halflife display problems... help!

[gloopy]

hi everyone,
for a while now, ive been having problems with halflife (cs in particular, but i found the same problem in tfc) related to the display of text. basically, most of the text overlays (like the tab screen info with frags/deaths/ping) show up as big colored blocks instead of text. all i see is a white block in place of any text that should show. the weird thing is, sometimes i can see some of the text, and sometimes its all just a bunch of white rectangles. heres a screenshot: <a href="http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kennon/cstrike.jpg">http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kennon/cstrike.jpg</a>. im pretty sure theres something wacked with my video drivers since everything displayed fine when i ran in software mode. anyone have any ideas what the problem is?

im pretty sure the problem started when i updated my drivers with powerdesk 5.52 a couple months ago. im using a matrox mystique g200 agp and direct3d. the current drivers are 4.11.2520, except for powerdesk which is version 5.52.015. its all running on a p2-300 with 192mb of ram.

thanks in advance for any advice!

gloopy

[Eek!]

Well, it's a common problem.
Do you have TurboGL installed? If so, uninstall it.
Do you have TurboGL not installed? If so, install it. This may sound weird, but it often helps.

[Kruzin]

G200 does not have TurboGL.
It does have a full OpenGL ICD, so it will do OGL.
The problem you describe usually happens in D3D mode with the G200. Try switching to OGL mode...

[gloopy]

hm ok ill try that out tonight. will i see any major performance hits if i use ogl instead of direct3d, though? im averaging 20fps now (10fps and below with a lot of action) with 640x480; any worse, and id pretty much be playing with a slideshow. oh well... maybe i should splurge on that geforce.

thanks for the help, guys.
gloopy