NVidia Detonator Driver Tips

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Just a (very) few findings and solutions for problems from which I suffered myself.

Hardware : PowerColor TNT2/M64 16MB, AMD K6/2-300, ASUS SP97-XV, 192 MB RAM

Software : Windows 95B, Detonators 12.90 and Stereo drivers 12.41


Tip #1 : Display properties crashing

In case your display properties don't work any more and crash with some 'DESK.CPL' error after installing the NVidia stereo driver, you have encountered a conflict between the stereo driver and the international language dialogue libraries from the Detonator driver :

Mainly the WDHL and the officially released drivers come with international language dialogue libraries, which install as NVRS*.DLL into the Windows\System folder. Just delete all of them, and display properties should be OK (but now only in English).


Whilst troubleshooting my game settings, I had all registry access by the NVidia drivers and display control panel logged by Regmon ( free tool from Sysinternals ). For anyone else who is interested, just follow this link for a table with the results. It will also help to find out where Nvidia left their footprints in the registry, just in case you want to make absolutely sure that you removed all of it.


Some helpful links :

More (lots more !) information can be found at the GeForce FAQ page – just go and check yourself !

Any driver that NVidia ever released (and even more that they didn't ;-) can be found at one of the following sites :