New win2k drivers are better, but not perfect....

[vanguardian1]

[This message has been edited by vanguardian1 (edited 12 February 2000).]

[vanguardian1]

This *was* Mechwarrior 3 : Pirate's Moon...

[vanguardian1]

And that *was* my good ol' Masakari, 85-ton Assault mecha that now looks like it had a paint job by the local pre-schoolers.......

[Scytale]

That's the ugly result of overclocking the core higher than it can handle.

[vanguardian1]

Well, I would be inclined to agree except I haven't overclocked it!

[Galvin]

Well all I can say is the drivers work perfect in quake II, 97% perfect in quake III. I haven't seen 3D this good and fast ever. The NT4 drivers never got good enough before I switched to win2K.

All I can say is the ICD is way better than ever.

[DarkSyd]

I get the same screen corruption when exiting UT under Win2k. I'm not oc'ing the card either.
I run UT at 16 bit color, and setting the desktop to 16 or 32 makes no difference. Logging off resets the screen, but it is pretty annoying.

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Cel 366@550 (monster FDP32...love it!) on Asus P2b (1011), 128MB PC133, OEM G400/16 (PD5.41), Fujitsu 5.25gb, Maxtor 4.3gb, Asus SC200 PCI SCSI card, Pioneer slot load 32X SCSI, Yamaha 4416s burner, MX300 (Aureal 2040), Intel EtherExpress 16, Sycom 300va UPS, Grey Cat, Orange Cat (still MIA)

Where's my 500e?

[PaulS]

Unless you have the AGP clock divider set correctly, you may be unwittingly overclocking your G400 via the AGP bus. Have you tried running your system at 366?

Paul

[Scytale]

That's very scary. I get exactly the same corruption when I overclock my core anywhere beyond 160 (G400MAX).

You may want to try underclocking the card to see if it makes any difference. Maybe the W2K beta driver is too agressive in programming the chip...

[DarkSyd]

Scytale-
I dropped back to 366 and fired up UT...now I get EXACTLY the same ting as vanguardian1. The Matrox Tweak utility that I was using under 98 doesn't work with Win2k...so I have no idea how I would underclock the card.
...and my OGL doesn't work either ...SOF doesn't recognize OGL and neither does Homeworld.

DS

[DarkSyd]

...and I don't have an AGP divider jumper. The rev 1.02 boards are supposed to switch automatically. Is there any way I can confirm what the AGP speed is?

DS

[Scytale]

DarkSyd - PowerStrip works with Win2K (for trying underclocking). AFAIK, there's no program for determining AGP speed for W2K, but there's SiSoft Sandra for W98.

[Rogier]

Strange enough under W2K I'm able to o'clock my G400DH32 more than under W98. It now runs stable at 154/209 (previously 145/193). I really tried Mhz per Mhz so W2K is definately better (or powerstrip messes around under w2k).

[Scytale]

Only thing I can add is my personal experience - avoiding this type of corruption in respect to core clockspeed was a matter of delicate tuning. When overlocking my MAX core to 162, the corruption would occur in minutes or hours, but eventually it would occur. At 160 it never occurred, at least I haven't experienced it yet in months.

[vanguardian1]

I'm running 98' with the newest beta drivers again (5.501 or something, compared to 5.5005 methinks)

I'm not getting the corruption at all now.

Btw, my system's an
MSI 6167 w/1.5 Bios
Athlon 500
Matrox G400 Dualhead 32mb w/Tenmaxx cooler
SB Live! Platinum
256mb PC133
IBM 10.1/7200/33 and Maxtor 15.3/5400/66
A-Open 1040Pro w/Pioneer flash-rom/crack
Phoebe (878 Brooktree Tv/Fm-Tuner)
Realtek 10/100 Ethernet (8139)