MGATweak vs Matrox Tweak Utility

[SteveC]

You ain't doing nout wrong - the OCing capabilities are for the G400 only. On the G200 you only get the vsync option.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[Jake]

Hi!

Well, I finally got around to testing MGATweak. What a great program. Without overclocking I would get around 25 fps in Q3demo1 (640*480, 16-bit). Now I get 31 fps!!! My Q2 score in demo1.dm2 showed 52 fps! I LOVE IT!!! Not bad for an old G200 Mill 8Mb.

My card freezes up at PLL clock 204 Mhz and above. I chose the standard SGRAM optimization suggested in the pdf of 3,1,2,5,2,1,FAST,1,1,1,0,0 Is this the optimal setting???

I was wondering if I should mess with the Memory refresh counter. It's shows 3777 now. Also should I try different dividers for GClock and WClock?? they are at 2.0 (101.65 Mhz) now???

So many questions...

Regards,

Jake

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PIII-450@558, 192MB PC-100 SDRAM, MGA-G200 Mill. 8Mb

[This message has been edited by Jake (edited 09-21-1999).]

[DentyCracker]

Just to clarify. I'm not knocking MGATweak. I think it's a godsend. It's just that I know I should be able to get more speed out of my G200. 3DMark gives 1383 without MGATweak, and always gives in excess of 6200 CPU mark. I cannot enable busmastering, the screen goes to mush immediately, and it doesn't matter what I do to the bios, reformat , remove all other cards etc. I suspect the culprit may be my SIMMs. Alas I'll never know if changing them would have solved the problem (unless my brother decides to buy some SDRAM), since I've sold it. I may just have him buy some for Christmas so I can test my theory. Anyway MGATweak should come in handy when I put my new system together (MAX baby!!)

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Cracker_99
VA-503+rev 1.2A, 450 MHz K6-III, 96 MB EDO DRAM, 10 GB Maxtor HD, SB Live!, Millennium G200 8MB AGP, AVerMedia TV98, AOPEN CRW 9420, FPS 1000, 2 MS SideWinder Gamepads
Win98 (2222A), BeOS 4.5.2, RedHat 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.12

[Olivier]

Hello

here is my 3d mark 99 max registered result;
4013 3dmark
4833 cpu 3dmark

PII 504mhz, G400Max o/c 163,204,163

[Olivier]

oups i forgot to tell you the graphics settings
1280x1024, 16bits, triple buffering

sorry...