Matrox Mystique

Technical details
Name: Mystique MGA-MYST/4I
Company: Matrox
Chipset: IS-MGA-1064SG-D (Hurricane Rev 2) at 50 MHz
Bus: PCI
RAM: 4 MB SGRAM 12ns, 64 bit 75 MHz
DAC: integrated 170 MHz
Connectors: VGA, VESA
FCC-ID: ?
Manufactured: 1996


The Matrox Mystique supports 3D acceleration on DirectX3- level. It does not support bilinear filtering, fogging, mipmapping and true transparency. For transparency stippled alpha is used. The driver supports also Matrox own 3D API called Matrox Simple Interface (MSI). The chipset supports MPEG-1 video acceleration. The RAM can be upgraded to max. 8 MB with a memory expansion board. Interestingly the Box states only 158 MHz RAM DAC clock.

Box, printed manual and CDs present.

Screenshots of the Mystique version of Tomb Raider:



Screamer Rally on Matrox Mystique (45 fps average):


Output of MXINFO tool
Matrox Mystique Drivers, CDs, Game Patches
MGA Tweak Tool
VESA Info
Detailed Review at Vintage3D
List of games with native MSI 3D API support at Vogons