5.41 bad for G400 or just G200

[jediphoenix]

hehe well the one problem i have with the new drivers is that system
shock 2 will not start anymore. i go to load up a new game and get the
moving gears and then a black screen with the starting sound in the
background. Anyone have any ideas?

K6-2 450
128 megs sdram
FIC PA-2013 rev 2.0
G400 32 SH oem (but i got lucky and got one with max heatsink and 5 ns
sgram )
5.41 drivers (busmastering and agp 2x working fine)
Win98

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[CMB]

hi,
Anid could you please tell us how you disabled powerdesk?

[jediphoenix]

control alt del and then end task on pdesk

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[MultimediaMan]

From reading everyone else's problems, I think that the uninstaller may not be completely clearing out some old files and causing some problems.

I installed the 5.41 drivers on my system on a clean install, and they work fine on my Marvel G200 TV, along with VT 1.51 and even the Matrox DVD Daughter card works better than it ever did before.

Just thought you should know...


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My (Current) Primary system:

Abit BE6 (PL BIOS)
P3 450
384MB PC-100 SDRAM (Non-ECC)
Matrox Marvel G200-TV AGP (NTSC) v2.6 BIOS
3Com 905B-TX NIC
SBlive (W/ OD I/O Card, Liveware 3.0)
Creative Modemblaster 5601 Data/Voice/Fax Modem (ISA)
ADS Cadet Radio Data AM/FM Card (8 Bit ISA)
3x WD AC28400 EIDE HDDs (ATA66 Enabled)
Creative DVD5241E EIDE 5x DVD-ROM
M/S Windows 98SE (English)
DirectX 7

My (Current) Secondary system

Data General/ ALR 2650 Mobo (v6.004 BIOS)
2x P2 266 (SMP)
256 MB PC-100 SDRAM (ECC)
2x Number9 Revolution 3D 8 MB PCI Adapters
3Com 905B-TX NIC
Onboard Adaptec 2940 U2W
Onboard Intel 82558 NIC
Onboard Cirrus Logic SVGA adapter (Disabled)
Creative AWE64 Gold
2x WD 9.1 GB Enterprise SCSI3 HDDs
WD 4.5 GB Enterprise SCSI3 HDD
Nakamichi MJ-5 CD-Changer SCSI2
Panasonic LK-MW602 CDR
Window NT Server w/SP-6

[anid]

CMB, check my previous post on "found a (partial) fix for G200" to see how to completely disable PowerDesk and keep it from reloading. And even with a complete uninstall of the old drivers (with manual clean-up as well), it acts funky after installing 5.41.

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I say "Here's a monkey wrench... If you bop me over the head with it long enough I might wake up for a second."

[Schole]

I don't have any idea, but I can confirm that I can't start the System Shock 2 game engine after installing 5.41 ...

[numer]

I could not play anything with 5.3, 5.41 not only work very, very stable, but also gave me a very nice and noticeable performance boost.
For example, with pd 5.25 my CPU score on a benchmark was ~385 (P100 = 100), with pd 5.41 score went up to ~430. The benchmark I used is not very good but it shows the difference.
Looks like the optimization of these drivers is quite good.
My rig:
FIC PA2013-1.2, AMD K6-2/350, 128MB PC100, G200 16 MB SGRAM, Tekram DF-390F SCSI UW, WD 13GB, Plextor 40MAX SCSI CDROM, Yamaha CRW4416 SCSI CD-R/W, MX300.

[CMB]

thanks anid :O)