Dawn of War

[Che Guevara]

Hi folks,

does anybody already found a way to run the game Dawn of War on Parhelia?

[DGhost]

I've been playing the demo a lot on my GFFX - been loving the game. It does not mention anything about the P in the readme's - maybe i'll dig mine out again (sometime later - maybe tonight) and see what i can do with it.

[Che Guevara]

Ok, thank you very much

[DGhost]

sorry, just got around to looking at it.

Hmmm, as the thread indicates on the Matrox TS forums - it is not going to work on a P.

personally, it looks a lot like it relies on a feature that the P drivers either don't support, don't report correctly, or is flat out a problem with the driver. i have not seen anything in the game that would indicate that it couldn't run on a P.

on another note: Matrox has, for a long time, not supported beta or demo products. Personally, this is bullshit for an ""industry leader"" (as they claim on their front page). Every other graphics card company will make an effort to work with developers on getting their demos and betas at least working - even if unsupported. Matrox, however, never seems to know what is going on with them. It is a *very* thin veil for the fact they simply do not have enough employees to do it or they are hurting enough financially that they cannot afford to put the time/effort into doing it.

the demo/beta practice is something that is only going to continue in the PC games industry - game manufacturers use it to get recognition in the market before their games are released, and it helps increase sales. By not supporting demos/betas Matrox can only lose followers (and sales) in this day and age of increasingly cheap (and powerful) graphics accelerators.

yet another nail in the M coffin, in my opinion.

[Che Guevara]

We will see...

RichieG said they will get the retail version when it is released and will look into this...

Thank you anyway