G200 is slow fullscreen...

[fluggo99]

Greetings from the Desktop Video forum!

I am a novice at all things hardware-related, but something tells me that when DirectX goes full screen my graphics performance should be faster than in a window... BUT everything DirectX I run runs faster in a maximized window at 1280x1024 than it does in "fullscreen" at 640x480. What the hey?

I noticed this on my old P150 before I moved to my new PIII 550 MHz , but I'm still getting the problem.

Marvel G200-TV PCI 8MB untweaked
PD 5.30, DirectX 6 or 6.1

(Does it have something to do with the Microsoft HQL certification? 'Cuz DXDIAG reports two of my drivers are uncertified...)

Thanks,
fluggo99

[Groove Diz]

Ok! use:
DirectX 7.0
Unified Bios 3.51
The latestPowerdesk... (www.murc.ws)
Performance Tuner (working
Ps! Inportant (Cooling)
Matrox D3D drivers

Mine is working grait!!!


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My sys:
MotherB (Asus)
P3 450mhz (plain)
Mga G200 16mb @ 110mhz
with Homemade Superhigh
Rpm cooler...
pioneerDvD 36/6x
128mb Pc100 Mhz
16,5Gb Seagate (UDma)
Yamaha S90
& awe64
Win98




[This message has been edited by Groove Diz (edited 29 November 1999).]

[fluggo99]

No offense, but shouldn't the acceleration work without all that stuff? I mean, do I really need a cooling fan and a tweak utility to get decent performance out of a $300 card? I mean, come on!

I already have the latest PowerDesk and unified BIOS and all that jazz; I'm running DirectX 6 and I'm really not interested in DirectX 7. What else could be wrong? Why does everything get slower in fullscreen (DirectDraw exclusive) mode?