Matrox Legendary 2D Image Quality Revisited

[Sasq]

The banding really is card specific, with mine I can see the banding if I try really hard, but in general its not a problem.

But lets be honest as with any hardware or software - call a spade a spade - over zealios bashing or defending just get tiresome.

[a_h]

Yup.

They knew why they put 2 dvi connectors on it.

[The PIT]

I don't think anyone has being bashing excessily just sr17 idea of whats excellant that got the thread going.

[Sasq]

Don't worry TP, the statement was just general to make my point.

[X-Caliber]

what do these band patterns look like? Yes, I know there should be vertical bands on the monitor, but can you be more specific.

[Wombat]

Can you see the intensity change when you watch a monitor set to 60Hz? On mine, it was like that, but maybe 20Hz or so.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by X-Caliber
what do these band patterns look like? Yes, I know there should be vertical bands on the monitor, but can you be more specific.

look here and read my posting

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?postid=326240#post326240

[moreau]

I must say Maggi, I found the picture in your sig a little disturbing...

Can that little beauty be used for evil? or is it something that just runs locally to mess with my head?

CEM

[Maggi]

LOL

which one do you mean ?

they change everytime you reload the page ...

Also, it was Dil(litante) who found these little gems, so credit goes to him.

[X-Caliber]

Hi Maggi,

Thanks for the link. I actually have the same banding issues, but mine are vertical, not horizontal. Well, I thought my monitor was defective.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Maggi
LOL

which one do you mean ?

they change everytime you reload the page ...

Also, it was Dil(litante) who found these little gems, so credit goes to him.

Maggi it doesn't change everytime you load the page. It reflects the ip of the person viewing the page.

[Rakido]

TP, the last sentence changes.


Rakdio

[Maggi]

Originally posted by The PIT
Maggi it doesn't change everytime you load the page. It reflects the ip of the person viewing the page.

it does ... look closer ...

at least the thing that holds the sign changes everytime and as Rakido spotted, the text also varies

[Sr17]

Originally posted by Maggi
so you never played a 3D game that renders fog and had FAA enabled at the same time ???

Just curious ...

Maggi

If you where realy using Pathelia for playing, you should know that Parhelia's FAA is too slow for most games.

When i bought parhelia, i readed test tests made by many test sites on the web. I known that parhelia where not a high end 3D card.

I bought parhelia mainly for 2D work and a "mid range" 3D capacity was required for playing. Yes, it's not a Radeon 9800XT. But for the moment it's "acceptable" for me in all games.

Note that i ***NEED*** an ****EXCELLENT**** 2D image quality for working. The Radeon 9700 pro (i tested a good model) that was the competitor when a bought parhelia wasn't suitable for me because 2D quality was not as good as what Matrox can do.


Yes, Matrox has done a lot of errors and the Parhalia seems to have a lot of problems.
But some criticts are realy bad. What utility of DirectX9 functions that would never be used ?