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07-Nov-2007, 13:52
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Naughty Boy!
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Matrox G100 Nostalgia Thread (Split from RV670 AA)
And what is G100?
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08-Nov-2007, 12:13
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08-Nov-2007, 13:29
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Naughty Boy!
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Hehe, forgot about that one
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09-Nov-2007, 04:40
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The G100 was great when paired up with V2-SLI. Crystal clear image at high resolution and excellent mpeg playback acceleration too!
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09-Nov-2007, 05:59
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09-Nov-2007, 14:16
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Hey, that's cool concept for "ProDuctivia" moniker.
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10-Nov-2007, 20:20
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damn that could actaually be a tough word to pronounce 
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10-Nov-2007, 21:53
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Entirely Suboptimal
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 I was always a but curious as to what this thing was, exactly. It launched near G200, which was quite superior. G100's 3D was more like the old Mystique, I believe.. |
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10-Nov-2007, 22:07
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The G100 had no 3D.
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11-Nov-2007, 15:29
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G100 supported 3D (all graphic chips as from Athena R1 supported 3D acceleration). G100 was the fist chip from Matrox, which supported texture filtering (screenshot from ixbt, see bottom texture), but like it's predecessors, G100 required 2 clocks for single textured pixel. This changed with G200.
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11-Nov-2007, 21:50
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It wasn't usable 3D. It seemed no better and actually worse than the S3 Virge Decellerator. In was worse than the Mystique.
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11-Nov-2007, 21:57
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No it was not. G100 had all features and the speed of Mystique + bilinear texture filtering.
It still lacked alpha blending though. |
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11-Nov-2007, 22:09
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Maybe it was the games I was throwing at it, but the G100 gave a nastier experience than the Mystique.
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12-Nov-2007, 06:32
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I just looked around and found one here
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12-Nov-2007, 06:58
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We had those at TAFE many years back. LOTS of those. They got magnetised a lot.
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12-Nov-2007, 07:59
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G100 has an interesting Mip-Mapping:
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...67&postcount=1 But seems to can overclocked great: http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...4&postcount=20
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12-Nov-2007, 10:15
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12-Nov-2007, 11:35
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Matrox realized after launch of g100 it's 3d will be critisized and would spoil launch of ambitious g200, so after one month they dropped 3d support at all and start marketing it as 2d only.
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12-Nov-2007, 12:00
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It's a Matrox appreciation thread. Millenium II & G400 Max.
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12-Nov-2007, 12:02
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I still miss my G400, it was a monster back then
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12-Nov-2007, 12:06
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12-Nov-2007, 19:08
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I had a MGA1064SG (aka mystique) bought because i needed something to partner a voodoo1 and my cirrus logic 256k card wasnt upto the job (3dfx recommended a 2mb card)
the mystique had the 2nd best dos performance at the time (-2.5% millenium) had great 2d windows performance + crap but fast 3d ps: actually the mystique version of tomb raider looked dammed good |
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12-Nov-2007, 19:43
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I had a G100 in my first computer. I recall the performance was decent, but quality was poor. I soon added a VoodooII which was a better experience and could play Unreal in hardware. Woot! Plus I could code Glide on it.
I later bought the G400 card, which was really good. Unfortunately, their OpenGL support wasn't that impressive. The USP of the card was EMBM, but they never exposed that in OpenGL. 
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12-Nov-2007, 21:49
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Entirely Suboptimal
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Let's not leave out my little Mystique 220 4MB. I paired this up with a Righteous 3D. Fabulous combo. It was a pretty cheap card at the time and has excellent 2D. Sometimes I actually preferred Mystique's pixelized 3D look compared to Voodoo's super-ultra-bilinear-blur.
 My Matrox history went: Mystique 220 -> Mystique G200 -> Millennium G400. Wonderful cards in their time. I have a Millennium II 8MB in the drawer at home but I got it fairly recently so it doesn't really count.
Last edited by swaaye; 12-Nov-2007 at 22:01. |
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12-Nov-2007, 21:55
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