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Spotted this on VE tonight:

New Official Detonator 3's 4:12 PM (your time) - James "ADecay" Special - Hardware: nVidia - (50)
nVidia has updated their official web site with the latest release (non-leaked and everything!) of the Detonator 3 drivers for all nVidia based video cards. This latest official Detonator 3 release brings these puppies up to v12.41, and can be grabbed in both Self-extracting Zip or Installer flavors for Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, and Windows 2K. Here's the release highlights:

Release Highlights for v12.41:

First full DirectX® 8 driver for all NVIDIA products, supporting GeForce3's nfiniteFX™ engine - full Pixel and Vertex Shader support for DirectX 8 and OpenGL®.
Designed for Windows® XP - Detonator 3 powers the next generation operating system from Microsoft.
Latest Quadro workstation applications
AMD® Athlon™ Processor and Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor optimizations
Improved TwinView interface
Professional quad-buffered stereo for Quadro products

Long time coming: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers

Thanks FP took me awhile to get them seems the site is swamped with people trying to download them. But now I have them installed and seem to be working fine even seem to give a few extra frames per second over the 6.50

I just ordered a new Dell w/ a GeForce 2 GTS (do not have it yet). My guess is I need to can the Dell drivers and install the reference drivers ?

I'd be very suprised if it doesn't come with reference drivers - Dell doesn't customize their drivers, they use whatever the manufacturer gives them. However, who know what version of the drivers they'll give you.

If it's a standard GF2, I'd use the latest OFFICIAL detonator drivers.

Dell clones their harddrives, then install them in pre-built boxes. Chances are that they didn't include the previous latest reference drivers, since their clones are designed and burned long before the machine is even assembled. Check your driver version, tho'.

Just the same, best thing to do with a Dell is to use FDISK when you plug it in...every single Dell (of one particular OptiPlex, anyway) we got at work needed this step because their Sys-Prep screwed something up that caused more-than-regular memory errors when using IE. A fresh build resolved the problem on every machine.

My brother bought a Dell not too long ago and his didn't have any display properties menus (just standard Windowz settings) for his GeForce so he had to installed reference drivers to get them

Thanks Slugbait. Fdisk it is. Can't wait for it to get here. Good-bye Celeron 433, 17" monitor, hello 1.3Ghz P4, 19" Trinitron.