G400 Driver Rant (Depressing)

[Mark F]

I was about to D/L the Screen Saver and test it on my 03h and 04h boards. Glad I bothered to read all the way through and find that it's not a problem in WIN9X.

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
and burped out a movie

[The PIT]

It does help if you read the orginal post where win2k is stated and dual processor's is mentioned.
That rules out win9x

[Brian R.]

You might make that assumption, but I wouldn't. There are many generalizations made throughout this post which are not specific to W2K.

"The G400 is the ONLY major card which doesn't support many OpenGL modes.

The G400 is the ONLY major card which doesn't run Q3Radiant.

And it joins such wonderful cards as the Rage128 and Savage3D at the bottom of the pack for OpenGL compatibility overall."

Sounds pretty general to me, even though Gurm mentions W2K in the previous statement.

With all the people dual booting between W2K and W98, you can't make that assumption anymore. You know what they say about making assumptions...

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 04 August 2000).]

[Gurm]

My wife's boss once said:

"Don't assume. You make an ass out of yourself."

Everyone was laughing FAR too hard to correct him. The next meeting he said:

"Don't assume. You make an ass out of everyone."

This time they rolled in the aisles.

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At any rate, we are QUITE specifically talking about Win2k. And the fact is that although Euphoria and a couple of other issues (SMP Quake3) are relegated to Win2k, a lot of other problems are there in BOTH OS's. Like Q3radiant, for example.

- Gurm

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[Brian R.]

Well, I'm glad that's cleared up. I doubted some of those issues were only with W2K. Anyway there was very little made clear in this topic, other than the subject of OGL.

[Joel]

"PIII 600E oc'ed to 133MHz FSB"

And you don't think that this could be part of the problem? Push something beyond it's specs. Have you ever though that heat could be part of the problem too?

""Euphoria" locked up on my system, after running for an indeterminate amount of
time."

How can a lockup after "an indeterminated amount of time" be blame on the video drivers, especially with a screen saver?

Joel

[Wombat]

Joel,
How can a lockup after "an indeterminated amount of time" be blame on the video drivers,

Let's see...bad use of libraries, bad timing, bad calling parameters, memory leaks......................

[Joel]

"bad use of libraries, bad timing, bad calling parameters, memory leaks"

I still don't see how you can fully blame this on the video drivers.

Joel

[Gurm]

Guys, chill on Euphoria. The only bug in it is the display list thing, which *cough* *cough* might have been easy to locate for the driver team.

The lockup is your overclocked system. End of story.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[The PIT]

The only way to find out is to clock the machine back. Then if the problem still occurs it maybe the drivers, Bios other bits of hardware.

[uzi]

Mmm, Gurm, maybe I'm alone, but 3DStudio MAX worked for me (G400 16MB)... Ok I haven't tested it really hard, but as it seemed, it worked well. Don't remember with what drivers, but it was under Win98.

I must say too that I haven't found any game that doesn't work, with OpenGL or D3D. The only that gaved me some problems was Deus Ex, but after disabling the detailed textures (a bug in the cache of D3D that's common with UT), all worked fine. I'll try later the screen saver, but hey, Daikatana worked PERFECTLY. A bit slow, at the time that I was playing I had a K6-3.

I really don't know why are you having so many troubles. Maybe the SMP, or the drivers of your mobo (see AGP). You may try to kill all those nice apps that may give problems (everyone). Or... reinstalling Windows? Did you have the SP1? Some buggy drivers of any other device? A dirty installation of the PowerDesk??? Who knows! But hey! All works for me!

[Brian R.]

Hope you've got an Uzi with you...

[Greebe]

LOL so true!


note to self
Del note.slf

/note to self

[This message has been edited by Greebe (edited 06 October 2000).]

[Gurm]

Uzi,

Are you high? You resurrect a thread that's 3 months old to tell us how well your system runs under Win9x?

Get a CLUE. Would I be bitching about SMP and the Win2k drivers if I gave a flying *expletive deleted* about Win9x?

- Gurm

P.S. The reason I'm being so harsh is that several other people were already flamed in this thread for posting how well their G400 works under Win9x, and if you had READ it you'd know that.

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Brian R.]