G400 Dynamic Lighting

[RedOmen]

I was running the 5.52 drivers on my G400max and was getting good framerates but I noticed some random graphic glitches in quake2 and half-life. I upgraded to the 6.23 drivers and while the glitches went away my framerate dropped about 50 fps (barely playable). If I turn set "gl_dynamic 0" in quake2 and "r_dynamic 0" in half-life the framerate is back to normal. The 5.52 drivers didn't have much difference with dynamic lighting on or off.
Does anyone have this problem or know what I might try to fix it besides reverting to the old drivers?

My comp specs:
G400Max
P2-400mhz
128ram
Win95

[Greebe]

Upgrade your cpu to a 800mHz (whatever type) as a min and your framerates will virtually double what they are now.

[RedOmen]

Yes, I'd like to do that as soon as I can but in the meantime there seems to be a bug or misconfiguration as my framerate was fine before I updated my drivers.

[Maggi]

How did you get rid of the old drivers ?
Also make sure VSync is disabled for highest possible framerates.

[RedOmen]

I used the matrox uninstall utility to remove the old drivers before installing the new ones.
I'm not sure how to check the Vsync.

[Greebe]

Use this to disable Vsync.

[RedOmen]

I ran the program and everytime it crashes with:
The MTSTU414.EXE file is linked to missing export OLE32.DLL:ColnitializeEx.

[Rags]

I think it may have something to do with the fact that you are running windows 95.

Rags

[atko]

Win95 (under the version OSR2.1 and without USB patch) doesn't support AGP at all...

[RedOmen]

Allright, I guess I'll just have to go back to the 5.52 drivers as they ran fine on my system (minus a few graphic errors).

[Gurm]

*sigh* I REALLY wish someone (Matrox, Microsoft, ANYONE really) would just stand up and say "You! Yes, you with Windows 95! You may not use your computer any more unless you upgrade to Windows 98!"

And be done with it.

- Gurm

P.S. Yes, I too think the problem is Win95. There are people in here, if you hunt through the search engine, who can make Win95 work with their G400, but most of us are of the opinion that it will never be 100% right. And each new driver revision makes it LESS right.

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[RedOmen]

I agree, they should either continue to support older operating systems or specificly state that they no longer will.
At any rate, I specificly bought this card because of Matrox support for linux, and as linux gaming is increasing I shouldn't be stuck using windows for too much longer.

[Greebe]

They did continue supporting it... by changing the name to Win98 and by fixing many of it's problems (but not all).

[Gurm]

RedOmen:

Linux?

Gaming?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ok, you've made me laugh harder than anyone has in weeks. Thank you!

Hoo-eee!

- Gurm

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