Expendable with G400?

[rylan]

Anyone know how to get expendable to work correctly with a MAX? I am getting the black screen while it starts to load, then kicked back to the desktop without any errors or anything. I know this was discussed a while ago, but I forget the fixes for it.

[dwood]

I had the same problem... Went through A TON of suggestions from Matrox Tech Support, Rage Tech Support, and this forum with no success. In the end, the only thing that worked for me was a complete clean re-install of Windows98.

Rage SW had a couple of suggestions for the problem in their Expendable FAQ. Neither worked for me, but you may want to give them a try. (I can't exactly remember what they are).

Does your G400 TechDemo work properly? I couldn't get it to run at resolutions above 800x600. That too was fixed with the Win98 reload.

Other suggestions for the problem (that didn't work for me) included: set 256MB AGP aperture size, latest drivers, latest BIOS, unload all background apps, force AGP 1x, enable/disable bus-matering, try older drivers, try various desktop and game resolution combinations, and I think there were others, but I can't recall. Oh, and verify you don't have any IRQ conflicts with the card.

Good luck,
Dave...

[Kruzin]

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