Reply 20 of 25, by igna78
Back when I started working on my first retro build (a 486 with muscles of steel), I had considered using the G450 as a 2D card, however, wanting to use the MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.1 combination, I found myself limited in Windows to using the generic 256 color driver (Matrox had released Win 3.1 drivers for the G400 but not for the G450). So I looked for a solution: I had thought about modifying the G400 drivers (as mentioned, G450 is a simple die shrink of G400) however I found various negative experiences in this regard on the Internet and therefore I decided to give up.
Maybe whoever had tried to modify the G400 drivers to use them with the G450 had done something wrong, they didn't have enough experience.
For my build, I just thought, having a 4MB Millennium II available, that it would be enough for DOS and Win 3.1 and that in this way I would finish my build quickly and without any particular problems... and so it was... and so the project retro began 😁