G200 + 5.52 + Half-Life = OpenGL crash, help please

[Spooon69]

I'm running a Millenium G200 with the 5.52 drivers, and have the latest patch for half-life. The game runs great in software and D3D mode, but in OpenGL the game crashes my computer as soon as it tries to load another part of a map. It says "loading...", does its loading stuff, the "loading..." prompt goes away from the screen and the game hangs and I have to reboot the computer. The computer doesn't fully hang since the cd music is still playing, but nothing else responds. Half-Life looks great for the 1 minute that it runs in OpenGL and runs pretty good. Any idea whats wrong? Please don't tell me to run it in Direct3D mode instead, OpenGL just looks better and runs faster.

Win98 SE
Millenium G200 w/ latest bios
SBLive!
Pent II 350, 128RAM
AOpen AX6B mobo
Desktop at 1152x864x16bit@85Hz

[nehalmistry]

this happened to me too. my guess is that you should uninstall and reinstall the drivers. if that doesnt work, try downgrading to 5.50 drivers(not much difference anyway).

[Spooon69]

Ok, I did some ICD switching from older drivers. Half-Life would hang with the 5.52 ICD; I tried the 5.41 ICD, same problem; tried the 5.30 ICD, same problem; then I tried the 5.25 ICD and Half-Life worked, BUT some textures were corrupted, lighting was screwy in some parts, and the game ran slower (a lot slower in some parts compared to the direct3d half-life). So I'm guessing there is a problem with G200+ICDs-higher-than-5.30, unless somebody out there runs Half-Life at 640x480 in OpenGL with a G200 and the latest drivers?

I'll try uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers and the 5.50 drivers, I'll let you know what happens.

[Spooon69]

I uninstalled/reinstalled the 5.52 drivers, problem was still there (btw, i used the uninstaller utility from Matrox); then I installed the 5.50 beta drivers, problem still there too. Any other suggestions?

[nehalmistry]

sorry dude, your out of luck. the only thing i can think of now is maybe playing around with your bios settings, like agp aperture, and maybe getting the most recent update for your motherboard bios.

[Spooon69]

Got the latest bios and messed around with the AGP settings, no luck.