Parhelia Support lacking?

wcoxe1 wrote on 3/22/2003, 9:11 PM

Spot, you mentioned that there was a lack of support for the Matrox Parhelia in a very recent post.

Since I just stumbled across this, and was seriously considering it, can you illuminate the topic a bit. HOW is it not supported?

Are the 450 and 550 fully supported?

By the way, I looked at those Appian Graphic 4/8 head cards you mentioned. They cost more than my whole computer setup. Boy, fancy is expensive!

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rextilleon wrote on 3/22/2003, 10:01 PM

I can't tell you about the Parhelia---but I do know that the 450 and 550 are supported---I use the 550 and it runs flawlessly-----(of course I fire wire out to my external NTSC)

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/22/2003, 11:03 PM

The Matrox Parhelia isn't supported in that to use the external monitor abilities of the card, specific drivers are called for. The Parhelia is a dual head PLUS external monitor card, or "3" head card. The 450/550 are absolutely fine, because they are standard AGP cards with standard Windows drivers that aren't application specific. The Parhelia works fine w/Vegas, it's just that you won't have the external monitor ability straight from the display graphics card, you'd still need to use the firewire/converter method.