Status of game bugs

[Electric Amish]

How about the white boxes around explosions in OpenGL Tribes on my G200??


Paul

[bspahn]

Hi ROM,

I have a problem in Rollcage.
Somehow the bus mastering may not be working!?
When I move the bar up on the "drawing distance" setting, the game chunks out horribly.. even on 320x200 resolution..
game only works without chunking when drawing distance is set to '0'. Any suggestions?

[Merc]

One more game to add to the list: Aliens vs. Predator. I haven't played with it much, but when I tried it at both 1024x768x32 and 640x480x16 it wouldn't work. Basically all transparency was out, all fonts, etc. were just blocks of white, etc.

And I couldn't get q3test (1.08) to work properly either. Any hints on that one?

[Byron_H]

Check http://www.3dfiles.com for the G400 Aliens Versus Predator patch to fix it.

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Byron Hinson
Microsoft MVP
http://www.activewin.com

[DarkSyd]

I thought having a DX compatible card was supposed to prevent things like this from happening in the first place. Not very encouraging.

DS
who is glad he still has a Voodoo2...

[phelme]

Unreal 2.25f has the same problem as Aliens vs. Predator. All transparency is out after I quit the game, all fonts, etc. are just blocks of white and I have to reboot.

[phelme]

Another is Battlezone. There are the occasional little white boxes showing up in distant mountains. This is with a G400 and 5.13.

[Electric Amish]

AvP works beautifully on the G200 with the 5.13 drivers at 1024x768x32.

Paul

[MC Lamer]

hi,

midtown madness simply doesn t work
with my g400
piii450 128 mo ram

[Phil MURC]

I have tried MTM on the 5.20 drivers and it works brilliantly - I seem to remember it worked ok on 5.13 drivers too - if I get chance I will try it again and see what's up.



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Phil (MURC's G200 : WWW.G200.COM

[Tumu]

Wombat, maybe somewhat, but GLQW doesn't run in fullscreen with 5.13. ICDb2 did run it in fullscreen but it had issues with overall stability.

Just a thought, are these issues (and many other) which are mentioned here, being noted down by the Matrox staff? I have written about those own OGL problems here in forums and also have mailed the tech support (from which I got a reply though), but it seems that the information isn't going to the right people. Anyone willing to give (un)official explanation? Haig, BBoyz?

-Tumu


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Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset Mobo (bios v3.2),
64MB PC100 RAM, G200 8MB SGRAM (not overclocked, a 486 fan included, bios v2.3), Win95OSR2.1 finnish, PD5.13.020, SB16 Value

[Byron_H]

Yeah...Midtown Madness works fine here on the 5.13 drivers.

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Byron Hinson
Microsoft MVP
http://www.activewin.com

[Slartibartfast]

Tumu,

The guy who started this thread (R0M) is the game developer interface guy from Matrox. He handles dealing with the game manufacturers and whatnot. He'll figure out if these problems are the programmers' fault or Matrox's fault, and then (theoretically) get the right person to fix it.

- Slarty

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[R0M]

Here's an update on the bugs:

- Simcity 3000 - Flickering with G200
Status: Fixed
- Darkstone - Flickering with G200
Status: Fixed
- Quest for Glory V - Game not working
Status: Fixed
- Half Life - Corrupted Textures
Status: In progress
- Quake 3 Test - Switching color depth
Status: Fixed
- Final Fantasy VII - Not working with G400
Status: Fixed
- T.A: Kingdoms - Corrupted textures in menus
Status: Fixed
- Rogue Squadron - Not working with G400
Status: Lucasarts is looking into it
- Mechwarrior 3 - Occasional Flashing Textures
Status: Fixed

More will come...

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"The opinions or comments expressed by me do not necessary reflect those of Matrox Graphics Inc."


[This message has been edited by R0M (edited 08-18-1999).]

[grantm88]

Bugs in Unreal 225f for G200

Many of us have trouble using Volumetriclighting under D3D rendering.
(lots of artifacts with this switched on)

Also Motub has described a problem with lack of detailed textures when you a very close to a wall of floor.