TurboGL Questions

[moreau]

After installing the latest TurboGL, Half-Life locks during the switch to OGL, and Unreal Tournament won't recognize any hardware acceleration (never ran it prior to TGL, so I don't know what would have happened).

Also, a friend and I with different systems are getting a weird stutter in Q3A. It runs really smooth, except for an intermittant stutter. It's not quite like running below 30fps, its more like a chunk of frames gets dropped every so often.

Any thoughts?

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G400 DH 32MB
PD 5.30, bios 1.5-22
RR-G VidTools 1.?? (this rules)
Win98SE, DX 4.06.03
Celeron 400(500 oc'd)
Asus P3B-F 1.01A, Bios 1004
256MB PC100, CTX VL710
SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
Microsoft Intellimouse USB (IntelliEye, baby)
Holding on to my G200 16M SG, looking for a good home.

[Maggi]

First of all you should update your MoBo's BIOS ...
http://cgi.asus.com.tw/cgi-bin/dl.as...f/bx3f1004.zip

List of bug fixes:

P3B-F BIOS Ver. 1004. 10/25/99
Added Type 32 report for passing SMBIOWFM test.
Fix setup screen cluttered after selecting "CPU Vcore" option.
Revise and add one more choice of Power Loss Restart.
Boot from ZIP instead if no legacy floppy drive and LS-120 drive.
Added platform ID check for P6 microcode update loader.
Failure to report floppy error in POST if a LS-120 drive detected.
Support Phoenix bit-shift translation mode for an IDE hard disk larger than 32G bytes.
Fix the 1.44M diskette in A: been destroyed during Win98 (ACPI mode) installation if A: is a LS-120 drive.
Fix BSDI UNIX (bootable CD) cannot be installed from an IDE CD-ROM drive.
Upgrade Deschutes and Katmai microcode updates.
Fix Win98 SE cannot create a Startup Disk with a LS-120 drive.
Fix Windows 98 SE cannot be installed from a SCSI CD-ROM drive.
Fix the system cannot boot from any bootable device if booting from a 3Com 3C905C-TXM LAN card is failed or bypassed.
Support Multiple Choices for Keyboard Wakeup.
Add FULL_LOGO_OPTIONAL flag to fix the logo item without effect.
Support temperature display of JTPWR.
Fix CMOS Hardware monitor item does not appear when ignored.
Fix keyboard Power Up is always enabled.
Fix the system hang-up bug at POST while enumerating the KCT hub compound device.
Support low speed fan.
Fix wrong CPU Speed setup options for Klamath CPU.
Fix a 40-pin IDE cable is detected as an 80-pin one.
Fix LITE-ON LTN-382 or CNet CDL-36X ATAPI CD-ROM cannot be detected after warm boot.
Fix some out of Spec. USB keyboards not working.

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Then you should install DX7.

having that done, use the uninstaller from matrox and update your G400 drivers to PD5.41.

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I guess that could fix your problems.

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 100MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Eye-Q 777 (22" with 127kHz) on primary VGA
Nokia 445Xi (21") on secondary VGA

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

[Maggi]

LOL ... I must be sleeping or something ...

just forget about the Mobo bios update ...

[moreau]

I'll try DX 7. I didn't think of that before you posted it.

The drivers though i don't think I can change. Matrox recommends 5.30 for the RR-G.
Anyone have any thoughts on that?

[Maggi]

I think they don't recommend PD5.41, because they didn't check it on all configurations ...

just like quite a few people have problems running PD5.41 on their SS7 systems at all, where other didn't have any problems.

give it a try, but use the uninstaller.

[moreau]

I'll certainly use the uninstaller.

Though I'm nostalgic about the old days, when reinstalling meant switch to vga, uninstall, search reg for matrox, mga, g200, etc. etc.