WHQL 5.20 or 4.33? Looking for Stability

[Padron]

I'm more concerned with stability (i.e. no frozen screens, video-related illegal operation kernel32.dll errors, etc.) than performance. I'm currently running
the Millenium G200 AGP 8MB with Windows 98 Second Edition and the Matrox WHQL 4.33 drivers. I noticed that there are new WHQL certified drivers avaialble for my card (W9x_520.exe) and I'd like to know how stable they are compared to the previous release 4.33.

Thank you in advance,

J. Padron
padron@gate.net
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[manxcat]

I have tried all the drivers they have up right now and found no stability. I have all the latest motherboard drivers, bios, directX, and still get very steady, predictable lockups. Matrox e-mailed me to use the latest drivers after I mailed them that the latest drivers cause lockups, I guess they were not really paying attention. I have also been playing with 3DMark 99 Max and found a big difference with the latest drivers that dont crash my system. The 4.33 drivers got me 1500's and 4.51 got me 1900's. The 4.51's also did pass-3 bump mapping and 4.33's did not. I don't understand why but it looked pretty cool. I also don't understand the preformance difference or the lockups but I have seen many people on this site with the same basic hardware and problems. I have an AMD K6-2 300, DFI P5BV3 Rev B+ with the latest driver package from DFI, Mill G200 8mb, Voodoo II, SB AWE 64, SB Encore PC-DVD Dxr3, Adaptec SCSI with Panasonic CD-R.
My Voodoo II is in PCI slot 1 so there is no IRQ problem there. My System Devices pannel is clean, my bios is set to assign an IRQ to VGA, IRQ resources are set to auto, Video Bios Shadowing is off. Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Jeff

[Zwisch]

Hi,

I always recommend to use the latest drivers. In this case the 5.25. If you have lots of problems, there might be more to the drivers... check for older drivers still in there, IRQ's, memory ranges.

Z

[paul]

When I got my card, I used 4.33c and then 4.51. When 5.20 came out, blue screens appeared. They quickly released 5.21, and then 5.25, and finally 5.30. The only way I attained stability is going back to 4.33c, 4.51 wont work for me anymore

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k6-3 450 - tyan 1590s bios 1.16 - g200 mill sgram w/8mb upgrade & bios 2.6-20 & 32bit z-buffering enabled & PD 4.33c- 128MB 10ns sdram - wdac10100 - sblive value - 3com 3c905b-tx - cable access (28.8k for emergencies) - win98 service pack 1 + 2

[Zwisch]

Hi,

Do you have any TSR's or program that are starting with your computer that would be 16 bit? Since the new drivers from 4.51 and up are only 32 bit, they will not work if this is the case. try removing your starup programs from MSCONFIG and try again.

Z

[paul]

the only tsr I have is for DRI cd-rom. Without it, It just spins-up,slows-down,spins-up....whenever I access it