New Beta drivers for G200

[Neil Roberts]

There are new Beta drivers (Version 450) on the Matrox web site

http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/ftp_marvelg2_w95.htm

[Todd Sorensen]

Yes. I see they note that "This beta driver is not recommended for Socket 7
users."

Neil Roberts wrote in message <73c3t0$e3f$1...@mendelevium.btinternet.com>...

[Rickard Andersson]

Has anybody tried them? Benchmarks? How are they performing?

/RA

[Pete Koolish]

I have installed the 4.50 drivers (on Win98) and ran the 3D Winbench. Some
of the tests were improved by modest amounts (5 per-cent) but I noticed that
all of the tests that simply would not run under 4.26 are now running fine.

Pete

Rickard Andersson wrote in message ...

[Edward Ng]

Does anyone wish to try those drivers on S7 or shall I dive in?

-Ed

Pete Koolish <pkoo...@pdfgroup.com> wrote in message
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[Kenneth Heffington]

I have tried them on an FIC 2013 rev 2.0 and they seem to work alright. I
have not had a chance to benchmark them yet to see if they are faster or
slower.

Ken

Edward Ng <edwa...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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[Todd Sorensen]

I got about 3% improvement in 3DMark and about 6% improvement in Final
Reality over the 4.26 drivers.

Todd

Rickard Andersson wrote in message ...

>pcdv...@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
><73ctt3$ioh$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>>Yes and they CRASHED MY SYSTEM !.. I got a general protection fault on
>reboot
>>but it was to fast to see. It took 3 trys to reload the 4.26 drivers but
>the
>>PowerDesk portion is still 4.50.
>>
>>Please post your experiences.
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>
>I have tried them now as well and i had no probs. I benchmarked with 3dMark
>and it turned up that they gave me the same results as the 4.26-drivers. I
>would appreciate if Matrox could tell us what the improvements were when
>they release a new driver. I mean if the drivers only fix problems related
>to Force Feedback and similar stuff, I may not interested in them at all.
If
>they are supposed to increase performance, then i am interested.
>
>/RA
>
>

[pcdv...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <Wuh62.7878$f4.1...@nntpserver.swip.net>,

"Rickard Andersson" <pyle...@NOSPAMswipnet.se> wrote:
> Has anybody tried them? Benchmarks? How are they performing?
>

> /RA
>
> Neil Roberts wrote in message <73c3t0$e3f$1...@mendelevium.btinternet.com>...
> >There are new Beta drivers (Version 450) on the Matrox web site
> >
> >http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/ftp_marvelg2_w95.htm
> >
> >
>
>

Yes and they CRASHED MY SYSTEM !.. I got a general protection fault on reboot
but it was to fast to see. It took 3 trys to reload the 4.26 drivers but the
PowerDesk portion is still 4.50.

Please post your experiences.

Thanks.

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[Rickard Andersson]

pcdv...@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<73ctt3$ioh$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...

>Yes and they CRASHED MY SYSTEM !.. I got a general protection fault on
reboot
>but it was to fast to see. It took 3 trys to reload the 4.26 drivers but
the
>PowerDesk portion is still 4.50.
>
>Please post your experiences.
>
>Thanks.

[Mikael Lindkvist]

Final reality crashed using 4.50 drivers, worked fine with 4.26... But Unreal
is alot faster!

/Mikael