Message-ID: <36974B30.22DFC240@net4you.co.at> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:27:28 +0100 From: Seawolf X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [de] (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP performance + Matrox G200 video card = S-L-O-W... help References: <199901070217 DOT VAA15154 AT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > > 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 ;) ---------- 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