New Millenium G4x0 Drivers

[Minstrel]

6.10.013 for 98/ME

5.20.016 for 2000

Get them all <a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.htm">here</a>

Notable changes:

* Fixes some SMP issues in Win2k (yay!)
* Fixes for some professional apps in Win2k.

[alessandro]

Powerdesk V. 6.10.013 Release Notes for Win9x and WinME
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Supported Products
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G400 graphic cards.
Graphic portion of the G400 Marvel.
G450 graphic cards.

New Features
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- DVDMax output to monitor
- DualHead Zoom multi-region support with the possibility to save a region to a file or the clipboard.
- `Mini-Wizard`to help enabling of Dual Head Multi-display mode

Description of release
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Supports Win9x and WinME only.
ICD included

Main Fixes
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- Black screen when changing resolutions in Unreal and UT.
- Flickering lines in the "Sensor Manager" screen in Homeworld.
- Green tint around explosions in Q3.
- Invalid Page fault when quiting HL.
- Black screen when running Descent 3 in OGL mode.
- Fixed problem in 3DS Max where the image in top left viewport was not being refreshed properly when moving the window.
- Fixed corruption when previewing 3D Pipes Screensaver.
- Fixed various problems with Star Office 5.1.
- Fixed various OGL problems with GP Legends.
- Fixed various bugs with dark engine games.
- Fixed top left viewport refreshing problem in 3DSMax.
- Fixed blue triangle problems in Motocross Madness 2.
- Fixed color key corruption in HL.
- Fixed distorted textures in Star Wars Racer
- Fixed texture problems in WorldCraft 3.3
- Fixed Team Alligator and Roll Cage II crashes when reaching EMBM scenes.
- Fixed SOF problems when you would get sent back to the desktop after the 1st mission.
- Fixed SOF Z buffer issues.
- Fixed Freezing in Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear.
- Fixed missing scenery in FLight Sim2000 when playing in night mode.

Main known issues
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- Tiger Woods - If game resolution is increased Image exceeds the screen size.
- Forsaken - Power ups leaving pixels trail and flashes (G100 and G200 only).
- Fogging issues in X-plane 461
- If you encounter a decrease is frame rate playing OGL games, please use our MTSTUtil to disable Vsync.
- When firing the 20mm cannon in F-15 (Jane's Combat Simulations) the frame rate drops to zero and the textures flip off and then back on.
- FAKK2 Heavy Metal may display 4 rectangular blocks rather than the game menu. You would have to enable "compile vertex arrays" to work around this.
- With the "Tribes" game, you may notice some minor display artifacts and the opening video introduction may not display properly.
- Various OGL screen savor issues.
- When Dynamic Lighting is enabled in Elite Force (within the game options), you may defects in display.
- When using Direct 3D in HL CS, the decals are not visible.
- When Using OpenGL in HL CS, the menus will over lap and you will get corruption on the screen.
- During gameplay in Klingon Academy, you may see white dots appear in the middle of the screen.

*** TurboGl and Overclocker not supported.***

[Surfwienix]

server busy! grrrrrrrrrr!!!

[Kruzin]

New Features
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- DVDMax output to monitor

This should make a few people happy

[Surfwienix]

YEAH !!!

[Ali]

Looks like Matrox does listen. They are telling us what they fix now.

Well done bigM Thanks for paying attention.

Ali

[DuRaNgO]

WOW! check out all those fixes !!!
jim

[kagge]

I for one really like the G200 fixes in the drivers when it's not even released for G200... NOT!
Release drivers for G200 too please.

[Liquid Snake]

Oh boy! Time to fire up CS...

[LAMFDTK]

Great, all the bargin-bin games work now. I am suppose to be impressed and grateful? I am not.

Fixed corruption when previewing 3D Pipes Screensaver. Thanks Matrox!

[Barbarella]

hi,

New drivers are always a good news. But today is not the case for me. drivers 4.7 under NT4 with Homeworld : Cataclysm are not going well It becomes unplayable !

I return to my old 4.51.

Will try 6.1x under W98 tomorow.

[Randy Simons]

Nice, new drivers, but not for the G200 I'm still using drivers from april... (the 5.14 are useless, unstable as hell on my rig)

Do we have to wait until 5.24 to get G200 drivers?..

[Paradox]

WAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOO!

[WayneHu]

Good Job, Matrox! This time he did his homework carefully!

With 6.04, I even couldn't run the benchmark program "TreeMark". So... How can I believe that it can do anything with other OpenGL applications?

6.10's ICD is totally a different story. At least it performs correctly with TreeMark. Its image and motion qualities are almost as identical as 3DLabs Permedia3's. (no more strange light, broken stick...)

Although TreeMark is quite a bias benchmark, the surprising result is that the polygon rate of PII-450+3DLabs Permedia3 is no less than that of PIII-733+G400@140. This might mean that 3DLabs is quite excellent about doing OpenGL hardware.


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PIII-550E@733/1.65v, P3B-F, G400DH/32MB@140/186

[This message has been edited by WayneHu (edited 07 November 2000).]

[Surfwienix]

very good driver !!!

fs2000 now works :-)