Problems With New G200 Drivers

[Fyrespray]

I have got the new 5.41 G200 drivers and when I installed them and ran a timedemo on Quake3 I get this wierd stuttering avery 5 seconds or so, which i'm also getting in the game. I Did a timedemo of q2 as well and again the stuttring is still there, only not quite as obvious. Has anybody else had this problem, and has anyone got any ideas how to fix it ??? Its a bit annoying because these new drivers look a fair bit faster than the old 5.30 ones when its not stuttering and i'm getting the same fps even with the stutters.

Fyrespray

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Celery 366 @ 550,Abit BM6, 128Mb PC100 Ram, G200, AWE64 Gold.


[This message has been edited by Fyrespray (edited 01 December 1999).]

[This message has been edited by Fyrespray (edited 01 December 1999).]

[Tumu]

The stuttering/slowdowns is a known issue with PD5.xx series. I haven't yet tested the 5.41 but if you still have those stutters I could even guess I will too have them. Some people have those stutters with good and working systems and some people do not. It's quite a mystery why it is happening.

-Tumu


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Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset (bios v3.3),
64MB PC100 RAM, G200 AGP 8MB SGRAM (not overclocked, a fan, bios v2.6),
PD5.30, SB16 Value, 3COM Fast EtherLink XL, Sony Multiscan 100ES, HP8210i
Win95OSR2.1 finnish

[Fyrespray]

Oh i didn't get any stutters before, only with the new drivers, i did use the uninstall utility before i installed them and everything and i have gone back to 5.30 which is fine no stutters at all and i've never had that problem before just a bit annoying thats all :-\

Fyrespray

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Celery 366 @ 550,Abit BM6, 128Mb PC100 Ram, G200, AWE64 Gold.

[Telifia]

Are the new drivers working on a Celeron, or is it only for P3 users?

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cel 366@458
64mb
4.3Gb
G4oo 16mb SH

[DuRaNgO]

good bug fixes for all
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400 (YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 167/208 with MGATweak-417mhz, (2.5, 2, 2.5), PD 5.41 & bios 1.5-22
Maxtor 14.3 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se & DX7
32 lbs. of fans, heatsinks and aluminum ductwork
3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s

[Tumu]

Checked the 5.41 and it stutters like the other 5.xx versions. The stuttering is beginning to be a feature of Matrox Windows drivers.

Durango, yep, 5.41 contains just bug fixes (and still misses some bugs), no new features whatsoever. The green transparent boxes which were visible in Q3A have gone atleast.

-Tumu


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Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset (bios v3.3),
64MB PC100 RAM, G200 AGP 8MB SGRAM (not overclocked, a fan, bios v2.6),
PD5.41, SB16 Value, 3COM Fast EtherLink XL, Sony Multiscan 100ES, HP8210i
Win95OSR2.1 finnish

[Fyrespray]

I've been messing about and i have finally managed to get the new drivers working on my compy witout any stuttering. What i did was extract the setup files as normal then right click on my computer->properties->display adaptors->G200 and then updated the drivers from there using windows. They now seem to work fine i have got an increase in FPS and Q3 looks even better than it did before. I guess there is something wrong with the setup program they have included with the new drivers. Hope that helps fix the problems other ppl are having.

Fyrespray

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Celery 366 @ 550,Abit BM6, 128Mb PC100 Ram, G200 8Mb, AWE64 Gold, Win98SE.

[LrngToFly]

Since Haig is on vacation this week, there might not be anyone (Matrox person) reading the forums this week.

Perhaps us G200 owners would get an "official" fix more quickly if we all submit the problem to the tech support...
http://www.matrox.com/mga/tech_supp/...quest_form.htm

[Zuofu]

I had the same problem with my Matrox Mystique G200, but I fixed it by hitting Control-Alt-Delete and terminating Pdesk.
The "pauses" seem to go away and everything works fine, but Pdesk tries to sneak back into your tasks after awhile, so be sure to keep it dead

Intel Celeron 433mhz on Intel AL440LX
Matrox Mystique G200 NCD 20"
64MB SDRAM
8.4 GB Western Digital UDMA-33
Creative Soundblaster PCI64