G400MAX does not work with DX7

[Liquid Snake]

My G400MAX can not run any 3d games (gl or d3d) with DX7. If i disable AGP support in DXDiag, it works, but is unstable (would often crash). I had to reformat to get rid of it and now i'm back to DX6.1. I have the Abit BX6 R 2.02. Is this the abit compatibility problem some people are having?

[Borg]

Hi!

My friend have a G400MAX & NO problems with DX7 I have a SH G40032 & NO problems eather ..we have a P2B mbo-s & SB .LIVE...I have PIII450 & my friend PIII500

I tryed on RE-VOLT,AVP,SIN,Q3,Q2,BLOOD2,NFS4,FREESPACE2 demo..

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PIII450@465,P2b,128mb,Matrox Mill-G400 32SH,SB.Live !(value)...

[GD]

Hi,
No probs with dx7 here neither... There's even a SLIGHT performance increase in 3dmark :-) (I doubt it's from the direct x, though :-) )

Of course the problems I had with dc6.1 remain (locking up in expendable always at the same spot...oh well)

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PC Power and Cooling Deluxe Chrome Tower case and 300W ATX Power Supply, Dual Slot1 440GX AMI MegaRUM II motherboard, 128MB of ECC 100 MHz SDRAM, PII 450 MHz, Matrox G400 MAX, Seagate Cheetah 9,1GB @ primary SCSI Ultra2 Wide controller, Hitachi 4x DVD-ROM, Panasonic (Matsushita) LS-120 Drive, Terratec EWS64XL sound card.

[Zypher]

No problems period here. Drakan and Expendable run all the way through...well as far as I can get in the former though.

[rinkol]

The lockup problems I was having with my g400 /bp6 combo increased after I installed DX7. To get to the point where I could run the techdemo for extended periods, I had to:

- disable all video caching in bios
- increase agp aperture in bios to 256 mb
- hack registry for x1 agp
- hack registry to disable paletized textures
- revert to 5.11 drivers (after trying 5.13 and 5.25 drivers)

If anyone else has any suggestions or ideas, I would be interested in hearing them.

Robert Inkol

[Happy Bunny]

I am running Celeron 400mhz with 128mb memory and downloaded DX7 today. I first tried it with Microdoft simulator and the frame rate increased by up 30 fps. It was already good but now great. I then tried with one other game and that too improved.

I don't have any doubta about DX7 but I think it is important to check the Display tab in DX via Programme Files.

Yes, very happy with DX7. Now I am going to load the new drivers 5.25v.

Have fun, Don

[IceStorm]

Burn your Abit motherboard. :-)

Seriously, my G400 MAX works fine with DX7 (well, except for Unreal being pissed off when I go above 1152x864). Try upgrading from 6.1 to 7 instead of just installing 7?

Just my $0.02

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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.

[rinkol]

I "upgraded" from dx6.1 to dx7 - and found myself very unhappy as my lockup problems got worse and I was past the point of no return, having just reinstalled W98 the previous week.

On of the drawbacks, I have realized, of a dual boot system is that there are two OSs for things to go wrong in.

I think I will be trying my luck with Matrox Tech Support.

Robert Inkol

[Zypher]

*cough* this abit'er runs just fine with dx7... 2X and BM enabled *cough*

[Jonathan Beilin]

This is just strange. I have a P2-400, ABIT BX6 2.2, Win98, and DX7, and Quake based games, Shogo, Myth 2, expendable, and Drakan all run fine. Hell, I have nothing but praise for my G400MAX. Best videocard I have ever bought.