New Parhelia drivers?

[Drizzt]

Could it be there are new Parhelia drivers here:
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive...105_01_008.exe ?

[Nicram]

They just added support for :
Matrox Parhelia HR256,
Matrox Parhelia HR128,
Matrox Parhelia PCI,
Matrox QID & P-256 Edge Overlap controller.
No bugfix etc.

[Maggi]

but they do have a newer OpenGL ICD and they didn'Tt do any harm to my P128 so far.

Cheers,
Maggi

[leech]

They do have a newer OpenGL ICD? (it's still not 1.4 though, right? I mean at least Knights of the Old Replublic stil whined at me...)

Leech

[Maggi]

Hi Leech,

they incorporated a drop downbox for making the driver report OpenGL version 1.1 , 1.2 & 1.3 (if wanted as predefined setup for certain apps or as general setting for all apps)

but no sight of 1.4 so far

[a_h]

Nope! That dropdown box is there since the original 1.5ers, the "use alternate opengl manufacturer" checkbox is the only highlight of the new 1.5.1.8s.

Still 3 extensions of 1.4 missing.

PS: that checkbox isn't even localized.

[Maggi]

thanx for input ...

to be honest, I somewhat lost interest in Parhelia drivers and therefore peek into them only occasionally

Cheers,
Maggi

[a_h]

Not too much happening driver wise. I simply can't understand why they didn't get more - say 2 - developers when the P came out.

It would be far easier now.

PS: I didn't want to correct you, I just wanted to show up this strange checkbox primarily...

[leech]

I think the wording on it is quite humorous. "Use alternate OpenGL manufacturer name" So does that mean you can make games think that you're running nVidia or ATI cards? (If so, could the shiny water be working with this 'hack'?)

All I see is a selection for using 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 version of OpenGL, not "manufacturer name"

Leech

[Zao]

I've found a feature with the 1.05.01.008 drivers. They produce a nice heap of garbage pixelblocks in Starwars Galaxies when in fullscreen.

Quoting RichieG on the Matrox forums:
"This 1.05.01.008 drivers are optimized for After Effects 6.0 so they have not been tested with any other apps. You should continue to use the 1.05.00.107 drivers."

[a_h]

@Leech: cool idea, I'm gonna try out that!!

guys, see for yourselves:

Edit: pic deleted.

[Kusa]

from Matrox Newsletter Nov 2003:

Driver 1.05.01 now improves OpenGL multiple shadow performance with Adobe After Effects 6.0
http://www.matrox.com/mga/start/news...obe_driver.cfm

[a_h]

If so, could the shiny water be working with this 'hack'?

Nope. Doesn't work.

[bsdgeek]

I think TechReport reported a few days ago that it fixed some bugs w/ SPECViewperf.