a competition you WANT to win!!!

[IcedEarth]

Haig confirmed it on the Matrox forums... the winners will get a card _when it's ready_.
So no retail cards next week people...

[thop]

[TdB]

so they are playing SOF2 on alpha-boards?

[dave m]

Perhaps what is more significant is that they are letting "a" version of Parhelia into the light (pun intended) much sooner than anyone (by which I mean, general public, i.e. like me) ever thought would happen, so maybe it's not ready now but it is going to be here SOO... sorry couldn't finish that

Dave

Edit/ damn spelling

[Jazzz]

wait a minute, if matrox is gonna be showing UT2003 at E3 who is gonna show Doom3 Maybe Matrox will be running both

[BuddMan]

I think it's ATI that will be showing Doom3.

[Jazzz]

Originally posted by BuddMan
I think it's ATI that will be showing Doom3.

cool, i never knew ATI was gonna show doom3, i was under the impression matrox would where did hear tha ati is gonna show it?

[Pace]

Hmm, who thinks Parhelia could have D3/UT2003 running simultaneously?

[TdB]

Originally posted by Pace
Hmm, who thinks Parhelia could have D3/UT2003 running simultaneously?

do you mean ut2003 on ond head and doom3 on the other head?
i think EVERY compter would be cpu-limted in that case, not less memory-limited.

i tried something like that on my old P2-400mhz with a permedia2,some years ago.
6 windows with quake2 and 1 window with unreal and 2 windows with glquake, of course the framerate was utter crap, but it was more a stabillity test( it didn´t crash ).

[Pace]

Yeah, I suppose if it can run 3 screens on UT, running 2 on D3/UT wouldn't be that bad. Can cards accelerate 2 3D apps at once? i.e. 2 separate copies of UT running simult?

[TdB]

well, my old permedia could do that, the question is are you allowed to run 2 copies of ut simultaneously.

they removed support for this in one the quake2 patches iirc, because it can be used as a cheat in multiplay, having alot of spectators all over the level, in different windows, can reveal the enemies positions.

[Pace]

Hmm, lets see...can UT be run over Remote Desktop then?

P.

[TdB]

i wouldn´t know, i don´t cheat

i plan on playing all my games in singlehead anyway, i can´t afford 2 more monitors, I rather want one really GOOD 24" than 3 17" monitors. i like the idea about surround gaming though if i could afford 3 GOOD 19-21" monitors then i would go for it.

[TdB]

BTW, this is a strong indication of a card announcement at E3, because i really can´t imagine a discussion that goes like this:

matrox to winner of SOF2-competition: congratulations, you just won the all new parhelia.
winner: cool, how much videoram does it have?
matrox: ehh! i don´t really know yet, it might be 64mb it might be 256, or somewhere in between.
winner:

so they have to tell exactly what the first prize is, and the prize is not a chip, it is a card!

[[GDI]Raptor]

Whoo.....
Funds are reay indeed...!!

When can we preorder??