New Nvidia Drivers @ WS
Posted by Mr magoo on 27 December 2002 - 17:21 · 31 comments & 1209 views
Thanks Craig for the heads up.

As promised, new nvidia drivers have hit the web. We have two sets available: Detonator 42.01 for Win2k/XP only and Detonator 32.20 for Win2k/XP and Win9x/ME

1. Detonator 42.01 for Win2k/XP
  • dated 12/11/2002 (11th of December 2002).

  • generic, full multilanguage release

  • supporting all released nVidia cards to date.

  • DirectX9 compatible driver.


    • 2. Detonator 32.20 for Win9x/ME and Win2k/XP
  • dated 11/08/2002 (8th of November 2002).

  • generic, non-multilanguage release.

  • supports all nvidia cards released to date.


    • head over to ws!

    News source: Warp2search.net
    Download: loads of mirrors and info
    View: Detonator Hidden Options



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    (7 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 27 Dec 2002 - 17:30
    does NVrefreshTool 2.1 work on these drivers?
    Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by SHoTTa35 on 27 Dec 2002 - 17:44
    you don't need that naymore as the drivers come with it built in... refresh rate override is there...
    Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:03
    that only works on direct3D Games!
    Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by creamhackered on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:38
    Use RefreshLock
    Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:51
    i will try to to find refreshlock guru3d here i come
    Quote this comment #1.5 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 27 Dec 2002 - 19:18
    NVRefreshTool doesn't work RefreshLock works good p.s. how come when i use RefreshLock it also locked by FPS in ut to 85, before i had between 140-200 something
    Quote this comment #1.6 Posted by GShapiro on 27 Dec 2002 - 20:09
    NVRT 2.1 worked for me!!!
    Quote this comment #1.7 Posted by vacs on 28 Dec 2002 - 01:31
    short answer: nvrefreshtool still works with 42.01 on both OpenGL and Direct3D. And probably will work on many future versions unless nvidia again decides where to store the Hz values in the registry. The refresh rate selection in the advanced display settings is nice but unfortunately only meant for D3D games, so you still need a 3rd party application for the both APIs...
    (1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by polo69 on 27 Dec 2002 - 17:34
    Nice post !
    Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by vetMr magoo on 27 Dec 2002 - 17:39
    thank you!
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by TDQuiksilver on 27 Dec 2002 - 17:48
    Anyone test these out yet? Results?
    (1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by nonick on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:29
    what's better for GF3ti200? 4x.xx or 3x.xx drivers?
    Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by zivan56 on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:47
    The 4x.xx drivers give me 1000 more 3DMarks than 3x.xx on the card.
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by vetRadish™ on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:38
    How good are these drivers? .... Radish.
    (1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Tailgunner9 on 27 Dec 2002 - 18:58
    Are these new drivers WHQL approved?????? Why are they not on NVIDIA web site????
    Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by Neobond on 27 Dec 2002 - 19:13
    They aren't WHQL and welcome to Neowin
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by V_F on 27 Dec 2002 - 19:12
    4x.xx optimised for GF3 & GF4 families, no there not WHQL will be Beta as usual, very few WHQL come from warp2search
    (1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by xStainDx on 27 Dec 2002 - 19:34
    Time to go modify these for my Geforce 4 440 Go
    Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by tr4nce on 28 Dec 2002 - 00:04
    How do you modify them for that? ^^; I just got a Sony VAIO NVR-23 (has a GeForce 4 420 Go) for Christmas. It'd be cool if I could use 41.xx drivers. ^^
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Bant on 28 Dec 2002 - 00:09
    havent run 3dmark, but these run fine, no problems.
    (2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by Nija on 28 Dec 2002 - 02:03
    I've been using reforce since the 30.x series drivers. Ever since the planetquake one stopped working I've been using reforce. Works fine with these drivers too.
    Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by zionath on 28 Dec 2002 - 11:50
    reforce????...... neverr heard of it
    Quote this comment #10.2 Posted by humcheepeng on 28 Dec 2002 - 15:14
    It's RefreshForce at http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by desaul17 on 28 Dec 2002 - 19:59
    got 200+ 3dmark (10.3k to10.5k) with the 42.01s and dx9 on a ti4600. all games run smooth at about the same fps. no problems so far.
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by LunaC on 28 Dec 2002 - 20:00
    Anyone test these yet with the Nvidia TNT (yeah, yeah.. I know ) card yet?
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by Yinx on 28 Dec 2002 - 23:49
    I am using it with TNT2 one thing I noticed is that I am not able to fix the refreshrate anymore. but that doesn't matter cause now i am getting the same FPS in Counterstrike (40 to 50 fps) as i had with a high refreshrate with previous detonators.
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by pocket cd-r on 29 Dec 2002 - 03:13
    i got a 1.4% improvment with these new drivers
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by Rivers on 29 Dec 2002 - 12:20
    The drivers are crap! Glitchy graphics, graphics missing... I am yet to find one that displays any of my games properly compared to the original windows xp Geforce 2 driver (which was released like a year and a half ago). Maybe them not being cirted by microsoft may be the problem...
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by EddieZ on 29 Dec 2002 - 17:17
    They suck. Period.
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by scyphe on 29 Dec 2002 - 19:53
    42.01's gave me worse performance in certaingames (like stuttering and stuff in Airfix Dogfighter etc.) and after reinstalling 41.09 everything went back to smoothness. I'll wait for the next release instead. *Abit GF4 Ti4200 OTES*
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by Leonardo_3 on 31 Dec 2002 - 23:51
    Tried the new drivers and was quite dissapointed .Hitman 2 runs slower and with some weird textures here and there on some occasions ... Ofcourse it could be that my system has "seen it all" and I ought to sort it out ... Another one new year's resolution ...
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