NEW W2K Matrox DRIVERS

[Venturer]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/w2k_507.cfm

They are dated 28 November 2000 and i think this is a new release!

[The PIT]

These are G200 multi monitor drivers by the way.

[This message has been edited by The PIT (edited 29 November 2000).]

[arbymo]

do they work with normal G200 too ??

[Randy Simons]

If I had been able to download them I would have tried it...
Since yesterday I can't connect to Matrox' FTP server

[Randy Simons]

Somebody rebooted the FTP server so I could download the driver

At first, the setup wouldn't install because it couldn't recognize my card (a normal Millennium G200 AGP) So, I edit the INF file a bit by copy/pasting some stuff from the 5.06 drivers.

It works, but the all-mighty (?) FPS is the same as before. I don't see any new features, however the G200 MMS seems to be supported better.


I haven't tested the 2 known BSoD crashers yet.

[dZeus]

the other BSOD crasher is? (assuming that the overlay-alpha blending BSOD crasher is one of them)

[Randy Simons]

A demo called "time machine". Should be available from scene.org. It caused a BSoD after a while on g200d.dll. I haven't tested it anymore, I don't like BSoD's...

(frank, staat ook op \\ragnarok\vanalles\demos\timemachine)

[Randy Simons]

Have patience.. That does take a long time, even with 700+ MHz processors.

[dZeus]

hm... I see... I though the loading stuff was the crash, but as you said, it just was a loading sequence that required some time.

I can complete the demo till the end without a crash, but defenitely something fishy is going on. Right after the first sequence with the 'time machine', you see the earth being tracked with the camera through a tunnel. At that exact point, I get complete garbage on my screen (random pixels everywhere, no coherence at all, but the framerate counter is still readable). 10 seconds later (at the cube-sooming effects sequence) everything is fine again, and I can complete the demo till the end without a problem past that point.

Does it crash at the same point as where I get the random garbage on my screen?

[Randy Simons]

Yes, it crashed pretty soon after the intro. I've seen it running just fine on a TNT2 card, so I guess it's back to the drawingboards for Matrox.

[dZeus]

it stalls on my machine, but (fortunately) doesn't bring down Win2k... unless it is supposed to stop just after the fade-out of the first music thing?