NVIDIA Detonator XP Driver

NVIDIA just released the Detonator XP driver for its family of 3D graphics chips. NVIDIA says the new driver is optimized for Windows XP and provides performance enhancements under Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows Me. Detonator XP can be downloaded from NVIDIA's website . Detonator XP contains the new Detonator XPress Link technology, which uses the Direct Memory Access (DMA) found on all NVIDIA hardware. NVIDIA says the Detonator Xpress Link provides a direct connection from the hardware to the operating system, which accelerates the optimizations made in the I/O subsystem and memory management portions of Windows XP's core. Detonator XP also features a complete OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions and DirectX pipelines that are designed to accelerate Windows XP and other operating systems. NVIDIA says that Detonator XP delivers up to a 50% performance gain in Microsoft DirectX and OpenGL applications and supports the TNT2, GeForce, GeForce2, Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro DCC and GeForce3 families of GPUs.