G450 Support DirectX 9?

[eli2k]

Hi. I was wondering if the Matrox Millenium G450 AGP card supported DirectX 9. Right now the driver version for the video card driver is 5.86.032. There's this game I want to try but it requires DX9. And also, what is the latest version of DX9. The one provided on the CD is 4.9.0.900.

Thank you.

[Kruzin]

The card will run fine with DX9 installed, but it will not support all of the new features in DX9.

[Hazmat2k]

Originally posted by Kruzin
The card will run fine with DX9 installed, but it will not support all of the new features in DX9.

Bit like Parhelia eh?

[UtwigMU]

No a bit like G550 and DX7

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Hazmat2k
Bit like Parhelia eh?

Not exactly... the limits on G-series cards are actual hardware limits when the chip was being designed (in G4x0 times the DX7 specs were not finalized). i.e. the Pixel Shaders / Vertex Shaders / TnL algorithms are not on the hardware (Okay maybe G550 is a sort-of exception, but for our purpose who cares)

Parhelia, on the other hand, is supposed to support Vertex Shaders 2.0. However, its not enabled on the card level i.e. through the drivers. Of course, whetever VS 2.0 is really supported on the Parhelia can be a question.

edit: of course, Parhelia does not support DX9 fully, like Pixel Shaders 2.0 and 128bit floating point color precision

[eli2k]

Ah, I'm all confused by this technical stuff concerning graphics boards and whatever things they use to shade and make pixels and polygons. Maybe in four years I'll understand.

But anyway, thanks fo telling me DX9 works. It's installed right now and does not seem to have any problems.

~ Eli

[Hazmat2k]

Originally posted by Hazmat2k
Bit like Parhelia eh?

Was more a tongue in cheek stab at the fact that Parhelia currently supports 0 DX9 features.
I really should've saved my money and bought a G550. Would've had pretty much all the same features.
Then again...some people don't mind waiting 6+ months for a driver that enables everything Matrox advertised.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Hazmat2k
Was more a tongue in cheek stab at the fact that Parhelia currently supports 0 DX9 features.
I really should've saved my money and bought a G550. Would've had pretty much all the same features.
Then again...some people don't mind waiting 6+ months for a driver that enables everything Matrox advertised.

Not really... the G550 doesn't even have TnL lol.. (at least they are not enabled through drivers... only for headcasting.