G400 very slow in Win2k

[keyhole]

I'm using the latest drivers
System 450mhz
128 ram
All games are very dark in Windows 98

[PaulS]

Dark or slow or both? There are gamma issues with OpenGL in W2k, but there are work arounds.

Speed should be comparable to Win 98, say within 5-10%. Also, it sounds terrible but 128M aint enough anymore. You'll see quite some improvement by going up another 64-128M.

Paul

[DosFreak]

Yep, I'm getting 256m this month.

[keyhole]

128mg of Ram is more than enough for most.
My card is sharing IRQs with two other device
in Windows 2000 no way around that. I guess its the drivers, guess its a waiting game

[Damien Green]

128MB should be enough for Win2K - I've got 256 - but I'm also running other macines on combinations ranging from 128 - 64MB - your Matrox card will share IRQ's - this a feature of ACPI - but the card shouldn't be running slowly - Win 2K should be as fast is not faster than 98 - maybe if you post some more info i.e programs you're running, other cards in you're system etc. we might be able to help.

[This message has been edited by Damien Green (edited 08 May 2000).]

[PaulS]

keyhole, Damien,

Run Q3 and check out your peak commit. It uses every bit of 256M.

Paul

[keyhole]

Mainly Desktop type stuff Office, Print Artist, Paint Shop Pro and some Autocad.
All are much slower in win2k..