New PD5 G200 drivers and ICD!!!

[Kruzin]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/la...ivers/home.htm

Finally the new OpenGL ICD for G200 is here!

What are you waiting for? GO GET IT!


[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 06-30-99).]

[Manex]

Hey Kruzin! Thanks for the heads up on the drivers... maybe this will solve my Descent Freespace problems... I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Cheers!


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Manex

Celeron 300A@450, ABIT BH-6, IBM Deskstar 10GXP, 128MB RAM, Matrox Millenium G200 16MB, SB Live!, Adaptec AHA-2940UW, Plextor 32X CD-Rom, Plextor 4X CD-R, USR 56K modem, Sony 17" Trinitron Monitor

[WalterM]

Thanks for the heads up Kruzin. You the man!

Now if I can just pay the bills fast enough tonight to still have time to download and install (and of course I'll have to check out the new s/w on something stressing, say... TFC ) I'll be a happy clam.


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Walter
PII 300 @ 338MHz (sometimes), ABit LX6, 192 MB, Mystique G200 16MB, SB64PCI, WD 6.4GB & 1GB, piddily little 28.8 USR Sportster (soon to be replaced by ISDN with USB)

[LiLong]

Some quick results
run on a
PII400
P2B-S
Millenium G200 8 MB SGRAM (not overclocked)

Before upgrade (Powerdesk 4.51)

Unreal TimeDemo 1
D3D mode 640x480: 24 fps
OpenGl mode ICD Beta2: 640x480 6 fps

I found the drivers that came with 4.51 about 15-20% faster than the drivers that came with 4.33 (the certified stuff) of which I posted the results in another thread.

After installing the new drivers I ran the tests again.
The results amaze me.

After Upgrade (Powerdesk 5.13)

Unreal TimeDemo 1
D3D mode 640x480: 12 fps
OpenGl mode ICD Beta2: 640x480 4 fps

That's a dramatic loss of performance
Someone having similar results?

[LiLong]

Sorry I made a copy error in the results of the 2nd test. It was run with the final OGL ICD.

[Kruzin]

How did you install the new drivers?

Did you use this method?
http://forums.gagames.com/forums/For...ML/001840.html

If not, try again that way.

And forget about OGL with Unreal. It doesn't work with any card worth a crap. Use D3D.

The one thing I found, was that if I ran in OGL mode, an Unreal app would stay running in task manager, even after the game exited. Make sure to do a ctr+alt+del to see if one of those things is hanging around. I would also have to reboot after trying OGL before it would run decently in D3D...otherwise it was pitifully slow....

[LiLong]

Hi Kruzin,

You were right, restarting gave normal D3D figures again.

[Kruzin]

Cool

And did performance go up/down at all?

[Agent]

Gawd, they have fantastic timing, 3 days after I format and install the 4.51 drivers, they finally release new drivers. Still, I guess I was asking for trouble.

[Keiv]

Me so happy!
Going to get them right now!

[AdrianHensler]

Quake3 and the new ICD damn near made me wet myself.
I wasn't expecting a major difference; but the game goes from playable to solid.
I didn't get any numbers before or after (and I'm not going back to find out!)
But all my 3dmark max scores have dropped (some results up; some down; overall down)
As far as opengl goes ... whoooeee.

---Adrian

[cjyo]

I can't believe it - the first day in months that I don't check the MURC, and the drivers are FINALLY released.

Serves me right, I guess...

[that guy]

They ain't all that. They ain't even a side of fries. There are an awful lot of people having an awful lot of problems. In fact, I've seen more problems with these drivers than with any other set.

[Alexander Dubeniuk]

The new OpenGL icd sux.

Q3Test in 1024x768x32 = white screen
Descent3 demo2 = crash while detecting OpenGL device

Winamp 3D plugin "winamp goes 3d" = system hangup

Well, the truth is now proven. Matrox can't
make the OpenGL driver in time (yes, i remember NVidia's riva127 - they late half a year too, but not with such a bad result)

---
GA-686BXE (intel bx), G200SD 8M, celeron 366,
128M ram.

[Jake]

Alexander,

>Q3Test in 1024x768x32 = white screen

- Turn of the 32-bit z-buffer.

Regards,

Jake

P.S. Can you get timedemo working in Q3?