delays when starting or switching apps & games with GSYNC enabled

You can download the right GeForce Hot Fix driver for your system here.