It's not looking good for the next gen Matrox card...
Lets really hope the people who are developing the hardware don't have the same attitude, and/or wrong facts RichieG does about fps's.
From personal experience I know that 20-25 fps is just plain awful, and that a consistent 40-50 is the minimum for decent, smooth, nice looking game play in first person shooters like UT, CS, or Q3.
The only reason movies which run at 24 fps don't flicker and look really jerky is because of motion blurring (the camera exposes basically an entire 1/24 of a second time frame including motion, in-game graphics render an instantaneous frame with no motion once every 1/24 of a second).
Video for television typically has the same motion blurring, and is also aided by longer persistence phosphors in TV tubes.
From personal experience I know that 20-25 fps is just plain awful, and that a consistent 40-50 is the minimum for decent, smooth, nice looking game play in first person shooters like UT, CS, or Q3.
The only reason movies which run at 24 fps don't flicker and look really jerky is because of motion blurring (the camera exposes basically an entire 1/24 of a second time frame including motion, in-game graphics render an instantaneous frame with no motion once every 1/24 of a second).
Video for television typically has the same motion blurring, and is also aided by longer persistence phosphors in TV tubes.
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