New VIA 4-n-1 Driver Set

[RobRich]

VIA just released their new driver set for VIA chipset motherboards. The major update is a new AGP bus driver (stabilty fixes).

http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm

[OuTpaTienT]

I had much better luck trying to d/l them from here:

http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index.htm

[Michael Adcock]

Rob:

Is that the 12-22-99 AGP driver you are talking about?

[RobRich]

Yeah, the AGP driver is dated that date, as this is the info that that the readme contains:

AGP 4X/133 VxD Driver Ver 3.59
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1) Release Date : 12/22/99

It just takes VIA a while to get their complete 4-in-1 driver package together between updates.

[M1pilot]

Anybody using the VIA busmaster drivers, or is it still better to stick with the native Win98 drivers?

-M1pilot

[M1pilot]

Ok, thanks. I guess I'll give them a try again. Never had any problems with the CDROM, but I found the earlier versions to be slower than the native drivers.

-M1pilot

[buitenb]

i am curious when they put up an new 4 in one driver set for w2000 i hope very soon
because i am in love with that new os
Even gaming is generaly no problem
(quake III ,UT,Unreal,quakeIII,revolt enz)
It realy nice and stable.

[RobRich]

MS included most of the VIA driver starting in Win98SE, so I would bet that their already included in Win2k. Just check you system properties for VIA devices. The driver may same MS, but their actually just licesnced VIA drivers.

[RobRich]

I use a seperate ATA-66 controller card now, but when I used my VIA ide controller, I found their drivers to be faster than microsoft's versions. But also beware that VIA's ide drivers have some issues with a few ATAPI cd-roms. The drives will read data, but won't correctly read an audio cd. This has happened to me a couple of times, but the systems in question had really cheap cd-roms too.