User Guide

NVIDIA Corporation

Detonator XP User’s Guide

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This document explains how to use the features and functions of the NVIDIA

Detonator XP driver for Windows.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• “Overview of Features & Benefits” on page 1

• “System Requirements” on page 5

• “Notes & Conventions” on page 6

Note: The document titled NVIDIA Drivers: Release Notes enables add-in-

card (AIC) producers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to

monitor performance improvements and bug fixes in the driver.

Overview of Features & Benefits

Note: For further technical details on the Detonator XP driver features and

benefits, refer to the NVIDIA web page: www.nvidia.com.

The NVIDIA Detonator XP driver contains the following enhancements and

features:

• Performance increases of up to 50% in both DirectX and OpenGL

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

• Hardware acceleration enabling new features including 3D textures and

shadow buffers

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