New G400 drivers, 6.21.003 (Win 9x/ME), 5.31.003 (Win2k)

[Admiral]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/dr...atest/home.cfm

[Jorden]

You had some time to download them, so what do they do?

[alessandro]

Powerdesk V. 6.21.003 Release Notes for Win9x and WinME

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Supported Products

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G200

G400

G450

New Features

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n/a

Description of release

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Supports Win9x and WinME only.

ICD included.

TurboGL not supported.

Overclocker not supported.

Main Fixes

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- Missing textures in Expendable at farest mip map

- 3D Pipes screen saver delay time in loading.

- Intro screen and menu were shown as four colored blocks in Heavy Metal FAKK2.

- When Using OpenGL in Half-Life Counter Strike, the menus would overlap and you would get corruption on the screen.

- Missing Textures and white blocks in Crimson Skies.

- Red squares on replays and on corners in Fifa 2000.

- Red squares on replays and on corners in Euro 2000.

- Missing textures in Rainbow Six Cover Ops Essentials.

- Various DX8 issues with games. (G200).

- DVD playback issues.

Main known issues

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- Tiger Woods - If game resolution is increased Image exceeds the screen size.

- Forsaken - Power ups leaving pixels trail and flashes (G100 and G200 only).

- Fogging issues in X-plane 461

- When firing the 20mm cannon in F-15 (Jane's Combat Simulations) the frame rate drops to zero and the textures flip off and then back on.

- During gameplay in Klingon Academy, you may see white dots appear in the middle of the screen.

- In Rune, when there’s textures on top of an other texture (like a decoration on a wall) parts of the texture that are on the top will disappear, depending on the angle that your character is positioned in.- Protel 3D Viewer crashes when viewing in 3D.

- Missing textures and z buffer issues in Virtual Pool 3.

- Big boxes on text in the menus of Devil Inside.

- The rotors on the helicopter are twice the size they should be, also explosions and smoke are practically big blocks in Enemy Engaged Apache Havoc.

- No EMBM in Kyodia

- Decals are dark in Half-Life when in OpenGL.

Powerdesk V. 5.31.003 Release Notes for Win2k---------------------------------------------------------------

Supported Products
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G200
G400
G450

New Features
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none

Description of release
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Supports Win2k only.
ICD included.
TurboGL not supported.
Overclocker not supported.

Main Fixes
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- Shading in Maya is not smooth when in 16 bit color.
- Our registration window will keep popping up if there are 2 or more graphic cards in your system.
- Rally Master issue where you may get kicked back to the desktop.
- When Dynamic Lighting is enabled in Elite Force (within the game options), you may see defects in display.
***You must get the patch from the developer or from our ftp site..***
- Various OpenGL screen saver issues.

Main known issues
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- The mouse pointer flickers when viewing most 3D screen savers preview.
- Lines remain on movable toolbars in Pro/ENGINEER.
- Changing from DVD max to Multi Display mode may display some shimmering on your primary and/or 2ndary output.
Temporary workaround - Manually disable DVD Max before switching to multi display mode.
- Certain focus issues where the parent window will not be highlighted. Temporary workaround - Disable Pdesk.

[Admiral]

Sorry Jord, still downloading
Had problems with my ISP, server's been down for about 2 days and now that I can connect it's soooo slow



[This message has been edited by Admiral (edited 22 December 2000).]

[Jorden]

Okay Andrei

I've got the Win9x/ME drivers in. Looking at the timestamp they are old (15-dec-2000), but it's a good Xmas present. Thanks Haig !!

Jord.

[alessandro]

I'm getting 461 3DMarks less than before in 3DMark 2000??????????????
That's strange.
But they fixed the Colin McRae Rally 2.0 32bit problem .Now not only it's gfx-corruption free at 32bit but it runs smoother than before(i don't need to o/c my MAX to play it).

Anyone else getting less 3DMarks with these drivers?

[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 22 December 2000).]

[Admiral]

3578 on the default test.
I'm still in the 3550 to 3600 margin, so I'd say I have no problem with 3DMark 2k.

Might be that you're not overclocking the MAX anymore, there's enough score that comes from overclocking it

[alessandro]

Like i didn't know that....Duh!!!!

I was getting 3540 without o/c my MAX but now it's 3079.
I only use o/c for benchmarking but never when i'm running all other things(including games...except Colin 2.0 ).

I'm using DX8....maybe that is the problem...
3dMark+6.21+DX8????





[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 22 December 2000).]

[Admiral]

I'm using 7.0a, so you might be right, who knows. Now, don't go screw your system trying to get rid of DX8 and install 7.0a just for a 3Dmark score.
Play some games and see if they have problems before you do that or revert to PD 6.10

[alessandro]

This is what i'm getting from Wintune:

6.10
Video(2D) 194.7467 MPixels/s
Direct3D 358.7266 MPixels/s
OpenGL 167.7336 MPixels/s

6.21
Video(2D) 206.0501 MPixels/s
Direct3D 354.3241 MPixels/s
OpenGL 164.7282 MPixels/s

So the problem might be with 3DMarks????

[dZeus]

I haven't done any benchmarking yet, but the fixes I've seen so far (in PD 5.31 in Win2k):

- Vertex lighting in q3a is working properly again
- overbrightbits are now implemented? No need any more for r_overbrightbits 0 or r_ignorehwgamma 1 in q3a
- the Grey boxes in explorer after switching quickdesk schemes -bug has been fixed
- The Closing a window doesn't always make the previously-active window active -bug also has been fixed

My monitor now is listed in the Matrox Monitor Customization list! Woohoo! However, when I select it, the quickdesk schemes behave a bit odd....

[IcedEarth]

Why is it that these new drivers support the Millennium G200 but NOT the Mystique G200?
Oh well, by this time next week I hopefully have my G400 anyway.

[This message has been edited by IcedEarth (edited 22 December 2000).]

[jspenc3]

What dows that thing about No Overclocking in the .txt file mean?

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-Jay

[Admiral]

It means it doesn't work with Matrox's overclocking utility. There's alway MGA Tweak left to do the job... or PowerStrip

[SockPuppet]

Beautiful drivers, GOOD JOB Matrox!
The best set of drivers I've seen so far..

HLCS can finally run in opengl mode now in my win2k box without freezing, and it looks smoother than running on dx8...not by a lot, but noticeable to me..(res is 1024x768)

will try to turn on an opengl ssaver before i sleep tonight and see if it will freezes like 5.11+ to 5.20

Good Job!

Abit Be6
PII 300@464 (103mhz bus)
256meg Pc100 ram
g400 Mill 32meg oem dual head (144/192) AGP2X
sblive xgamer
win2k pro sp1 runnign all sorts of crap and everything sharing on same irq...