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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Helevitia: The question was not if you were unhappy with your card but would you buy another card given your experience with Matrox products.
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Yeah - I meant that 'yes' I would buy* another, not 'yes' I am unhappy.
* - not if Haig's got anything to do with it
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I'll go on record as a yes. One incident stands out in my experience.
Early on I had reported a problem regarding an ASUS board, ECC memory enabled and the first G400 OGL drivers. Haig obtained the hardware and confirmed the problem. Next driver release the problem was fixed. Imagine a company fixing something that affected a small percentage of users.
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I voted yes. My experience with my G400 MAX has been a positive one. Yes the drivers weren't so great at the start, but they've gotten a lot better. I understand a lot of the people in the Desktop Video forum would've voted no, with the Video Tools fiasco.
I voted yes of course. I will buy Matrox products as long as they have chips made by Matrox as the chip that Matrox has to support. They have an excellent track record on those products.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by drzaius: ok then, what has Matrox done/not done to make you decide that you don't want another one? </font>
I won't buy another MAtrox product because I've been burned two times allready. I've owned a Millennium II + RainbowRunner, m3D, Millennium G200, Millennium G400 and a Marvel G400.
The RainbowRunner Studio was the last, I believe, of their videoediting products that were really supported. They released new VideoTools quite regularly. And then, all of a sudden it stopped. So, the great, still functioning, M2+RR with hardware MJPEG is now nothing more than a heavy, expensive piece of a 2D gfx-card. It's WinNT 4 drivers was a joke, and who'd want to go back to Win95 for videoediting? I have a vague sispicion that he reason they killed it off was because of the lack of Macrovision, which made this card really great. If you needed to record a DVD to VHS? No problem! The Mill2+RR could act aass a passthrough Macrovision-stripper.
Is it really that hard to port the VideoTools between Win95 and Win98/ME? That would have increased the lifespan of this card by another 2 to 3 years.
The Marvel G400, on the other hand, has never been supported by Matrox. Lousy drivers coupled with lousy VideoTools, used in a lousy OS (Win98). I'm willing to bet that I have a majority of the Marvel users behind me on this claim.
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