Detonator R.I.P.

nVidia has today introduced their new series of graphic drivers called "Forceware"
v52.16 WHQL'd to replace the aged detonator series. Although benchmarking scores went down with the default driver settings game performance in most of the games i tested is better overall as well quality. Specially i have got an hefty increase in frames in Halo (about 25%). Stability is very good.
You can download them as an 7.8MB file here . International languages are included.
Please install via device manager ---> update driver , pointing at the location you extracted the driver. I suggest you log in first in Safe mode (press F8 during boot up) and then install.
enjoy,
Manolis aka Markoul

I´ve written it in other threads, but here is again:
The VIA 694X chipset defaults to 2X transfer rate to workaround insufficient drive strength from one of the signals. This may or may not happen with your motherboard. Try forcing AGP 4X transfer rate with RivaTuner from System Tweaks - Compatibility. There it is the explanation of this problem. If you keep getting an unstable machine after you forced 4X AGP transfer, there´s probably no fix for it. Anyway you won´t lose too much performance, but this happens also with the VIA KT133, so perhaps you should contact VIA for some help, but they could tell you to install their VIA 4 in 1 service packs, and that´s an useless question!!!
AMD AthlonXP 2000+ stock speeds
ASUS A7A266 (ALiMAGiK 1) 1012 BIOS AGP 4X enabled, FW, SBA
Elixir 256 MB DDR SDRAM PC2700U CAS 2
MSI 8907-TD128 Geforce FX 5200 128 MB
52.16 nVIDIA Drivers
6650 3Dmarks 2001 SE
1437 3Dmarks 2003 3.2.0

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NVIDIA Detonator Driver Performance Database

The guys at Tweakers Asylum have built a Public nVidia Detonator Driver Performance Database used to store information on the various nVidia Detonator Drivers. They are collecting benchmark information, based on 3DMark2001 SE results for nVidia Detonator Drivers.
Public Detonator Driver Database
Take Care,
Richard

My system halts whenever I do certain applications such as Windows Media player. audio cleaning Lab 2005 deLuxe, and recordings..... it happens all the time. However, PC does not crash at other times.
I thought it was my old GeForce3 Ti200 in the first place so I changed it to GeForce4 Ti4600 and the problem is still there :(
I refreshed Win98se and downloaded updates from Microsoft. I ran memtest68, Registry mechanics, Anti-virus - all successful but still my PC crashes! By the way, my PSU is http://www.jeantech.com/Products/Power_Supply/400W/400w.html (+3.3v @ 28A, +5v @ 35A, +12v @ 17A). This is my new PSU replacing my old PSU 300W just few weeks ago. I suppose this PSU is rubbish! right?
Any suggestions here?

Detonator 31.00

Well. I have downloaded some days ago the nForce 1.12 drivers, and it includes Detonator 31.00. I would like to install them for my GF4MX, but it only support the integrated GF2MX. Some websites are making available a modified version of this drivers to support all GF cards. Coul anybody mirror the modified files only? I really don't want to download the full pack again, just the inf file and any other modified file if any.
I have looked into nvcpl.dll version 31.00, and there are some new tabs, no idea if they are visible by default or if you need some Coolbits. This tabs are Powermizer, extensive antialiasing panel, extensive hardware panel (more settings available), new anisotropic panel ... Anybody could post if they are visible by default?

Hey Beltxo,
If you go to guru3d they have something there which sounds like what you are after.
Its under videodrivers/Nvidia/
about the third or fourth file down.
hope this is what your after.
but thats the full pack isn't it ?( ?( ?(

Detonator 40 is released!

Hi,
nVidia has released new Detonator 40.41 drivers...
They promise 25% boost in performance....
http://www.nvidia.com/drivers

More surgery applied to nVIDIA files!!
This time, I have looked into nvcpl.dll of Detonators 40.41, anf this is what I have found:
- "Powermizer" is only available for GeForce4 Go.
- There is a diagnosis tab for GeForce4 Go too, enabling temp monitorning and automatic underclocking for GPU saving.
- There are two different Hardware tabs, wonder what's for each... they both look the same.
- Still some settings hidden at hardware tab: aperture size (info), depth of request queue (automatic, manual), enable fastwrites (on/off), enable write combining (on/off) and enable 2D command buffering (on/off).
- nForce integrated GF2MX tab, some settings for tweaking frame buffer. (Those of you who use integrated VGA, are supposed to have this tab showed).
- If your VGA's advanced settings crash as soon as you open it, rename NVRSxx.dll to NVRSxx.back (xx are the two first letters of your language name). You don't need to set your local settings to US English to fix it!!
- If you are not using US English as your local setting, rename NVWRSxx.dll to NVWRSxx.back (xx are the two first letters of your language name). This way you will get the whole nView dialog, full of tabs and settings, not an ugly dialog with only two tabs and a few settings.
- There are lots of bitmaps not shown, wonder what the h*ll are they for.
- Stereo drivers are included!!, but I find no way to enable them.
- Some tabs and dialogs for GF3 with HomeCinema, but they seem to be almost useless.
- Registry keys for Detonator has changed, some of the previous tweaks will need a rework. NvRefresh and other tools like that wont work (until they release new versions). Anyway, Coolbits still works, at least.
- and that's all, folks. More news soon.
And some personal opinions:
- nVDVD seems to work better (if possible!!) with this release, can't explain the way it's better, but I feel the force in it
- Collapse feature of nView is great, nVidia should thought of it sooner!!!
- Mmmm... OGL1.4 support, DX9 support, sounds GREAT...
- "Inmediate mode optimizations for Solid Edge", that's cool!!! I really like SE, and use it a lot, so this is a five stars enhancement for me!!
- Cool control panel UI, but I still miss a lot of settings, hope that Unwinder surprise us soon with a new release of RivaTuner.
- No problem installing them over 30.00. People with control panel crash, read above the way to fix it.
- Sideband still disabled, nVidia states that GF4 and GF4MX support sideband, but maybe MSI has disabled it at BIOS or somewhere else.
- Looking lots of forums, hardware news sites, overclockers sites, nVidia fanatics sites... ALL PEOPLE IS REPORTING A HUGE IMPROVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE!! So, nVidia is telling us the truth.
- nVDVD 1.71 released...
- Hidden tabs available (http://www.nvnews.net):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"Coolbits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplAllowForceTVDetection"=dword:00000001
(new D3D refresh rate over-ride at D3D xtra settings, new AGP tab (don't work for me), extra setting for TV out and extended coolbits)
And all of these in a official-beta release (It still sounds strange to me: "official-beta"). I think that the "absolutly official" release will be exactly this drivers but WHQL, just a CAT file included in the pack...
I think that nVidia cuts the performance of their GPUs by software, this way, when any other GPU maker (any other GPU maker? I mean ATI, of course) releases a new chip that could play with nVidia GPUs at the same level, nVidia releases new Detonators that make our VGAs jump to a higher level. Doing this from time to time, nVidia will allways be a step beyond. Like a cat playing with a mouse.

Detonator and geforce4 mx 440

hello., i got geforce4 mx 440 and using driver by MSI. Can i upgrade the driver to nvidia detonator..... i upgraded it already and there is a few options missing such as msi clock in the display propertites... and also the name is no longer msi starforce geforce ...is it ok ?

preducer,
It is fine. I always use the nVidia Detonator Drivers for my GeForce Cards.
Use notepad to make a new file and put in it what I quoted below and then save it with the .reg extension.
Quote
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENVIDIA CorporationGlobalNVTweak]
"Coolbits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableAdditionalInfoPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableClearViewPage"=dword:00000001
That will open all the extra options in the Detonator4 Drivers including the Core and RAM Speeds for your GF4.
Take Care,
Richard

NVIDIA Detonator Drivers

i was just wondering if it was safe to install NVIDIAs Detonator drivers on my MSI G4TI4200, this seems like a stupid question but i just want to make sure if i can use them or not before i try installing them.

Hello,
Thx for the replies. Well I would like to keep the MSI tabs, but if had to could live with out them. Although I for got about the VIVO and Duel display. I run 2 monitors and one of the reasons I bought is card was for the VIVO.
I see got one reply with no VIVO function and one with VIVO. So guess I would like to know more about any problems you had getting it to work Denis. Or if there was anything special you need to get to get the Nview, Dual Display and VIVO to work. Correction on my video card I got, its a G4Ti-4200-VTD64.
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Scorp

NVidia Detonator 40.71 Released "Official" BETA

As the tittle say, the latest detonator offering is
HERE
For all systems (98/Me/2k/XP).
Grab them while they are hot!!
Those are "official" beta from nvidia, WHQL pending.
Have fun!
Frenchy

The forum here does not take graphic embedding you can only link, so if you have access to ftp you can post graphics.
Secondly
This from NVmax.com
"TAIPEI, TAIWAN AND SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 25, 2002—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the industry’s first and only comprehensive family of AGP 8X-based products. Based on Intel’s AGP 3.0 specification, NVIDIA now offers an extensive range of top-to-bottom graphics processing units (GPUs) and platform processors for next-generation digital media, gaming, and business PC platforms. NVIDIA’s AGP 8X product line-up, which includes the NVIDIA® GeForce™4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8X and the GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP 8X desktop GPUs, as well as the new nForce2Ô platform processors, forms the technology foundation for the world’s most advanced PCs."
You can read the full article from Nvidia.com HERE
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Detonator 44.03 problem....

when i upgrade the detonator v44.03 from v41.09...its successfully to upgrade....then i play cs it display something wrong in cs....the dark pixels is appear around in cs....how to solve this problem???
is the detonator v44.03 not compatible with my vga??
P4 2.4Ghz-b 533
Kingston 512MB PC2700
MS 6566E MB
Ms8878 GF4 MX 440 SET
Windows XP Pro SP1
Detonator 41.09
Detonator 44.03

Lai.KS,
More like the game is not compatible with 44.03. Your card works fine with 44.03.
Personally I have stayed with 41.09 because I like the way 41.09 looks when rendering games.
Take Care,
Richard

Detonator FX 44.61

Hi
can i know the Detonator FX 44.61 must using on Geforce FX 5900 or aslo can using any geforce fx ,like GFX 5200,5600 &5800
http://download.guru3d.com/
thanks

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Nvidia Detonator 42.82

Does anyone knows whether this driver is ok to use with geforce series ???
Nvidia have released a new set of Detonator Drivers 42.82 For Windows 2000/XP on Nvidia's Quadro Certified Windows XP Drivers page.

Revenant4
are u sure that 3DMark03 work on your GF4MX440???
Everytime I try to run 3dMark2003, right as it's loading the 1st test (airplane test) it quits back to the desktop .
what I do wrong or missing something?
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Detonator driver remove and install new

Could someone please give an XP Detonator remove and replace process.
I have tried shutting down plug and play service but had errors doing this.
Everytime I remove in add remove then device manager then reboot (safe mode) it loads Microsofts version and then I have to load over them.

Unfortunately your situation could take a little more work.
What I do is the same as Stilup explains, however, I take a few extra steps to eradicate the XP native drivers completely.
You will need to go to Driver Heaven and download "Driver Cleaner", it's similar to the old Detonator Destroyer but works!
Go ahead and install the utility prior to doing anything else. There is a readme file enclosed in the utility on the process, so read that.
After I go the Add Remove Programs and remove the drivers(assuming there is an entry present, if not, skip the Add Remove process) I do things a little differently from that point on.
I'll take it a few steps further by running the cleaner utility after the Add Remove process or prior to entering safe mode.
If the OS installs the drivers again, I will run the utility at least twice in the same session (I know, it sounds silly but I have found that if I click the Clean button a few times rather than just once, it seems to work better) Reboot to safe mode once again, repeat the process untill the OS stops loading the drivers and launches the "Found New Hardware Wizard". At that point I will load the Detonators of my choosing, prefferably the 41.09's (DriverHeaven).
It's a little more involved but it works flawlessly so far during the last 5 or 6 times I have done it on my systems.
Good luck!

NFS Hot Pursuit 2 ! Detonator Driver

On my Nforce1 Board with the onboard gpu the new need for speed hot pursuit 2 doesnt like the detonator 41.xx ! the game runs very slow with them. with the beta 40.72 the game runs perfect at Windows XP.

Hmm.. i can't even get this game to launch on my pc..
It says "Unknown error initializing graphics device" or something to that effect... Reading some of the EA.COM boards, it seems that because the post 30.82 drivers don't support 640x480x16, it crashes.. this is just stupid.. I don't know why it's running on your machine tho...
maybe it's cause you have an onboard video card.
CZ

40.52 Detonator BETA Drivers

Just thought i'd inform u all of the release
there are 9x/ME/XP/2000 available from
my http://FTP://MSIForum:[email protected]
or
http://www.3dchipset.com

I installed the 40.52 driver on 23 Sep 02. I am getting some very good performance with my games and applications. So far, no problems to report.
3D Mark 2001SE
Detonator 40.41 10219 stable, no problems
Detonator 40.52 10210 stable, no problems
MSI 30.00 9535 unstable, frequent
application crashes
XP1800, no o/c
Asus A7V266
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512 MB DDR
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SB Live
Win2K Pro

Detonator 41.04 WHQL 2K/XP

Just stumbled across another 41.xx Detonator release. This one, time stamped from October 25th, for Windows 2000 and XP is WHQL certified and comes in a multilanguage flavor.
Supported Cards:
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 / 440 / 460
NVIDIA Quadro4 500/550 XGL
NVIDIA Quadro4 200/400 NVS
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440(SE) with AGP8X
NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL
NVIDIA Quadro4 280 NVS
NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 / 4400 / 4600
NVIDIA Quadro4 700 / 750 / 780 / 900 / 980 XGL
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
http://fernando.darocha.free.fr/telechargement/fdrsoft-nvidia%2041.04-2kxp.exe
thanks to warp2search

another mirror:
http://kennyken.de/Win2K-XP-4109.zip

MX 440+DETONATOR 40s

ive had this problem for months! god damn it
ever since i installed the first detonator 40s, my monitor goes into standby one sec right after the windows XP or windows ME logo comes up. I cannot see any blue errors, or the chkdisk utility because my damn monitor is in standby. when i had the detonator 30s or windows xp native drivers its completely fine, and this doesnt only occur on my pc, on others also. tried the card on a friend's 1.2 tbird, same problem when detonaor 40s installed, i got 42.90 installed. i do not want to revert back to the old det 30s, its a little slower and the interface sucks. how can i fix this?
MSI MS-6198 K7-Pro MOBO
AMD Athlon 800 MHz (Irongate chipest)
640 SDRam
Dual HDs (40+30 7200 RPM) Quantum and Maxtor
SB Audigy (using audigy 2 drivers )
MSI GF4 MX 440 (Dual VGA/VIVO)
Windows XP +SP1
Windows ME (Dual Boot)
Samsung 700 IFT Monitor

Just a suggestion but if this problem is happening on every computer you put it in, maybe it's the video card itself (faulty)...another step I would try is to format your hard drives and reinstall windows (Clean Install) to see if that doesn't fix the problem...make sure your settings in the CMOS are correct and haven't changed for some reason and it doesn't hurt to update the CMOS bios if not the most current version

Detonator R.I.P.

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