BAD parhelia image problems, reputation damaging!

[Supernaut]

this is from the matrox forum

http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum6/HTML/001299.html

i was wondering if anyone here has been having similar experiences.

The topic is
horizontal disturbs in video signal in 3d mode

thats a big deal!

[UberLord]

Yeah - I get that as well.

It's a problem for me as I sometime run a game like UT in a window whilst chatting in IRC at the same time.

Hurts the old eyes aftera a while. At least they have acknowledged it and are looking into it. I really hope they can fix this via a driver or BIOS update

[CHHAS]

Ouch.

[OasisPlaces]

From what I read on the matrox forums it seems they released
the card knowing about the problem and don't really care to fix it..
just complain, get a refund.. buy a 9000pro it's twice as fast
and has real GL support.. and you still will have some money left over!

[mutz]

...'n who do you work for, or get goodies from?

[thop]

buy a 9000pro it's twice as fast

not on the planet i live on.

[K6-III]

Have this problem as well....very noticable on the DX-07 test in SPEC Viewperf 7.0 with VSync disabled...

[Supernaut]

a post...

Hi agiovanni
We are aware of banding artifacts when intensive 3D applications are run
in a window with a bright background.

It may get addressed in future generations of our product.

FUTURE GENERATIONS!!

Also, I thought I remembered reading a post that said the official stance from matrox is that this is normal behavior. I think they deleted that post, I dont know what this means exactly.

Anyway, does anyone have a card that does not exhibit this behavior? I was saving up for a Parhelia but this definitely makes it out of the question , heres wishin it gets fixed...

[thop]

the post wasn't deleted. at least they are honest about it, which of course doesn't help those who already bought a parhelia, but still. i think this is "by design" and every parhelia suffers from this.

[103er-Fan]

Maybe you can return your old, faulty card and get a new one?

[mutz]

...maybe look at things in proportion? How much will this come up in the everyday life of a Parhelia, and how big a deal is it?

[az]

Maybe we should all wait and see how this turns out?

I believe having read something that this will be fixed within the next two drivers..

AZ

[Haig]

I think they deleted that post, I dont know what this means exactly.

If that is true, it wouldn't make sense to leave that thread running

I believe having read something that this will be fixed within the next two drivers..

Not really. Last 2 posts of that thread explains where we are currently at with this issue.

[K6-III]

Thanks HAIG, looking forward to resolution of this issue...

[luni]

Agh damn, I thought this was a problem with my setup only, maybe some cables or something, now I see its well known and no fix is coming in foreseable future

BTW, it happens in windowed and non-windowd 3d using applications. One of later games which are afflicted by it a lot is NOLF2 with all its bright backgrounds.

This is terrible, I hope there is some kind od fix coming, cannot understand that any company could brand that as "normal behaviour" - if it was normal it should be put on box in bright red letters so people know before buying

Very disapointed here.