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[MotherDawg]

Hi again every one

This has to get longer if we want to have some weight!

thx anyway.

[MotherDawg]

Since most of you who had to sign in did sign in.
I'm going to retire it soon and send it, in is't entirety, to different gents at Matrox.

Thx for your support

Gille, My throttle's Stuck, Lalonde
aka MotherDawg

[Adi]

Hey Guys...

Yesterday I talked to the Matrox-support hotline in Germany. I asked if there exists a patch for my favourite racing game GPL. The answer was: Try to install it again with no hardware acceleration. It will work. Of course it did not work at all.

The G400 is a nice piece of hardware... why is Matrox unable to make a patch for GPL???

So... come on Matrox!

Question: Does someone know something about how I can see how much frames I have in Quake III. It seems that the game runs a little bit slow if I turn around very fast.

Thanx

[dannypage]

Please add my name to all those who think Matrox could do better in the "support for GPL fans" department!

I am still trying the G200 patch to work on my machine. I no longer get error messages when loading but I get bounced back to the desktop.

The GPL starts to load, I see a blue bar flash at the top of the screen that says "[something] Screen", then I see the opening GPL Screen and then get bumped back to the desktop.

I some tips from the Matrox FAQ pages and adjusted the AGP Aperture and disabled Video cache in the BIOS as recommended. Also checked for IRQ conflicts etc. and have all latest drivers.

Does anyone have any ideas??? I too think this game is THE best and I want to use my card! Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dan

PII 400, 128
Asus AGP Mum board
Millenium, G200
SB16, LiteOn 17"

[MotherDawg]

keep it up

[Rob2]

Please, anyone out there, do anything to make
GPL work with G400!!

Thanks, Rob.

[nosuchluck]

any game that WILL NOT RUN is bad for business.

don't make me regret a matrox purchase.

jeff gordon racing dosen't work either.

c'mon matrox, you have around 40 people in your software development team, make us proud.....you are so close!

keep it fun

[PdC]

GPL is the ONLY game I play at the moment. I've got an old TNT board and I'd buy G400 IF it ran GPL at all.. I'm also waiting to be able to buy Logitech's FF wheel. My old T2 will do fine until a proper patch will appear from matrox or papyrus. Do we have programmers here? How about a shareware patch? :-)

PdC

[Rags]

Hi all,

Be patient, Matrox IS aware of this, and they are listening

Rags

[Kruzin]

ok...LISTEN UP!

This is "the word" from the beta program...

GPL IS FIXED !!!

Unfortunatly, this fix did not make it into today's beta release (which in reality are a week old), but it is now working in OpenGL with the latest internal betas. This fix WILL be in the next release of the 5.50 drivers.

Understand, I do not have this game, so I don't speak from personal experience, and all the Beta guys do not post here...but what I have heard are things like "it's fixed in OpenGL and running great...".

I asked when the fixed drivers where expected, and got "in the final release once all the bugs in these drivers are ironed out, so ask them to beta test them thoroughly"

In other words...Matrox is watching this forum (they have definatly seen this thread). If we all post (civil)bug reports here, Matrox will see them and get them fixed quicker. If all goes well, maybe we can see these final drivers in a couple of weeks...

[Rags]

Kruzin is very correct, the in house betas do, in fact, work VERY WELL with GPL in OpenGL with the ICD, so be patient and you will get your game back in hardware accelerated mode once again

Rags

[LAMFDTK]

All this for a game that's 7.99$

But its a good game though

Go Gordon !!

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PIII-450@600, 128 HDSRAM, Asus P3BF, G400/32, SBLive!,Brand stinkin' new Sony G400 19", (no Dual head) Nokia 447Xi 17",AOPEN DVD-1040 10x slot,PLEXTOR 8x4x32 ATAPI CD-RW,PromiseULtra66, and some fish,

[Rags]

LAM,

Yeah, it's a pretty good game....very addictive once you get the hang of it.

The main point is that Matrox is listening, what a change from a year ago. Their ICD is getting pretty damn solid, and is now covering more than I would have expected just 8 months ago...Good things are happening right now, and we should take notice.

Rags

[Barry Sweeney]

This is great news, as I'm about to be made redundant I'll have lots of time to play again! Brum-Brum!!

[Sharkbait]

this is great news...I hope they're going to have this functionality in the G800 too...

Athlon 700 running GPL on a G400Max, should be ok!