New version 100.65 ForceWare reference drivers (release notes - PDF) are now available for NVIDIA video cards. These drivers have been validated by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs, but they're by no means feature-complete. The Nvidia Control Panel is still missing features like video overlay control, and the nView control panel is still missing altogether. In fact, Nvidia's release notes for these new ForceWare drivers suggest that the company only fixed two bugs since the ForceWare 100.64 release that came out last Wednesday. One of the bugs concerned application profiles on multi-user systems, and the other had to do with 1080i overlay playback quality. There are Windows Vista 32-bit drivers and Windows Vista 64-bit drivers, but nothing for other flavors of Windows at this time.

In other news, TheInquirer reports that AMD plans to have WHQL-certified Catalyst drivers for its upcoming R600 graphics card on launch day. The latest rumors suggest that the R600 launch will take place on March 30, and that AMD will be introducing a single graphics card dubbed Radeon X2900 XTX.