When G400 Win2000 drivers????????????

[PaulS]

There are plenty of legal ways to be running Windows 2000 now. I am on MSDN, the full (non time bombed) version was released to us on the 20th. The corporate preview program has the time bombed version out for nearly a month.

As far as D3D and OpenGL not being as fast on Windows 2000, that it is utter rubbish, it has been refuted too many times to bother doing it again. Without any doubt it should be faster, NT has always been faster at OpenGL (poor drivers excepted) and D3D will be the same. Win2k uses a similiar implementation to the dreamcast, MS's most efficient version of DX yet.

I have no idea what game the marketing people at MS are playing, but provided you can find the drivers, I can't see any good reason why somebody should prefer to run Win98SE over Win2000. Possible not enough memory or HD space, but that would about it.

Paul

[mj12]

armyworm, let me quote you.

"It's just an NT4 upgrade, wake up."

SHUT UP NOW! I am at wits end with people who don't know jack about NT spewing more shit out of their mouths than microsoft marketing!

[jediphoenix]

Not looking to get flamed just to ask a question. I have a K6-2 450 with 128 megs of sdram. Is that enough to run win2000 pro acceptably? Thx

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[mj12]

If you are wanting to find out if certain software works under w2k or nt4 check here http://ntgamepalace.3dfiles.com/

[PaulS]

Let's see if we can get this thread over 100 posts before Kruzin comes back and cans it.

Paul

[Randy Simons]

jediphoenix: Win2K is running quite well on my K6-2 333 with 128MB. It doesn't seem to have any problems with my MVP3 chipset as well, and my G200 is running happily along.

Actualy, I was suprised with those drivers for the G200.. They actually WORK! 2D is near perfect, Direct3D is slow but hey, it works. OpenGL doesn't seem to work, it uses only software. But I'm not really using that anyway.

Nevertheless, 128MB is what I would recommend as usuable minimum, 64MB will be what 32MB is in Windows98.
A K6-3 will give applications a great speed-boost as well, because of its full-speed level2 cache.

[mj12]

Hehe, I say that we just start a bunch of convoluted threads that make no sense at all. We could create a bunch of nonsense id's and maybe create a ton of posts in french, german, spanish. That will keep kruzin busy.

[APV]

To be honest, you get agp d3d with their beta 5.0 w2k driver, what more you can ask for from a beta?

I myself have not found any major bugs except Easy CD Creator 4 refuse to launch when desktop set at 32bit color, at 16bit no problem.

also the famous sticky key bug but this is not video card driver related.

[PaulS]

I have had a lot of problems, I assume that many are related to the fact that I am using a multiprocessor machine. But then that is the point of having a good beta program. NT is not like Windows 95/98, where a manufacturer can be content if their drivers work well 99% of the time, on 99% of systems. Having a "reasonably" stable NT driver is a bit pointless.

Paul

[cutterslade]

I've been running win2k (build 2195) for about 4 weeks. The Matrox G400 drivers gave me absolutely no trouble at all. I even managed to squeeze out a higher resolution then in win98. What I miss however in win2k is a decent multimonitor setup. The dual head isn't as powerfull as in win98. You need two monitors with the same resolution. And the desktop stretches out over two monitiors. What I loved in win98 is that I could use a very low res monitor for secondery computing (displaying pdf files, usin as email window, viewing video etc etc)

So I hope they improve win2k in this aspect.

[mj12]

What is the famous stickey key bug?

[PaulS]

The one where if you hold the shift key down for too long it brings up a dialog box telling you sticky keys has been enabled, even when you tell it you don't want to use sticky keys?

I haven't had the problem in 2195.

Paul

[PaulS]

Can't believe it is Tuesday and this thread still exists! Kruzin must be in Mongolia.

Paul

[PaulS]

Well, at least I'm having fun. Anyone notice the latest DevRel Newsletter advised that there are freshly released Win2k drivers? Anyone been able to find them? Anyone wonder why the G200 NT 5 (beta 2) DX6 drivers are still the password protected developers drivers?

Paul

[Kruzin]

I'm just lettin' you people have your fun. No matter what I do, there will always be some win2k driver whining thread. Soon as I lock one up, another starts. So I may as well just let one go on...then if/when another starts, I can lock that one up, and point them to this thread