I use a P4 with mine. 6th gen cpus can bottleneck its potential 320x240 performance in certain supported games 😀

I use a 1200mhz T-Bird. Pretty sure the CPU isn't holding it back.

leileilol wrote:

I use a P4 with mine. 6th gen cpus can bottleneck its potential 320x240 performance in certain supported games 😀

mhm interesting, can you please tell us your full setup ? I really had a hard time with the M3D on a Pentium 4 D 3 GHz.

Nvidia cards are known to give the PCX2 a hard time. Try any non-vidia card instead

I've got a mATX Tualatin motherboard which has onboard video and no AGP slot so its been gathering dust. The onboard video is TridentBlade3D. This way I can make sure nothing is holding back the m3D, and still use this board I probably wouldn't otherwise use.

Thoughts?

http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m6vlq

What games/demos/intros do only work with a powerVR-pcx1/2 and do not work or look worse on D3D/OGL while using intel i865 ?
Thx
Doc

I believe most of the PowerVR game counterparts look better and run at a higher resolution than their Direct3D versions. For a detailed list with all PowerVR games go here

3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

There's a few DOS games that have PowerVR support.
Titles that come to mind are Tomb Raider and MechWarrior 2.

Scali wrote:

There's a few DOS games that have PowerVR support.
Titles that come to mind are Tomb Raider and MechWarrior 2.

Tomb Raider is the only DOS game that have PowerVR support. All others are Windows conversions.

Tombraider1 for Dos seems to be great with PowerVR. But Turok1 is bad. The performance is not so good, some effects are missing even compared to the D3D-Version on my IGP i865 ist not good either.

dr.zeissler wrote:

some effects are missing even compared to the D3D-Version

Such as.........?

Background in the Intro behind the tree. In GLIDE and D3D it's moving and shaded, in PVR it's only flat, same with the sky in the entire game.

Hi, this is an old thread i know but i remember reading a comment that the m3d is stackable.
Does anyone know something about that?
Is it even possible and if so is there a Driver?
I could not find any info or confirmation in the manual or other forums.

great necro, so you are telling us that you have more than 1? Cuz if u don't you wont find another.

Warlord wrote on 2020-08-29, 22:43:

great necro, so you are telling us that you have more than 1? Cuz if u don't you wont find another.

Yes i got my hands on two of these. Both got recognized by the win98se system just fine. With original driver and apocalypse tested.
No issues but although no gains in bench-marking with Quake-powerVR.
So, for me it seems the m3d is not stackable but maybe I'm missing something.

Guessing the game may have to support it directly?

My guess is that if it was possible, nothing probably ever supported it.

leileilol wrote on 2016-05-22, 22:17:

Tommaso72 wrote:

actually a 686mx 133

Speed on that won't be great either. The PCX2's drivers demand a strong FPU

What would be a good CPU for the PCX2? I've just installed a Matrox m3D into my Pentium (non-MMX) 200 MHz machine, run Final Reality and the results are way lower than Voodoo 1s in this machine: 1.21 vs 1.76 Reality Marks.

A Pentium II 300 MHz and above should be able to utilize the card well. I use my Celeron 333 Mendocino machine for the m3D.

GL1zdA wrote on 2022-01-31, 12:21:

What would be a good CPU for the PCX2?

Period correctly, a Klamath P2 233-300 on a 440LX. Many Pentium II OEM systems towards the end of 1997 had PCX2s with them

Other than that, 7th gen stuff (Athlon, P3, P4) should be fine as there's a few games a PCX2 can handle better on those processors than the P2. You can potentially get through Deus Ex on one...

The aforementioned P4 + M3D gets 2.93 reality marks for the 3d test. It's not a very good test for pure 3d cardness as that ripple at the start's quite the CPU muncher

leileilol wrote on 2022-01-31, 17:30:

GL1zdA wrote on 2022-01-31, 12:21:

What would be a good CPU for the PCX2?

Period correctly, a Klamath P2 233-300 on a 440LX. Many Pentium II OEM systems towards the end of 1997 had PCX2s with them

Which OEMs used the PCX2?

It looks to me, as if the PCX2 was positioned in some really odd place. A $99 card that required a $600 CPU to make the most of it.