Unable to play Falcon 4 with Marvel G400 without several tries

[stevenscott]

hello,
I have to many problems with my Marvel G400 and trying to play Falcon 4, without several tries to get into the working menu on startup. Just fed up with the last set of drivers, and the drivers before that. I have already posted my problem on every board possible and then some. Matrox just gives me the run-around saying it's not their fault. But when I asked them to try it with the same video card they tell me they tried it with a G400 but not the marvel G400. I just hope they finally develop some drivers that are fully MS WHQL certification accepted and not betas, or interim drivers. They released full MS WHQL certification drivers for the G450 already but have not finished with the G400/Win98 Marvel. The D3D is the problem with the cards and drivers. I say make sure they work on what they have before they move forward and skip over the people that already invested. of course I know the history and that never happened and never wiil. Oh well, I guess I will have to sacrafice some programs and games so that others will run.




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[stevenscott]

I was ready to post this in the Matrox Forum on the Matrox web site, but after going there, I remembered that Matrox does not let people leave messages in their forums on weekends. I guess they don't want pissed off people to say anything on the weekends.
here is my little rant:

Matrox,
If I switch back to the newest drivers, 5.55, along with the set of video tools V1.54 (I think for the Marvel G400), are you going to release a real set of Microsoft WHQL certified drivers right after I go through all the trouble of putting back in the latest drivers. I tried older drivers and newer drivers and the game Falcon4 is still as buggy as hell. I noticed Matrox released a set of Microsoft WHQL certified drivers for a brand new Video Card, the G450, but have never released a certified set for the Marvel G400. it will suck going through al the trouble of installing the 5.55 drivers and v1.54 video tools only for you guys to finally release a certified set a couple days after all that work.


[This message has been edited by stevenscott (edited 24 September 2000).]