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Article #82Mystique + Voodoo2 + Colin McRae = disaster!
From: Carl Smethurst
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00
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I'm having major problems with CMR and glitches, crashes and sloooow menus. I believe the menu problem is a known bug with Matrox drivers. I'm using v.4.12 on Win98, which AFAIK is the latest available. Someone suggested turning down the Graphics performance slider down a couple of notches - but this just results in being booted back to the desktop when I try to get beyond the first menu. The odd thing is that very occasionally the menu's work OK for a while, but generally there can be anything up to a 1 minute lag(!) between input and response on the menu - and sometimes no response whatsoever. And that's not all - If I do manage to get into the game itself, after between 5 and 15 minutes, the graphics get garbled - all the polygons are still there, but no textures - making driving a bit difficult... I get the same problem in TOCA2, another DirectX game. Yes, I know it sounds like overheating - but I've got a 3" fan blowing directly onto my Voodoo, and this sits in a very large tower case with 3 extra fans. However, the problem does seem worse at 800x600 than 640, so who knows... _But_ Glide/OpenGL games such as Half-Life, Quake & Unreal all run fine - I can run the Q2 Massive demo for hours without a hitch. As you can tell, I'm flummoxed. Any help greatly appreciated. My system: AMDK6-2 350 on VIA MVP3 Mobo Generic Voodoo2 (12Mb) Matrox Mystique 170 (4Mb) TIA Carl
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