Driver update: Matrox G400/G450/G550 (Win2k/XP)

grimson sent a queue-worthy message saying that Matrox has supplied the world with new drivers… For the Matrox video cards equipped with a G400/450/550 chipset, that is. The patches are especially interesting for gamers. Below an overview.

• NASCAR 4 will not close when exiting the game.
• Running the configuration from the NASCAR 4 graphics menu will get no response.
• Texture problems in Flight Sim 2002
• Real Media is garbled on the TV screen.
• When using 2 digital flat panels at 1280×1024 and above, you will be max’d at 1280×960 (G550 dual dvi board only)
• AGP not available in XP. (G200 only)
• triangular shapes coming from the back of tanks in Ghost recon.
• Winamp and ICQ will close if they are loaded in the systray and you use multidesk.
• BSOD when playing real media via dvdmax.
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault Performance
• Maya fatal error

Main known issues

• EMBM is disabled with digital flat panls.(G550 only)
• Smearing of web pages
• “Show on all Desktops” is always on even though you have it off.
• Using the G450 pci card on a system with onboard sound, audio will be degraded during dvd playback if you disable the onboard sound and install any pci sound card.
• Texture flashes in Serious Sam the 2nd Encounter
• The analog monitor does not go into Power Saving Mode although the Digital monitor powers down fine.
• When you switch between 16bit z-buffer and 32bit z-buffer in our options tab, you must reboot in order for the change to take affect even though you aren’t prompted to reboot.
• If you have selected 4 different desktop resolutions where all resolutions are in 32bpp and one of the resolutions is above 1280×1024, you’re system may reboot when opening our PC-VCR. We recommend that you put one of your desktop resolutions to 16bpp or lower one of your desktop resolutions to below 1280×1024. (G200MMS with TV Tuner only).
• Cannot apply the image quality of Clone feature with the Italian language powerdesk.