"Welcome, or do not enter"

[Alexander Dubeniuk]

That's how i feel about powerdesk. (any version including 5.x)

Hence i list here all options i can see inside the driver (remember, power users
in common are familiar with disassemblers, and some of these users also familiar with low-level hardware programming - that's not me, but i'm close to those people...)

(HKLM or HKCU)\Display\Settings\Matrox Software\Matrox\Driver\SETTINGS

in the root folder:

FontsCaching
HiColorMode
MMX
WriteCombining
Rectangles
HWCursor

Under the "GDI" folder:

AlternateFillPolygons
DeviceBitmapsCaching
Rectangles
FontsCaching
BitPackedFont


Under the "Engine" folder:

BusMastering
BusMastering2D
BlockMode
Softrap2D
PaletteSync
Warp
32BitZ * - this doubles in DirectX folder
BlockMode


Under the "DAC" folder:

HiColorMode


Under the "CPU" folder:

MMX
WriteCombining
AGPFlags
AGP
Use3DNow

Under the "Monitor" folder:

FlatPanelOnly

Under the "DirectX" folder:

UseTripleBuffering
FlipOnVBlank
BESPrescaling
AntiAlias
32BitZ
TableFog
D3DRendering
AlternateFillPolygons
Anisotropic
FPStretch
YUVSupport
CinepakAsYUV
YUVFiltering
DirectDrawStretch
DirectDrawHWStretch
Direct3D
UseRegion
SynchronizeVideo
AGPExecuteModel
HostBlit
BESEnable
BESDithering
BESTripleBuffering
BES2x
BESCRTCBlocking
BESSmoothClipping
BESMTX6OnlyEven
BESMTX6FlipOnce
ForceYUY2asMTX6
IndeoAsYUV

Any descriptions (and corrections), except those that maggi already explained, are welcome...

[Markus Selchow]

LOL

... nice dig you made there !

I thought it would have taken longer.

I have to check what input I acn give to your list ...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB * Celeron300A @ 504MHz
Heavily boosted by the Millenium G400 32MB SGRAM DualHead

[Alexander Dubeniuk]

Will be impatiently waiting...

[Hunsow]

Good job Alexander, just what I needed.

[Alexander Dubeniuk]

Sorry people, i was not correct about location - the right one is

HKLM\System\Classes\Display\0000\...

(just set 32bit Z-buffer in powerdesk and
search the registry for correct location (search for "32bitZ")

And last, it seems that none of the switches
i tried are working... maybe some hidden key
like "UseAllMatrox" ?

[arbymo]

another key under monitor is "disable GTF" and defaults to "1"
does anyone knows wat this for ?
and how to enable or disable a matrox page from showing up in display properties ??


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GigaByte 6BXE, celeron 300A@464, 128 PC100 RAM,
G200 8 M SD @112.5 core. driver 4.51, bios 2.3.