G400 and Wolfenstien

[Bohrn]

Apparently there is a problem with the G400 and volumetric fog(or something) in Return to Castle Wolfenstien. Here is a quote from ID software that Apache and the boys over at VE3D.com found.

"We had issues with fog working properly on the Matrox cards with gl_extension on. Matrox has been great about this and is revising their drivers to better support Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Matrox users should expect a good performance improvement on Wolf single and multiplayer when this is released."

The part I like is the part about improved performance. It is already pretty good on my setup. Course I am using older drivers.

[spazm_1999]

I cannot even enable gl_extension... propably due to my old drivers.... I wonder if it would give me more fps if I could enable it.

I'd like a little more performance too... especially in those levels 5 part *... some places are lagging a lot.

Spazm

[Bohrn]

guess we gotta wait for the big "M" to give it up

[Orinoko]

I've got a similar problem with my G400, i can't enable GL_Extensions in the Wolfenstien system setting. I've got a G400 marvel running icd 1.1.3 (Feb22) on Win2K.
Anyone else seen this?

[Electric Amish]

Tried playing this weekend and it kept locking up with my G400/win2k with latest drivers.

amish

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by spazm_1999
I cannot even enable gl_extension... propably due to my old drivers.... I wonder if it would give me more fps if I could enable it.

I'd like a little more performance too... especially in those levels 5 part *... some places are lagging a lot.

Spazm

You're right performance is terrible sometimes I even switch to 640*480 to get some decent frame rates.

[dZeus]

yup, I've tweaked settings to medium/low detail (800x600, 16bit, vertex, everything else set to medium), and framerates are generally quite good, but there are certain levels/scenes where the fps drop to below 20 or even 10

GL Extensions can't be enabled here either. Though I haven't seen any stability problems.

[Orinoko]

I seem to have solved the locking up on my setup although GL extensions still don't enable, i've used the icd from the latest win98 drivers (dated 30/8 I think, extract it using winzip into winnt/system32) and i've downed the sound quality to 11Mhz or whatever the other setting is. Now it seems to work fine, and I've been playing for an hour or so, except when you alt-tab back and forth to windows the textures get messed up but I can live with that!

I'd play longer but I don't wanna have nightmares tonight!!

[spazm_1999]

Orinoko : When u'll be in Level 6 part 2 tell me how's the frame rate. I'm using drivers ver. 5.33 for w2k and on that level it was totally unplayable at 800*600 I had to lower to 640*480 with low on almost everything to get a decent frame rate. If w98 drivers are faster I might update mine.

btw. the boss at the end of Wolfenstein is IMHO far too easy.... I've been deceived by that.

Spazm

[Orinoko]

Okay, will do.... when I eventually get there!

[spazm_1999]

Should'nt bee too long... it took me a little less than 7h to complete the game. Now i'm starting Codename : Outbeak and Commanche 4. Commanche 4 is totally unplayable on my pc way too slow even with 640*480*16 with low tex.

Spazm

[rylan]

Yeah, it crawls on my G400MAX unless I set to 800x600 with medium or low quality detail settings. And I've got a 1.4GHz Athlon, so its most certainly not the cpu thats too slow.
And yeah, the gl extensions either crash or jsut don't work on mine too.

Runs incredible on an Athlon 1.2gig with a radeon 8500 at work.

[Orinoko]

Oh well, i guess i'm never gonna find out whether the G400 is up to it. I've bit the bullet and bought a GeForce 3 Ti 200. Sorry to all you Matrox commited, but i might have been commited once but since they f*ucked us about with the win2k drivers on the Marvel I shall look elsewhere.
I guess that I've just had too many speed problems with the G400 recently, so i've given myself a early xmas present. I just hope that the 2D quality is up to scratch. I also reckon i'm gonna need a new DVD player because at the minute all I use is the g400 tv-out which has given great quality.... pity you can't have two AGP slots in a PC (or can you?)

Anyways, i'll let you know what I think when it is delivered tomorrow!!

[Bohrn]

pls do Orinoko, that is the card I have been looking at lately. I hear that the Leadtek cards have better 2d quality than the rest of em?