Re: OT: Video card again

Gabor -

This is not a direct answer to your question, but for general information:

I am running Vista Ultimate 32-Bit with 4 sticks DDR 2 1GB. Same limitation as
Wxp; inherent limitation of 32-Bit architecture. Vista displays 3,326 GB and
runs perfectly.

Presently am using MSI Radeon HD2600XT w/heat pipe silent cooling (no fan).
Excellent Vista Aero rendering and performance. No stability issues in CGS X3
& X4. ATI/AMD Driver v7.12 gets 'Black' scaling bars in DVD Video Players
and TV software correctly. Latest 8.2 Driver does not.

If you need/want 4GB RAM more than Matrox, older Radeon DirectX 9 cards are
becoming quite cheap, perhaps inexpensive enough for experimentation. And
excellent Modded driver alternative to AMD/ATI drivers, if they cause problems,
is the Omega Radeon series for Wxp (no Vista support). Omega Radeon also has
much more convenient Tray Tool for controlling array of options, etc.

Good luck nailing the situation with Matrox.

Hans-Peter

  "DEAK JAHN, Gabor" <djg@tramontana.co.hu> wrote in message
news:47b863bd.21576031@cnews.corel.ca...

  Hello,

  not the first time the question arises around here but does anybody
  have first hand experience with a Matrox P690 PCIe and 4 GB of system
  memory? It's well-known that 32-bit XP can't handle it beyond 3 GB but
  memory is cheap these days and it seems to be a bad idea not to put
  that much into a new motherboard (especially as current boards offer 4
  DIMM slots and work fastest if they are equally populated, so this
  means two 2 GB modules). But I heard about video driver induced
  clashes with more than 3 GB RAM.

  Bye,
    Gabor

  DEAK JAHN, Gabor
  Hungarian CVP Forum
  http://www.tramontana.co.hu/index_en.php

Hello,

not the first time the question arises around here but does anybody
have first hand experience with a Matrox P690 PCIe and 4 GB of system
memory? It's well-known that 32-bit XP can't handle it beyond 3 GB but
memory is cheap these days and it seems to be a bad idea not to put
that much into a new motherboard (especially as current boards offer 4
DIMM slots and work fastest if they are equally populated, so this
means two 2 GB modules). But I heard about video driver induced
clashes with more than 3 GB RAM.

Bye,
  Gabor

DEAK JAHN, Gabor
Hungarian CVP Forum
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/index_en.php

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:48:29 -0500, "Hans-Peter Guttmann"
<atitlan@email.msn.com> wrote:

Hans-Peter,

> If you need/want 4GB RAM more than Matrox, older Radeon DirectX 9 cards
> are becoming quite cheap, perhaps inexpensive enough for
> experimentation.

Gaming features and performance are totally irrelevant to me, just
like Vista and Aero (maybe after a couple of years, at SP2 or SP3, who
knows, but then, probably, I will be paid to pick up a card like
that). Matrox, actually, has a WDDM driver but I know nothing about
pixel shading 2.0 that seems to be the second prerequisite to Aero.

Bye,
  Gabor

DEAK JAHN, Gabor
Hungarian CVP Forum
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/index_en.php

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:48:29 -0500, "Hans-Peter Guttmann"
<atitlan@email.msn.com> wrote:

Hans,

I finally decided not to want to track down the Matrox issue and
settled on a cheapish GeForce 8500GT. Rather low end as far as gaming
is concerned but still plenty for DTP use. Direct 10 and all, it will
run Vista/Aero, will I ever need it. No trouble so far.

By the way, for anybody considering a cheap entry into tablet and pen
territory: http://www.wacom.com/bambootablet/ . It costs around the
third of an Intuos tablet and the differences in specification, in my
opinion, are mostly irrelevant.

Bye,
  Gabor

DEAK JAHN, Gabor
Hungarian CVP Forum
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/index_en.php