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Nvidia Detonator XP Drivers (Windows XP/2000) 29.42  popular
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Downloads: 562,353
Publisher: Nvidia
Date added: June 13, 2002
File size: 8.25MB; Clock this download 
License: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/XP
Uninstaller included?: No

Description
The Nvidia Detonator XP Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) delivers new performance optimizations and features in both DirectX and OpenGL. Detonator XP provides a free performance upgrade for your TNT, GeForce2, and GeForce3 families of GPUs. Detonator XP software provides a 30 to 50 percent increase in performance for all Nvidia GPUs in both DirectX and OpenGL application programming interfaces. In addition, Detonator XP software exposes new hardware acceleration for Windows XP, enabling new features such as 3D textures and shadow buffers.

The latest update features GeForce4 Ti 4200 support, full acceleration and support for the GeForce4 and Quadro4 families, highly optimized Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 with Nvidia extensions pipelines, and more.

 
CNET User Opinions
47%Thumbs Up     53%Thumbs Down    (53 votes)   You rate this title
Thumbs Down Krome211
"stick with your old drivers"
I happened to pick up Nvidia's new 29.42 detonator drivers the day they released them while I browsing their website. After install, I found that my graphics card (a 64MB DDR GeForce 3 Ti) performance was WORSE than when I had had the old drivers. I uninstalled the new drivers and re-installed teh new drivers, tested the performance again, and found that my card was once againworking at full speed. Until Nvidia fixes the bugs, stick with what you have.

Thumbs Down DJ
"SCREEN SAVERS LOCK UP"
IT WAS EASY TO INSTALL AND XP ACCEPTED THE NEW DRIVER BUT IF YOU CHOOSE A NEW SCREEN SAVER OR JUST WAIT TILL IT COMES ON IT LOCKS THE COMPUTOR UP SOLID, CAN'T EVEN SOFT BOOT. I AM RUNNING AN ASUS A7V333 MB W/AMD XP2000+, GEFORCE 3 64MB DDR, IT SHOULD WORK FINE BUT APPARENTLY HAS BUGS STILL. I ROLLED BACK TO THE PREVIOUS DRIVER AND ALL IS WELL AGAIN




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