Nvidia Detonator 42.70 Windows 2000/XP

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here's a new set of Nvidia Detonator drivers: An anonymous person just submitted Detonator drivers 42.70 for Windows 2000/XP to Guru3D.com. All nVidia cards are supported (NV3x support is new/added). Drivers are English only and non-WHQL. These are DirectX 9 drivers, and the first ones which support DirectShow fully, the VMR9 works with this one (it didn't with 41.80 and 42.01).

Download: Nvidia Detonator 42.70 Windows 2000/XP

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#1 leebobs on 23 Jan 2003 - 15:46

Hmm... Benchmarking as we speak, I don't expect any increase in speed and being the first Nvidia DX9 drivers, I am expecting some bugs! But here it is people, the begining of the FX generation of Video cards. If Nvidia have added NV3x chipset support, expect some early production models to be benchmarked in the VERY NEAR future!!!

#2 Solarix on 23 Jan 2003 - 16:11

i expect bugs but no speed increase, as well

#3 xStainDx on 23 Jan 2003 - 16:22

Succesful Mobile Installation!!!

(2 replies) #4 athlonforce on 23 Jan 2003 - 16:30

hehe nothing at this spot sorry it was me that had a error hehe

Last edited by 1136 on 23 Jan 2003 - 17:24

#4.1 xStainDx on 23 Jan 2003 - 16:49

i dunno, not really care, if its phoney, it still seems to work.... it does have the new NV30, NV31 and NV34 Strings in it.

#4.2 leebobs on 24 Jan 2003 - 14:07

I am getting some visual errors on my screen at 85hz refresh

(1 reply) #5 acharnley on 23 Jan 2003 - 16:56

Faster download at nvmax.com, without the guru rubbish... http://www.nvmax.com/downloads/ enjoy neo-people

update: my copy has 42.70 in the readme but may still be a hacked version as source unreliable..

#5.1 ZuzZoo on 25 Jan 2003 - 02:23

PEOPLE! Watch out! My SpyCop scanner detected a Nic Jansma's Watch Dog trojan or Virus in the nv4_mini.sys driver of detonator 42.70 from www.nvmax.com [url=http://thephilosophr.homestead.com/virusalert.html]Picture from a scan alert[/url]

(1 reply) #6 Dazog on 23 Jan 2003 - 17:08

hahah some people are morons they aren't hacked.. they just didn't update the damn date in the readme.. so cry about it

#6.1 athlonforce on 23 Jan 2003 - 17:14

well this will be fun to see wath it says when i try to install over 41.09 hmm yes all files seams to be newer than 41.09 fine then think it was that guru site that had the wrong file the one i downloaded from http://www.nvmax.com/downloads/ seams to be ok

Last edited by 1136 on 23 Jan 2003 - 17:22

#7 Arch on 23 Jan 2003 - 19:49

Why no installer if they arn't hacked? Is that how they are usualy leaked..?

#8 Fenris on 23 Jan 2003 - 20:39

OK.....installed them on my rig, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, AthlonXP 1600+ Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP8x 512Mb PC2100, DX9, went from 10268 3DMarks with the 41.09s to 10498 with the 42.70s. And everything is running great, great colours and smooth as hell. Well worth a shot.

#9 Fenris on 23 Jan 2003 - 20:40

#10 Tikimotel on 23 Jan 2003 - 23:13

Ultra!!! NVidia.Nv30.1 = "NVIDIA NV30" NVidia.Nv30.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra" [b]<-----[/b] NVidia.Nv30.3 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800" NVidia.Nv30GL.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000" NVidia.Nv30GL.2 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000"

#11 Tikimotel on 23 Jan 2003 - 23:13

See the inf file at the bottom!!

#12 crunkster on 23 Jan 2003 - 23:50

Interesting drivers, the details are extreeeeemly perfect that it almost blinds me that the graphics are so detailed. The performance is a little bit better. The only thing about these drivers is that my mouse sorta jitters a little.

#13 Smash on 24 Jan 2003 - 01:57

I still don't get how you people see a better/worse graphic quality with different drivers. I NEVER saw any difference between any driver (ever the old ones). How can you tell?

#14 scyphe on 24 Jan 2003 - 09:52

It would make sense that these drivers stems from a company manufacturing GF FX cards, they need to bundle drivers with their cards which should be in late manufacturing/early packing stages at the moment. The one I downloaded off guru3d.com says "version 41.50, 11/05/2002" in the readme.txt (and the lack of any NV30 cards listed adds to the confusion), but I'm fairly sure the only thing lacking is the updated readme.txt. The dll-files still says "6.14.01.4270" so unless someone used reshack to edit it and added VMR9 support while they were at it, this is the right stuff.

Actually, there's one thing I don't understand: the drivers and the nv-control panel still says DirectX 8.1 or better, not DX9 or better. Weird. Guess it's not a high priority for nVidia.

#15 ZuzZoo on 25 Jan 2003 - 02:33

PEOPLE! Watch out! My SpyCop scanner detected a Nic Jansma's Watch Dog trojan or Virus in the nv4_mini.sys driver of detonator 42.70 from www.nvmax.com So its indeed a hacked version? [url=http://thephilosophr.homestead.com/virusalert.html]Picture from scan alert[/url]

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