AMD Software Adrenalin Drivers 24.4.1 WHQL
Intel Arc & Iris Xe Drivers 31.0.101.5445 WHQL
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 552.22 WHQL
Computer Hardware
Monday News
Intel Wireless Drivers
Intel Killer Performance Suite 34.23.5134
Windows 10 and Windows 11 Wi-Fi Drivers for Intel Wireless Adapters 22.230.0
Intel Wireless Bluetooth for Windows 10 and Windows 11
EMDB 5.23
Freeware movie database software. A few fixes, a few new features.
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Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM tells residents
“Experts back Anthony Albanese’s cybersecurity advice, saying forcibly closing apps could stop criminals from monitoring users or collecting data…
The Australian government’s advice is not new. In 2020, the United State’s National Security Agency issued best-practice guidelines for mobile device security, which included rebooting smartphones once a week to prevent hacking.“
New Drivers
AMD Chipset Drivers 5.05.16.529
Bugfixes
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AMD Software Adrenalin 23.5.1 WHQL Drivers
Support for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and a few fixes.
Download | Release Notes
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 532.03 WHQL
Support for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and 2 fixes.
Download | Release Notes
Samsung SSD Magician Updated
Freeware to manage your Samsung SSDs.
Version 7.2.1 released.
No release notes as usual and I cannot find a clue in the install guide as to what the update is about. I suspect it may have to do with “rapid health drops” of the 990 Pros.
Download | Magician Software Installation Guide
Samsung SSD Magician Home
Wednesday News
Macrium Reflect 8.0.6758
A few small fixes and additions
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Notepad++ 8.4.1
“regression-fixes, bug-fixes new enhancement”
Download & Info
AMD Software Adrenalin 22.5.2 OPTIONAL Drivers
Performance increases in several DX11 games.
Download | Release Notes
Updating Firmware on Samsung SSDs
There were some recent firmware updates for the Samsung 980 Pro lineup. I updated mine and thought I would pass this along…
Download and install/update the Samsung Magician SSD Management Utility.
Although Magician has several uses, the only thing you really need this utility for is updating firmware (unless you want to go through the hassle of creating a boot disk). Firmware updates for SSDs can resolve performance or security issues.
Tips:
– It is not necessary to have Magician running in the system tray. Right-click on the tray icon and remove from startup.
– It is not necessary to have the SamsungMagicianSVC service running all the time. Set it to Manual:
press the Windows + S key > type services > scroll down to SamsungMagicianSVC and double-click it > change it to Manual (optionally stop it too) > click Apply
– I typically check for updates via Magician every month or so, or when it comes to mind.
– Simply running Magician will let you know if there are updates.
– Standard warning: Firmware updates can go wrong…blah, blah, backup, blah blah. In all these years I’ve never had BIOS or firmware updates go wrong and I’ve done too many to count. RTFM
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Samsung Magician 7
“Experience the new user friendly GUI of Samsung Magician. Try our new features and enhanced functions for better user experience. Samsung Magician provides an integrated convenient solution for SSD with advanced capabilities. Samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for users of Samsung Solid Sate Drives (SSDs).”
Download | Installation Guide (release notes)
New Intel Chipset Drivers
Intel Chipset Drivers
Package version: 10.1.18716.8265
Installer version: 3.1.7.142
Date: 03/30/2021
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64
Microsoft Windows 10 (Refer Release Notes for details.)
Microsoft Windows 10 x64
Microsoft Windows* Server 2016 x64
Microsoft Windows* Server 2019 x64
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Creative Sound Blaster Drivers
A certain download site just posted very old Sound Blaster drivers as though they just came out. They are nearly 3 years old.
Here are the Sound Blaster drivers I’m using:
Sound Blaster Z 3.4.98.00 (01FEB2021) – Download & Info
Sound Blaster ZxR 3.4.98.00 (01FEB2021) – Download & Info
Sound Blaster X-Fi Series Last official 24JUNE2019 v11_2_30_0012
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series Last official 24JUNE2019 v11_2_40_0019
I use Daniel_K’s SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 5.0 from 2020. Trust me, they are far, far better than the official drivers.
Sound Blaster Audigy Series
I use Daniel_K’s SB Audigy Series Support Pack 7.0
Samsung Magician 6.3
As usual the initial downloads are “limited” which means mostly unavailable.
I found it over at TechPowerUp.
Official link now live: Samsung SSD Software Page. Thanks Tim!