Does any one miss the days of the S3trio32/64 VGA cards?<br> or the outstanding S3Virge3D cards? <br> AH such outstanding workmanship, brilliant design, perfect tablematts! <br> No other frisbe had the same balance and weight as these cards. <br> I remember loading up the Quake demo for the first time on a trio32/64 so all my friends could see the wonders and excitement of the next evolution of gaming right in front of them. <br> And they said it was crap!. <br> NOT QUAKE but the card, just as well I got a Teung Labs ET 6000 soon after... S3 really does sux ha ha<br>
Ahhhh I remember when I got my Diamon Stealth III S540 card. Card sucked in everything except one game...Aliens vs. Predator. I could run that game at 1600x1200 @ 32 bit color without a single slowdown on my old 400 MHz Celeron! To this day I don't know why it worked so well....<br> <br> My Rig:<br> <A HREF="http://www.tweakers.com.au/pcdb/viewall.asp?pcid=201" TARGET=_blank>http://www.tweakers.com.au/pcdb/viewall.asp?pcid=201</A>
Hummm... such mysteries will trouble the wise sages until the next century. It is best not to dwell on the unexplained. <br> All I can offer is that you had a bloody good celeron 400! probally the fastest celeron 400 in the entire universe. what a feat what a marvel.<br> pitty your system was dragged down by the graphics card though... <IMG SRC="smileys/biggrin.gif">
mmmm i rember my S3 virge/dx 4mb pci, greatly, first 3d card i ever owned, Allowed me to run Jedi Knight @ a stunning Screen res of 400*30016bit @ 30fps on a cyrix PR 200 and 48mb of EDO sdram haha no transpencys or alpha channels that card supported, so a texture that was supposed to be see though would be soild like glass heh, soon got a Voodoo banshee about 6months later. World of diffrence! but still the virge was a nice card never really had any probs with it...... sits in one of my drawers now, wonder what type of 3dmark score it would get oughta try, the card ceartinly won't be CPU limited on a P4 @ 2.4ghz :bigsmile: wonder if it would even run it heh
