Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/09/07:28:56
> > I tested it over and over again, and the results I get are clear. When
> ever i run a DJGPP program that
> >uses allegro on my Matrox G200, The results are REALLY
> > POOR. Does anyone else have this problem? My games drop to 1/3 the
> framerate when i use this
> >card.
I can't complain about MY Matrox card. I got a PII 300Mhz and a Matrox Marvel G200
and ran my somehow "complex" racing game on this system -- it reached refresh rates
around 170fps (VESA, 640x480x8, no!! UNIVBE). I borrowed different graphics cards
from friends (Mach64 / MilleniumG200 / MystiqueG200 / old Miro card) for testing the
game. Everything except the MilleniumG200 and the old Miro card (;-) had high frame
rates: MarvelG200: 170+fps, AtiMach64: 130fps, Miro: 67fps, MysG200: 164fps,
MilG200: 73fps; On the MilG200 I sometimes(!!!) got messages like "Can't initialize
VESA." or "vesa not found" or "vesa error." from different games (Duke3D,..) -
sometimes!? - why sometimes? Don't ask me -- ask Marox :-)))
> This made me extremely angry, that i had wasted a lot of my time. Matrox did
> not answer any of my
> e-mails as of yet, and I was put on hold on a long distance tech support
> number for over an hour.
> Needless to say, I did hang up before I got any answers.
Matrox didn't answer any of my e-mails too. I'm just wondering if this should be
true customer service!? Earth calling Matrox: "Still alive?" ;)
Facit: don't buy a Matrox Millennium G200 - get a Mystique or Marvel instead ;)
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Thomas Wolf (seawolf AT net4you DOT co DOT at)
"Hardware is fast enough to do interesting things, but not fast enough to do what we
really want." -- Michael Abrash / id Software
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