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Just to be different I thought I'd post my success with the PD 5.13:
Using 4.51 couldn't run HL, or SiN or GLQuake with the G200. They wouldn't even *load*, had to use my V2. Could only run Q2 after installing the AMD 3DNow! drivers.
After installing 5.13, I've got HL running at 1024x768 in both OGL and D3D and SiN running at 1152X864.
I had previously done a reformat for unrelated reasons so these are the only games I've re-installed so far. Unreal and Q2 when I get home from work....!
This card finally looks like what I thought it was when I bought it last December! Yes, I know that sounds kinda like dammning with faint praise, but I'm willing to forgive the past--Matrox may be slow in living up to it's promises, but the promises are true, and that's what counts to me!
Thank you, Haig! Thank you, Beta-boiz! Without you and this forum I would never have been able to bear these difficult months of waiting and would have missed the literally jaw-dropping beauty of the HL intro movie on my stupendous G200 at a resolution and level of quality I could never hope to achieve on a V2 even in SLI. I'm really, really, *really* glad I still have my G200!
...Doesn't this sound like what they say happens after you have a baby?
Stay tuned...more good news as more games load!
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Holly
Who just *likes* SiN, dammit, no matter what the reviewers say! and can now put her V2 in her roomie's new (in a way) K6-266 (be quiet, she doesn't play games! well, not like Half-Life, anyway, she's a bleem! kinda roomie) because now her [Soyo 5EMA, K6-2 333 not o/c, 256MB PC100
, Millennium G200 8MB SGRAM, Win98] works plenty good enough 'til she's saved the moolah for the G400/Athlon rig [drool, pant, drool... 
]
[This message has been edited by motub (edited 07-07-99).Hey, I'm editing! PhilMURC! Daaahling!! You fixed it! Thanx!! ]
[This message has been edited by motub (edited 07-07-99).]
Using 4.51 couldn't run HL, or SiN or GLQuake with the G200. They wouldn't even *load*, had to use my V2. Could only run Q2 after installing the AMD 3DNow! drivers.
After installing 5.13, I've got HL running at 1024x768 in both OGL and D3D and SiN running at 1152X864.
I had previously done a reformat for unrelated reasons so these are the only games I've re-installed so far. Unreal and Q2 when I get home from work....!
This card finally looks like what I thought it was when I bought it last December! Yes, I know that sounds kinda like dammning with faint praise, but I'm willing to forgive the past--Matrox may be slow in living up to it's promises, but the promises are true, and that's what counts to me!
Thank you, Haig! Thank you, Beta-boiz! Without you and this forum I would never have been able to bear these difficult months of waiting and would have missed the literally jaw-dropping beauty of the HL intro movie on my stupendous G200 at a resolution and level of quality I could never hope to achieve on a V2 even in SLI. I'm really, really, *really* glad I still have my G200!
...Doesn't this sound like what they say happens after you have a baby?
Stay tuned...more good news as more games load!
------------------
Holly
Who just *likes* SiN, dammit, no matter what the reviewers say! and can now put her V2 in her roomie's new (in a way) K6-266 (be quiet, she doesn't play games! well, not like Half-Life, anyway, she's a bleem! kinda roomie) because now her [Soyo 5EMA, K6-2 333 not o/c, 256MB PC100
, Millennium G200 8MB SGRAM, Win98] works plenty good enough 'til she's saved the moolah for the G400/Athlon rig [drool, pant, drool... ][This message has been edited by motub (edited 07-07-99).
Hey, I'm editing! PhilMURC! Daaahling!! You fixed it! Thanx!! ][This message has been edited by motub (edited 07-07-99).]
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