so where are the new leaked 7.27 drivers at?

[hclarkjr]

all of a sudden you don't hear nothing at all about them. are they real or myth?

 

[hclarkjr]

i read this post at nvmax-

What happened to the new Detonator drivers?

Posted on: 1/10/2001 - 5:07 AM GMT - By: WizeBlood

I found this in the forums over at Zoiah's,


As announced, NVidia wanted originally publish the detonator 7,27 with Hidden Surface removal (HSR) support for GeForce cards today. A direction change of NVidia led however to the fact
that it will not release and disclaim the detonator 7,27 drivers. The reason for this direction change is probably because of the work on the detonator 7,35 , whose HSR support is more or less limited
without reason on the NV20. The GeForce2 could do HSR by small cheats with limited
hardware support, but that would improve the performance of older cards and world naturally shrink the performance distance to the NV20 somewhat. Following this presumption the detonator 7,27 is held back from marketing purposes or disclaimed completely. But coworkers of ELSA and NVidia acknowledged
indirectly that this detonator exists. The moreover NVidias statement that the
detonator 7,27 never existed, does not make a sense, since this would mean that
one branches directly to newer version numbers. If experiences mean after,
however each increase of the version number, similarly as with Windows means
that a new compiling of the source code took place and thus each detonator was
existent driver version. NVidia will publish later version the detonator 7.xx, since
they are necessary for the NV20. Release with the official NV20 would be thus conceivable, but no warranty.



So looks like we wont see an official release of new drivers til the NV20 comes out.

Source.

 

[TheCorm]

Agreed. and if you don't have 7.17 though, you can them here:

Riva 3D Downloads

Corm

 

[vm]

7.17 were no good for me

and I think that's stupid, holding back improvements for current users of their products for who knows how long for a chip not even released yet..

 

[fatboy]

I have not been able to use any other driver than the one that came on the manufacture CD and that was version 4.12.01.0204-0010. I would like to see how much of a difference there is in the updated drivers but when I install them my computer locks up on me after about 5minutes of doing anything.


fatboy!

 

[TheCorm]

what are the latest official detonator drivers at current?

I had problems with updating drivers too fatboy, when i was trying to run my ideal resolution (1024x768 @ 100hz) it kept sending my monitor into standby.

Damn annoying.

Corm