Things to know about 1.02 drivers

[DGhost]

back to the 1.01 drivers for me... GUI acceleration is no longer smooth when 3d acceleration is active. i saw lots of stability problems with Serious Sam 2... some other problems...

[TdB]

my quake2 config:

// generated by quake, do not modify
bind TAB "inven"
bind ENTER "invuse"
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "+moveup"
bind 0 "use BFG10K"
bind 1 "use Blaster"
bind 2 "use Shotgun"
bind r "use Super Shotgun"
bind 4 "use Machinegun"
bind f "use Chaingun"
bind 6 "use Grenade Launcher"
bind e "use Rocket Launcher"
bind 8 "use HyperBlaster"
bind q "use Railgun"
bind [ "invprev"
bind ] "invnext"
bind ` "toggleconsole"
bind j "wave 1"
bind k "wave 2"
bind l "wave 3"
bind t "messagemode"
bind u "wave 4"
bind x "score"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind BACKSPACE "invdrop"
bind w "+forward"
bind s "+back"
bind a "+moveleft"
bind d "+moveright"
bind ALT "+movedown"
bind F1 "cmd help"
bind F2 "menu_savegame"
bind F3 "menu_loadgame"
bind F4 "menu_keys"
bind F5 "menu_startserver"
bind F6 "echo Quick Saving...; wait; save quick"
bind F9 "echo Quick Loading...; wait; load quick"
bind F10 "menu_quit"
bind F12 "screenshot"
bind MOUSE1 "+attack"
bind MOUSE2 "weapnext"
bind MOUSE3 "weapprev"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapnext"
bind MWHEELUP "weapprev"
bind PAUSE "pause"
set g_select_empty "0"
set gl_3dlabs_broken "1"
set gl_swapinterval "1"
set gl_ext_compiled_vertex_array "1"
set gl_ext_pointparameters "1"
set gl_ext_multitexture "1"
set gl_ext_swapinterval "1"
set gl_vertex_arrays "0"
set gl_texturesolidmode "default"
set gl_texturealphamode "default"
set gl_texturemode "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
set gl_shadows "1"
set gl_modulate "1"
set gl_particle_att_c "0.01"
set gl_particle_att_b "0.0"
set gl_particle_att_a "0.01"
set gl_particle_size "40"
set gl_particle_max_size "40"
set gl_particle_min_size "2"
set gl_finish "0"
set gl_ext_palettedtexture "0"
set gl_mode "7"
set gl_driver "opengl32"
set in_joystick "0"
set in_mouse "1"
set cl_vwep "1"
set gender_auto "1"
set gender "male"
set fov "90"
set msg "1"
set rate "25000"
set freelook "1"
set cl_stereo_separation "0.4"
set adr8 ""
set adr7 ""
set adr6 ""
set adr5 ""
set adr4 ""
set adr3 ""
set adr2 ""
set adr1 ""
set adr0 ""
set cd_nocd "0"
set s_primary "1"
set s_mixahead "0.2"
set s_loadas8bit "0"
set s_khz "22"
set s_volume "1"
set sw_stipplealpha "0"
set vid_gamma "0.500000"
set vid_ypos "22"
set vid_xpos "3"
set vid_ref "gl"
set sv_reconnect_limit "3"
set allow_download_maps "1"
set allow_download_sounds "1"
set allow_download_models "1"
set allow_download_players "1"
set allow_download "1"
set hostname "noname"
set skin "male/rampage"
set name "GuldDreng #3"
set lookstrafe "0"
set lookspring "0"
set m_pitch "-0.022000"
set hand "0"
set cl_run "1"
set crosshair "3"
set sensitivity "5"
set win_noalttab "0"
set vid_fullscreen "1"
set viewsize "100"
set m_filter "1"
set hook_sky "1"
set dmflags "0"
bind kp_INS "+hook"
bind kp_END "drop rune"
set cl_maxfps "125"
set gl_cull "0"

And yes, typedefenum wasn´t the only one who requested the game profile functionality.

you guys did a great job!

[typedef enum]

Hey, come on! Let me enjoy the glory!

[UberLord]

Originally posted by typedef enum
Hey, come on! Let me enjoy the glory!

Pah - enough of your morning glory

The point is that the feature is in and waaay cool

[murc777]

ROM,

Was there changes to the FAA16? I have the feeling that now it is much more worse than before. Much more lines in additon to the already not FAA painted edges, are not anymore FAA painted. So FAA16 look's right bad now. What I want to see in the futuer is a 100% working FAA16 on ALL edges.

Is it only my feeling or is this realy the case? Who else has noticed this?

[UberLord]

Unreal Tournament locking up

Unreal Tournament is locking up on me with these new drivers. Here's a handy watchdog file if it helps

//
// Watchdog Event Log File
//

LogType: Watchdog
Created: 2002-10-13 17:00:22
TimeZone: 0 - GMT Standard Time
WindowsVersion: XP
EventType: 0xEA - Thread Stuck in Device Driver

//
// The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop. This
// usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device
// driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your
// display device vendor for any driver updates.
//

ShutdownCount: 5
Shutdown: 0
EventFlag: 1
EventCount: 1
BreakCount: 1
BugcheckTriggered: 1
DebuggerNotPresent: 1
DriverName: MTXPARHD
DeviceClass: Display
DeviceDescription: Matrox Parhelia 128MB - English
HardwareID: PCI\VEN_102B&DEV_0527&SUBSYS_0840102B&REV_03
Manufacturer: Matrox Graphics Inc.
DriverFixedFileInfo: FEEF04BD 00010000 0005000D 00010445 0005000D 00010445 0000003F 00000008 00040004 00000003 00000004 00000000 00000000

[Yxalitis]

Sure are beta drivers!

OK, I have some problems with VoodooLights, a great 3D screensaver that no-one here will care less about
Under 1.01 it ran at about 1 frame every 2-3 secomds, clearly unusable, under 1.02, it crashes to the desktop after a few minutes in OpenGL mode, and has flickering effects in DirectX.

AvP2, ok, here is a game that you will care about, the game's textures flicker like mad, especially noticible in Alien Nav mode, climbng up and down elevator shafts. Also the fog is badly banded, looks really stupid actually.

In general, I second the motion that FAA16X doesn't seem to be working as well, I notice jagged edges all the time!

However, I like the ability to apply different modes to different games, very cool!

Hopefully we'll have all those bugs fixed by Xmas!

[Pace]

Not ran Voodoolights in a while (actually not used a screensaver in a while, but anyway...), ran ok on my G400

What's the latest on the aniso limitation?

[KeiFront]

I'm getting the same problem as magog (corrupted desktop after playing ut2003) in this thread with these beta drivers.

And the screen flashes (very difficult to explain) in MOHAA.

[Maggi]

Quake2 particles

Originally posted by TDB
my quake2 config:
...

try these:

set gl_particle_att_c "0.1" 
set gl_particle_att_b "0.1" 
set gl_particle_att_a "0.1" 
set gl_particle_size "13" 
set gl_particle_max_size "37" 
set gl_particle_min_size "1"

that should give you a bigger variety of particles and if they still seem too blocky, just lower the max size.



Let me know if that helped for you.

Cheers,
Maggi

[typedef enum]

Here's a dumb question...Being rather dumb when it comes to Matroxisms...

Is the overclocking panel giving you a range of percentages above and beyond the normal clock? In other words, when I select "10"....Is this indicating that I want to overclock the chip by 10%? It's not telling the chip to overclock by 10 MHz....right? Otherwise, I see no way of overclocking both core clock + memory...

[GNEP]

Unless you want to do the BIOS hack, then the overclocker does indeed add percentages, so 10% would have the chip running at 110% of its original speed.

The core/mem clock ratio is fixed, so the mem will increase proportionately.

Note that if you make the overclock "permanent" then the next time you run the effect will be compounding, i.e. a 10% o/c on top of an existing 10% "permanent" o/c will give you a 21% o/c (and probably won't be stable!)

The "permanent" clock can be removed by deleting the relevant file - can't rememeber which one at the moment (perhaps someone else can...)

Gnep

[R0M]

Wow so many comments, ok it would be nice to backup some of these bugs with screenshots so i know what to look for, keep em coming folks!

Thanks,

[UberLord]

Here's an update for Unreal Tournament using D3D - this may apply to earlier drivers as well.

Set PD game profile filtering for Application Determine
Set UseTrilinear=False in UnrealTournament.ini

Load the game and
1) It looks like it's using Aniso when it should be using BiLinear
2) It crashes

Set UseTrilinear=True and it deffo looks like TriLinear filtering. So far it hasn't crashed either.

Now, set PD to Force Aniso and you get aniso, crashing and strange artifacts around light sources.

Lastly, regardless of any of the above settings there's some screen corruption going on

1) There's a white line to the right of the mouse pointer that follows the mouse in the menus
2) Armour and Health values top right numerics are sligtly corrupted
3) Ammo numbers on guns look - different.

One hopes that this is fixed .....

EDIT: Changing False to False didn't really read right

[Zao]

Age of Mythology Marketing Beta has some nasty edges on text when 16xFAA is on.