OpenGL, TurboGL, ToManyGLs

[BogusBill]

Can someone explain to me how the GL dlls work?? For Half-Life do you have to install them in the gldrv directory(maunal)? And how does it work for games like Quake 2? I don' think they have drvmap file. And Quake 3. Think that auto detects it. I don't even know where to GET TurboGL. Man, all this crap is confusing. By the way if this matters I have a Matrox G400-TV.

[Maggi]

Don't be confused ...

Hardware-accelerated 3D
=======================

For 3D hardware acceleration, the Matrox Windows NT 4.0 display driver
supports
the OpenGL interface with 2 driver types -- MCD (Mini Client Driver) and ICD
(Installable Client Driver). The Matrox Millennium, Millennium II, Mystique,
Mystique 220, and G100-based graphics cards have MCD support. The Matrox
G200-based, G400-based and later graphics cards have ICD support. (An ICD has
more potential for optimization than an MCD.)

3D hardware acceleration has the following restrictions:

- Currently no acceleration is available when multiple cards are
in use.

- The MCD/ICD does not support 8bpp (256 colors) and 24bpp (16777216
colors) modes. 16bpp (64K colors) and 32bpp (True Color) modes are the
ones that can be hardware-accelerated.

This was in the readme.txt that came with the latest G400 NT drivers.

For Win98, use the uninstaller and install PD6 (beta), since its ICD has grown very mature and fast.

Cheers,
Maggi

[Maggi]

I forgot to mention that 'TurboGL' is the name of Matrox' MCD for Win98 and it only works with PD5.x ...