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Long ago before even the G-series exist, Matrox was promoting their native 3D API called "Matrox Simple Interface", or in short MSI, for Matrox Mystique 170/220 cards. Not very popular though, but still some games supported it. Two games was bundled in my Mystique retailed box, Mechwarrior 2 and Scorched Planet. I don't quite bother with the latter, but for Mechwarrior 2 that's my all-time favourite.
When Matrox released G-series, MSI was completely abandoned. I wonder if there is a way that I can play MSI-only games on G200/G400, such as a wrapper or use D3D/OGL to simulate MSI.
Since I still physically own a Matrox Mystique 170, I set up my system with both G400 and Mystique. G400 on AGP and Mystique on PCI, and use BIOS setup to switch between G400 and Mystique as primary display. But my system keeps freezing whenever I use Mystique as primary display on Win98SE even on windows desktop. Has anyone tried such configuration? I used PD4.12 for Mystique as recommended from Matrox, but I cannot installed the driver through setup. PD setup says "No Matrox hardware found". And I installed only the display driver through INF without Powerdesk.
Any suggestion/recommendation is welcome. Thanks.
When Matrox released G-series, MSI was completely abandoned. I wonder if there is a way that I can play MSI-only games on G200/G400, such as a wrapper or use D3D/OGL to simulate MSI.
Since I still physically own a Matrox Mystique 170, I set up my system with both G400 and Mystique. G400 on AGP and Mystique on PCI, and use BIOS setup to switch between G400 and Mystique as primary display. But my system keeps freezing whenever I use Mystique as primary display on Win98SE even on windows desktop. Has anyone tried such configuration? I used PD4.12 for Mystique as recommended from Matrox, but I cannot installed the driver through setup. PD setup says "No Matrox hardware found". And I installed only the display driver through INF without Powerdesk.
Any suggestion/recommendation is welcome. Thanks.
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