G200, New Certified Driver, and UT

[NWA]

On my system, when I would install any UT patch (say 428 now), it would break my D3D in the game. No matter what I did, after lengthy emails with Erik De Neve who is apparenlty the UT display driver guy (his name is in the game credits), he told me it was a driver problem. At the time I had the latest G200 drivers, 5.52, I even tried the 6.01 just in case. Neither would work. I upgraded to the Certified drivers the other day and didn't even think about trying UT today in D3D mode (i had been using software). What do you know, it works again, and it works great. Is this what is fixed in the new drivers? Let me know if anyone has had a similar experience of any kind.

NWA

[HedsSpaz]

Yeah, basically something broke after the 5.41 driver release. It was broken in the all of the 5.5x drivers, and got fixed in the 6.x drivers. Also, as I understand it, the 6.x drivers contain a new PowerDesk.
Ian

[This message has been edited by HedsSpaz (edited 26 September 2000).]

[Ovi]

Hi
The new drivers (PD 6.04-the certified ones)seem to be a little slower that 5.41 in D3D on my G200.Anyone else noticed this?
Cheers
Ovi

[nehalmistry]

ovi: thats not matrox's fault.... its microsofts fault.... with every new release of directx, they are adding new features and matrox has to adapt to stay ahead of the game.... so it is quite difficult for them to increase the directx/d3d speed even slightly... and when microsoft sais every new release of directx has a speed benefit.... i doubt that very much...

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[DosFreak]

LOL! Not Matrox's fault. That's funny! ROFLMAO!

[Ovi]

Hi Nehalmistry
The speed difference was just an observation.I don't think anyone is responsible for it!!
After all,certified drivers are always known to be a littke slower,due to increased stability!
Cheers
Ovi