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**rickn** · 20 August 1999, 06:06

openGL is crap on the 5.13 drivers. It has decent speed, but way to many visual problems(corrupted textures, vsync problems with kingpin, problems with half life)

and please, dont anyone say "oh that is fixed in the 5.20.x. I am sick of hearing about all that is fixed in the 5.20.x drivers, until they are released knowing something is fixed dont do anyone a bit of good.

**M Ragsdale** · 20 August 1999, 06:12

Well, there are fixes in 5.20...there I said it.

Rags

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Some people call me the Space Cowboy.....

**rickn** · 20 August 1999, 06:13

gloating POS

**M Ragsdale** · 20 August 1999, 06:14

Now, why would you call me that?

**rickn** · 20 August 1999, 06:16

hmm, I have been waiting almost 2 months for fixes, so take a wild guess

**M Ragsdale** · 20 August 1999, 06:20

Hmmmm, do I code the drivers, do I release them, so I guess that would make me a POS. I want the drivers to be released as bad as you do. I want more stable OpenGL drivers, but the best we can do is sit patiently and wait for M to release them when they are ready. In the meantime I am not going to go around and call people fecile matter, while waiting that just isn't called for and is not very nice.

Rags

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Some people call me the Space Cowboy.....

**rickn** · 20 August 1999, 06:24

sorry dude, I figured you were another beta tester. My patience with the gloaters and matrox has gotten very thin. As for time tables, 2 months is more than enough time to get updated drivers out. They just dont know what they are doing.

**M Ragsdale** · 20 August 1999, 06:31

I really believe that they are doing the best they can with what they have. OpenGL ICD's are very difficult to code. I have been working on OpenGL support for a program I am currently developing and have had a hell of a time with it. I have the 5.2x drivers to use on my G200, but I don't they don't help me in any way with what I am doing. I have stuck with the released drivers for the time being (until the G400 arrives), since I really need stable drivers more than anything right now. Maybe M could use a few more coders, who knows. I am just waiting at their mercy right now. Just like most everyone else. As far as the beta testers go, I think they would not gloat too much, being that they are supposed to find bugs and flaws and such, and they are always working with beta code that is sometimes far south of stable.

Rags

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Some people call me the Space Cowboy.....

**agallag** · 20 August 1999, 08:21

Is there any ETA on the new drivers? Anyone? I realize the amount of effort that's going into them, and I don't mean to nag, just curious if they have any idea of a release date yet...

**ALBPM** · 20 August 1999, 12:24

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**tish** · 21 August 1999, 14:29

The G400 MAX is appearing in local stores, I see. Very good ¦)

but...
I thought Matrox was prioritizing it's pre-orders... That is, making sure they send a MAX to me before sending to resellers.

The only reason I pre-ordered from the on-line store was to be fawourized and get the card as early as possible, I could by far get the card at a much lower price from my local store...

Cheers,
Fish.

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**DK_** · 21 August 1999, 16:42

I would have thought the samething Tish, I haven't seen any post yet for US and Canada store's getting them yet and pricewatch isn't showing them in either. Sounds like Matrox is shipping more now.

Derek

**agallag** · 22 August 1999, 01:50

compucentre.com had the 32MB DH in stock for a couple of days last week, but it's back on backorder now...

**The PIT2** · 22 August 1999, 17:56

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