HEY MATROX, please enable t and l in g400

[nosuchluck]

how about we forget about the g450, and enable t and l in the g400.

put all your resources into the g800, and don't leave anything out.

thanks, think of the marketing and increased sales you could get from enabling t and l in the g400.

[Muad'Dib]

I would imagine, that IF the g400 is capable of t and l, then there is a reason for them not includeing it....

[nosuchluck]

i read that matrox hardware has been capable of t and l since the g200.

could be a rumor, but it was from a reliable source.

[Compton]

and what reliable source could this have been?

Ant! Have you been giving out matrox secrets?

[Kruzin]

Oh brother.
Here we go again (why, why, why?).

Here is the one word you did not hear:
THEORETICALLY

Theoretically the Gx00 cards could do a limited form of T&L, if part of it's warp engine was dedicated to it (which means taking warp away from other functions).

DO NOT expect this theoretical dream to become a reality in existing G-series cards. It's just not gonna happen.

If you want to read all the theories, wishes, and speculations, do a forums search. There are some threads from a couple weeks back that go into depth on this topic. And it really is a tired topic...

[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 29 January 2000).]

[Borg]

NOT AGAIN !...for 100000000 X ...no T&L with our G400 babe..OK ! how do you think to enable this feature , just with NEW driver or BIOS upgrade ?..no way ! & forget about WARP engine ..its for triangle setup , newer ment for T&L calculations..

we have to wait for a NEW MATROX chip G800 TL-800,X-1000 or something ...

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[gbm]

Would you really like to see your G400 with hardware T&L performing slower than with current drivers? The decision to user WARPs for triangle setup only has its strong roots. Any other arrangemement would be worse.

[dnickle]

Hardware T&L on the G-farce is poorly implemented. Take a look at Hard OCP. The new Nvidia cards are fast, but you'll have to wait for next-gen cards with more horsepower. The G400 with T&L would be slooooow.

[RSP]

Hello,
I suggest we named the T&L'ed G400 as Matrox Millennium G2000 or MGA2K..kind of cool name I think
I guess that a REAL T&L hardwared graphics card would have a Geometry Processor (like 3DLabs cards) on it.
So, how about we make a suggestion to Matrox to build an Add-On card that equipped with a Geometry Processor.
BTW, G400 really needs some extra speed to compete in gaming performance vs GeForce.
Cheers.

[paulcs]

So does the TNT2, the board the G400 was designed to compete with.

Good heavens.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net