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Seems to work. I had the Beta 2 ICD(I'm not sure if this is a necessary step) already installed so replacing mgaicd.dll with
g200icd.dll in the Windows\System directory and changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\OpenGLDrivers from "MGAICD" = "mgaicd" to = "g200icd" was all it took. No problems so far with Quake 2 or an OpenGL screensaver/benchmark program called 3D Exerciser and a definite improvement in
rendering accuracy and speed. In case anyone is wondering why I can't just use PD 5.13, or 4.33 for that matter, I experienced severe font, icon and just all round general corruption in the Desktop unless I disabled bitmap caching and the same phenomena with any program that tried to use more than 4mb of AGP texturing memory( or 12mb total )
Powerdesk would also report 10 or 12mb of SDRAM on my G200 which I suppose
could either be just another symptom or perhaps the cause of the corruption. I think it must be peculiar to my mobo because
I haven't read of any similar reports in the forums but there have been other issues with PD5.13 for some so this way you can have the best of both worlds. A modified
Beta 2 installation program using the new ICD could save people the trouble of downloading and installing 5.13 in order to obtain the g200icd.dll. I'll take a stab at it myself but I'm a novice at this and was using the original Mystique up until two weeks ago so I'm not especially confident of success.
AMD K6-2 350mhz running at 392 3.5X112 2.05 Vcore
Microstar MS-5184 MVP3 Motherboard 1mb L2 cache
64mb generic LGS CAS 3 PC100 SDRAM DIMM
Matrox G200 LE (like the SD but without any upgrade sockets or add-on connectors)
Powerdesk 4.51 DirectX 6.1
Win95 OSR 2.1
g200icd.dll in the Windows\System directory and changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\OpenGLDrivers from "MGAICD" = "mgaicd" to = "g200icd" was all it took. No problems so far with Quake 2 or an OpenGL screensaver/benchmark program called 3D Exerciser and a definite improvement in
rendering accuracy and speed. In case anyone is wondering why I can't just use PD 5.13, or 4.33 for that matter, I experienced severe font, icon and just all round general corruption in the Desktop unless I disabled bitmap caching and the same phenomena with any program that tried to use more than 4mb of AGP texturing memory( or 12mb total )
Powerdesk would also report 10 or 12mb of SDRAM on my G200 which I suppose
could either be just another symptom or perhaps the cause of the corruption. I think it must be peculiar to my mobo because
I haven't read of any similar reports in the forums but there have been other issues with PD5.13 for some so this way you can have the best of both worlds. A modified
Beta 2 installation program using the new ICD could save people the trouble of downloading and installing 5.13 in order to obtain the g200icd.dll. I'll take a stab at it myself but I'm a novice at this and was using the original Mystique up until two weeks ago so I'm not especially confident of success.
AMD K6-2 350mhz running at 392 3.5X112 2.05 Vcore
Microstar MS-5184 MVP3 Motherboard 1mb L2 cache
64mb generic LGS CAS 3 PC100 SDRAM DIMM
Matrox G200 LE (like the SD but without any upgrade sockets or add-on connectors)
Powerdesk 4.51 DirectX 6.1
Win95 OSR 2.1
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