OpenGL - will I ever get to experience it?

[richardjones]

I've had my G400MAX since they were released, and I'm yet to experience stable OpenGL under win98 (I had Mindrover working for quite some time though). I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on the problem. I have the latest upgrades for win98, DirectX 7.0a, the 6.04 drivers from Matrox and yet not one OpenGL program will work! They either hang the machine (blender) or just tell me that they can't create an OpenGL context (quake3 &c).



Anyone?



Hardware: P-III 450, AOpen AX6B, 192Mb RAM, G400MAX...

[Helevitia]

OpenGL works fine for everyone else. I would say it is your hardware or some kind of config problem. Be more specific such as what IRQ assignments, driver versions(not just for the video card), BIOS version, and firmware. Last but not least, please don't come in here aquising the G400 of being your problem when it is obvious it is not.

Dave

[This message has been edited by Helevitia (edited 09 November 2000).]

[richardjones]

Whoa there! Where exactly did I accuse the G400 of <em>anything<em>?



I'm just trying to get an insight into why my setup doesn't work. I'm gathering info that might be relevant at the moment. What other driver information would be useful?

[Gurm]

We need IRQ's, man!

Also, make sure there's nothing in the slot next to your G400.

Then get the latest drivers, uninstall the current set (using the uninstaller), and install the new ones (this requires a couple reboots).

Then we can assist you further, given your IRQ list.

- Gurm

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[richardjones]

OK - it's got IRQ 10. The complete listing of IRQs shows "IRQ Holder for PCI Steering" against IRQ 10 as well though. Mind you, my network card is on IRQ 11 and there's one of those entries against 11 (and 12) too.



I've just updated to the 6.10 driver and tried blender again - no go. Brings up the big window and the computer freezes.



Thing is, DirectX works ... most of the time. For games I buy, like HL and IG2, I'm fine. For some demos from the net, I can sometimes get lockups. NOLF, for example, lets me play for a while then locks up. Just tried it with the latest drivers and it's the same.



There's nothing in either of the end PCI slots - just my network card in one of the middle slots.



hrmmm

[Ali]

Did you use the uninstaller from Matrox? Not the windose add/remove thing?

It sounds like you have some old leftover driver issue or something.

Try that and see what happenes

Ali

[Helevitia]

Richard,

Sorry for the little pissy post above. I was getting ready to leave work and was...well...pissy

Dave

[richardjones]

Yep, used the uninstaller. Oddly, it remembered that there were powerdesk settings when I went to install the drivers again. I suspect that I'm going to be looking into a fresh windows install some time soon

[ayoub_ibrahim]

what AGP aperture setting are you using?

[Maggi]

Could it be that your desktop is set to 24bpp colordepth ???

If so, set to 32bpp and try again.

Cheers,
Maggi

[Arsa]

Wait... does DirectX 3D work?

[DuRaNgO]

it sounds like you have a 128mb and a 64mb ram, have you tried removing the 64mb?
jim

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P3-700e @ agiga! Check it here!
Abit BE6-2
TwinMos 256mb pc-133
G400 32mb DH
Maxtor 15.3gb 7,200rpm
SB Live!
Toshiba 12x DVD
Iomega 650cd burner
Winblows 98se & DX7
and 384k DSL!

[Gurm]

RJ:

Please don't get discouraged at this point. I realize we're advising you to start doing radical things to your PC. Many people at this point say "my video card isn't worth it" and jump ship to nVidia or something.

But the point is, if the G400 doesn't work in this configuration, there are other underlying problems. So please bear with us.

I concur on the yanking of the mismatched piece of memory and seeing if that helps. Also a clean windows install NEVER hurts.

Also, try setting your AGP aperture correctly - to roughly half of your system RAM (try 64MB) instead of 256MB.

- Gurm

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

[ayoub_ibrahim]

quoted from richardjones :No idea what AGP speed - how do I find out?
look in the utilities section on the main MURC page for:
PCI List v1.30 | 146KB | Windows 9x | 11 November 1999 |
AGP/PCI bus diagnostic.
the program will tell you what AGP speed your m/board is using. if you want to try changing AGP speed use the mstu300 utility from the matrox website under utilities.

[richardjones]

Yes, DirectX works (as I mentioned above - it does have problems with some demos I download).