I'm soon not to be a Matrox User

[bugblatt]

Chhas, I'm guessing the reason your results are lower is that you only have 16MB RAM on the card. UT is very texture-rich. Once you get past a certain res/colour depth they won't all fit in 16MB and some of them have to go over the AGP bus, which kills it.

[CHHAS]

Yes, that might very well be it.

[CHHAS]

Just for comparison I ran the demo on my Kyro:

1024x768x16: min 43,34 max 114,04 avg 72,52
1024x768x32: min 25,58 max 93,20 avg 52,69
1600x1200x16: min 14,74 max 51,21 avg 34,37
1600x1200x32: min 14,24 max 44,90 avg 28,87

If only the 2D was better ...

[CHHAS]

Oh, just noticed, all my tests are run with the Thunder demo

[DosFreak]

Yep, UT likes the processor. I was getting 70fps avg in UT before upgrading from 2XP3-700@933's 133mhz fsb to 2XP3-1000@1125. Now I get 90fps avg. (Can't remember how system was setup before and such. Also those 70fps numbers are from awhile back before I made alot of changes.) The graphics card/OS stayed the same tho. Geforce 2 GTS 64M. Opengl in UT with all options on and compressed textures. This isn't a timedemo either. Just normal gameplay and monitoring the AVG. I'll post whatever benchmarks you want me to do if you wish.

[villerk]

Well, you can argue what resolution is the best and so on, but when I play UT, I can get only software modes!! UT doesn't support i740, so I'm happy if I can get a fullscreen mode...

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[bugblatt]

I had an i740 for a while. I didn't have UT at the time but did play Unreal on it. I could swear it wasn't running in software mode though, are you certain you can't run UT using Direct3D?

[crossbonesx]

I maybe outline for saying this but I think alot of people are not thankful for their matrox card. If you buy that Geforce 3 expect Geforce 4 to come in 2 months. There is no justification for someone to buy a Geforce if they keep releasing more and more powerful varients, where does the quality go?

I play my games at 1280X1024 or 1024X768 32bit color and all the details cranked to high hell. I have a PIII 1.2GHZ, 1GB of Ram and a G400 MAX 32 mb dual head.

I will agree Matrox is long over due releasing the GX00, they maybe holding back to better their card. They don't want bugs and stuff, let them take their time.

Remember that Matrox has been around for 25 years where as 3DFX came and went and Nvidia's not too far off with Geforce 3 sales hurting. The last thing I'll say is, do you people know how small the gamers market is. Tiny compared to the Millions upon millions of people not using their computers for games.

[Illusion[Spirit]]

True m8, but its still frustrating not to know whats going on. In order to keep up with technology, many people change their cards/pcs often (not only gamers Im sure..), and thus matrox must be loosing customers..!?!

[windigo]

hey what are the most popular skins for ut and where can i dwn/ld them?
looking at this thread i feel like getting some ut action going but before i get the game i wanna grab the skins rather than waiting when i join a game
last time i played ut was with my pentium system since then ive doubled my ram and my clock speed

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[bugblatt]

Here's the latest, mentioned in the MURC news (so no doubt you've already seen it).

http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/2329

Still early days, even if it's not a load of hogwash, but if it's about as fast as a GeForce 2 GTS with Dual-Head and their usual image quality I'll be up for it (depends how long I have to wait though).

Try and hijack my thread would ya?

Oh ok, go to http://www.planetunreal.com/files/ and get all of the bonus packs. Not all servers will let you use them though, particularly those with a recent version of CSHP.

[bugblatt]

GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum3/HTML/003733.html

Here's what I need: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardw...chives/2535/1/
and
http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/r...st_id=20000290

The image quality of the Radeon is supposed to be on a par with the G400, HydraVision is supposed to be about as good as Dual Head, the 3D performance of the R200 is likely to whup the G550's butt (in fact the current Radeon probably could).

OK, ATI suck with drivers, but they've improved a lot recently.

Right, the first company that releases a card with great image quality, dual monitor support, video-in and kick-ass 3D gets my dosh! That should motivate them

[bugblatt]

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1461&p=1

Looks as though I was right to begin with, I'm soon not to be a Matrox user.

Could ATI be the new Matrox? Great image quality, dual-monitor support, regular driver updates. If they can just start supporting their products for longer.

[Joel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Could ATI be the new Matrox?</font>

ROTFLMAO

That was the best laugh I have had all day. That was until I read this from the link above.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">It was NVIDIA’s well-maintained 6-month product cycles that allowed them to drive competitors like 3dfx, Matrox and S3 out of the high-end market.</font>

Joel

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 23 April 2001).]

[bugblatt]

LOL. Yes, they could have their work cut out. I've been impressed with ATI recently though, they seem to be trying to correct some of their major faults and they're producing some great hardware.

I should have said "Could Matrox BECOME the new Matrox?". They seem to be heading in the right direction.

As far as my next card goes Matrox may as well not exist, who's left?

It's a shame the R200 isn't due out until Q4, looks like I'll have to go back to my original plan of a Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO plus a cheap PCI card for multi-monitor.