I see the same thing (P233MMX + G450 PCI) - it's just not something that the G450 can do well. Set cl_lights 0 in the console as a workaround. A bit more info here: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/issues/147 Yes, this did help while shooting a gun in quake 2, there are still other real-time …

OP, is your card an AGP or PCI one? Also, what kind of resolutions are you running said games at? G450 is a pretty late chip, I think it came out in the Fall of 2000, as such you can't really use older drivers. There are two driver sets on VOGONS Drivers that you may try, one is the original CD …

Like I said I've tried both the driver versions from phils computer labs that support the G450, it made no difference. I just tried another older driver from Dell for the G450 on win98, version 6.07.033. It's behaving the exact same way. Also just tried version 6.03.026.

For some reason I'm having major FPS drops anytime there is colored lighting in opengl games. I've tested Quake 2 and Half-Life. If I shoot the blaster in Quake 2 for example, or certain areas of the map have colored lights, the framerate goes from 60 to probably around 10. In Half-Life it was …

I ended up force installing the driver. Worked fine after that. Manually select in driver update Awesome, thanks... It's been a long time since I've done this sort of thing, so thought that's what I was doing, but you're right, it worked perfectly when I went to "Display list of all the drivers in …

I bought one of these Matrox F7003-0301 Rev.A G450 cards from aliexpress. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003147103379.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.2cf318023tpdz3 I installed the card and the Matrox driver setup won't recognize the video card for some reason... I'm installing it …