Nvidia today will release the Detonator FX unified drivers for the company?s award-winning line of desktop, mobile, and workstation graphics processing units (GPUs). The Nvidia Detonator FX is based on the company?s world-renowned Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) - the industry?s only true binary-compatible software architecture. This architecture is built to ensure software compatibility and stability, enabling the industry?s most reliable graphics platform. The Detonator FX drivers deliver significant performance increases and improved image quality, and provide a robust suite of software applications designed to extend and enhance the visual computing experience. Detonator FX provides up to a 30% increase in 3D graphics performance in real-world gaming benchmarks, and works with the entire line of Nvidia GPUs - from the brand new GeForce FX GPUs, all the way back to the five-year-old TNT GPUs. "Nvidia?s software advantage is the key driver of customer and developer loyalty," stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at Nvidia. "The GeForce FX series of GPUs has set the bar for performance, quality, and features, and with the new Detonator FX we are giving our customers a way to get even more performance and features from their existing graphics cards by simply downloading software from our Web site." Along with the increase in rendering performance, Detonator FX delivers improved anisotropic filtering, taking Nvidia GPUs to new and unmatched levels of image quality. Based on feedback received from industry pundits, Nvidia?s driver software algorithms deliver crisper, sharper textures, and more vibrant pictures. The NVIDIA Detonator FX drivers are free of charge, and available for download today at www.nvidia.com/drivers. Note: Already available at FTP and via above website. 44.03 is WHQL Certified for the GeForce FX family of GPUs under Windows 2000 and XP.