CMR & Slow Menu's

Hi, I have a Pentium 233MMX, 128meg ram, Matrox Mystique & Voodoo 1 3Dfx card running Win98. Colin McRae Rally runs fine but the menu's in the game are as slow as a wet week which is caused by the Matrox card. Has anybody heard of a fix for this problem? It is a great game but this problem is making it un-playable. Thanks in Advance, Darren :-)

Someone suggested earlier that turning off all the sound options will do the trick - I haven't tried it myself yet. in the

Hi Darren Yes its those matrox drivers, there's something in the readme with CMR about which version is buggy, 3.82 drivers OK but 4.11 makes the menus run slowly. I think the drivers are on the CMR cd ? Cheers Pete

Hi, about which version is buggy, 3.82 drivers OK but 4.11 makes the menus run slowly. I think the drivers are on the CMR cd ? I got the same problem and installed the matrox drivers from the cmr-disk - and it didnt help - I would be glad if someone could give me a hand - (I thought it has something to do with the cd-rom-drive but the No-CD patch didnt change it either nor did the CMr-Patch from Codemasters) -- Regards -Smudo ***** Besuche http://www.smudo.com http://www.fourmusic.com ***** und abonniere den Newsletter (Mail gesandt von Smudos Kleine Welt)

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> Hi, > >>Yes its those matrox drivers, there's something in the readme with CMR > about > which version is buggy, 3.82 drivers OK but 4.11 makes the menus run slowly. > I > think the drivers are on the CMR cd ? > I got the same problem and installed the matrox drivers from the cmr-disk - > and it didnt help - I would be glad if someone could give me a hand - (I > thought it has something to do with the cd-rom-drive but the No-CD patch > didnt change it either nor did the CMr-Patch from Codemasters)

I received this e-mail from Joe Comerford :- Darren, I had the same problem but with a Matrox Millenium. Somewhere on this group somebody posted the answer that worked for me so here goes. Open Control Panel and click on the System Icon. Now click the Performance tab, and then the graphics pickbox. You should now see a slider for hardware acceleration. If you are all the way to the right (maximum acceleration), then move the slider two notches to the left. This totally fixed the menu problem for me. I haven't noticed that it affected anything else, but if it does it is very easy to change it back. Let me know how you make out. Joe

That cured it for me, My O/C Celery was also slow in the menus, turning down the hardware acceleration sorted it!!! Thanks On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:50:56 +1100, Darren Farrell

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>> Hi, >> >>Yes its those matrox drivers, there's something in the readme with CMR >> about >> which version is buggy, 3.82 drivers OK but 4.11 makes the menus run slowly. >> I >> think the drivers are on the CMR cd ? >> I got the same problem and installed the matrox drivers from the cmr-disk - >> and it didnt help - I would be glad if someone could give me a hand - (I >> thought it has something to do with the cd-rom-drive but the No-CD patch >> didnt change it either nor did the CMr-Patch from Codemasters) >I received this e-mail from Joe Comerford :- >Darren, >I had the same problem but with a Matrox Millenium. Somewhere on >this group somebody posted the answer that worked for me so here >goes. >Open Control Panel and click on the System Icon. Now click the >Performance tab, and then the graphics pickbox. You should now >see a slider for hardware acceleration. If you are all the way >to the right (maximum acceleration), then move the slider two >notches to the left. This totally fixed the menu problem for >me. I haven't noticed that it affected anything else, but if it >does it is very easy to change it back. >Let me know how you make out. >Joe