Just spotted this bit of Info at [H]ardOCP. Apparently Nvidia is making a shift in their questionable driver policy of the past, instructing their developer teams to proceed their work transparently and more carefully. It looks like there is going to be a change quite soon. No cheats!

We have had some long and very candid conversations with a lot of the top brass from Nvidia this week. At the forefront of those discussions a topic that has been on everyone's mind. We have wanted the straight story on the 3DMark fiasco and Nvidia wanted to talk about solutions so it would not happen again. Here are three slides from an internal presentation that are worth a thousand words, so I will let them talk for themselves.

CMedia officially released a new driver for their 9738/9739 4-/6-channel AC97 audio codecs widely used as OnBoard sound solution on many mainboards.
Driver Version= 05/23/2003 5.12.01.0032 - for Windows 98SE/ME W2K/XP Download from CMedia

AVM Berlin hat neue Windows 98 & ME Treiber für die ISDN Add in Karte veröffentlicht. Die FRITZ!Card PCI unterstützt Fast Internet over ISDN, die schnellen ISDN-Internetverbindungen mit bis zu 240 kBit/s Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit. Mit den Energieoptionen des Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) können Sie die Remote-Wakeup-Funktion bei "Stand-by" nutzen.

Logitech have released a new set of MouseWare drivers version 9.78 build 034 for Windows 9X / ME / NT / 2000 / XP! This release is dated 07/15/2003 and works for the complete range of Logitech mouse products. Note that the Advanced Settings Utility works for MouseWare 9.76 and above.

Logitech MouseWare beinhaltet Treiber und Software zur vollen Nutzung aller Features der Logitech-Mäuse.

Für Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98.

Gleich zwei neue Treiber für Nvidia-Grafikkarten wurden heute veröffentlicht.

These release notes provide information on the latest posting of ATI's industry leading software suite, Catalyst. This particular posting updates the ATI Display Driver to version 7.91. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. This maintenance release focuses on stability fixes and as such, there are no display driver performance improvements with this release of Catalyst.

VIA has released a new combo audio driver version 3.70b. This driver supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound, including VT8231 / VT82C686A / VT82C686B, VT8233 / VT8233A / VT8233C / VT8235 and VT8237.

There are two new versions out for you to test. The first comes right from Nvidia itself. It is a Quadro certified driver at ~9MB: Download Nvidia Quadro Detonator 44.65 Windows 2000 - XP The second driver set comes from Dell. It's also for Windows 2000 and XP. It's a multilanguage WHQL release and has vendor specific installation instructions (.inf file). It includes generic support for GeForce FX Go models however and weighs in at 15.4MB: Download Nvidia Detonator 44.68 Windows XP - 2000 Dell

Just got word that Station-Drivers.com have snagged a new Creative Sound Blaster Live! (CT4830) driver version 5.12.01.383 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP!

Here's a new set of modded drivers from KillerSneak called "DNA Drivers", based on the Catalyst 3.5 ATI drivers. Early reports suggest a gain in 3DMark points of about 300 and texture problems in BF1942 supposedly have been fixed.

Asus has released a new Nvidia Detonator driver for Windows 9x and ME. This driver is specifically for Asus graphics cards only. It's a multilanguage release at 18MB. At the time of posting it is not known if these drivers contain the massive Pixel Shader "optimisations" from the 44.67 Windows 2000/XP set. A modded .inf file is also not yet available. The driver is suitable for the complete range of Asus VGA cards: V3xxx / 6xxx / 7xxx / 8xxx / 9xxx.

According to our story "Nvidia Detonator 44.90 Emerged" the driver for WinXP / 2K appeared first on a korean community website. Our time limited mirror has been suspended as our colleagues from Guru3D and 3DChipset are now hosting the driver. Mirror @ Guru3D
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Our valued korean affiliates from Darkcrow have discovered a new Detonator 44.90. They also did a small performance comparison with 3DMark 03 build 330 at 1280x1024 and Quake3. While 44.90 has better Vertex Shader performance the extreme Pixel Shader Improvements from 44.67 are missing. Detonator 44.90 is not WHQL certified and is dated 06/20/2003.

I just saw over @ Station-drivers that they've snagged Nvidia Detonator 44.71 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP! The driver supports the following cards: GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, GeForce FX 5800, Quadro FX 2000, Quadro FX 1000, GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, GeForce FX 5600, GeForce FX 5600SE, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, GeForce FX 5200, Quadro FX 500, GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, GeForce FX 5900, Quadro FX 3000. Note: They also got a modified INF file to support ALL cards. Click on Read More... for more information and download link.

Just got word that Guru 3D have snagged the latest Nvidia 44.03 driver stereo control panel, to enable 3D glasses support. This release comes from Gainward.

It's been a while but we finally have a new set of Stereo drivers available for Detonator drivers 44.xx. It's 100% Nvidia authentic. Read more...

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Intel released a new version of it's IAA RAID Edition for the new i865/875 chipsets. It improves data transfer rate with SATA RAID using the integrated chipset features. According to the release notes bugs and problems were ironed out and some goodies were added. Most interesting of those is the addition of redundant RAID 1 arrays on select Intel 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows XP or Windows 2000. Read More for the links.

VIA Tech has released new drivers for the internal AC97 sound in their chipsets i.e. south bridges VT686A, VT686B, VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C and VT8235. The version carries the 3.70a number and works on Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP. More infos: Release Notes
Download VIA Audio drivers 3.70a for Windows
Source and download mirror: SavageNews