New Nvidia Drivers Released

[Johnny Mac]

Detonator 4 has been released, only the marketing monkeys at nvidia are calling it DetXP.

[fireball****aka fireball_87]

rotflmao!! detxp?! wtf?! now even nivda's sucking up to m$!

[Treker]

Originally posted by fireball****aka fireball_87
rotflmao!! detxp?! wtf?! now even nivda's sucking up to m$!

Man you just hit the nail right on the head, same thing that went through my mind :)

-Trek

[TranceBear]

Got them but don't expect it to be easy, all the websites that have them sre taxed out right now, I would wait until later on tonight.

[Sony]

Cool must get once computer is fixed I'm typing from my roommates computer because my Linux box doesn't have a LAN card yet

[kat]

i just downloaded them 3.62 mgb on a dailup sheesh :D

[JaY_III]

M$ gave nVidia 200 million to develope the X-Box... not only do they have to suckup, but enjoy it to.

[phiber]

M$ sucks nuff said

[Placid]

SANTA CLARA, CA — SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 — NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) announced today the availability of its Detonator™ XP unified driver for it’s award-winning family of 3D graphics processing units (GPUs). Detonator XP includes specific technology designed to unleash the power of the highly anticipated Windows® XP operating system. It also provides performance enhancements for Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows Me environments. Detonator XP is available free of charge, and can be downloaded today at www.nvidia.com.


“Our Unified Driver Architecture gives us the unique ability to give customers a free performance upgrade six months after a new GPU hits the market,” said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “Detonator XP allows us to continue this tradition. And, with Detonator XP’s XPress Link technology, it unleashes new hardware and software capabilities making it the ultimate driver environment for Windows XP.”


Detonator XP contains the new-patented Detonator XPress Link technology utilizing the patented Direct Memory Access (DMA) found on all NVIDIA hardware, Detonator Xpress Link provides a direct connection from the hardware to the operating system. As a result, Detonator XPress Link assists in accelerating the new optimizations made in the I/O Subsystem and Memory Management portions of Windows XP’s core. With Detonator XPress Link technology, NVIDIA is able to deliver the fastest 3D graphics performance on all Windows XP platforms.


Detonator XP also features a complete OpenGL® 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions– allowing developers to create content that fully exposes the hardware features of NVIDIA’s GPUs. Detonator XP also includes custom DirectX® pipelines specifically designed to fully accelerate Windows XP and all other operating systems. By way of these new enhancements, Detonator XP delivers up to a 50% performance gain in Microsoft DirectX and SGI OpenGL applications.


Detonator XP supports the entire TNT2™, GeForce™, GeForce2™, Quadro™, Quadro2, Quadro DCC and GeForce3 families of GPUs and is based on NVIDIA’s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA). Through UDA, NVIDIA’s software drivers are compatible with past, present and future NVIDIA GPUs, and are top-to-bottom compatible with all currently manufactured versions of NVIDIA’s GPUs.

http://www.nvidia.com/us/ie/pg000102.htm

[Mord-Sith]

Well Im running windows me with a 256 ddr g1 but I didnt get 1 darn point extra out of 3dmark. I hope openGL is improved or somthing.

LoL maybe nvidia just gave me a reason to upgrade to xp...