Wasn't there supposed to be new drivers by now?

[afterburn]

Yeah, I had to rollback to pre-sp1 due to issues, which I can't for 100% sure pinpoint to P drivers, but since others don't have P installed don't seem to have them it's a pretty good guess it is. That is more important to me to get fixed than some games.

[leech]

Originally posted by albatorsk
So, back on topic; wouldn't it be nice if Matrox would just release a new set of drivers? They wouldn't have to be "the greatest drivers ever", just fix the known issues with GTA3 and Neverwinter so we, the mere users of their product, could actually start using it.

I agree totally. Or us <i>mere</i> users can have the linux drivers too. I really don't like this holier than thou attitude some of the beta testers of Matrox have. Just because you get to beta test their drivers doesn't mean that your crap doesn't stink too.

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by afterburn
Yeah, I had to rollback to pre-sp1 due to issues, which I can't for 100% sure pinpoint to P drivers, but since others don't have P installed don't seem to have them it's a pretty good guess it is. That is more important to me to get fixed than some games.

What issues are you having? I installed SP1 and haven't had any problems so far. At least that I'm aware of.....

Leech

[mutz]

...can you think of any reason why Matrox would hold back drivers? Could Matrox have any possible interest in holding back drivers? Can you imagine what the repercussions from you and major customers would be if Matrox released immature drivers? Can you imagine that driver criterion is currently very much in flux? Can you imagine that what has slipped out here is actually talking out of school, just to give you a hint and an insight for which you could be a little bit grateful? Do you want to have GTA3 fixed, just to have something else bust?

For me, I would much rather have a stable and dependable driver for the majority, and I can wait for the rest ...which in my experience does come... excuse me, but with this kind of pestering, don't know about you, I couldn't get any work done...

[afterburn]

Originally posted by leech


What issues are you having? I installed SP1 and haven't had any problems so far. At least that I'm aware of.....

Leech

There is a very annying thing I have noticed with the DesktopManager Powertoy. I use it cause I always have lots of windows open, and 4 desktops helps me to keep stuff somewhat organized. Anyway, with SP1 installed, switching back and forth between desktops will eventually make Outlook minimize to a 1 pixel size. Not quite useable or traceable. Closing it and opening it again, will make it show up in the minimum resizable size, about 1" square in the top left corner. Deinstalling that powertoy and using the Matrox desktop thingie made whole windows disappear. As in totally gone and only visible in taskmanager as running process, with no way getting it on screen. Anyway, very annoying. Rolling back to pre-sp1 made all problems go away.

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by mutz
For me, I would much rather have a stable and dependable driver for the majority, and I can wait for the rest ...which in my experience does come... excuse me, but with this kind of pestering, don't know about you, I couldn't get any work done...

I'm pretty sure that the crew writing the drivers aren't wasting their time reading this messageboard during workhours.

[Wombat]

I agree totally. Or us mere users can have the linux drivers too. I really don't like this holier than thou attitude some of the beta testers of Matrox have. Just because you get to beta test their drivers doesn't mean that your crap doesn't stink too.

Huh? What exactly are you going on about? "have the Linux drivers too?" Huh?

[Greebe]

I can assure you leech that my shit does indeed stink just like anyone elses... just glad nobody else is home atm to experience it!

[afterburn]

ROFL

Too much info dude, I think I can smell it here in EU!

[Liquid Snake]

Originally posted by gpremec
No, but I got that information from Croteam (SeriousSam, ring any bells?). They are geting the new Parhelia drivers for testing tomorow. That's all I can say.

Do you know if the patch that's supposed to improve the netcode and fix other bugs in Serious Sam will be released for FE and SE, or only SE? IMO, FE is a lot more fun in coop mode but the netcode is pretty bad. The Great Pyramid level is impossible to play because of the constant "too many bad syncs" errors

[jsb]

There was a new set of drivers scheduled for release last wensday “with improvement for different OpenGL applications, Autodesk (ACAD 2002 and Inventor 5) and 3D Studio Max 4.3"
But they were postponed on Thursday, hardly a trade secret….

[K6-III]

Difficult to wait...

[Marshmallowman]

on some other forums I have read that GTA3 may have some bad memory leaks related to AGP texturing.

Reduceing the AGP aperture size to 4M or disableing directx AGP textures seem to fixed it for some ATI cards, probably different for Parhelia but it may worth a try

[leech]

Originally posted by afterburn

There is a very annying thing I have noticed with the DesktopManager Powertoy. I use it cause I always have lots of windows open, and 4 desktops helps me to keep stuff somewhat organized. Anyway, with SP1 installed, switching back and forth between desktops will eventually make Outlook minimize to a 1 pixel size. Not quite useable or traceable. Closing it and opening it again, will make it show up in the minimum resizable size, about 1" square in the top left corner. Deinstalling that powertoy and using the Matrox desktop thingie made whole windows disappear. As in totally gone and only visible in taskmanager as running process, with no way getting it on screen. Anyway, very annoying. Rolling back to pre-sp1 made all problems go away.

What a surprise, considering that the desktop powertoys was programmed by Microsoft themselves. Lovely that they break their own software. The only odd thing I've noticed since installing SP1 is that mozilla now comes up with some dialog asking which program I want to use to execute a application/zip file. What the hell, I just want to DOWNLOAD it, but it doesn't give me that choice. Something stinks in this city (besides Greebe's raunch) and I think it could be Bill Gate's Raunch.

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by Wombat
Huh? What exactly are you going on about? "have the Linux drivers too?" Huh?

Someone bitter? Just wondering, Wombat, what exactly went down. You said at one point that Matrox had stopped sending you new betas for linux drivers? Or maybe I'm remembering wrong, I'm tired as hell. Could you perhaps shed a bit of light on it? or are you under NDA and cannot speaketh of such things?

Leech