Parhelia and some older games

[Trolan]

Been playing some older games recently, while awaiting a fix for NWN's problems on the Parhelia and was wondering if anyone else has tried these and maybe seen the same effects before I fire off a note to Matrox.

Latest Parhelia, VIA drivers, Win2kProSP2, DX 8.1, Athlon 900. All background programs closed out.

Freespace:
- Alignment errors on entering text in pilot selection screen
- Never recovers from an ALT-TAB

Freespace 2:
- Alignment errors as Freespace, and also in the main 'menu' when in 1024x768 mode.
- Mouse movement stutters every 4-5 seconds for about half a second. (I also see this in America's Army)

(can't test either 'in space' at the moment, a friend of mine seems to still have my cds... grr)

Aliens v. Predator:
- Black screen after loading the map. Yes, I reinstalled, no G400 patch hiding anymore.

Black & White:
- The diety arrival movie at the start of the game plays at an incredibly slow rate.

So am I seeing things? (or more accurately not, at least in the AvP case. )

Aside from these little glitches, I'm quite happy w/the card, everything else runs great.

[103er-Fan]

Are you using the latest patches or have you tried to reinstall the game?
I wanted to try Max Payne yesterday (looks awesome with 16xFAA btw!), but I couldn't start it, it always got back to desktop when the game was loading. After playing around with some option I still couldn't got it to run. Then I installed the latest patch and now it runs fine!
Another game like that was No One Lives Forever, after switching from a V5 5500 to a Radeon 8500, the game ran choppy. After reinstalling the game, it ran much better!

[Trolan]

All games are patched to current. Went through my system before I started logging what was acting funky grabbing all current patches, just so I knew that wasn't the issue. Unreal (original) v224 has some interesting texture dancing, which was cleared up with the 226final, for example.

[Faramir1966]

Hi
For Alien v. Pedator...if you mean Alien v Pedator2 you should use the nocd patch......
But i guess you mean the original A v. P

[murc777]

Re: Parhelia and some older games

Black & White:
- The diety arrival movie at the start of the game plays at an incredibly slow rate.

I have the same problem with B&W. The move is unbelievable slooooow. I don't know if this is caused by the texture compression problems we have also in JK2. Hopefully Matrox will release soon a fix for this compression bug.