I am happy with Matrox's current Windows 2000 drivers.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Lars:

Same problem with the same monitor ...

Yeah, that's interesting...
I tried selecting other monitors as well as using a standard VGA cable instead of the better BNC one I normally use - but this didn't help, either.

I now do belive that the new drivers have a bug with monitors that don't support DDC (like our MF8617).

It would be of some help if some other people with non-DDC monitors tried Changing screen-size/position with the new Win2K drivers...

Of course you can also can change these settings with the monitors controls but that's not really an elegant solution - Especially if you have another system running on the same monitor with other (non-VESA standard, who needs those on AMIGA... ) modes this can be too much for the user-defineable presets of your monitor.

[Gary Hendershot]

The latest driver set foe Windows 2000 is good, BUT MATROX STILL HASN'T RELEASED ANY WINDOWS 2000 DRIVERS FOR MARVEL SERIES VIDEO CAPTURE CARDS (G200, G400) along with non-bug-filled beta version Video Tools. Aaaaaargh!

[Gurm]

On performance... Nuno et al... have you tried DX8 yet (I know it's a beta, but...)?

- Gurm

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[Nuno]

Gurm: I tried DX8 beta with 5.10 and I don´t remember to notice any improvements. I´m not using it anymore because I reinstalled win2k to get rid of an anoying IE 5.5 (I think) bug.

What is your experience? DX8 increased performance for you?

[This message has been edited by Nuno (edited 26 September 2000).]

[Rags]

Hey Nuno, what was the "Bug" that you are referring to? Just curious, that's all

Rags

[Gurm]

Nuno,

Yes, DX8 vastly increases video (*** GRAPHICS, not video playback ***) subsystem performance. There was a fairly major bug in the DX7 implementation included with Win2k that wasn't addressed by SP1. Some video operations were taking 2n time instead of n time, some were taking n-and-a-half time.

- Gurm

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[This message has been edited by Gurm (edited 26 September 2000).]

[wiggo]

Gurm: Interesting. Any specifics?

Last I heard the DX8 release was approx. this Friday. At this stage I just want a non-beta SDK...

[Gurm]

Wiggo:

I honestly forget the specifics. All I know is that after installing DX8, my Sound Blaster Live! works in hardware accelerated mode, my G400 runs substantially faster in D3D mode, and all my games seem a little smoother.

- Gurm

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[Nuno]

Any link to the latest beta?
The earlier one I got in win98 has the nagging beta driver expired, please upgrade.