Matrox's Driver Dev. Team

[efty]

I don't know if anyone of you guys have seen this. It was posted at http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewto...r=asc&start=20 by Derek Smart (apparently a well known game developer)

So here is a quote

IMHO, ATI has the worst driver dev team in the history of hardware manufacturers. And Matrox have the best driver dev teams, bar none.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

hehe saw it on Matorx's forum a week ago. Interesting tho... he may love matrox products, because the first thing that comes into my mind about drivers is nvidia. I guess the main reason for him to say this is because of "cheap driver optimization" in 3dmark. Actually I think Matrox could have added more functions to the PowerDesk features tab, just like ATI (no comment) and nVIDIA.

[Randy Simons]

Indeed, even when using Matrox' newest beta drivers, I can't remember seeing a BSoD. Of course, some versions do have quirks but actually I'm glad we're not in the driver-madness of nvidia with all the "leaked driver"-shit.

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Actually I think Matrox could have added more functions to the PowerDesk features tab, just like ATI (no comment) and nVIDIA.

IMHO the best place for those tweaky-stuff-thingies is in the MTSTU and not in the main driver panel. It also prevents drivers from getting 10+MB, because you don't need to include all that stuff every time.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Yea i second that actually. Putting them into MTSTU will be nice too. Would be nicer if we get a utility for G/P series cards like the G400 tweak or the GeForce Tweak Utility. An OPTION of integrating them into the tap would be nice too, so user can decide whether to d/l the additional stuff or not.

[Peter Aragon]

My guess is that the driver guys will expose the necessary functionality with .NET to make it even more easy to build custom add-ons.

Anyone tried out the nice dll's in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\PowerDesk8\ dir ;-)

Simply import them in Visual Studio.NET

[mabraham]

What kind of functionality is that?! I don´t have Visual Studio .NET available to check myself.

[Peter Aragon]

It exposes functionality available in PowerDesk and more. All we need is documentation for the use of some features. I tried to enumerate through the hotkeys, to be able to make a custom program to invoke them, but I don't see an enumeration or don't have the type library.

Perhaps some help from the Matrox Driver boys?