It's nearly the Summer of 2002, and NVidia has released their newest Detonator drivers for GeForce cards. The new version, 29.42, was released today with very little fan-fare, indicating this is an incremental upgrade to the Detonator 4 drivers. Indeed, the description of the "Detonator XP" drivers on the NVidia driver page remains unchanged. So I didn't expect much in the way of a speed boost. But I had to check, and here are the 3D Mark 2001se results for Direct X 8 performance.

System 1: Athlon 1.2GHz/Abit KG7/512MB DDR/GF3 Ti200, Windows 98:

3D Marks with 28.32: 5974
3D Marks with 29.42: 5959

System 2: Athlon 1800+/Abit KG7/256MB DDR/GF3 Ti200:

3D Marks with 28.32: 5974
3D Marks with 29.42: 5959

System 1: Athlon 1.2GHz/Abit KG7/512MB DDR/GF3 Ti200:

3D Marks with 28.32: 5974
3D Marks with 29.42: 5959

System 1: Athlon 1.2GHz/Abit KG7/512MB DDR/GF3 Ti200:

3D Marks with 28.32: 5974
3D Marks with 29.42: 5959

NVidia driver page 

Dr. John

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