Mystique troubles with GP2

Hi, I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique card running GrandPrix 2. Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator starts. As I can still exchange this card for another card of a different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks ago I would really appreciate to receive positive comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast 3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend for GrandPrix 2. Thank you very much for your reactions Marc Biesmans

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> Hi, > I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique > card running GrandPrix 2. > Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator > starts. > As I can still exchange this card for another card of a > different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks > ago I would really appreciate to receive positive > comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative > Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast > 3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend > for GrandPrix 2. > Thank you very much for your reactions > Marc Biesmans

Hi, I have a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 XL with 2 megs of memory on it and it works very fine with Win 95 and GP2.

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> Hi, > I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique > card running GrandPrix 2. > Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator > starts. > As I can still exchange this card for another card of a > different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks > ago I would really appreciate to receive positive > comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative > Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast > 3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend > for GrandPrix 2. > Thank you very much for your reactions > Marc Biesmans

Hey i have already answered this but anyway here goes again 1. I send e-mail to Matrox and they told me that it should be a new bios update coming soon which fixes the problem! 2. But they didn't read themselves the manuals of the board. Anyway do this: There are in the CD-ROM with the drivers the programs vbetsr.exe and vbesetup.exe run them before you run the game (or put them into the autoexec.bat) and the problems are gone!! :-)

Hi, I have a Matrox Millenium with 2 megs of memory, video speed on gp2log.txt of 495. I never had your problems! Francesco Ciafardini

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>Hi, >I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique >card running GrandPrix 2. >Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator >starts. >As I can still exchange this card for another card of a >different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks >ago I would really appreciate to receive positive >comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative >Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast >3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend >for GrandPrix 2.

Well, I'm looking into the 3D accelerator PCI video cards as well. The ATI 3D express seems to be the best bargain. It was 250$ I think (Canadian) for a 2mb EDO ram, 3D accelerator chip (can't remember exactly which chip it was) and it's PCI. Upgradable to 4mb, and it has the TV2CPU built in, so you can connect a real TV to your cpu with just a video cable. Marc

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>Hi, >I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique >card running GrandPrix 2. >Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator >starts. >As I can still exchange this card for another card of a >different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks >ago I would really appreciate to receive positive >comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative >Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast >3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend >for GrandPrix 2. >Thank you very much for your reactions >Marc Biesmans

This is a very common problem reported in this group. Apparently its a mystique bios problem which should be eased by the release of a new version of the bios. That is to say, so rumour has it. Anyway, have you tried starting the game by typing 'gp2 nointro'. This seems to work for most (but not all) people. Cheers, Andrew

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> >Hi, > >I have very big problems with my Matrox Mystique > >card running GrandPrix 2. > >Sometimes I have to reset 5 times before this simulator > >starts. > >As I can still exchange this card for another card of a > >different make at the shop where I bought it 2 weeks > >ago I would really appreciate to receive positive > >comments and critics on very fast cards (like Creative > >Labs 3D Blaster, Diamond Stealth 3D, Leadtek Winfast > >3D S600, Matrox Millenium etc.) you use and recommend > >for GrandPrix 2. > >Thank you very much for your reactions > >Marc Biesmans > This is a very common problem reported in this group. Apparently its a > mystique bios problem which should be eased by the release of a new > version of the bios. That is to say, so rumour has it. Anyway, have > you tried starting the game by typing 'gp2 nointro'. This seems to > work for most (but not all) people. > Cheers, > Andrew

IN MY CASE TYPE GP2 VIDEO:VGA YOU CAN PLAY IN VGA ONLY,BUT NO PROBLEMS AT ALL