New beta drivers still do not fix Thief/SS2 engine

[bERNIE]

Nice one Matrox! You release some new (admittedly beta)drivers and one of the most common gripes about the last release of the drivers... still hasn't been fixed. Way to go guys. Let's just hope the released version fixes the problem.

[Moleman]

I was also kinda hoping on that fix,

I wonder if the errors with Hidden & Dangerous are fixed, probably not..

[derah]

If any of the Matrox support group read this post , I would like to add my vote for a speedy resolution of the Thief series/SS2 problems. I love my G400 but it irks me that I can't play one of my favourite games at the same time I'm playing Half Life or Unreal, the way they should be played. Please don't forget the Thief fans!!

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ASUS P3BF 440BX MB,Intel PIII 500 Mhz, 128MB RAM,Fujitsu 13 GB HD, Acer 50X CDROM, Matrox G400 Max (ver 5.41/turbo), SB Live MP3+(ver 4.06.711) sound card with Liveware3.0, DX7.0

[auguste]

We need Thief/SS2 fixed - in my oppinion this is not a "nice to have" - it's a "must have".

So - now I've aired my support for the pro-SS2 movement.



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Auguste

[jackzod]

Count me in also.
But they know it and it will be addressed i'm sure (at least I hope). Don't forget that these (5.50) are beta and not final version, so there is room for improvment.
Let's hope.

[paulcs]

I didn't think these beta drivers were a bug fix release, although, from what I understand, a couple of issues were addressed, a couple of things appear to be broken.

I think these are a beta version of Matrox's upcoming DirectX 7 drivers, and as both Ant and Kruzin pointed out, they are more "beta" than usual. They are a "find the bugs" and issue a bug report to Matrox release.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Sneaky Pete]

You may have read this before but I can play Theif and System Shock 2 just fine using the 5.30 drivers on my G400Max. I was one to always get the latest drivers but since I swapped my TNT2Ultra for this one I have studied up and found these drivers to be stable. I play these games alot since. I have no other troubles with any other game except Tribes. I then run it with my Voodoo2 SLI setup that I got for 40$.

Why don't you try this route until it's fixed?

(I mean the drivers not necessarily the Vooodoo's)

[This message has been edited by Sneaky Pete (edited 14 January 2000).]

[Tom]

"The selected video mode could not be set."
You know,....I really don't like getting this
message when I try to play Thief....
Oh well. Back to 5.30...........again.

[jtracy]

After switching to drivers version 5.3, I'm actually able to play System shock 2, but it crashes right after it's done loading the second level (after the training stage). I've always gotten the same effect on all OpenGL games, but I believe SS2 is Direct3D. WTF?

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My hardware:

Matrox Millenium G400 16mb
Asus P5a-b super socket7 motherboard
K6-2 300 processor
160mb pc-100 SDRAM

My software:

Matrox bios version 1.3
Matrox drivers 5.41
TurboGL 1.0002
Motherboard bios version 1009b1
Directx version 7a
Wind

ows version 98SE

[Mr Happy]

I have both thief, SS2, UT and Q3A and would like to use only one driver. I'll probably buy Thief 2 which I believe will have the same issue with the new drivers.
Matrox please pull your finger out and get it fixed....