surround gaming

[Paddy the wak]

... and once again thank you chr_79

[wingie]

He Chr_79,

Yeah keep the good work up, just read on the matrox forums that they are understaffed and can't give any high priority to fix bugs in drivers or nag developers to fix the bugs. ;-((((

So we don't have to hope for anything spectacular from Matrox they finally said gaming goodbye.

One question/feature request could you apply your POP fix also on the no_cd version of POP (i've got one if you need it) because now the surround version is nagging for cd 2.

Have a nice newyearseve,
Wingleader

[Paddy the wak]

Hi wingie,
where did you read that ?
r u sure it didn't mean just understaffed etc. over holiday period ?

Real bad news if it is so !

[wingie]

Hi Paddy,

It aint the exact words that have been used but if you read between the lines i think they mean what i wrote.

This title is not a very popular title and we don’t have as much resources as we did for games.
Unless it is an easy fix that can be done on our side and not on the game side then it may get a low priority

See the quote here =>
Gaming forurm message about low priority

I will see if there is a demo for this game to try and reproduce your issue on my side, however FAA issues have low priority

and here =>
And another one

So all kind of users are telling what kind of problems the have with different games, matrox staff is able to reproduce them and then says oke we know it maybe in the future (if we have some spare time) we will look into it / fix it.

Ciao,
Wingie

[SaTaN^666]

to answer who ever asked about raven shields fov. Im not saying its impossible to change the fov its just the command is no longer fov (number) as it used tobe in the ut 2k3 engine, I believ u can still change it, just not using that command. IM gonna research on it and if n/e one knows it plz let use know.

[Paddy the wak]

Hi wingie,
Doesn't read good does it !

[Kruzin]

Well, it's nothing to act surprised about.
It's been known for quite a while that Matrox gave up on gaming.
The day R0M was relocated, news was posted here, and on the main page, stating surround gaming was as good as dead as far as Matrox was concerned...

[wingie]

Kruzin,

You are right but I had expected/ thought that the move from ROM had only impact on the reactions/help on the forum (and then mainly on the surround part) but not on driver development / fixing bugs that wasn't a task from ROM or am i wrong?

I think that matrox still has to fix bugs that are known and confirmed by their own team.

Wingie

[Kruzin]

R0M's move was just one indication of the situation.
He was the only person there that had regular contact with game developers, and pursued new games.
By eliminating the one and only game dev position, Matrox made a clear statement that they didn't care about games any more. It was obvious at that time that they would not be expending any more resources on games than absolutly necessary. No dev rel, no heavy marketing towards gamers, no unecessary man hours in any department for games.
Not only did they stop trying to get new games, they also stopped caring about existing games (tech support not included).
That's not to say they will not ever fix gaming bugs...but game bugs automatically get bumped to the bottom of the priority list. Most fixes we will see in games from here on out will be because of bug fixes in 'real' apps that just happen to also fix various game bugs.

Matrox is simply no longer interested in games, and will not do anything they don't absolutly need to for gamers.

[chr_79]

Originally posted by wingie


One question/feature request could you apply your POP fix also on the no_cd version of POP (i've got one if you need it) because now the surround version is nagging for cd 2.

Get this nocd version

[Paddy the wak]

Hey Guys,
When R0M was "moved" I and others had major concerns and we put those conserns to Matrox ... Haig said ...
Quote :

"You folks should get out of panic mode and listen to what I am saying.
WE ARE NOT DROPPING SG GAMING PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

Here's a link to the actual thread ...

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?p=22649#22649

Are you saying he was lying ?

Here's another thread where he was defending Matrox gaming ... (some bits were deleted from this thread )

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=5618&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Now don't be negative ....

[Paddy the wak]

Oh thanks chr_79 for the POP nocd version !

Have you got one for GTA-VC ?

[chr_79]

Originally posted by Paddy the wak
Oh thanks chr_79 for the POP nocd version !

Have you got one for GTA-VC ?

ok, simply redownload it

[Paddy the wak]

Your a star !

[Paddy the wak]

Sorry the GTA-VC nocd version didn't work for me ....
The SG bit is still great though ...