Matrox and OpenGL

[Mitzi]

Hi,

I am going to buy a GeForce4 in the next couple of weeks once they become a little more widely available.

In the meantime, I have a Matrox G400 MAX, 32Mb graphics card and Windows 2000 am having problems running recent OpenGL based games (Serious Sam 2 and the demo of Command & Conquer:Renegade spring to mind). In Serious Sam 2 I cannot even get into the game, it just hangs at the loading screen. With Renegade I get about 10 FPS (at a recent LAN party a guy was playing it on his laptop with an 8Mb graphics card and was getting higher frame rates than me ).

I am using the latest Matrox drivers and BIOS, BTW.

I have looked at downloading and using glsetup, but this isn't available for 2000

Other than moving back to Windows 98 for the timebeing, any other suggestions?

 

[Daovonnaex]

Get some Direct 3D games...the G400 doesn't support OpenGL, which is why it failed.

 

[Mitzi]

Thanks for the reply.

I am aware that the G400 doesn't really support OpenGL. However, I was wondering if anyone had found an alternative OpenGL driver (such as GlSetup) which works with Windows 2000 which supports this card.

I guess not though, oh well. I'm going to order a GeForce4 in a couple of weeks so I guess I'll just have to hold back for the time being.

 

[jema]

<< Get some Direct 3D games...the G400 doesn't support OpenGL, which is why it failed. >>


The Matrox cards do support OGL, not just very well or fast.

Mitzi- check these pages
http://www.matrox.com/mga/3d_gaming/home.cfm
http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum18/HTML/000002.html

 

[Vegito]

Did you put it in single monitor mode before running the game ?

BTW, I was using matrox g400 regular and 450 and my god, 2d is soooo much better.. i can't believe how much nvidia's 2d, (using geforce 2 cards now on game machine) sux big time... i hope the gf4 2d is much better..

 

[Plester]

some of the older drivers w/ the turboGL were great in opengl (Q3A ran at TNT2/V3 2000 speeds) don't know about w2k support tho - that was in win98.

 

[Priit]

<< Get some Direct 3D games...the G400 doesn't support OpenGL, which is why it failed. >>



Maybe not under W2k, but at least under win9x and linux OGL works very well with Matrox cards. From where that "G400 doesn't really support OpenGL" story has come from?