Rainbow Runner squeezes picture

[sammysam78]

Can anyone possibly help me I have an old Mystique 220 w/ RR attached. I recently got a new K6-II 450 MHz and put the card in with a clean install of Windows 98 SE. Ever since then the picture the RR inputs is squeezed, instead of the usual 320*240 the PAL format should have, it only has 320*200. Does anyone have any idea why it does that? It worked absolutely fine before. On the official Matrox board, nobody seemed to be able to help me.

Sammy

[Kruzin]

I would try posting this in the Desktop Video forum, where all of the video editing folks hang out.
In fact, I'll just move this thread there for you...

[This_Idiot]

All W2K users are having levels of difficulty with Matrox vidcap cards - at least there are some drivers out for the RR-G even if they aren't perfect. But there is no support for RR-S beyond Windows 9x, and none planned (as far as I am aware).

I'd advise you to switch back to W95 OSR2 or W98SE.

Unless of course anyone else has any suggestions ?

[sammysam78]

This_Idiot, I do use Win98SE already!!! I can't switch to Win95 cuz my mainboard has problems with that. Any other ideas?

Sammy

[This_Idiot]

Apologies Sammy, I had my head stuck in a Windows ME rut !

I don't recall that there were any specific W98 drivers released for RR-S, but my impression was that generic W95 drivers "should" work. Of course there aren't many RR-S users left to ask any more (even my own RR-S has been donated to the aging Parent who hasn't actually used it yet). Let me have a think about this one to see if I can dig anything out in the next 24 hours or so. Hopefully someone else will chip in too..

Cheers

Chris

[This_Idiot]

OK Sammy, a couple of things to try out.

Firstly, check your driver revisions and try the 4.31 disply drivers with VideoTools revision 2.10.

Secondly, you can try the optimisations suggested under the Matrox forum thread http://www.matrox.com/mga/tech_supp/faq/video6.htm#55

Let me how you get on and any specific problems that you are getting after trying the above, and I'll follow it up

[mits]

Summy, (given that you have the right drivers installed like T_I suggests to you)
have you run the Matrox HD Benchamark?
If you don't run it then the frame-size slider can't go higher than a certain point. When i installed my DiamondMax+40 i forgot to run it and i was stuck to 352*288.
I have a Millennium II PCI with RRS and Win98
display driver version 4.33 (it works fine like it did with 4.31),Video Tools 2.10 and i have no problems at all.

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mits