Parhelia Drivers?

[joonie]

Don't expect new driver TOO much. It's not even going to bring up the performance at least by 5%. It's just a little more compatibility with DicrectX9.0
In my opinion, Matrox's business is going really down right now. Who knows it will be like 3dfx in a year or two..

[Kruzin]

Believe me, they have not stopped working on them.
The BBz have still been getting new betas to test on a nearly weekly basis.
They will be released when they are ready.

[Kurt]

more bugfixes or more "optimization"?

[P5ycho]

lets hope for both.

[Kruzin]

Little of this, little of that, perhaps a couple new things...

[Hazmat2k]

Originally posted by Kruzin
Little of this, little of that, perhaps a couple new things...

How about just getting them released regardless of status?
3 months in between driver releases is unacceptable. I paid just under $1000NZD for a DX9 (partial) compliant card.
If I'd known I'd be waiting this long I would've stuck w/my close to twice as fast Ti4600 and screw the image quality.

[Kruzin]

Matrox does not release drivers "regardless of the status".
Never has, never will.
They release them when they feel they are ready, and stable.
Releasing drivers in a shoddy state would give them a reputation like ATI has fought hard to shake off for a long time.
M has a deserved reputation for releasing stable drivers, no matter how long it takes, and thats a much better rep than one for releasing drivers just for the sake of releasing them.

[treilanin]

Or drivers that add 5% performance with special "enhanced" graphics like some un-named graphic card company *cough* *cough*

[joonie]

Originally posted by Hazmat2k

If I'd known I'd be waiting this long I would've stuck w/my close to twice as fast Ti4600 and screw the image quality.

I very much agree with you.
I would have bought GEFORCE TI4600, no doubt.
Matrox is going down!!!!!!!
And IMAGE QUALITY is not THAT better compared to ATI

[K6-III]

Moving from a retail Radeon 8500 128mb to the Parhelia I must say that the image quality is indeed that much better!!!

Incredibly noticable at 1400x1050 and 1600x1200 on my Samsung 900NF...

[joonie]

Originally posted by K6-III
Moving from a retail Radeon 8500 128mb to the Parhelia I must say that the image quality is indeed that much better!!!

Incredibly noticable at 1400x1050 and 1600x1200 on my Samsung 900NF...

Radeon8500 was ATI's old graphics card. If we compare R9700 to Parhelia, image quality is not THAT even better for P and it's not worth spending so much money on something that can't even be identified with bare eyes.

[K6-III]

Have you run them side by side at 1600x1200???

Parhelia is the first card to make 1600x1200 bearable for me...

[XHotKolaX]

Originally posted by joonie
Radeon8500 was ATI's old graphics card. If we compare R9700 to Parhelia, image quality is not THAT even better for P and it's not worth spending so much money on something that can't even be identified with bare eyes.

You're right. So stop pissing here, buy a 9700Pro, and be done with it.

[[GDI]Raptor]

Originally posted by joonie
Radeon8500 was ATI's old graphics card. If we compare R9700 to Parhelia, image quality is not THAT even better for P and it's not worth spending so much money on something that can't even be identified with bare eyes.

We have tested several cards on my work, (Radoen 9700, 9700 Pro, 9500 Pro, 9000 Pro, GF Ti4800, Ti4600, G550, Parhelia-512) and in 1600x1200 DualHead it IS that big diference! The Matrox cards is in a clas of their own....

NB! All ATi card was "Made by ATi", nVidia cards were from ASUS, MSI and Abit

[treilanin]

LOL that quote is priceless Joonie at least for me. If you notice no difference then I must congratulate you for having non-sensitive eyes. I for one have noticed the difference moving from a G400 => ATI Radeon VIVO => MSI GF4 Ti4200.... and it was all down hill if I ran them at 1280x1024 on my Sony G200 monitor. Now what makes things worse is my G400 is in my second box running a KDS 17VE monitor at 1280x1024 and it looks better then when my machine was running either the ATI/MSI.

Heck... I even remember my eyes watering for the first week that I had the ATI and MSI cards because things were so blurry