Please help here,how are the newest beta drivers??

[OblivioN]

Are still very buggy? Do they cause lock ups and random freezes still? SHould I try them out?

How does system shock2 play on them?

Any help is welcome.

[IceStorm]

My machine hasn't locked up since installing them. I can't see a difference, though.

Installed the beta D3D driver (from Unreal) for Unreal though. Now THAT helped a whole bunch.

Just my $0.02

[apwelch]

I installed the 5.50 drivers on my Win98 SE system yesterday and it seems to run fine - on my 16MB G200 card running Quake II I got 29.8fps at 800x600x16 with the 5.41 OpenGL ICD and with the new drivers I get 30.1. so it's a bit faster but not by much!

My Half Life though crashes with an illegal operation upon exit though which it didn't do with the 5.41 drivers (in OpenGL mode, I haven't tried it with D3D yet).

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Andrew Welch

Supermicro P6DBE board
Dual PII 400mhz
Matrox Millennium G200 16MB
Intel Pro 100+ ethernet
Soundblaster Live 1024
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 6x DVDROM
Mitsumi 4801TE CDR
Fujitsu 10.2GB EIDE
Western Digital 3.2GB EIDE
Windows 98 SE
Windows NT4 SP6a

[evil-kirk]

I don't know about System Shock 2, but Thief and Thief 2 work now, so I imagine System Shock 2 works as well. It had better work, because once I got Thief 2 to work I went out and ordered System Shock 2. I can't wait to play that game.

[oldie]

apwelch,

What is your framerate using 640x480 in Quake II? I am trying to decide whether to pull my Banshee and install a G200 in my system and I need a benchmark reference between the two cards. I get about 45fps with the Banshee using 640x480 in my system.

Abit BH6 with C466@525,128 mb ram, Guillemot Banshee.

The reason I am thinking about using the G200 is that the image quality on the Banshee really sucks compared to the Matrox line of cards. The Rendition card that I was using looked a lot better than the Banshee. I don't really mind taking a little slowdown in the games until I get the next generation card.

[This message has been edited by oldie (edited 16 February 2000).]