rec.autos.simulators

Hi all,

 Are there any owners of GP2 and the Matrox Mystique video card who
have successfully got it to work? I used to have a cirrus logic card
and gp2 ran fine. Now with the Mystique I get my monitor shutting down
when switching between VGA to SVGA (after opening title sometimes, or
from***pit to menus).

Hope to hear from you,

Ant.

Hi,                                                                                

I have the same problem....                                                        

The problem seems to occurs only on some Motherboard/Mystique combination.
I installed my Mystique on my friend pentium and GP2 was working fine. It never
worked on my computer.                                                                      

Very bizzare and frustrating.                                                      

Let me know if you find something.                                                

bye                                                                                

In the end it was solved by changing a BIOS setting but, I cant
remember which one at the moment.

If you are unable to progress then mail me and I'll go see him and
refresh my memory.

Cheers

Andy
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)
)>> Are there any owners of GP2 and the Matrox Mystique video card who
)>>have successfully got it to work? I used to have a cirrus logic card
)>>and gp2 ran fine. Now with the Mystique I get my monitor shutting down
)>>when switching between VGA to SVGA (after opening title sometimes, or
)>>from***pit to menus).
)>>
)>>Hope to hear from you,
)>>
)>>Ant.
)>I fitted a Mystique in to a friends PC and had the exact same problem.
)>Also happended with windows 95 as well so isnt GP2 specific.
)>
)>In the end it was solved by changing a BIOS setting but, I cant
)>remember which one at the moment.
)>
)>If you are unable to progress then mail me and I'll go see him and
)>refresh my memory.
)>
)
)Well, rather than email you only, I decided to post as well...I am having
)problems of the sort described above, and I am using the Mystique.  GP2 will
)sometimes work, but often locks up after the opening segment (intro) and
)switching to the main screen.  I found that by using the command line
)"nointro" helped a lot (for parameters, type "gp2 /?"), but there are times
)when the pallette will get tweeked as well.  I was using a S3 Trio64 with no
)problem before the Mystique.
)
)If you can remember the BIOS setting that your friend changed, can you post it
)here for all to see?

This might be what you're looking for if you have a Pentium board with
Award BIOS.  Go to the Chipset Features screen and see if you have the
following settings available:

PCI Concurrency
PCI Streaming
PCI Bursting

If you do, try setting all of those to "Disabled" and see if that helps.
I've been building and upgrading systems with the Triton/Award combo for
almost 2 years now and I've found that quite a few PCI video cards don't
work right or at all with those options "Enabled".  A couple of examples
for you.  I used to have an ATI MACH 64 2MB DRAM card in one of my
systems which I though was much slower than it should be.  On ATI's
recommendation I disabled those "features" and immediately saw a 30-40%
increase in video performance based on benchmarks in both OS/2 and
windows.  Even the Landmark Speed test for DOS showed a substantial
increase in performance.  Another example was a dealer I used to work
for was putting together systems using Diamond Viper Pro clone video
cards (Wietek 9100 based with 2MB VRAM) and there was all sorts of video
"noise" and strange lockups in windows 95.  Again disabling those PCI
settings in the BIOS cleared it right up.

As an aside, if your video card will handle those settings (like the
Matrox Millenium WRAM cards I've got in both of my systems now),
"Enabling" those settings will give you a big performance increase with
most PCI SCSI host adapters.

Hopefully, this will get you on the right track.

)John Weman

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If you can remember the BIOS setting that your friend changed, can you post it
here for all to see?

Regards.

John Weman

Cheers,

Ant.

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