Advice Matrox

I have a P133 with 32mb ram and a Matrox Millenium 2mb card. With GP2 I can run VGA with all options fine. In SVGA it is Ok with some detail off (ie sky) but I don't think it is that good. Question: If I went to 4mb on the Matrox card would that improve things significantly ? Anyone know ? Thanks, Ian.

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> I have a P133 with 32mb ram and a Matrox Millenium 2mb card. > With GP2 I can run VGA with all options fine. > In SVGA it is Ok with some detail off (ie sky) but I don't > think it is that good. > Question: If I went to 4mb on the Matrox card would that > improve things significantly ?

I don't think the extra cost of the WRAM would justify the kind of performance improvement in GP2, if there is any. I have a 4MB Matrox, and running "GP2 LOG:ON" my video index is 475 on a P133. Try running GP2 with the LOG:ON option, then after quitting GP2, take a look at the GP2LOG.TXT file to see what's the value for you. It might not be much different, in which case forget about adding the 2MB WRAM. _____________________________________________________________________________ LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) _/ean /\/\ichel _/arre and -=\/=- angelis fan WWW : http://homepage.interaccess.com/~lala | | ~~ []/\() ~~~~~~~~~~~ "Music should be free." /Vangelis/ ~~~~~~~~ /~~\ /~~\

At this point (without 3D accelerator support) the amount of video RAM makes no difference. I've noticed turning on sky decreases the frame rate estimate by about 10 FPS on my P166 w/Matrox Millenium, so definitely turn it off until A) you get a Pentium Pro 200+ or B) GP2 supports 3D accelerators that could easily handle the sky textures. I figure running on a Pentium Pro 200 you should be able to run with all detail and get 20+ frames and run below 100% CPU usage most of the time. Time to start saving the pennies... ;) -Dave

Well not impressed with the matrox,more Wram cost about 110.00 beans a sim up in edmonton.ab.Ca -RIPOFF!!!!- And GP2?? Well frame rates is about 17. Not real impressed. What the hell they program these games on?? Goin back to Sega.