I am happy with Matrox's current Windows 2000 drivers.

[Mr. Cold]

Am I alone?

[dZeus]

me too... now if they could only fix that last bit of texture flashing in Q3A, I would be more than happy

[Gurm]

I'm fairly happy as well. Haig hinted that SMP might have been fixed as well - has anyone tried out Q3A SMP yet?

- Gurm

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[Marwyn]

Yes, this version is good, but UT crash sometime and I receive exception in MainLoop() function ??? Is posible get error in mainloop() when I change GFX driver ?!? I think NO (maybe some bad message is generated by UT 8-) ) .

[DosFreak]

Yep, The 2000 drivers are good especially when they redid the ICD . Good but slow.

[Chucky Cheese]

i'll second that!

even with the problem i observed(..i posted a thread on it), it is a minor annoyance.

i reverted back to 5.03 and the problem went away...i reported it at the bug report forum at matroxs' site and then reinstalled the 5.14 drivers, they are stable.

cc

[kewlcat]

I tried SMP once with Q3 and went from 31.3 fps to 36.1 fps. Renderign problems abound though, so I am back with using r_smp 0.

[Gurm]

Kewlcat,

Am I correct in assuming that you have the SMP working with the 5.03 drivers? Are you magic, or is your computer from an advanced alien civilization?

- Gurm

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[rduck]

I have 1 prob with these new drivers.

I usually switch off the show quickdesk icon next to the clock option. However, it wont remember every time i set it and so the icon is always there!!!!

Never had that problem before!!

[Rags]

Matrox is aware of this.

Rags

[Smiff]

Waaaaaah I'm not happy at all.... but i'll save that for the Gaming forum

[Indiana]

The new drivers (both W98/w2k) are running very stable here and seem to cure at least some of the OGL probs.
But I still have two probs:
1. The performance is lower than the PD5.52's. I'm only getting 2900-3000 3DMarks (it's lower in "real" benchmarks as well...) instead of nearly 3100 I had with 5.52. I'm not quite sure, if it is possible to disable VSync, btw. Tried the reghacks and the new Matrox TweakUtil, but Vsync seems to stay on.

2. and way more annoying: I can't change my monitor-settings in Win2k, it keeps teling me I have to select a Monitor first.
But I HAVE selected my Iiyama VisionMaster MF8617 in the Windows-settings...

[Lars]

I can't change my monitor-settings in Win2k, it keeps teling me I have to select a Monitor first.
But I HAVE selected my Iiyama VisionMaster MF8617 in the Windows-settings...


Same problem with the same monitor ...

Greetings, Lars

[rob_b]

It (w2k 5.14) fixed the windows pipe screen saver problem I posted previously ... Rob_b

[Nuno]

Definitly the most stable driver so far. Performance is still lagging behind win98 drivers and I don´t really realize why.