wrote:wrote:It has a few DVD features but most processing is done on the CPU.
It still handles DVDs just fine with a relatively slow CPU(...)
G200 has better DVD playback
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BGWG as in Boogie Woogie.
G200 and G400 do not have motion compensation or idct processing. In other words, the CPU does almost all of the MPEG2 decoding. G400's hardware subpicture processing is for stuff like menus and subtitles and is inconsequential.
G200 had a DVD decoder addon daughtercard. G400 may have too.
BTW we recently had a DVD acceleration thread.
A PII 400 can mostly manage pure software decoding.
I want to deciding to buy FX 5500, is FX 5500 has good performance for Windows 98?
wrote:I want to deciding to buy FX 5500, is FX 5500 has good performance for Windows 98?
FX5500 is only slightly better than FX5200. If you can find a FX5600 PCI/AGP or FX5200 Ultra AGP it would be a lot better. Be careful when searching for a FX5600, though, because there is a Quadro FX5600 that will come up in searches and that is a completely different card and is PCIe only.
Yeah, I have the alternative choice is GF 6200 or GF 6600 (if I can afford them). Is GF6200 has better performance for Windows 98?
I'd get 5200 Ultra, 5600 or 5700 instead. We had discussions recently on why 6x00 isn't good for some old games. 6200 also doesn't always support 3.3v AGP. I don't know if any 6600 cards can be used on 3.3v AGP.
My HP Vectra VL600 has Universal AGP slot, so it is compatible with GF6600?
If not, I would stick with FX 5500.
Oh with i820 you could run any 6000 series card. That chipset supports AGP 4x (1.5v).
What is good driver for GeForce 6000 series than 77.72?
Is GF6200 and GF6600 has good performance for old games?
What is good GLide wrapper for Windows 98?
I had a G400 for many years. With the latest drivers, it did quite well on just about any fixed-pipeline game that I threw at it. It was only the ride of shaders and hardware T&L that killed off the usefulness of that card.
wrote:What is good driver for GeForce 6000 series than 77.72?
Is GF6200 and GF6600 has good performance for old games?
What is good GLide wrapper for Windows 98?
Search the forum. We have had a lot of discussion about these topics.
How about G100? 😁
🤣. leileilol I'm still waiting for that G100 screenshot party thread. Seeing bilinear filtering pre-G200 is intensely fascinating...
wrote:🤣. leileilol I'm still waiting for that G100 screenshot party thread. Seeing bilinear filtering pre-G200 is intensely fascinating...
http://www.vintage3d.org/mgagallery.php
G100 is recommended for everyone tired of mainstream image quality 🤣
I had no idea the G100 was so bad for 3D hahaha. I thought it was some kind of cost reduced G200 or something, glad I found that early enough 😜
I know right?
For some reason I want to get one and try it out now hahahaha
What the hell is Matrox G100? Millenium?
G100 is a chip Matrox released months before G200. It might be similar to MGA 1164/2164, the family that made up Millennium II and Mystique 220.
The DVD functionality is minimal and will work with most CPUs you could have bought off the shelf in 1999 but is still anemic. The 3D acceleration was okay but you would have been better off with a TNT2. The shining point was dual head (not very common in 1999) and the DAC which provided a very nice 2D picture quality. They tried to market the card as a gaming option and it's known as being the fisrt Matrox card to be good for games and it even had a few features ahead of it's time but ultimately, this card was less for gamers and more for CAD artists and people really concerned about the resolution and quality of their MSPaint bullhockey, Jail wardens (and other people with an interest in security systems) benefited much more from this card than a person who wants a smooth running game.
