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/ Adam Richardson

Matrox ICD Update

Matrox regrets to announce that it has pushed back the release of its OpenGL ICD to Wednesday, December 9, 1998.

Matrox ICD Update is the story on November 30, 1998, and it is one of those late-1998 PC gaming updates that says exactly where the scene is right now. Matrox regrets to announce that it has pushed back the release of its OpenGL ICD to Wednesday, December 9, 1998. On this date, Matrox will release a pre-beta version with support for Windows 95/98 only.

While the pre-beta ICD will not exceed the performance of the currently available Matrox Direct3D Wrapper, Matrox wanted to assure customers that, despite the unfortunate delays, they are aggressively working on the ICD development under Windows 95/98 and NT in order to deliver the maximum performance possible for MGA-G200 based graphics accelerators. This pre-beta ICD released on December 9, 1998 will support a limited number of OpenGL games and applications including, Quake II and Half Life. Drivers and hardware updates are not glamorous, but when they fix a game or unlock a card you already paid for, they matter.