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I just installed the PCI version of the 256 meg parhelia and it would not even play the fish tank screen savor smoothly. Has anyone used this card with a game? I have it installed in a new Dell dual 3.2 with 3 gigs of memory so it should work. Got the latest drives installed but it seems to be a real dog.
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In one of my computers I've got an ATI 9800 Pro AGP and a P650 PCI. It's a P4 3.2GHz with 2GB RAM.
I have to agree that the Matrox P series cards don't run super great on PCI. Maybe it's a driver issue, I don't know, but I've noticed that the P card has serious problems playing video off the PCI bus. Yeah, AGP is better for playing video, but PCI should be sufficient. It drops a lot of frames when I'm doing something on my AGP card at the same time.
I'm happy with the image quality though. Can't knock Matrox for that.P.S. You've been Spanked! -
I did the same, wanted to try out surround gaming but that was a looser so now I have my Quatro and the matrox in with only one monitor on it and two on the Quatro. It's a tripple 23" flat screen setup running at 1200 x 1600 on each and it's nice now. I have a wacom drawing tablet with the 21" screen coming so this setup should run all four nicely. Oh and I did get the matrox running better in triple head and I must say the fish screen saver was beautiful. To bad it will not work on this setup.Comment
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I think it needs to be made primary card in BIOS and monitor on it primary in Windows for hardware acceleration.Comment
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