Matrox

discussed in 1,717 posts, 1995-2004 · overall tone mixed

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• Pirated NASCAR 2 Indy track drives Papyrus's Charlie Heath away 1997-05-28 · 28 posts
  A user posted a link to an Indianapolis track for NASCAR 2, and Papyrus's Charlie Heath said he would leave the newsgroup for a few weeks because blatant copyright violations obliged him to report them to legal. Most posters condemned the poster, and the uploader later said it was a converter requiring the user's own INDY.DAT. The thread also contained a separate discussion of whether a Matrox Mystique or a Rendition card was better for the Papyrus sims.
• New F1RS owner's performance and steering complaints 1998-07-13 · 34 posts
  A new F1 Racing Simulation owner with a Cyrix CPU and Matrox M3D card complained of unresponsive steering, poor frame rates and other problems. Replies said the game needed an Intel CPU and a 3dfx card, a race-controller setting and the DINPUT.DLL fix, and better setups than the default understeering one. He ordered a Pentium II and Voodoo2, and the thread criticised F1RS's menus and setup handling.
• Best video card for Grand Prix 2 frame rates 1996-07-30 · 29 posts
  A user with a Diamond Stealth 64 asked which card would improve GP2 performance. Posters compared Matrox Millennium and ET6000-based Hercules Dynamite 128 scores in the GP2 log, and argued over whether video cards matter at all for GP2. John Wallace held that GP2's code limits the gains from fast cards while ICR2 and NASCAR benefit greatly, and user reports were mixed.
• Hardware needed to run GP2 at full detail 1998-01-24 · 22 posts
  A PII-300 test showing GP2 still struggling at full detail prompted debate. K6-200 owners reported it ran well in SVGA with minor settings off, while others said Monaco remained a problem on any hardware. Posters argued about frame rate needs and TV frame rates.
• Voodoo3 versus TNT2 argument 1999-04-08 · 102 posts
  A new Voodoo3 2000 owner complained of driver and gamma problems with his sims, and others suggested a clean Windows reinstall. The crossposted thread became a long, quasi-religious argument between 3dfx and nVidia supporters over 32-bit color, AGP texturing, large textures and Glide support, with mockery on both sides and pleas to stop.
• GPL demo unplayable on a Matrox G400 2000-04-29 · 21 posts
  Lee found the GPL demo ran at a couple of frames per second on his Matrox G400. Replies explained that GPL natively supported only 3dfx and Rendition cards, and pointed him to the updated 1.2-based demo with the OpenGL patch, which then ran acceptably. Others discussed how much the CPU affected OpenGL performance.
• Low GP2 video scores with ATI Mach64 cards 1996-07-28 · 21 posts
  A user with an ATI Mach64 asked why his GP2 video score was far lower than a Matrox Millennium. Others confirmed ATI cards were slow in DOS, and one who switched to a Matrox reported the score rose from about 100 to 490, worth about 3 fps. John Wallace stressed that the video card makes a big difference.
• Pentium Pro, Pentium or Cyrix for Grand Prix 2 1996-09-17 · 24 posts
  A buyer asked which 200MHz-class CPU would run GP2 best. One poster argued that GP2 was 16-bit code that would favour the Cyrix or Pentium, but owners reported that the Pentium Pro clearly ran GP2 faster. Others explained that DOS4GW runs code in 32-bit protected mode. Video card choice and FASTVID were also discussed.

Busiest threads

• Pirated NASCAR 2 Indy track drives Papyrus's Charlie Heath away (11 posts about it)
• GPL newbie fps problems (10 posts about it)
• GPL & Matrox G400 any good? (10 posts about it)
• New F1RS owner's performance and steering complaints (10 posts about it)
• Upgrading Millenium G200->G400? (8 posts about it)
• Best video card for Grand Prix 2 frame rates (7 posts about it)
• 3D Cards (7 posts about it)
• Matrox Mystique - losing video in GP2 (7 posts about it)
• Matrox Millennium to a 3Dfx upgrade (7 posts about it)
• GPL & G400 Max (7 posts about it)
• Matrox G200 (7 posts about it)
• GP2 and Matrox Mystique (6 posts about it)
• 3D Accelerator Help (6 posts about it)
• Matrox m3D ? (6 posts about it)
• Hardware needed to run GP2 at full detail (6 posts about it)

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Who talked about it most

Kirk Lane · 33 Eric Busch · 28 Chris "Hollywood" Schletter · 20 Jason Monds · 18 DPHI · 16 John Wallace · 14 John' Joao Sil · 12 David Ripton · 12 Craig March · 11 David Masten · 11 Dave Henrie · 10 Steve · 10 Nathan Wong · 10 Cary Martynuik · 10 Laurence Wilmer · 9 Clark Arch · 9 P Gagg · 9 John Fryatt · 8 Phil Flack · 8 Brian Bushe · 8

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