PD 5.13/Mystique G200 16 Meg - jerky D3D. Haig?

[Russkie]

Hello, everybody! I saw several posts from people regarding speed of PD 5.13 drivers in DirectX games. Some people got a nice boost and some got slowdowns. I run Celeron 300A@464 ( 100 % stable ), Abit BH-6, 128 MB ram, Mystique G200/16 Mb, DirectX 6.1. Without measuring frame rates, PD 5.13 causes jerkiness in ReVolt demo, Colin McRae rally, etc. Switching back to 4.26 or 4.51 brings back smooth display. Are the drivers hardware optimized? SDRAM vs. SGRAM, or 8 Mb vs. 16? Any comments anybody?

Forgot, I run 800x600 in 16 bit mode.

[This message has been edited by Russkie (edited 07-09-99).]

[Nuno]

Hi Russkie

When I first installed PD 5.13 I too got that D3D stuttering. Formatting the hard drive and doing a clean install of win98 and PD 5.13 cured it. Well but that was before the uninstaller was released by Matrox. Give it a try and reinstall PD 5.13.

Also make sure you don´t have any apps running in the backgound and see if the stittering persists. Those internet&download managers are the main suspects. I use to have netmedic installed and removing it solved a stuttering problem I had (but that was a long time ago).

Hope this helps.

[Russkie]

Thanks, Nuno! I am not certain I am up to a clean install of Win 98 and all other programms I have on HD. I will try PD 5.13 again after a defrag and scandisk.

[Fleabus]

Russkie:

So far I've run NASCAR Revolution, N4Speed3 and Q2 3.20 [default openGL] and everything runs very well especially with TV-Out. Desktop at 1024x768x32bit 85Hz Large fonts.

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P2-450;256MB PC100;Asus P2B;16MB G200 Mystique 5.13,2.3; 12MB CL V2;CL SB Live(LW2.1); ViewSonic 17PS; 10GB Maxtor 7200RPM UDMA2;3.2GB Quantum FB ST UDMA2;CL 2X Encore;USR 5686 External Sportster V.90;Win98;DX6.1;IE5a etc.