The TRUTH behind Parhelia

[mikeul]

Here's the TRUTH behind Parhelia :

Hi Stefan,
Unfortunately hardware displacement mapping can only be exposed through
DX9 and there are no plans for a DX9 driver for Parhelia yet,
Regards,

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Omar Yehia, Developer Relations Representative (Entertainment), Matrox
Graphics Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Karlsson [mailto:stefan@mirrorgate.se]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:34 PM
To: oyehia@matrox.com
Subject: HWDM SDK ?

Is there a HardWareDisplacementMapping SDK out ? HAIG or what his name
on matrox forums told me so.. and i really need it, since you dont
expose your feutures via the DX9 standard way..

/stefan

You see, displacement mapping Matrox claimed the Parhelia supported was a lie.

Worse, no DX9 driver. Any serious person who wants to play games should avoid the parhelia at all cost : newer games will require DX9 driver support. Heck, even the old Geforce2 has DX9 drivers.

[Sasq]

Of course you could actually read the whole thread over at matrox forums.

[mikeul]

link?

[Sasq]

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?p=19554#19554

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

you've gotta admit, Haig's the man.

[GNEP]

Haig for President!

[K6-III]

Yes, HAIG for president, although I hope to actually see some DX9 drivers some day...

[mikeul]

"I hope to actually see some DX9 drivers some day..."

I can't believe this. Instead of getting so excited over Haig, reread what Omar Yehia from Developer Relations had to say : "there are no plans for a DX9 driver for Parhelia "

Omar for President!

[Mikko]

You are forgeting one small but very important word of this e-mail: yet !

I'm pretty sure that Matrox will give us DX9 drivers eventually.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Mikko
...I'm pretty sure that Matrox will give us DX9 drivers eventually.

SOON™ no doubt....
chuck

[bsdgeek]

I'm sure there will be DX9 drivers within a reasonable amount of time now that DX9 games are starting to pop up. There really hasn't been much need until now.

[thop]

DX9 performance will be severly lacking anyway so that's why they are not in a rush i think.
PS. Haig for President! Soupy for Vice, how about it?

[leech]

I do believe that Tron 2.0 requires DX9, but it still plays on the Parhelia (I just wish it would work in surround gaming... Lousy gits.)

Leech

[High_Jumbllama]

Of course, there is a difference between requiring DX9 and requiring a DX9 card.

[GNEP]

Originally posted by thop
DX9 performance will be severly lacking anyway so that's why they are not in a rush i think.
PS. Haig for President! Soupy for Vice, how about it?

There's got to be room for R0Mar there as well - perhaps as chairman so he has a nice surround view of the board... (groan!)