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

[Maniac]

Well being the loyal Matrox fans that we are, I guess we have to be content with new driver releases, instead of new hardware!


P.S. no overclocker means I'm still sticking with 5.41 + Turbo GL

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Celeron 366@567 2.2V, 128meg generic PC-100 RAM (running at CAS2) Abit BH6, G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A(morphed to mp7060A) Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

[Greebe]

Maniac, the Matrox OCer will only work with PD5.xx. So the other two mentioned OC utils are your only way to do it.

Maybe you should give them a try instead of punishing yourself with PD 5.41.

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"Never look a gift horse in the mouth"

[Galvin]

The direct 3D seems to be much faster with the latest drivers than the previous ones in win2K. I noticed the spinning box test in dxdiag rotates much faster. This is with a G400 DH 32mb. No fixes I could see in quake3 ICD, still has lighting errors on walls

[SockPuppet]

sad to report but my opengl ssaver still freezes...

oh well, everything else works great..
still love the new drivers...

[Maniac]

No problems at all with 5.41 + ICD, very nice framerates across the board.

[Bohrn]

Maniac, try the 6.10 ICD. I find it more stable than the TGL. I haven't benched the TGL tho... Maybe we can swap files so we don't have to install and uninstall to get what we want?

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AsusP3B-F,P3 840 Slot1, 256mgsPC133,G40032megSH, Diamond MX300,13.5gigs of HD's,52X CDrom,WinME, PD 5.41 w/ 6.10ICD,Altec Lansing ATP3Subwoofer,
Envision 17",Terrayon Cable modem w/D-Link nic,1 grey cat,1 black cat & 1 calico

[Xtian]

My Q3 performance(with 1.27g 8x6x32 bilinear text 16) went from 55 fps (6.10) to 46 fps (6.21)
My "installing procedure" was correct.
-uninstall (reboot)
-install VGA card (reboot)
-install 6.21
-disable V-sync and set "Optimize for speed" the ICD
Obviously my G440 runs at AGPx4
Have you got any idea ??


Merry Xmas !!


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My System:
AMD Duron 600@950
Abit KT7
128MB SDRAM PC133 CAS2
G400 SH 16 MB SDR @ 159/212
5,1GB Quantum HDD (UDMA33)
AOpen 40x-CDROM (UDMA33)
D-Link DFE-530TX Ethernet Adapter PCI 10/100 Mb
17" Monitor Hitachi CM643ET 1024x768@115 Hz/91.3KHz
Windows 98SE

P.S. Sorry for my English

[This message has been edited by Xtian (edited 24 December 2000).]

[Mr. Cold]

Any updates for DirectX 8 optimization for either Win2k or WinME?

[Galvin]

Just curious are there any apps that even use DX8 ? if not then it would be useless to have DX8 drivers out.

[DosFreak]

Mechwarrior 4

Nvidia Directx 8 DDK

are the only ones that I know of.

[impact]

DoW no longer recognizes my G400 with the 6.21 drivers... oh well...

[xortam]

Galvin ... as I mentioned in my GHW/SW "CPU fan" thread, my friend just picked up an OTA HDTV decoder card which requires DX8.

[ParaKnowYa]

Released a new driverpack based on the 6.21 drivers from Matrox. Get it @ www.paraknowya.de, it should solve some install problems and such! =)

regards
PKY (who's kind of back! =)

[Greebe]

Yes Galvin there are and more are coming out everyday now.

[Joel]

Hey ParaKnowYa,

What kind of hack job did you do to the drivers this time? You should let ppl know at least that much.

Joel

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 26 December 2000).]