Reputator wrote:

Sounds really good with the new narration! You really did a fantastic job F2bnp!

And brilliant work as always vlask. I'm definitely subbing to this!

Just an FYI, gouraud is pronounced like "gorrow", with emphasis on the second syllable. Here's a spoken example.

While on the topic of pronunciation, I've always pronounced Matrox "May-trocks", not "May-tricks". I don't know what the official way is.

clueless1 wrote:

While on the topic of pronunciation, I've always pronounced Matrox "May-trocks", not "May-tricks". I don't know what the official way is.

Same here, which is why I didn't say anything about it. For all I know I could be wrong on that one.

I'm not saying "May-tricks" in the video. 🤣

It's a Quebec company so maybe it''s May-tro.......

You should really sort out that sound issue, I don't think just the specific video card is at fault here and may affect with others. I can see a Geforce giving the same trouble

Well, it's not spelled Matreaux.

leileilol wrote:

You should really sort out that sound issue, I don't think just the specific video card is at fault here and may affect with others. I can see a Geforce giving the same trouble

Same setup, Voodoo 1, Riva 128, S3 ViRGE - no problems with sound. Same errors had Alliance AT3D. Tried to change sound card for Soundblaster 128 - same results. Don't know reason for this. Did 2 years ago benchmark of these 1st gen cards, but without sound. So don't know how many others will have same issues.

Branco Matic and Lorne Trottier ... eXcellence

Try this with mystique on GLQuake with the techland driver. Paste this as opengl32.ini in the quake folder

1[Techland OpenGL]
2; alpha treshold for texture conversion for colorkeying on Mystique
3nAlphaTreshold=80
4; dither texture, may improve visual quality
5bDitherTexture=0
6; use single precision math, pretty important to set it correctly on voodoo
7; should speed up things a little anyway
8bSinglePrecisionMath=0
9; emulate permedia2 in GL_RENDERER for s3 virge driver
10; so quake will use mono lightmaps
11bEmuPermedia=1
12; for virge, force square textures
13; textures are resized inside opengl
14; default is 1
15; you may try to set it to 0 if you have Virge DX or GX2
16bForceSquare=0
17; for virge, force squaring to smaller dimension
18; saves memory but quality is worse
19; default is 0
20bSquareDown=0
21;use s3 virge 24bpp mode for rendering
22;works only in fullscreen mode
23bVirge24BPP=0

So I've been wrong saying Mat-rocks all this time??? This is like the Hauppauge thing all over again.

So I've been wrong saying Mat-rocks all this time??? This is like the Hauppauge thing all over again.

I personally know several people who used to work for Matrox and I can tell you that all of them pronounce it as "Mat-rocks" .

leileilol wrote:

Try this with mystique on GLQuake with the techland driver. Paste this as opengl32.ini in the quake folder […]
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Try this with mystique on GLQuake with the techland driver. Paste this as opengl32.ini in the quake folder

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1[Techland OpenGL]
2; alpha treshold for texture conversion for colorkeying on Mystique
3nAlphaTreshold=80
4; dither texture, may improve visual quality
5bDitherTexture=0
6; use single precision math, pretty important to set it correctly on voodoo
7; should speed up things a little anyway
8bSinglePrecisionMath=0
9; emulate permedia2 in GL_RENDERER for s3 virge driver
10; so quake will use mono lightmaps
11bEmuPermedia=1
12; for virge, force square textures
13; textures are resized inside opengl
14; default is 1
15; you may try to set it to 0 if you have Virge DX or GX2
16bForceSquare=0
17; for virge, force squaring to smaller dimension
18; saves memory but quality is worse
19; default is 0
20bSquareDown=0
21;use s3 virge 24bpp mode for rendering
22;works only in fullscreen mode
23bVirge24BPP=0

Tried, no effect. Still without textures....

Someone ever wanted card from Trident? Hope not. Next episode out featuring Trident 3DImàge 9750.

https://youtu.be/P_tEA3VCIBY

Ha my first experience with 3D acceleration was with my family's Compaq and its integrated Trident Blade 3D. Actually didn't do too badly in Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, which was pretty much the only 3D game on PC I played back then.

Another episode, this time also start of new playlist. Had to do some recording with borrowed cards....might not see them many years, chances that i got them to collection are low.
So something about PCX2

https://youtu.be/M7dxTmI1SyI

vlask wrote:

Another episode, this time also start of new playlist. Had to do some recording with borrowed cards....might not see them many years, chances that i got them to collection are low.
So something about PCX2

https://youtu.be/M7dxTmI1SyI

Great video! Technically this isn't a bad video card! Haha

Hmm why don't you see reflections with the PCX2 in Unreal?
In my capture of Unreal with the PCX2 you ca see it at the beginning as well as at e.g. 5:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0OILijFfo

Trident Blade XP wasn't fastest beast around back then....

https://youtu.be/YcBaeUWxr0U

Looks like Riva TNT level of performance in 2001.

I have a laptop that has that trident blade xp and it goes through 3dmark01 and I get similar results as I would get using voodoo3, so I wouldn't really call it a bad chip. Also it seems very compatible with dos. I have gotten no visual glitches in any dos game I have tried.
I am sure it was probably slow considering when it was launched, but slow doesn't mean necessarily same as bad from my perspective.

leileilol wrote:

Geforce FX5200 64-bit
ATI Rage (non-Pro)

I think I owned both of these at one point. 🤣