WinXP refuses to acknowledge a driver I want installed:(

[OfficeDude]

I grabbed the 22.5 Detonator drivers for my Geforce3 Ti200, it's beta but the "official" ones are a pain the buttocks. Video card not being able to complete drawing operations, random crash to desktop during games, all that bad stuff After I downloaded the 22.5s, I installed it to a folder and made Windows XP look in that folder. It said it didn't find an upgraded driver in the location. The readme that came with the drivers were written for win2k, because in the instructions it says it might do that, but to click "install another driver." Well, WinXP doesn't give you that option when it doesn't find a driver. Any idea how to make WinXP acknowledge the existence of this driver of mine? I got a ton of free games with all the hardware I bought, I want to start playing! hehe

 

[bacillus]

I suppose you could try to remove/uninstall your present driver in device manager, reboot & try steering XP to use your new driver when your videocard is re detected!
the problem may be because the new driver is not certified.

 

[Vadatajs]

when you go to install the driver, choose "choose hardware from list" and then "have disk" then point it to the folder you created.