Matrox interview

[lain]

Dear BurnKooshie:

Ask Matrox: WHERE in the world are the drivers??

After more than a year, and the drivers are still in BETA?

ONE YEAR?

My G400TV is uselss for Win2K, absolutely useless. Matorx must be laughing. That's right.

I will NEVER buy another Matrox @!## EVER!

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!

 

[BurntKooshie]

Afternoon bump.

 

[Remedy]

TTT

 

[GehRehmee]

Where did the idea that rumors of a G800 were started by matrox's fan base come from?

 

[BurntKooshie]

They stemmed from the fact that the G800 was mentioned in a driver release awhile back.

 

[BFG10K]

Ask them if they plan on directly competing with nVidia in the future.

 

[KrispyKremer]

They haven't been sleeping, they've been pulling their hair out over the RT2000 and now the RT2500. Those people who have been able to actually get them working right seem to like them, but I hear there have been nothing but problems with these video editings cards.

Back in the day I really liked my Matrox G400 Max, but come on Matrox...
what have you done for me (us) lately...???

 

[GehRehmee]

I know that the drivers contained references to the G800. However, what I'd like is an explanation for why they blamed websites of matrox fans for starting the rumors.

 

[chucky2]

I second the "Is this all that you've been doing for the past 2 years?!"

I'm sorry, but if "this (the G550)" is it, then M is going to have really dug a hole for itself in every circle except, and in a lot of cases including, the business market.

M, please listen: When Anand, Tom, and the others start posting reviews of the G550, and it sucks compared to a Geforce2 DDR, you better start dropping hard information on the G800 or G550MAX that you better be working on. Or whatever supporters you've had up until now will LEAVE YOU. Why stay with a product that lets you watch a game in perfect clarity and detail, but shows it at slideshow pace? Most of us here have nice monitors and love image quality. But the vast majority of users have 15"-17" monitors and run at 800x600 or maybe 1024x768. Let me be the first to tell you: A Geforce2 at that resolution displays anything just fine, all the while giving fast framerates. Same for ATI, and the Kyro II stuff. Hell, even 3dfx (which is out of business by the way) still does it. If Headcasting is all M has, then they should just go back to producing G400 cards, as that is all most business users will ever need. Please M, Please, give us some real hope that all your engineers have not been using the RSN feature in Tomb Raider for the past 2 years and have nothing else but Headcasting to show for it.

Last EDIT, I promise.

 

[BurntKooshie]

One last bump, as I'm going to start writing up all the questions pretty soon.

 

[Remedy]

Make sure you get my question in there too Koosh