Nvidia's Detonator graphics driver is the industry standard for the graphics software industry. Based on the Nvidia unified driver architecture (UDA), the Detonator driver is both forward and backward compatible - across all implementations of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs).

NVIDIA has released the latest drivers, version 42.68 for all 3DMark03 testing and benchmarking. This driver will greatly improve your benchmark performance when running the 3DMark03. Mirror I
Mirror II
Mirror III

We have no information about performance in games and other applications, please leave a comment if you know more.

SiS released the new driver 3.10 for their Xabre series VGA cards
According to the .INF files the driver should work with SiS315 based cards ,too
Driver version: 02/13/2003 - File size is ~15MB !! 6.14.01.3100 (W2K/XP) and 4.14.01.3100 (W98/ME)
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Just seen on Windows Update for XP a new Microsoft Processor Driver. It is version 5.1.2600.1152. Released today!

Leadtek have released two new sets of Nvidia Detonator Drivers 42.81 | 42.42 for Windows 2000/XP.

French collegues from FDRSoft/Station Drivers have ripped the latest Audigy 2 drivers and prepared a small archive for downloading. In order to install them on your Audigy 1 sound card they encourage you to download the rather old .252 Compaq release and simply copy their rippack into the drivers folder of the Compaq release before launching the installer.

Creative have released new drivers for the following products: Read more for the full list.

Creative Surround Mixer version 3.00.57: 10 Feb 2003: This web update contains Creative Surround Mixer enhancements and fixes to improve the performance of your Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy(TM) 2, Audigy 2 Digital Audio, Audigy 2 Platinum and Audigy 2 Platinum eX.

Audigy 2 DriverPack WDM Drivers AUD2DRVL11030205: 7 Feb 2003: This web update contains enhancements and fixes to improve the performance of your Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy(TM) 2, Audigy 2 Digital Audio, Audigy 2 Platinum and Audigy 2 Platinum eX.

It appears some of you still have a 3dfx video card. ;-) Due to some minor error eradications and stabilizations in the beta 8 drivers, we've released Beta 9. This contains some fixes for Glide and OpenGL issues encountered by some users. Grab them here

Just got word from Zardon @ Driverheaven that ATI has just released Catalyst 3.1 drivers and control panel. This release includes various fixes so read more for additional information. Overview: 16 bit AA for R300 products Performance improvements mainly for 9700 series Bug fixes for Mafia, NFS2 and other games

The kX Audio Driver which is an independent WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver for all EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or E-mu Sytems Inc., including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio Production Studio (APS) card, and the Audigy series of cards, has been updated.

The kX Audio Driver package includes driver system files and setup files as well as a powerful audio mixer application (the kX Mixer), which acts as a Graphical User Interface, providing access to many of the driver's internal functions.

Alcatel have released new SpeedTouch 2.0.1 Drivers for their DSL modems. Thanks to NTFS.orgfor FYI.

Hercules US has released new unified drivers for their sound card series based on Crystal chipsets. These include the following: Fortissimo II series GTXP series Fortissimo III 7.1 Digifire 7.1 The new version number is 6.09 with DLS soundbanks and 6.09a without them.

Just got word that Mydrivers.com seem to have some new Creative Sound Blaster Live / Live! 5.1 & Audigy 2 drivers for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, February 1st, 2003 . That's as much as I could translate as the Babelfish translator is f***. So if someone could please translate the page and post that in the comments! Thanks.

Update: I've added a quick translation! Thanks to KFleet.

When you install SIS AGP v1.14 driver by Setup you will get AGP v1.12 instead of AGP v1.14 installed...

The problem is that Setup loads the folders & files in "AGP/old" folder and not the folders & files in the "AGP/current" folder.

Just erase folders 2000 & XP in "AGP/old" folder(v1.12) and put the 2000 & XP folders from "AGP/current"(v1.14) in there instead.

I am using Win2000 and i dont know if it´s the same with Win98/ME users. But to be sure simply put the 98/ME folder from "AGP/current" and place it in "AGP/old" folder too.

For you guys who want to have AGP utility installed by default is fixing this by "1" instead of "0" in Setup.ini file (AGPUtil=1).

From Ronny Worén/Sweden

Mark Fox hat wieder einmal brandneue Nvidia Detonatoren gefunden !

NVIDIA 4.2.8.1 BETA DETONATOR DRIVER FOR Windows 2000/XP

driver dated 01/22/2003 (22nd of January 2003) full Multilanguage generic release supports all NVIDIA desktop/workstation cards to date preliminary support for NV31, NV31GL and NV34, NV34GL chipsets fully DirectX 9 compatible driver installs NVIDIA MediaCenter by default (can be disabled) should offer increased performance over recent 42.xx drivers BETA driver - unsupported by NVIDIA - install only at your own risk!

I'm afraid this driver is currently unavailable for Win9x/ME. However, I was told a while ago by NVIDIA that new drivers should be posted "soon" on official NVIDIA website, and that would of course include drivers for Win9x/ME operating system.

Thanks go out to David (again) for mirroring the drivers for us. When more mirrors are available, I will list them here later. For now, feel free to download from the ones below.

David's Mirror 1: HERE and
David's Mirror 2: HERE. ( Thanks man ;) )
UPDATE: Tja, und noch ein neuer Treiber, langsam wird es wild.
Die Kollegen von Guru3d haben Detonator 42.86 auf Ihren Servern liegen.
Wer auch diese testen möchte, download
Bin ich froh das ich neuerdings eine ATI Karte habe, so bleibt mir das testen erspart ;-) Aber gibt es was schöneres als den Samstag mit dem Testen von dem idealen Treiber zu verbringen ?

I recently came across some new NVIDIA drivers for Win2k/XP and I thought I would share them with you. This driver is dated 22nd of January and its version is 42.81. I believe this is the latest NVIDIA driver available at this time. If you fancy trying it, click on Read More for more info and download.

P.S. I haven't gone AWOL Newsfactory, I was just deep deep deep undercover (lol) Update: Looks like today is Nvidia Detonator day. Just received the information, that Guru3d has Detonator 42.86 available.
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Get them at 9down.com here

Ok Peeps here's two new sets of Nvidia Detonator Drivers version 41.07 and 40.74 for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP! These are dated 2003-1-29 and are from...

SiS have released a new AGP driver. This time its version 1.14 WHQL for the following chipsets:

SiS540, SiS630, SiS630ET, SiS630E, SiS630S, SiS630ST, SiS635, SiS645, SiS645DX, SiS648, SiS650, SiS651, SiS730S, SiS730SE, SiS735, SiS740, SiS745,

Nvidia is offering an updated nForce 1/2 driver set v2.03. Head over to Nvidia.com to download them. All drivers are WHQL. WHQL certified kit for nForce and nForce2 Added nForce2 IGP support Audio performance enhancements SPDIF on ACI support Adds support for audio with the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe product

Creative have released new drivers for the following products: Read more for the full list.