Vertex Shader 2.0 on Parhelia

[K6-III]

Haig said it would never be implimented unless enough requests were recieved with Sales at this link: http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/For...ML/001869.html

If you want Vertex Shader 2.0 on Parhelia, call Sales at 1-800-361-1408 or email them at graphics.sales@matrox.com

[[GDI]Raptor]

Sending a email to them now! Vertex Shader 2.0 IS in the whitepapers of Parhelia, and it was one of many reasons I bought the card!

Quad DirectX® 9 Vertex Shader Array

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/technology/quad_shader.cfm

Btw. This is also in the whitepapers for Parhelia, but does the current drivers suport it?

64 Super Sample Texture Filtering

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/technology/supersample.cfm

This is from their page......
"Dual-textured pixels with 16-sample anisotropic filtering at comparable performance to dual-textured pixels with trilinear filtering on competing GPUs"


I except Matrox to suport these things they have announced that they will suport in new drivers. If they are not going to suport it, then they should remove it from the whitepapers, and make a anouncement that they are not going to suport it, with a reason why!

@K6-III can you put a link to this tread in the Matrox Tech forum?

[WyWyWyWy]

Kuriton has asked some very critical information there!
And got some very critical answer for us!
So we know its not a hardware limitation now.
Arigato gozaimasu

Now I'm going to send an email to the sales team...

[K6-III]

Originally posted by [GDI]Raptor
@K6-III can you put a link to this tread in the Matrox Tech forum?

Did as asked.

[Peter Aragon]

Sent it to sales. I also complained about the banding, as I'm currently making a demo with DirectX, and debugging almost causes me to throw up after an hour or having head-aches, could this be related to epilepsy? I never had such problems before in the disco with strobos-lights?

[jackzod]

Originally posted by Peter Aragon
Sent it to sales. I also complained about the banding, as I'm currently making a demo with DirectX, and debugging almost causes me to throw up after an hour or having head-aches, could this be related to epilepsy? I never had such problems before in the disco with strobos-lights?

Definitly not epilepsia, unless you had strange smells or sounds before throwing up.

[Nowhere]

epilepsy and epileptic attack are two little diferent things...basically everybody can have the second thing (if a factor that causes attack on that somebody occurs...)
and epilepsy is more like attack...without a reason (or when that reason is very common)

and simple headache...I wouldn't worry too much, I mean, some nvidia cards are causing headache to me
perhaps in the same way banding is not liked very much by you...

But...if you want to be certain...go to a neurologist...EEG will give the answer for sure...

[James_D]

Originally posted by Peter Aragon
Sent it to sales. I also complained about the banding, as I'm currently making a demo with DirectX, and debugging almost causes me to throw up after an hour or having head-aches, could this be related to epilepsy? I never had such problems before in the disco with strobos-lights?

hehe nope dude, though the banding effect has shown to give slight increase in epileptic seizures, the symptomes would be totally different. If you have Petit Mal, the condition is now known as absence seizures, which neatly describes the momentary lapse in awareness that occurs during an episode. This can happen many times a day, and is caused by a brief disruption of the electrical activity in the brain. It often looks a bit like daydreaming, which can mean that it has been happening for a long time before anyone realises what is going on.

If you have Grand mal epilepsy, a seizure begins suddenly. Without warning, the person loses consciousness and experiences the following symptoms:

1. Becomes rigid (extends the arms and legs, arches the back) and falls down

2. Utters a cry (the "epileptic cry") as the diaphragm contracts and forces air out between the contracted vocal cords

3. Has synchronous jerking movements of the arms, legs, and trunk muscles
4. Involuntarily passes urine (urinary incontinence) and sometimes feces (fecal incontinence)

Within two minutes or less, the seizure subsides, leaving the person confused and sleepy. Over the following 24 hours, he or she may complain of sore muscles, headache, fatigue and difficulty concentrating.

But of course each person may experience it differently and have some and not all the symptomes.

And you also have focal epilepsy.. which can affect any neuronal circuit there is, giving various symptoms, according to the centers affected.

edit... had to add focal.


James

[Kuriton]

Hi, everybody!

I'm very very exciting now!

I was just surprised that I looked here.
I want VertexShader2.0 for Parhelia.
And you, murcer also hope it!

If you want Vertex Shader 2.0 on Parhelia, call Sales at 1-800-361-1408 or email them at graphics.sales@matrox.com

OK!
I'll send e-mail too!

Kuriton has asked some very critical information there!
And got some very critical answer for us!
So we know its not a hardware limitation now.
Arigato gozaimasu

Oh. You're welcome.

All of hardware is improved for the first time by the connection between company and customers.
So sending mails makes good Matrox's hardware.

I like Parhelia, so I hope Parhelia become good choice card.

[piaxVirus]

I am completely floored by this.

I don't have time to harass sales everytime I find out Matrox has failed to deliver. I know very well that requesting this feature is going to cause them to drop another. Do they have no full-time driver developers left? If you can't support your card, open source your fscking drivers!

Damn it. I should have bought an ATI.

[WyWyWyWy]

If you can't support your card, open source your fscking drivers!

I would definitely agree on this.
Now I can't use FreeBSD and BeOS, and Linux at 50% only.

[leech]

Just emailed Matrox Sales about the linux situation, and posted it here at Murc

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41605

Hopefully they'll listen....

Leech

[wingie]

Just emailed them with the request to enable vertex shader 2.0 via the drivers.

Subject: Please make sure that vertex shader 2.0 will be support with new drivers for parhelia

See request in the subject line.

Best Regards,
Wingleader


I personally think it's a strange thing that you have to ask for certain features being enabled through drivers if they normally should and must be enabled because of the card being able to and because they were promised when the card came out.

[TdB]

wouldn´t ONE mail with all our signatures not be a bit more helpfull to matrox?

I mean, do they really want everybody at murc to spam them?

[Jon P. Inghram]

"Dear Matrox Sales/Marketing: There is a giant space goat that is coming to eat the Earth, please get in a spaceship and move to a safe planet. We, the humble customers, will stay behind to insure that your spacecraft gets away safely, sacrificing our lives so that you may continue to perform your valuable functions in a new world. We do apologize for the inconvience, but we'll be keeping the telephone cleaning people, sorry."