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I'm a few days behind in the notification but for all you gearheads, Nvidia has released their latest official certified driver set ver 40.72. Many application have received as much as a 25% increase in performance. You can download them here Nvida

Release Highlights:

Up to a 25% increase in performance
nView™ 2.0 multi-display technology increases productivity and provides the necessary tools to control the way users access and view applications.
NVRotate™ enabling image rotation on today’s advanced flat panel displays.
NVKeystone™ allows for real-time image correction on portable projectors and heads-up displays.
Digital Vibrance Control™ allows users to adjust color controls to achieve accurate, bright colors under all conditions.
New control panel streamlines user interface and enables faster and easier access to all video settings
Robust Channels enables higher faster performance and better stability for all applications through fail-safe paths in the drivers
CineFX Simulator allows developers to use Cg—“C for graphics”—to write complex shaders in a high level language faster and more easily than before.
NVIDIA’s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) – supports all products in a single driver binary

Hi Gmenfan!

I'm running it and work just fine with XP Pro.
Things seem a little bit faster but will know more after more testing.

****!!! I downloaded them, but get an error when I try to run the update!! It says it will close, operation cancelled due to restrictions on this computer!! WTF, it's NOT a network machine, and what the heel restrictions could it be referring to!!?? Of course you can't get any **** support from freakin' bigshot nvidia either, what do I do now???

Mike what O/S are you runing, if it's 2000 or XP you need to have administrative privaledges(even if your not running a network). That's the only thing I can think of unless you mistakenly downloaded the wrong version set for your O/S. Might be a corrupted download? Mine didn't have any update feature. Mine self extracted to an Nvidia temp directory which I then entered and ran setup which installs, then reboots to complete installation.

Duh!! Windows ME, thanks for the reply!!

Mike I'm sure you'll figure it out, this is the only tibit of info I can find.

Driver Installation Hints


"Download Accelerator" utilities should be disabled when downloading any drivers.
Do not run virus protection software in the background while installing the drivers. This prevents the driver from configuring itself properly.

Thanks for your help, I finally re-downloaded it, and all was well, I had been browsing, and doing other things when I foirst DL'ed it, so may have corrupted it somehow, the icon for the file before was the default for an .exe, not the different looking icon it uses on the present, a sure sign all was not as it should be!!

Thanks, I'm on my way!

Do the new drivers fix the problem with running DOS applications?
IIRC, several people were having trouble with Nvida cards not supportling DOS games, or having display problems with them.

They look fine to me, bchapman. I've only suffered a temporary black screen in a game, but the map came back after a few seconds.

Stranger was that in some missions in Allied Assault, I can see the edges of the skybox. Weird. :p

I had to revert to an older driver set, my Red Baron 3D kept crashing out, guess sometimes newer isn't better?!

Sorry to here that Mike, but it happens to almost all of us at one time or another.

I was updating my XP from ms update and one of the updates was a new driver for my TnT2 video card it's 4.0 something so I installed and don't seem to have any problems except for one like belisarious mentioned,when the ai is doing it's thing I get a black screen except for the line telling me that..example"po squad fires lmg ot ger. recon squad"

Rollback the drivers to previous version, and then only update the official drivers from the manufacture. I ran into a similar instance when I ran and MS update and they claimed to have an NVidia update to version 30.87 from the official 30.82. I updated and had problems with 3D games. After contacting Nvidia I was told that MS has a habit of creating hybrid drivers from the original official ones from the manufacture and releasing as updated without official consent or verification signing from the manufacture. My advise is stick with manufacture officially signed dirvers releases.

If you can't get the newest drivers out of the folder - this happens sometimes with Detonator drivers - there is a utility named "Detonator Destroyer" that will do the job. It requires rebooting to Safe Mode - this isn't difficult, just tedious. What you do is first switch to generic drivers. Reboot. Then you use Detonator Detroyer. Reboot. Then you reinstall the older drivers. Reboot this time to WIndows and make your driver settings, using RivaTuner if you want the best 3D performance, if that doesn't matter just use the nVidia tabs in the Advanced Settings.

If it were me, I would make a list of the drivers I wanted OUT of the system - make very sure ALL of them are indeed removed. Some of the worst graphics problems come from having pieces of two different driver sets, it can make video performance go crazy. Crazier than the user and that is going some.

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Nvidia released new version 41.09 Detonators today.

Haven't downloaded yet myself but some of my friends did it and there are not yet any problems appeared:)
Take a look some release highlights and other info at
www.nvidia.com
I think there are not many changes between this new and last one version.

There still waiting for WHQL certification. I'm curios to see what improvements were incorperated into this latest batch over the previous build. Because its release is so soon after last build it must address some stability issues rather then new techniques.

The word on the Guru3D forum is the 41.09 drivers don't do much of anything the previous drivers didn't A couple of the contributors had a problem, this seemed to be a video card thing, however. Many users are saying they don't see a reason to change drivers if no problems with same. A very few have seen performance increase - this is always in 3D, not for the type of usage we see with WAW. If nVidia has posted the drivers as official, I wouldn't worry about WHQL.

Drivers stay the same - 30.30 - on my SPWAW/INternet machine, maybe will update drivers on the WInXP machine, maybe not. We'll see about that when CL is issued

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