5.30 OGL saga..

[IceStorm]

I'll have to install Lava and try it out.

Unreal I haven't tried yet, but I find Unreal is better in D3D mode - The Unreal crew didn't do a good job on their OpenGL implementation, and they know full well they didn't (they've basically dropped supporting it from UT).

The TurboGL is great for HL. Works like a charm. 1024x768 is gorgeous. 1152x864 likewise, but not quite as fast as the V2 rig I have (then again, it can't do 1152x864).

[paulcs]

It's important to keep in mind that Unreal is a Glide-based game. Apparently, and I've heard this over and over again, the D3D implementation is vastly improved while OpenGL performance isn't nearly as good.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[The PIT]

The thing I noticed with Unreal in d3D mode is that the background is very blocky. This wasn't the case with earlier drivers. Lovely tearing with opengl though time to enable vsync.

[Borg]

5.30 OGL saga..

5.30 OGL saga

Problems again?...is that new with MATROX ?...ofcourse not ...the same old school..TURBOGL ,mcd ,ICD ,or however they call it..they doesent work like they sould & this is 4th driver revision.

What bother me is that always somting doesent work or makes lockups or crashes like TURBOGL with UNREAL, SB.LAVA ! player, VOODOOLIGHTS screan saver or other.

So the saga begins :

After installing 5.30 I get my PC crashed ewery time I exit LAVA! player, with some message like ILLIGAL OPERATIONS & corruptions in desktop like white icons, empty stratmenu & ofcorse I have to reboot , the same way with VOODOOLIGHTS 1.2.3 SCREAN SAVER in D3D works OK but when select OGL this hapend when I exit the SS :

VOODOOLIGHTS caused an invalid page fault in module G400ICD.dll at 018f:691a77ff

So I replaced the 5.30 ICD with beta icd 5.13.021 & things goes much better NO CRASHES with LAVA & VOODOOLIGHTS only that VOODOOLIGHTS want close complitly after exit, I have to close it with CTRL+ALT+DEL because they stay there from some reason,I will try ICD from 5.20 later.

I didnt test any Q games because I dont play it ,but UNREAL will be tested soon as fast I get my CD back..ah yes before format c: I tryed UNREAL & guess whth... BLACKNES,CRASH..BOOOOOMMMMM ded end , have to restart,ofcourse with TURBOGL

So far I tested HOMEWORLD in D3D & OGL with 5.30 & it works PERFECT in D3d but OGL not so good, coruptions in SENSOR screen & slower performance in game when near asteroid field, D3D works wery wery good in 1024x768x32 , 32megs txtures, all highest settings.

3Dmark99 MAX counts a performance incrase & that is good from 4444 to 4630 not OC & with Vsync ON

My opinion about 5.30... D3D works great , OGL icd sucks & TRBOGL sucks even more, replaceing ICD with other one could make things better, the same problems with ICD & LAVA/VOODOOLIGHTS I had with next PDesks: 5.21,5.25 & 5.30

Maybe HAIG could say waht is in common with these ICD-s & why they crash with LAVA ,VoodooLights & other OGL SS

5.13,5.20 works OK with LAVA but there is the strange problem when exiting VOODOOLIGHTS, it stays in background so I must close it with CTRL+ALT+DEL

I realy appreciate that MATROX relised 5.30 like tey say it would & that they make progress with drivers, but OGL must be better then this .

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