Parhelia Drivers?

[Amiga Blitter]

When???

[P5ycho]

we don't have an answer either, and this situation is really getting rediculous. I've completely lost my confidence in Matrox's abilities.

[chr_79]

Some compagnies have a six month product cycle;

Matrox also want a six month cycle, but they can't for their product, so, they decide to have it for their drivers.

[Goc]

Amiga Blitter, why exactly do you need new drivers?

Is it because you have a problem, or is it simply because you would like to install new drivers and then go bitchin' how they didn't deliver 30% more overall performance you were led to believe they would bring, and then bash Matrox driver dev team?
Considering your posts in the past, I would go for the latter...

Apologies if that's not the case...

[K6-III]

Well, getting Vertex Shader 2.0, DX9 compatability, and Displacement Mapping via DX9 as promised would sure be a plus...

Driver bugs in a huge number of apps need to be resolved...

And then, having a new driver to play with is always fun...

[WyWyWyWy]

THIS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!











I hope.

[Goc]

Soon(tm)

[lecter]

Originally posted by K6-III
Well, getting Vertex Shader 2.0, DX9 compatability,

I doubt they can implement Vertex Shader 2.0 in software only....afaik only SiS has a software Vertex Shader (i think except for the Xabre600 where it's in hardware) and it performs horribly.

[Goc]

Parhelia supposedly has a VS2.0 array in hardware so there's no need to emulate anything... Pity is it still isn't enabled via drivers...

[Amiga Blitter]

2 engine of the chip doesn't work at the moment. i hope in future release of the drivers they enable this feature. We have buy a card that run at half of his potentiality.

[albatorsk]

How do you guys know these things? VS 2.0? Only half of them are online? Huh?

[K6-III]

Here's the link to the Vertex Shader 2.0 info: http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/p...uad_shader.cfm

[dZeus]

Originally posted by Amiga Blitter
2 engine of the chip doesn't work at the moment. i hope in future release of the drivers they enable this feature. We have buy a card that run at half of his potentiality.

Interesting hypothesis... on which facts do you base this?

[Goc]

I don't see a reason for Matrox disabling 2 of their VS in drivers? For what purpose? Blitter, would you care to explain...

[albatorsk]

I probably need to go and read up on my VS knowledge, but what characterises a VS 2.0? The 256 constant registers? The QVSA? It doesn't really say what version of VS it is on that page. And why would only 2 units be operational at the moment? Especially since Matrox makes such a big deal of it being four, and all...