Announcement

**Rimfaxe** · 22 January 2002, 09:36

Hey, I think we are missing the point here...

All Matrox ppl, plz tell us about your next gamingcard. Ok?

**Schattenreiter** · 22 January 2002, 10:25

> GT98 wrote: hmm with all these people from matrox running around in here now makes me wonder if they are busy at all working on a new card or not -Scott
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Maybe they have this much free time because they finished the new card?

Oh yes, btw... hy folks!

**Rimfaxe** · 22 January 2002, 10:40

Hi Schattenreiter.

Welcome to MURC!

**Schattenreiter** · 22 January 2002, 11:26

Thank you Rimfaxe!

**Schattenreiter** · 22 January 2002, 12:51

Okay, serious question about the new card now:

Which operating systems will be supported?

Don´t laugh. I haven´t read a bit on the matrox-forum about that.
And I don´t think that this is a "Top-Secret" part!

Windows9x/NT/2k/Xp/Net? Linux (hopefully)? BeOS? MacOS?
I am using all these systems right now, so I am very intersted about *that* part.

Btw. you can put a regular Geforce into the new GX-MacIntoshs (because they have Dual-Bios). It would be cool if you could plug the new Matrox card into a Mac too!

**Wombat** · 22 January 2002, 20:12

Well, you know for sure they'll support MS.
And there have been Matrox products in Macs in the past, so maybe again.

BeOS? Probably not. BeOS is unfortunately dead as a doornail. Palm owns it, and is not releasing it. If I remember correctly, the G400 had BeOS drivers that were put together by some guy on his own time, so maybe there's hope.

Linux? Probably drivers, but we'll have to see what the feature support is like. Matrox hasn't been as good with helping the Linux community as they were during the G200 days. Less specs released this time, but they did put out some tools and binaries. They don't even have their web page straight.

**Lorne Trottier** · 22 January 2002, 21:12

Alright, Alright. I'm sick of all this whining! We'll announce the release of our next graphics card a week from next Tuesday. It will have the following features:

*Dual 800MHz Ramdacs
*1 GB DDRII Memory
*Dual 512 bit memory bus
*50 Trillion megapixels/megatextels per second
*Virtual 3D Holographic Imaging
*Render Subject nude (in holographic 3D of course)
*And a related feature building on current technologies:
Virtual 3D ButtCasting! (the ultimate office prank tool.. moon
your friends and co-workers in holographic 3D!)

This card will Retail for $39.99 USD ($59.99 with 2GB DDRII) and will ship in quantity with complete driver support on the day of announcement.

**GT98** · 22 January 2002, 21:18

Originally posted by Lorne Trottier
Alright, Alright. I'm sick of all this whining! We'll announce the release of our next graphics card a week from next Tuesday. It will have the following features:

*Dual 800MHz Ramdacs
*1 GB DDRII Memory
*Dual 512 bit memory bus
*50 Trillion megapixels/megatextels per second
*Virtual 3D Holographic Imaging
*Render Subject nude (in holographic 3D of course)
*And a related feature building on current technologies:
Virtual 3D ButtCasting! (the ultimate office prank tool.. moon
your friends and co-workers in holographic 3D!)

This card will Retail for $39.99 USD ($59.99 with 2GB DDRII) and will ship in quantity with complete driver support on the day of announcement.

ROFLAMO!

Though if this is Mr. Matrox...all I can hear now is: No Matrox Card for You...You go to end of line (in Soup Nazi Voice from Sendfeid!)

Scott

**Ant** · 23 January 2002, 01:53

Why set your sights so low

Originally posted by [GDI]Raptor
Yes, then tell me: Can the Sales Department of Matrox Graphics Division sell me a graphics solution comparable to GF3 Ti500 or the new GF4 within H1 2002

**mdhome** · 23 January 2002, 02:45

Hello Lorne
Welcome to Murc.

Originally posted by Lorne Trottier
Alright, Alright. I'm sick of all this whining! We'll announce the release of our next graphics card a week from next Tuesday. It will have the following features:

Hey, isn't that the same day that the GF4 is being released?

**Schattenreiter** · 23 January 2002, 08:46

To wombat: Shure they do support MS, question was if they are still going to support 9x.

Btw, BeOS came with full working G400 drivers.

Let´s hope they come out with full working Linux drivers. Theres a hell of a lot of unix-people who buy Geforce because of the detonators.

**Elie** · 23 January 2002, 14:54

Windows 9x is dead, Microsoft will soon drop support for 9x too, because the future is the NT kernal, I'm even surprised Matrox still supports NT 4.0 and OS/2?
I say NT 4.0 because it didn't support DX higher than DX 3 rendering it useless for many apps, although it's OGL support was ok, it was a tough OS to program for.

**[GDI]Raptor** · 23 January 2002, 17:51

Hmm....

Originally posted by Ant
Why set your sights so low

Yes, lets hope for something beter! I hope Matrox is ready to announce something very soon. They should anounce their next-gen. chip before Game Developer Conferance, what is Matrox planing to do on a tradeshow for computer games whitout a gaming card!??

EDIT:
Look what i found on X-Bit: SiS Started Sampling SiS330

Just a moment...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1011789145

Come ON Matrox! Don't let SiS beat you!!!!

**Wombat** · 24 January 2002, 01:36

Elie, they support NT4 because that's all a lot of people want/need. For corporations with a ton of 2D desktop apps, NT4 is fine. They have a solution that they know it stable. Why pay for an unneeded "upgrade?"

Similar material for Win9x. MS stops supporting it because they want to force upgrades. People don't want to pay for the upgrade. Getting a supported video card is cheaper and less hassle than upgrading the OS.

You'll also find a number of companies who are not about to adopt MS "subscriptionware."

Also, AFAIK, Matrox was not the one to write the drivers for BeOS. Now there's nobody left to do it.

No comment on Matrox's Linux support.

**magog** · 24 January 2002, 15:13

Hi Elie!
> I'm even surprised Matrox still supports NT 4.0 and OS/2?

Their is no OS/2 driver development for the latest G550 from Matrox and so I don't think they develop a driver for the new card.
But if they'll support SciTech Software in the future that won't be a problem, because their driver is really great!

In Dec. 2000 Matrox made SciTech a nice present. They gave them several source codes regarding the Gxxx chips, so SciTech could include TV-Out and DVI support to the SciTech Display Doctor (SDD).
We all hoped that SciTech would also deliver Duak Head functionality, but the development is currenty low priority.
Since the 19. Jan 2002 the G550 is officially supported in the SDD.

For all that do not know that driver:
It's an universal driver, so you can change the currently installed graphic card with another supported one (have a look at the readme: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/) without having to install a different graphic driver.
SciTech build a hardware independent layer and reads the hardware specific stuff from a driver database.

By the way the OS/2 clone with a refreshed WPS and some other extensions is called eCS (eComStation - http://www.ecomstation.com).
If you want a stable OS with a great GUI and/or don't have the time to dig into Linux you may should take a closer look on it!

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