New Beta drivers available for download; address many gaming issues...

[Kruzin]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

These are version 6.82 for Win9x/ME, and 5.82 for 2K/XP for all Millennium cards from G200 through G550 (not Mystique, Marvel or MMS)

According to Richie at Matrox tech support, these drivers address many of the most common game issues reported:

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum10/HTML/003808.html

From the readme file:

This beta driver is to be used at your own discretion. It contains a new ICD which has addressed many game issues with the following games:

Flight simulator 2002
RTCW
Myth 3
Armada 2

Technical support is not provided with this beta driver. If clients feel they have encountered a bug, they can report this on the technical support bug forum. Note that this bug forum is not to be used for troubleshooting beta drivers.

Clients are also welcome to post on any of the other technical support forums where their fellow clients can help each other in basic issues like irq conflicts, driver installation, etc.

Note that the technical support forums and their phone queue will be lcosed from Dec 25th till Jan 1st.

Happy holidays to all

[duke_srg]

Yeah, right.. But there is no NT 4 driver, damn =(

P.S. I'll try G400icd from W2K drivers anyway =)

[mdhome]

Thanks Kruzin
I am getting a s**tload of problems in RTCW. Not sure if they are G400 related though.

regards MD

[duke_srg]

Yes! GL Extensions is finally working in RTCW! FPS increased in some places, but still have great slowdown at tram.

P.S. ICD from W2K working in fine in NT4.

[Rags]

Originally posted by duke_srg
Yes! GL Extensions is finally working in RTCW! FPS increased in some places, but still have great slowdown at tram.

P.S. ICD from W2K working in fine in NT4.

Yes, the ICD for XP/2K should work like a champ in NT4, you just will notice it's a bit slow compared to XP/2K.

Rags

[duke_srg]

Anyway, I'll waiting for RTCW patch from Id/Activision, because even overclocking my G450 did not increase fps. So, great thanx to Matrox for ICD update, but as i said before that was not a main problem

[Ovi]

WooHooooo!!!!!!
Finally, new drivers for the Millennium G200!!!! Thanks to Matrox!!
But I would like to wait for the non beta versions though!! And finally, the G200 has an OpenGl ICD in WinXP too!!
Cheers
Ovi

[mdhome]

Originally posted by mdhome
Thanks Kruzin
I am getting a s**tload of problems in RTCW. Not sure if they are G400 related though.

regards MD

Seems like my problems could be heat related. Since putting the case back on my pc locks up within a few minutes of playing RTCW. (it used to take about 20-30 mins). I also noticed that the cpu temp was 58c. looks like some more cooling is needed.


regards Michael.

[vanguardian1]

58c is too warm for mostly any computer on the market, unfortunately.

[Wombat]

cking,
Let's go over your system again. What OS?

I don't get any studdering in HL, with the 6.72 drivers, or with the 6.20 drivers that I was running forever.

[Steve Snyder]

Originally posted by duke_srg
Yes! GL Extensions is finally working in RTCW! FPS increased in some places, but still have great slowdown at tram.

P.S. ICD from W2K working in fine in NT4.

Hmmm. I installed the new drivers on my Win2K (Prof., SP2) box and don't see any difference. The FPS is still the same and the GL Extensions still won't stick to "1". I've tried setting in the game menu and in the config file, but it always gets reset back to "0".

I uninstalled my old (v6.72) drivers first per the Matrox instructions, then installed the beta drivers.

Help?

[duke_srg]

Steve Snyder: look at driver properties in RTWC, the latest version is 1.1.13 Dec 13 2001, if it so, and GLExtensions can't be turned on - you're unlucky =)

P.S. try to change string 'Matrox' in Wolfsp/wolfmp.exe to any other string with hex-editor. This allows you to turn on extensions even on old drivers, but at least at G450 it will bee unplayable.

[orangejulius]

Try this in your autoexec.cfg:

_snd_mixahead "0.200"
_snd_noextraupdate "1"
cl_allowdownload "0"
cl_allowupload "1"
cl_himodels "0"
fps_lan "45"
fps_modem "33"
gl_keeptjunctions "1"
gl_palette_tex "1"
gl_polyoffset "2"
gl_round_down "0"
gl_texsort "1"
gl_texturemode "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
gl_ztrick "1"
gl_dither "1"
hisound "0"
joystick "0"
loadas8bit "1"
m_filter "1"
pushlatency "-600"
r_decals "50"
r_mmx "1"
r_shadows "0"
rate "7000"
s_a3d "0"
s_eax "1"
s_reverb "0"
scr_conspeed "3000"

[Guru]

What the heck is RTCW?

[Jmkbiker]

RTCW= Return To Castle Wolfenstein