screwed up HL images

[nehalmistry]

after playing counter-strike after a while the image quality is all messed up i see lines and stuff everywhere.... i enclosed a screenshot

also sometimes i see a small rectangular box on the bottom-left corner of the mouse cursor... happens in HL as well as Soldier o fortune

edit: PS, im using latest via4in1 drivers and 5.13 g200 drivers

[Pace]

Update...drivers

P.

[Helevitia]

I have seen this issue over and over again with Matrox. They seem to fix it and then it happens again. Anytime it was fixed, it was with a driver update.

Dave

[nehalmistry]

in 6.23 i cant exit out of a multiplayer game and reconnect.. otherwise i get a black screen.

yep.... they fix one thing and break another.... they can never get it right.... about the exiting out problem i went to matrox forums and they said it *should* be fixed in next release.....

can you tell me whats the latest one that works... i know that 6.23 does not

[Liquid Snake]

Does 5.52 work?

Also, does it happen in other HL mods (TFC, regular DM)? I get corrupted textures in CS as well, after a while (maybe about an hour). They go away if I exit to the menu and then go back, but they appear again in five minutes. It doesn't happen in TFC. Also, CS tends to lock up a lot, but I've never ever had a lockup playing TFC. I think my configs for TFC and CS are the same, but I'm not sure. This is on a G400MAX with the 5.52 Win2K drivers.

[nehalmistry]

Liquid Snake do you by any chance have a via chipset? i think it is via specific.... never did i get a problem on my old mobo w/ ali chipset

[Liquid Snake]

Definitely not. I have a Abit BE6-II board (BX chipset). I never had any problems that could be blamed on the chipset.

[nehalmistry]

apparently.... my heatsink came off..... the spring on one of the pins flew off (i cant find it) and one corner of the heatsink was sticking up....

i just punched a hole in and used a hard drive screw...... its a little better now.... im still getting problems, although to a lesser extent...

[Kino]

Not sure why Matrox doesn't take the trouble to test their drivers on perhaps one of the 10 best selling PC game titles of all time - Half-Life and its various mods. Hard to believe that Matrox driver programmers do not play CounterStrike.

I'm still using the 5.41 Powerdesk, and 1.52 Video Tools with my VIA chipset motherboard. I get the occasional drop out where the colour palettes get all screwed up, but not enough to stop playing. I avoid the "Aztec" map in CS because the lightning seems to mess up that map.

I just bought BlueShift, and while it plays alright, I cannot exit the game without hanging up my machine. This is a pissoff plain and simple. I'm about to upgrade HL to 1.007 from 1.006. Wish me luck.

Btw, I'm a G200 owner since '98, but I now run a 1Ghz Intel chip with my VIA MB.

K

[nehalmistry]

apparently they concentrate more on g400... which is not a problem if they also put some attention into the g200.... u use driver 5.41 ..... i use 5.13 .... its the only drivers where i dont get a problem in any games.... its good quality.. and fast.... im still waiting for a *good* update ... well 5.13 is 2 years old... but it works fine for ALL games......

[Kino]

I might have 5.13 backed up on a CD somewhere. Know if it is available online somewhere? Also, do you recall what the associated Video Tools version goes with 5.13?

When you say "no problem" do you mean no hangs, no dropped out texture maps in Half-Life/CS? Even with VIA chipset (always rumoured to be a source of G-series problems, although I read here that BX motherboards cause the same issues.

Thanks.

K

[nehalmistry]

yes.... all old drivers are available here..

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/previous/prv_drv.cfm

no i dont get any problems with 5.13 ... the problem i posted here was related to a disconected heatsink... well its fixed now as i said...

sorry... i dunno about video tools or any of that stuff..

[TIbrO]

Marvel G400 and Half-Life OpenGL

Hello. Today's problem is concerning OpenGL in Half-Life on my Marvel G400. I get this wierd glitch. When someone uses their flashlight in the game, my card halts to 3-7 frames per second, and the more flashlights that go on, the more it slows down. My card has been doing this since I first got it back in February, and I want to know if there is a workaround or something. I play mostly Counter-Strike, and not Deathmatch, so that should help in recreating the problem. My current system is as follows:

Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
Latest Win2K Matrox Drivers and VideoTools released July 12th
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4Ghz
EPoX 8KTA3+ Motherboard
1.5GB PC133 SDRAM
20GB ATA/100 IBM Deskstar
Matrox Marvel G400-TV
Soundblaster Live! Platinum
Netgear Fast Ethernet 10/100 NIC
Creative Labs CDRW 6424
Pioneer DVD116 DVDROM

I have the latest VIA drivers for my motherboard, which uses VIA Apollo Chipset, so it is the VIA 4-in-1 4.32(a) FINAL drivers. The latest BIOS for my motherboard, I always update right away, and the latest BIOS for the video card.

Everything is fine, except when people use their flashlights, and when they throw smoke grenades. The smoke grenades slow everyone down, because they are a 2D effect, and not 3D... But flashlights? My old voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP used to never do that. I don't know what's wrong. Also, I have gone through three motherboards and setups on this same case, and the only things that stay are my Marvel G400 and my Soundblaster Live!, and the flashlight bug is always there. So it is definitely a driver problem, or card problem, since it always happens, no matter what computer it is on.

Another thing... My old Voodoo 3 had options in the Display properties to individually control the gamma for Direct 3D, OpenGL, Desktop, and Video Overlay. Why doesn't the Matrox board, which is superior in many ways, do this also? I loved being able to just launch my games without having to change my gamma around first, and then change it back when I finish playing.

[nehalmistry]

maybe try different drivers ?!?!

[Kino]

Okay, I've installed 5.13, and so far so good. No more lockups while quitting Blue Shift (HL mod). I still get some texture map dropouts, but they don't happen a lot, so not a problem.

Do you happen to know which set of Video Tools goes with this Powerdesk driver?

Thanks.

K