best drivers

[smitty]

Hi I have upgraded MB to an Asus CUBX
PIII 850
256 mg pc133
I have mystique 220 & RRS
what version of drivers should I use
for m220 and rrs
video editing is my main objective
I have been using VGA BIOS 1.6RRTV
DISPLAY 4.11.01.4310
VDD SAME
POWERDESK 4.31.041
I know it's an old card but it works
Just wondered if I could make improvements
Thanks Smitty

[Dr Mordrid]

Don't feel bad about that card being "old". While it's no 3D gaming monster the RRS is still one of the best analog capture devices around, fully capable of running circles around many of the newer/fancy-schmancy products when it comes to laying down good captures to the disk in a no-frills manner. No lie.

The only thing you might want to do is get a copy of the AVI_IO capture program. It adds a lot of functionality;

http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/index.html

The info there should explain why I recommend it. Highly.

That bit of editorializing out of the way (G), the drivers you need are;

RRStudio Vidto Tools ver. 2.10

and

Display Driver ver. 4.31

These were issued on Jan. 21, 1999 and you can find them on this page;

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/dr...ous/prv_rr.cfm

about 1/3 of the way down the list.

The latest BIOS update supporting your card is for BIOS ver. 1.8.14 dated Apr. 9, 1999. This update is contained in the BIOS update file Setup351.exe of the same date. Just put this file in its own folder, run the *.exe and follow the directions within.

Get it on this page;

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/dr...s/prv_bios.cfm

Good luck.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 25 March 2001).]

[smitty]

Thanks Doc
I had read on previous posts about the vid tools and drivers for the G series and the suggestion of NOT using the newest available
Hence the question about the RRS
What benefits there be to updating?
If I did update and ran into problems can I go back (BIOS& drivers)?
Also I have not been able to get DVD working
with newer titles.
Will update drivers help?
Thanks again
smitty

[Dr Mordrid]

The reason for RR-G and Marvel users not installing the 1.54 drivers was more to do with using YUY2 captures. YUY2 support in 1.54 is broken. This has nothing to do with RRS updates though.

As for the improvements in 2.10, those are a bit foggy but I *think* it came down to the following;

Instant record became more instant

Better quality in the captures

Less artifacting when recompressed in MSPro etc.

and some internal improvements to the code.

As I remember the betas were quite happy with the changes.

Dr. Mordrid

[smitty]

Thank you
I appreciate your help
No kidding being able to get this kind of info is the greatest thing since sliced bread
(or toasters) HA!

I'll give it a try
thanks
smitty