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

[mj12]

The reason I was asking about the sticky key bug is because I thought that was where you were going. It is still there but to enable it you have to hit the left shift key 5 times in a row. I did find a bug with this dumb dialog box though. When you get the dialog box to come up hit alt-prtscn and then pull up paint and try to paste it into paint.

[PaulS]

Gosh, poor Kruzin. We have broken his spirit.

Paul

[TreznorX]

I have no complaints about past Matrox performance other than spotty agp2x support on my asus p2b-f. But in win2k I cannot get opengl to work at all. It doesn't even start to work. I have the full release of win2k and the newest matrox drivers, Dx works perfectly. I'm a little annoyed at registering for devloper password and then not getting useful g400 drivers.

[rob_b]

Yeah Paul_s, I think that newsletter is a little late getting to us. I didn't see any new drivers either so I assume it refers to the ones released back in December .... Rob

[APV]

There are many people running Quake 3 or Rogue Spear under W2K 2195 reports that it kept shooting even after u release the fire button. it is related to PS2 mouse/keyboard driver. You can learn more about it if you do a search on any W2K, Rogue Spear or Quake 3 forum.

BTW, armyworm, W2K is not simply a NT 4 upgrade, it is more than that, I have been using NT 3.5, NT 4.0, Win 95/98/98SE, FreeBSD, W2K is by far the best O/S coming out from MS.

[APV]

One more thing, although W2K OEM is out but the retail version is not out until FEB 17, so Please don't flame any hardware manufacturer for not having a final version of driver before that date, wait until March, if they still have anything out then you can shout at them or whatever u want with them. and for the overclockers out there W2K is not as overclock friendly as Win98, you may need to up the voltage a bit or tune down your overclocking in order for W2K to run without bug. For myself I can do 2.0v Celeron 366@550 under Win98 no problem but have to up voltage to 2.1v for NT 4.0 and W2K to work stable.

Hope this help

[PaulS]

rob_b, funny that the previous newsletter already announced the drivers.

I can't see many developers using the current drivers for D3D or OpenGL work under Windows 2000. I wonder what Matrox's thinking is here?

APV wrote: "One more thing, although W2K OEM is out but the retail version is not out until FEB 17, so Please don't flame any hardware manufacturer for not having a final version of driver before that date"

I think most video card manufacturers really slacked off here. Not a single one bothered to get D3D / OpenGL drivers certified by MS for inclusion in Windows 2000. It seems that most of them didn't really start seriously working on the drivers until late last year.

On the bright side, it looks like MS is going to refuse to include new drivers in any Windows 2000 service packs (only updated drivers for those companies that took the time to be approved), so this could be a mistake the video card manufacturers pay for for a long time.

Paul

Paul

[mj12]

I get this feeling the reason the video manufacturers fell asleep at the wheel is they all played the wait and see game. I don't think any of them started on drivers until rc1/rc2 timeframe which is way too late in the game.

[APV]

BTW, only 1 video company has offically announced that they will fully support W2K and will have a fully functional W2K driver by the time it is released (retail) and that company is ATI. As for Creative Sound Blaster they started replying enquiry from W2K user that they will not release Live wire for W2K until it hit the retail shelves so we may have to wait till after FEB 17 to see....

[PaulS]

Yep, there was that enormous gap from beta 2 to beta 3, caught them all sleeping. Matrox seem to get off to a good start with the alpha drivers for beta 2, but then nothing. Problem for Matrox was that they were already doing precious little with NT/OpenGL, so they started further behind again.

Paul

[Xorcist]

All you guys are quite lucky!

Complaining about minor errors in your drivers!

I hane newest beta drivers and whenever I try starting Win2k the whole shit freezes!!! And NO it's not IRQ conflict...I have removed all my devices except G400 and still doesn't work...

So feel sorry for someone who really has to have the Final drivers...I can't even use Windows!!!

-Xorcist

[Alec]

Wait a minute, guys...

Why jump in a rush to Win2K?? I know it´s a lot more stable and reliable operating system, but it´s also heavier and more hardware-demanding.

What´s the big advantage of Win2K over Win98 gaming-wise? Won´t games run slower on a heavier system?

I just want to know what´s so hot about Win2K.

[This message has been edited by Alec (edited 07 February 2000).]

[Galvin]

If you have a machine with 256megs of ram and good hardware, games usually run faster under NT/win2K.

If you have a 64meg system you're better of staying with win 9x.

For the serious user that has experience with NT then win2K is the way to go.

[Scytale]

I'm on spec with a P3@560 and 256MB PC133, but I'd like to see a game running faster under Win2K than under W98. IMX, games do run more smoothly (due to better scheduling and resource management), but never faster.

I'm still looking forward to updated drivers and service packs and such

[This message has been edited by Scytale (edited 07 February 2000).]

[noackjr]

Well, check out my signature, but everything runs faster on my G200 with the 5.00.007 drivers in 2000 than it does in 98. Quake 3 gives me 3-4 more fps and UT goes up about 5 fps. And on the smoothness issue, no slowdowns at all. I imagine for me it has to do with dual processing, but SMP support is disabled in Quake 3, so the only speed increases are from other threads being taken up by the other processor. Anyone who thinks 2000 can't be a gaming platform is flat out wrong. The strengths that NT brings with it make it an almost ideal gaming platform for a HIGH-END system. Once you get beyond the memory overhead, Win2000 starts kicking 98 butt.

Jon

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