Has Matrox started a downward spiral?

[Indiana]

Which Matrox card does run QIII at even 40 fps with acceptable Quality?!? (that is 32bits, min 1024x768, min trilinear, better anisotropic)
Tell me, I might buy it... (and no, not some G400Max oc'ed to 350MHz with TBird 2.0GHz stories, please...)

...Since the oc'ed G400MAX seems to stay Matrox' fastest 3D-performer for some time ...

[This message has been edited by Indiana (edited 30 June 2001).]

[SCompRacer]

You know, I just couldn't decide so I got both. They don't hot swap well though.

[Jorden]

Wombat, please explain your statement on "I really don't think HeadCasting will take off (well, maybe for porn)

How can you do porn through headcasting? Haven't you read all the info? You can't do anything until the software firm translates your head from 2 pictures into a 3D version. We've seen Joel's head and we got the message

Jord.

[Rags]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jorden:
Wombat, please explain your statement on "I really don't think HeadCasting will take off (well, maybe for porn)

How can you do porn through headcasting? Haven't you read all the info? You can't do anything until the software firm translates your head from 2 pictures into a 3D version. We've seen Joel's head and we got the message

Jord.</font>

So it is your view that the features of the 550 will only work with that one app???

Rags

[Jorden]

LOL... I only quoted Matrox, Matt.

For the rest of the features of the 550? I haven't got a clue what they are, since I don't have it

And I can ask you, but you cannot reply either
Jord.

[Rags]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
LOL... I only quoted Matrox, Matt.</font>

Hmmmm...show me where you did

Rags

[Jorden]

I can't at the moment...

Error From Remote Server (cfdist)
Error Diagnostic Information
Unable to connect to engine. Error 2

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 03:04:34 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Expires: 0 Pragma: no-cache Cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Keep-Alive: timeout=60 Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked, chunked Content-Type: text/html


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Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
Reading from socket failed

Unix error number 131 occurred: Connection reset by peer

That's what www.matrox.com is giving me for the moment

Jord.

[Rags]

No, jorden you said you quoted Matrox. I have not seen a single quote from Matrox posted by you....


Rags

[Jorden]

Okay, I didn't quote them with a

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">quote from Matrox</font>

And at the moment I can't for I don't have the reference, with Matrox down like that
We'll just have to wait, won't we

Jord.

[Joel]

Hey Jorden,

Getting your head casted is just the beginning.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">We've seen Joel's head and we got the message.</font>

Not poking fun at my virtual head are you. It has feelings too you know.



Joel

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[stevenscott]

So, while I am playing a game with my computer, using my Matrox Video card, and the people I am playing withy are winning, really kicking my arse badly, I can tell them my computer gives virtual head? And that's suppused to make me feel better when I am losing because of a slow video card?

[Rags]

What game are you playing that a Matrox card causes you to lose in???

Rags

[Joel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">And that's suppused to make me feel better when I am losing because of a slow video card?</font>

Oh, I guess it can't be that you are just a lousy player.

Joel

[Snake-Eyes]

Hehe. I don't know about playing ability, but the idea of virtual head sounds kinky.

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[Greebe]

I didn't see anywhere on there site where they claim to have Dickheadcasting!

They are (Digimask) going to be doing this for the Sony PS2 also... but think about this...

What gets me is you have to be at least 18 years of age to cast your head without a parent or guardians consent, tho there is no place for such consent to be given when signing up!

Additionally when submitting info in your profile they ask for your actual date of birth (D/M/Y) and claim to need this info so they can accurately cast your head, "For instance, the bone structure of a boy aged 12 varies significantly from that of a 40 year-old female." How about Duh, You don't need that to render a head from a frontal and profile pic of you! or for them to have asked what ethnic background you are, which difinitely effects this big time (tho I can hear them being told by their legal dept, "don't you even think about it!"

That's one thing to think about...

and why do they need to know your full name, nickname, full date of birth, gender, email addy and country of residence, which are not optional?!

Violate any of these and they can at their descretion give away your personal info to what ever third party?!

Looks like a conspiracy theory in the works!

[This message has been edited by Greebe (edited 30 June 2001).]