best drivers

[Oracle]

hey people whats the best drivers for the g400max i mean the fastest i am running the latest drivers 5.52 (for win98) and i was wondering what (if any) xtra speed i could squeeze from my card

laterz oracle

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P2 333 (not o/c yet <G&gt
128mb 66mhz sdram
gigabyte bx2000
matrox g400 max (not o/c
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[paulcs]

Your probably using the fastest drivers.

This might be out of the question, but if you want to see a big performance increase, you're going to have to upgrade your CPU and RAM.

This is true of all video boards, but it is particularly true of the G400. It offloads a lot of work to the CPU, and, for 3D stuff, your CPU will always be a bottleneck.

Upgrade your CPU, and it will be like having a new card--just like your G400, only faster.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[chicane]

The Matrox G400 is quite a decent Video card. So i guessed the min requirement frm a Processor is at least a 450mhz to see some heap in performance. of'croz the faster processor u hv, the better Matrox G400 will performance. I think 750-800mhz shld be able to saturate a G400 since its fillrate is somewhere around 300 Mpixel/s.

If ya processor is slower..then u hv a CPU limited issue when the 3D accelerator card is waiting for the processor to feed it. So no matter wat driver u use. U r still constrained by the processor ability to throw polygon setup to the video card.

Even by throwing SSE/3D!now optimised driver. Ya gain is still v small.

U just hv to decide where u wanna go.

[CannyOne]

Yep!, That's were I'm at now. The move to a 750 Althon allows me to use my MAX at higher resolutions while still getting good framerates. Now I have to consider overclocking the MAX. Just raising the processor speed to 800 doesn't increase performance the way the jump from 600->750 MHz did! (My previous processor was a P-III)

BTW, IMO the 5.52 drivers are the best! That is as long as you don't care about playing Q3A. That's the only thing I can't get to run. And personally I don't care! UT is a much better game!!

[TTCharon]

I Agree with CannyOne.
I'm running a P3-600E @ 800 and everything above 744mhz seems to have very little effect.
I think we're reaching the limit of the G400.
It's must be time to make some serious G400 overclocking!

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Abit BH6, P3-600E@800(6x133), 128mb MCT 8ns CAS3, G400MAX(OC'ed 110%), SBLIVE, AHA 2940AU, WDC 4.3, WDC 6.4, IBM GXP34 20.5, Mitsumi FX48, Yamaha 4416S, Zyxel Prestige 100IH, 3Com 905B-TX On W98SE, DX 7.0a, PD 5.52