What exactly is Matrox up to .... get the <facts>

[JF_Aidan_Pryde]

No chip on the market does displacement mapping, I'm 99.99% sure that Matrox's next *real* chip will feature it.

[KngtRider]

well you can dismiss the .1 because a matrox 3d engineer presented displacement mapping and thus they DO have it in their new GPU, its just an issue of thaty they will be up against s3, PowerVR, nvidia, ati and also if the gpu is has a limited set of caps ie a la g550 it will not be very appealing

their whole current family of chips dont do te following, and im afraid their future products will follow the 'unified' model and still have limited hw and sw feature set

*no overlay adjust in driver
*no adv 3d or video controls in driver
*complete lack of any MPEG2 assist (wheter or not it is usefull for pic qual is beside the point)
*poor multitexturing at the moment
*their regieme regarding driver features/updates/bugs
completely different to the others
*very fixed performance, not very dynamic (ie crap perf on 1.0 systems and above)

[mdhome]

Hello KngtRider
Just a question. How can you be certain that Matrox's next part will be as limited as you believe it to be?

regards MD

[KngtRider]

i dont know it will be

bad wording on my part, take it as 'i hope not', sorry

[Wulfman]

I followed some links from 3dcenter.de and found the following:

http://www.p3int.com/news_center_Matrox_support_for_NWO.asp

?Matrox Graphics is pleased to be working with Termite Games and Project Three Interactive in insuring that our hardware is fully compatible with New World Order,? says Mike Drummelsmith, developer relations manager, Matrox Graphics. ?The visual effects in New World Order are simply stunning and, when paired with Matrox?s trademark image quality, result in an action packed gaming experience.?

If you look at the techdemo - is the g550 capable of that???

http://www.p3int.com/downloads_NWO.asp

Looks like matrox is more interested in gamers than they say...

mfg
wulfman

[GT98]

I dunno how much water this holds.....I remember in the the G550/G800 days there was a delevoper who was working with matrox making up a Kung Fu fighting game based off the Unreal engine...I haven't heard anything in ages about the project. I think If you do a search in the Hardware forums you can find something about it....it was pre Crystal Ball days.


Scott

[TdB]

wasn´t that kong fu game supposed to use matrix skinning, it was before we heard about displacement mapping IIRC

[SmellYfeeT]

I sure hope that alot of people in Matrox knew about the MacDonald's deal or else your source will be toast. They may even accuse your source of being Casey.

For a sec. you got me worried there, cause if anything happens to him I would be dead in no time but this is not a recent news I heard about this from one of my coworkers during the summer, I think it was originally leaked out on a stock message board on McDonnald long time ago but there was no reference to Matrox!? so now we know who the supplier is I wonder if the deal is still up or the downturn in economy scrapped it all...
I was surprised that Ant posted the message on the front page since it really does not contain any useful information except for a promise! well, I know some other stuff that I really don't think is appropriate to post publicly since it might put Nvidia and ATI at an advantage point which we don't want , right! but I can tell you if Matrox can continue to deliver traditional stable drivers for their gaming card, it will be a big seller. However, the management is playing it smart and they don't want to do what 3dfx did before they bailed out! which means don't put a product on the market if you can gues will not sell!

[Ant]

Any news is news when dealing with the tight lipped Canadians, and you did state they were "facts"

[Tom]

Originally posted by Ant
tight lipped Canadians

No comment.

[K6-III]

According to Reactor Critical, Matrox has followed ATI in selling chips to other manufacurers. This may be what we can expect from them in the future.

[Liquid Snake]

Yeah, there was also some guy who posted here claiming his company was "almost done" with the G800 techdemo and that was probably a year ago, or more.

[Sasq]

Re: McDonalds

Not sure whats driving them here (Japan) but some of the McD's are using the flat pannel displays here already - at least the last 6 months or so

Dan

[SmellYfeeT]

so they have video advertisement and stuff on those flat panels or is it still static text and graphics!

[Sasq]

Advertisments, mini adds. this is the breakfast menu wouldn't you really like a hash brown etc. Pretty cool actually.
Half the pannels or so keep the menu up (second head??) the panel that they put the current special up on on a static display becomes a rotating advert, however its animated

Dan