beta drivers fix?

[jws]

Ok, so the new beta drivers are out. They're for directx7 and fix some benchmark programs. Is that it? 5.41 broke Looking Glass games on the dark engine (Thief, System Shock2, Thief2 beta) and I had to go back a version to 5.31. Has anyone tried the beta drivers to see if this is fixed?

Matrox doesn't do a very good job of telling anyone what driver issues they're working on and what driver issues they've fixed when they release new ones. If you go to the 'known' issues page, there's usually very little there. It's been known for a while that the radiant map editor for Quake-like games has crashed using the G400 opengl, it's never made the 'problems' page. I started reporting it in Kingpin and many have started reporting it in Q3A.
Don't leave us in the dark Matrox.

[jtracy]

I downloaded the drivers and they won't install! It says "install

[jediphoenix]

second try on this post: I installed the new beta drivers and noticed two things. UT at 1280x1024 16 bit all high quality seemed quicker but more jerky, if that makes any sense. Homeworld on the other hand has become very slow and jerky(running at 1024x768 same as with 5.30 drivers). I have not had time yet to reinstall system shock 2 to see if that problem has been addressed.

K6-2 450, 128 megs sdram, g400 32meg SH agp non-max but with 5ns sgram, win98 (not se) Directx7.0

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[Buffy]

q3radiant still no worky witn beta 5.50

[wiggo]

Unfortunately, System Shock 2 has the same problem as it did with the 5.41 drivers. I thought this was being fixed for the next release? I've just gone back to 5.30...

[jws]

I get worse than the 5.41 drivers. They would enter the game and just everything was screwed up. With the 5.50 beta drivers I get this for SS2:

SHOCK2 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:838dc0dc.
Registers:
EAX=838dca04 CS=016f EIP=838dc0dc EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=0097fbe4 EBP=0097fc9c
ECX=0097fc1c DS=0177 ESI=838dc23c FS=2187
EDX=000203a4 ES=0177 EDI=838dc01c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
85 0c 00 a0 08 d8 7d 83 3c b0 7d 83 00 00 00 00
Stack dump:
baad4014 0097fc1c 0097fd30 00000000 0097fd30 00000000 00000000 837db000 00000040 baaf0260 00000000 bff7b9b6 8174cd60 838dcfbc 00000000 838dc01c

and this for Thief2 demo:

THF2DEMO caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:838dc1a0.
Registers:
EAX=838dca04 CS=016f EIP=838dc1a0 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=008dfbe4 EBP=008dfc9c
ECX=008dfc1c DS=0177 ESI=838dc23c FS=2217
EDX=000203a4 ES=0177 EDI=838dc0e0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
c1 0b 00 a0 08 d8 7d 83 3c b0 7d 83 45 58 45 00
Stack dump:
baad4014 008dfc1c 008dfd30 00000000 008dfd30 00000000 00000000 837db000 00000040 baaf0260 00000000 bff7b9b6 8174cd60 838dcf9c 00000000 838dc0e0

[This message has been edited by jws (edited 12 January 2000).]

[jtracy]

Ok, I got those beta drivers to install. I did something really stupid.

Well, they do nothing noticable. I still have the problem with every OpenGL game crashing after one level, and I can't play my recently-bought copy of System Shock 2.

But what's odd is that I don't get any sort of dialogue box or error message. After it's done loading the first level in a new game, everything goes black with background noise still happenning. Then I press any key and it quits back to desktop.

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My hardware:

Matrox Millenium G400 16mb
Asus P5a-b super socket7 motherboard
K6-2 300 processor
128mb pc-100 SDRAM

My software:

Matrox bios version 1.3
Matrox drivers 5.41
TurboGL 1.0002
Motherboard bios version 1009b1
Directx version 7a
Windows version 98SE

[Maggi]

Update your G400 BIOS, jtracy !!!

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Cheers,
Maggi

Thanx to Ant for reviving my account !!!

[jtracy]

Done! BIOS is now flashed to "1.5 - 22", the latest I could find on the website. Thanks for pointing that out

But unfortunately, that did absolutely nothing. I'm getting very sick of this.

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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

[Punk]

jtracy do you use the pdunistall util from Matrox? I had no probs udating my drivers when I use that util and after reboot set my G400 to vga standard reboot again...and install the new drivers.

[Maggi]

Hi Jtracy,

then you really should stick with PD5.30 until a fully supported PD5.5x is released.

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...