We have had a terrible time trying to install the Matrox
G-400 dual-head card on three different machines with
the Raptor card, with both Win98SE and Win2K. On the
Win98 machine, we could not get preview overlay, either
hardware or software, with the Raptor; with one Win2K
(I like it too - it is STABLE! ;-) machine, it ran
well with software overlay only, would not do hardware;
with the other, we managed to get hardware overlay
running, only to discover a fatal flaw: in Win2K, the
second-level menus pop up split between the two monitor
screens (we replaced that G-400 with a Matrox G-200
AGP and a Diamond 32-meg PCI, and the client is happy).
In other machines, using two ATI 8-meg cards works
fine (and they are cheap and easy to install) for
1152x864 at 32-bit and 70-75 refresh on dual 17"
monitors) - though there is one quirk DW may find
unacceptable with these when accessing SoftXplode
transitions: the screens blink alternately after
clicking on the SX transition on the timeline until
you open the SX dialogue box... Ah, well.....;-)
BTW, Matrox just announced new drivers for the G-400.
Maybe it will work now, afterall... (it does look
good, when running, as AI says...;-).

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:02:41 GMT, "Alexander Ibrahim" wrote:
>Is there a reason you could not use a Matrox G400 or G450 ?
>
>I just replaced my Geforce with a G400 for an RT2000 install, and
>I found that the color representation is both more pleasing and
>more accurate. That was with the monitor set up as best possible
>for the Geforce, I haven't changed the monitor color balance yet.
>
>The card is very fast as well. It is abit slower than the Geforce
>DDR, but still very quick for everything I do. I can measure the
>difference, but I can't feel it.
>
>This card should work nicely under W98 and W2K. I only tested
>dual head on W98SE. I did my speed comparisons under W2K. The
>card was a breeze to install under W2K.
>
>Comparing the set up under W2K and W98SE, W2K is a lot easier.
>W98SE crashes for just about any reason I can think of. It turns
>out I need some drivers for my chipset (VIA Apollo133A). W2K just
>runs along without them. W98SE rarely starts up with an AGP card
>installed, and can never shut down with one, until I add those
>drivers. When I swapped out the disk and booted W2K again it was
>still just fine, and faster. When I installed the drivers...it
>was even faster.
>
>I like Win2K.
>
>Matrox should definitely get on the ball with Win2K, because it
>is a lot easier to deal with.