Shall I forget about W2k with my Marvel200?

[sweeper]

I want to figure out status quo with the W2k drivers. Are those betas stable and provide the complete functionality as the W98 drivers do?
Thanks for replies.

[coolfish]

no. no. response to your topic: yes.

[sweeper]

Thanks, Coolfish! I guess I got you right. Unstable drivers, limited applications, that's all that Matrox can offer for my poor old Marvel G200.
At least I can safe money on W2000

[fluggo99]

Whoa, whoa!! Not entirely true. The graphics drivers are plenty stable. I've been running on the one that came with Win2K and haven't had a problem with it. It's the digital video drivers that you shouldn't count on. Forget about Matrox Video Tools entirely.

Currently, I have my setup running Win98SE on the C: drive (a 20GB partition on my first physical drive) and Win2K on the D: drive (a 5.5 GB partition taking up the rest of my first drive). Installing Win2K second automatically makes this a dual-boot scenario, and it works beautifully. I do all of my business work and firewire editing under Win2K; I switch back to Win98SE to do anything involving MPEG or MJPEG (or Half-Life, for that matter). It once again depends on what you need to do.

[fluggo99]

Further note: I am using a Marvel G200-TV.

[sweeper]

Migrating to W2000 was intended to solve a couple of problems.
First, I want to boost my system a bit, which W2000 is supposed to do.
Second, I am concerned about security. And I hope that W2000 is beter in this sence, as it is half NT system.
But I also want to edit my video and watch TV from time to time.

Anyway, thank you for reply.

[AlgoRhythm]

If you want to be able to do all that under Win2K, I'd recommend the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon. It has support for Win2k out of the box, and the hardware support for DVD decoding is superb.

BTW, I'm still a Matrox fan, my G200 is in the other machine now.


AlgoRhythm

[hippie91]

if you really want to use 2k to edit and not buy a new card, you can just capture in 98, then use the morgan codec or another mjpeg software codec to edit in 2k with very minimal loss. this is what i just set up on my neighbor's computer