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Technology Stocks : 3DFX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Linov who wrote (5731)	7/27/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: Michael Linov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Well, I finally got my matrox G200 (Don't panic ... I will be getting banshee's, I just like to try out all the latest toys). I must say that my experience has been less than stellar. Target machine is a dual PII 300, 256mb ram. NT 4.0. Card came with 8mb ram. no upgrade modules in sight, nor available for order... oh well. 1. Got a card on Wednesday. Brought home. Card is DOA. No video, nothing. Tried different Machine, monitor, etc. No luck. Returned card... wait till friday for exchange. 2. Got replacement card on friday. Plugged it in... This time, it actually worked. cool. 3. NT Driver would not work. Tried both the CD and Updated version from matrox site. NT kept coming back w/driver doesn't work, load a new one. 4. Various attempts to uninstall drivers/reset to default vga etc. failed. So did my registry hacking. 6 hours later... 5. Install NT from scratch. 2 hours later... 6. Drivers work! And the results? Well, text scrolling speed (160x80 window) is 132 lps (16 bit), 58 lps (32 bit) down from 247 lps on my millenum 1 (PCI), but considerably higher than 47 fps (16 bit) on FireGL 1000 pro AGP. I'd love to post some game or OpenGL scores... but... There's NO OpenGL support... its MS OpenGL software emulation, and its SLOW. No Glide, no direct3d, so... not much to run. I do not run w/9x , and don't ever intend to, so this card is currently somewhat disappointing. Why did matrox drop WRAM? To save me money? why ship and 8mb card? Why can't I get video out on my SGRAM card (or be forced to buy an even slower SDRAM card). Why is the bundle so decidedly useless? Congratulations, Matrox. You have now lost a customer. I will not be buying another video card from you, and I am NOT interested in saving money in exchange for lack of features, memory, speed, etc. Looking forward to banshee :) One bit of advice, 3dfx... I DO NOT WANT A BANSHEE with less than 16MB of ram. Neither, I suspect, do most people here.