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LifestreamSince I own a R300 (Radeon 9700) this is mostly geared towards that piece of hardware. ATI has recently released the “Chimp demo” for the R9800 series. So far so good. The newly released NVIDIA Geforce FX demos (Dawn, Ogre, Time Machine, Toys) however do present a problem. The gfx engine itself should run on the R300 without any problems but for reason it doesn’t. Nasty move on NVIDIAs side.
Btw. The FX press release also mentioned that they were “.. first to Deliver DirectX 9.0 and High-Level Shader Languages to All PC Users”. Yeah right. I’ve got some news for the NVIDIA Pr dept. ATI wont go away just because you ignore them and this statement was profoundly stupid. Maybe it should have been “.. first to deliver Leafblowers to all households”.
I also noticed that there is now a way for non-Parhelia owners to run the Matrox Reef Demo. Very impressive demo indeed. Some would argue that the programming and modelling surpasses even the best of what NVIDIA and ATI have to offer. It’s too bad they didn’t make the card as shiny as they made the demo.
1. Download: MATROX REEF DEMO (107mb)
2. Visit: ToMMTi Systems and download 3D Analyzer 2.14+ (800kb).
3. Run 3D Analyzer with FishDemoClient.exe and the “Matrox Reef Demo fix” checked.
The hope is that 3D Analyzer will soon enable the nVidia FX demos on any hardware that is able to run them.
Hi,
I read your thread and was very glad that I could make run the beautiful reef demo on my ATI video card.
Unfortunateley I was not able to download the reefdemo itself because the access to the file @matrox is set to “forbidden”
I´ve been searching the web for days where to download the reef demo, but without success. I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks in advance
CU
Attila
Hey,
Ok. Didn’t realize Matrox had removed the link. Maybe it is still somewhere on that server but I can’t browse it by ftp so … damn.
I did a bit of searching elsewhere and came up with zilch working links as well.
The problem is that I don’t have the demo anymore. I suppose you could find it on Direct Connect or any other P2P service though.