“Our Unified Driver Architecture gives us the unique ability to give customers a free performance upgrade six months after a new GPU hits the market,” said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “Detonator XP allows us to continue this tradition.  And, with Detonator XP’s XPress Link technology, it unleashes new hardware and software capabilities making it the ultimate driver environment for Windows XP.”

Detonator XP contains the new-patented Detonator XPress Link technology utilizing the patented Direct Memory Access (DMA) found on all NVIDIA hardware, Detonator Xpress Link provides a direct connection from the hardware to the operating system.  As a result, Detonator XPress Link assists in accelerating the new optimizations made in the I/O Subsystem and Memory Management portions of Windows XP’s core.  With Detonator XPress Link technology, NVIDIA is able to deliver the fastest 3D graphics performance on all Windows XP platforms. 

Detonator XP also features a complete OpenGL® 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions– allowing developers to create content that fully exposes the hardware features of NVIDIA’s GPUs.  Detonator XP also includes custom DirectX® pipelines specifically designed to fully accelerate Windows XP and all other operating systems. By way of these new enhancements, Detonator XP delivers up to a 50% performance gain in Microsoft DirectX and SGI OpenGL applications.

• Detonator XP for Windows 9x 3.62Mb
• Detonator XP for Windows XP & Windows 2000 3.74Mb
• Detonator XP for Windows NT 4.0 3.12Mb