Specifications
Palettized textures appear to be fixed in these and all following drivers.
12.41 - These drivers are officially released drivers.
These drivers will cause Coolbits to stop working. See the 'Coolbits doesn't work or I can only
adjust my memory speed. How can I fix it?' question for information on how to fix this.
12.42 - These drivers have been leaked.
12.60 - These drivers have been leaked.
12.90 - These drivers have been leaked.
14.10 - These drivers have been leaked.
14.40 - These drivers have been leaked.
14.61 - These drivers have been leaked.
14.70 - These drivers have been leaked.
20.80 - These drivers have been leaked.
When you use the Hebrew regional settings inside Windows with these drivers and later, you may
not see all the text in the display adaptor control panel.
21.81 - These drivers are officially released drivers.
NVIDIA describe three main new features in this version:
Performance increases of up to 50%
Highly optimized DirectX and OpenGL pipelines
New OpenGL 1.3 ICD with NVIDIA extensions
These drivers may cause Fast Writes to be disabled in certain system configurations.
21.83 - These drivers are officially released drivers.
These drivers may cause slowdowns in certain situations, especially in 3DMark99.
21.85 - These drivers have been leaked.
22.50 - These drivers have been leaked.
22.80 - These drivers have been leaked.
23.10 - These drivers have been leaked.
23.11 - These drivers are the latest officially released drivers.
Some control panel options (including the Direct3D Enable Alternative Depth Buffering Technique
checkbox) are no longer available in these and later drivers.
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Q. What Windows 2000/XP drivers should I use?
There are a number of driver sets that you can use:
Firstly, Windows XP supplies drivers for the GeForce family - they appear to be based on the 12.91
NVIDIA reference drivers. However you should read the 'Hardware accelerated OpenGL doesn't seem to
be working at all in Windows XP. How can I fix it?' question before simply using the default drivers.
Secondly, there are manufacturer driver sets. These driver sets are usually based on the NVIDIA
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