New TurboGL rocks!!

[Eric B]

Just installed the new TurboGL drivers and they're awesome! Only tried Half-life with it so far but I no longer am the slowest of my friends.

Results: 1024x786, Cel550/128MB of RAM

Blowup Demo:

Before TurboGL: 23.2 and 24.5fps
After TurboGL: 31.5 and 33.8fps

That's almost 9fps and a 37% increase! Can't wait to try Q3 and Unreal with it - I'll be getting out the beats on everyone!

[BuGGz]

I am kicking at 75 FPS in quake3 with high detail on.800x600.
Looks like Matrox has finally got there shit togather. I am now a prowd Matrox owner and will stick with them, with this kind of service.

p3 450
g400 max.

[Eric B]

Dionysis,

33fps is faster than a Xentor TNT2U in my system and it's only 3-4 fps back of a fully optimized V3-3000 in my system.

The Blowup demo is comparable to the Q2 Crusher demo in that it's one of the most intense demos around.

[Maniac]

"Sorry friend but i think that 33.8 fps for a card like G400 really sucks.
Matrox you gotta do something fast or a lot of people will choose ge-force instead" -

OR

"Don't get me wrong. I just got my g400max, -which i really love and you're probably right.It's just that almost everybody is calling g400 a second/third class card these days, which isn't true."

So which is it? You just completely contradicted yourself in the same thread...




[This message has been edited by Maniac (edited 14 December 1999).]

[MoleDK]

All those whiners actually got what they wanted. A TurboGL for P2.

I WANT A TURBOGL for G200

and it better be soon



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Cya,
J.

"Unix can be a cynical Operating System for a person whos mind is limited to a Windows user interface"

System specs:
AMD Athlon 600mhz, 256MB RAM, Matrox Millenium G200 (PD5.41), Nothing O/C.
Running Windows 98SE & Redhat Linux 6.1

[alessandro]

Dionysis,

Who said to you that the G400 is a second/third class card these days.
Is it the stupid and totally biased magazines like - PCMaster ,Chip or User.
Try Computer gia olous for a change

[alessandro]

Or for a change try to buy REAL PC magasines like ZDnet's PCMagazine(i'm sure you can find in you town some Newsagents who sell international magazines).
It seems that you dont know that your MAx is the 3rd most powerful 3d card in the market righ now(after the G-spot ans the new Savage).
Topiases!!!

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Pentium II 450Mhz@504,Asus P2B rev.1011,17" Sony Multiscan 200PST,128MB PC100 ram,Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB 5ns SGRAM,Quantum Firebal EL 10.2Gb,Epson Stylus Color 740,Sound blaster Live!,Cambridge Soundworks 5.1,Creative PC-DVD 5X,Ricoh MP7040S,Adaptec SCSI 2920C,Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO,Iomega Zip Drive.

[ChrisW]

Actually, the G400 is much better than the newer Diamond Viper II (based on Savage2000):

-The ViperII D3D drivers are buggy.
-Q3A runs ok, but G400 is faster at higher resolutions (>640x480) and better looking.
-When I dragged windows on my 2D Windows98 desktop, the window movement was actually sluggish!

The Savage2000 may be a good piece of hardware, but it's drivers leave much to be desired.

[alessandro]

CrisW,

I'm talking about raw power.If i'm not wrong the Savage2000 has the biggest Fill rate in the market right now.....>500Mtextels/sec.
This is because its a next generation graphic
card.And you bet that the G800 will be th eKing again...as the G400MAX was before

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Pentium II 450Mhz@504,Asus P2B rev.1011,17" Sony Multiscan 200PST,128MB PC100 ram,Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB 5ns SGRAM,Quantum Firebal EL 10.2Gb,Epson Stylus Color 740,Sound blaster Live!,Cambridge Soundworks 5.1,Creative PC-DVD 5X,Ricoh MP7040S,Adaptec SCSI 2920C,Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO,Iomega Zip Drive.