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upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

Emmanuel Manzi

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Emmanuel Manzi » Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:00:00

My current home machine is a P120 (overclocked to 133) - Zappa
motherboard, 24 Mo RAM with a Diamond Stealth64 VRAM 4Mo. Above all, I
use to play DOS games ( AH64 Longbow, Quake, GrandPrix 2, ...) and
some Win95 games (Monster Truck, Diablo).  I also use Win95 Office,
Linux 2 and 3DStudio.
Before a CPU upgrade, I think to change my display adapter for a 4Mo
Matrox Mystique. But I noticed that my good old Stealth is still up in
the benchmark results. So my question is :
Is this upgrade from my Stealth64Vram 4Mo to a Mystique 4Mo worth the
price of the Mystique ? Will I see a real improvment  in the frame
rate of the games I talked about, especially the flight and racing
sims ? All your opinions are welcome, in
this group or via E-Mail.

Thanks.
Have a nice spring !

Emmanuel.


Mark Dybal

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Mark Dybal » Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:00:00



>My current home machine is a P120 (overclocked to 133) - Zappa
>motherboard, 24 Mo RAM with a Diamond Stealth64 VRAM 4Mo. Above all, I
>use to play DOS games ( AH64 Longbow, Quake, GrandPrix 2, ...) and
>some Win95 games (Monster Truck, Diablo).  I also use Win95 Office,
>Linux 2 and 3DStudio.
>Before a CPU upgrade, I think to change my display adapter for a 4Mo
>Matrox Mystique. But I noticed that my good old Stealth is still up in
>the benchmark results. So my question is :
>Is this upgrade from my Stealth64Vram 4Mo to a Mystique 4Mo worth the
>price of the Mystique ? Will I see a real improvment  in the frame
>rate of the games I talked about, especially the flight and racing
>sims ? All your opinions are welcome, in
>this group or via E-Mail.

>Thanks.
>Have a nice spring !

>Emmanuel.



One thing to bear in mind is that there is curently no linux X windows
driver for the mystique so you will have to use VGA 640x480x16 (there
should be a driver available in a few months - see http://www.bf.rmit.ed
u.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html for information on this)

--
Mark Dyball

Gene

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Gene » Wed, 26 Mar 1997 04:00:00


> My current home machine is a P120 (overclocked to 133) - Zappa
> motherboard, 24 Mo RAM with a Diamond Stealth64 VRAM 4Mo. Above all, I
> use to play DOS games ( AH64 Longbow, Quake, GrandPrix 2, ...) and
> some Win95 games (Monster Truck, Diablo).  I also use Win95 Office,
> Linux 2 and 3DStudio.
> Before a CPU upgrade, I think to change my display adapter for a 4Mo
> Matrox Mystique. But I noticed that my good old Stealth is still up in
> the benchmark results. So my question is :
> Is this upgrade from my Stealth64Vram 4Mo to a Mystique 4Mo worth the
> price of the Mystique ? Will I see a real improvment  in the frame
> rate of the games I talked about, especially the flight and racing
> sims ? All your opinions are welcome, in
> this group or via E-Mail.

> Thanks.
> Have a nice spring !

> Emmanuel.



Hello,
I just purchased a Screamin 3D card and let me tell you it screams! Best
choice of all!

Gene
PIT ROAD
http://www.pitroad.com/

Nick Barh

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Nick Barh » Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:00:00



>Is this upgrade from my Stealth64Vram 4MB to a Mystique 4MB worth the
>price of the Mystique ?

I think the Mystique is a fine card. It is excellent for DOS games and
has good support for its 3D features. A friend recently bought a new
Mystique 2MB from a local dealer for 114 UK pounds (180 US Dollars,
1020 French Francs) including 17.5 percent tax. Very good value for
this country. Matrox are very reliable and regularly issue updates to
their drivers and video BIOS.

There are faster cards, but consider how well they are supported. It
seems likely that some of the current 3D cards will lose in the battle
for support from the software houses.

I used to have a Stealth 64 DRAM and was unhappy with the DOS speed
and the awful Windows drivers that introduced new bugs with each
release. It ruined my faith in Diamond - and I can name others who
have had difficulties with their cards.

Please take this as just an opinion !

By the way - the Matrox web site also has several pages in French
(although there were some grammatical mistakes)

Justin Rya

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Justin Rya » Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:00:00

I think a 3dfx voodoo add on card from Diamond (Monster) or Orchid
(Righteous 3D)!

Neil Yeatma

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Neil Yeatma » Thu, 27 Mar 1997 04:00:00


> By the way - the Matrox web site also has several pages in French
> (although there were some grammatical mistakes)

I find that most interesting, since the Matrox page is hosted from
the province of Quebec (where Matrox is based), where the OFFICIAL
language is French!

Mais oui, c'est vrai!

Neil
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Ajax, Ontario, CANADA

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Modan McLaffert

upgrade from Stealth64 Vram to Mystique : your opinion please

by Modan McLaffert » Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:00:00


> Before a CPU upgrade, I think to change my display adapter for a 4Mo
> Matrox Mystique. But I noticed that my good old Stealth is still up in
> the benchmark results.
> Thanks.
> Have a nice spring !

> Emmanuel.

I would say no.  I have a Mystique, and although one of the fastest 3-D
cards at 2-D, a dissapointingly small number of 3-D games support it,
and it is not up to the standard of the dedicated 3-D cards.  If you
must upgrade now I would advise adding something like a 3dfx to your
existing video card, which will not effect your existing 2-D games, but
will make me very jealous when talking about the 3-D games.  Alternately
it might be better to wait till better 2D/3D combo's are available later
this year, but then who knows what will be just around the corner then?
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