I don't want to give a completely bad impression of Matrox. We've used
their products for many years with excellent results (the G200 was a
good card for quite a while). Now however (for the past two years) they
have stumbled badly with the G400 which they won't admit is very
temperamental (this is a known hardware problem and is documented by
some motherboard vendors). The OpenGL performance of the G200 drivers
has been "poor". All in all Matrox doesn't have a good card for Java 3D
(OpenGL). My opinion of ATI is much worse than my opinion of Matrox.
Currently the video card industry is lead by two vendors NVidia
(excellent products) and ATI (argh...).
- John Wright
Starfire Research
David Schachter wrote:
>
> At 09:32 AM 3/7/2001 -0600, John Wright wrote:
> >We tested a Matrox G400 in a few of our testbed machines and it proved
> >to be unstable (completely unrelated to Java 3D). It is possible a
> >newer driver has cleared up these problems as we abandonned testing the
> >G400 last summer. Matrox suggested it was an incompatibility with our
> >motherboard. We tried the G400 with several different motherboards (all
> >good reputation boards like Tyan and Asus).
>
> Unfortunately, this matches my experience with Matrox. I'm not saying other
> vendors are better, but Matrox has a history with me of blaming everything
> but sunspots for problems with their software and cards. They promise the
> sun, moon, and stars...but I won't be purchasing their products for some
> time to come.
>
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