I remember when I got my new Voodoo 3 3000AGP and ran the hell out of games like Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Hexen 2. It seemed like back then the Glide api was the way to go for those types of games (especially Unreal and UT). Even though the card only supported 16 bit color, I almost didnt care because frame rates were so high and the games ran so silky smooth. 3dfx ran my gaming soul back in those days! Of couse, then came the Riva TNT2 and the following Geforce line of cards, slowly leading 3dfx to the grave, well......along with other reasons. I just wanted to relish in those good ol days when I was proud to sport 3dfx cards in my system and rock it out with glide :cheers:
Those were deff the days bro. I got a Voodoo3 in my very first home built computer I played Drahken order of the flame on high detail and games like Evolva motorhead and others.I then saved my pennies And got a Voodoo5 5500 at launch costed 500 Bucks. but it was so awesome to run games 32bit color . I played diablo 2 for hours . then I went and did the silly thing of getting into benchmarking.. when the Geforce 2 ultra came out it spanked the V5500 so I brought it back after 60 somthing days days (dumb E.B sales guy) traded 2 games and got the ultra I think it debuted at 649 USD.LOL the rest is history.......
I will never sell my Voodoo4 4500 PCI card. Some games like Diablo II (the best game ever) runs much smoother on Voodoo. Excuse my bad english, Im from sweden
Benchmarking gets the best of us, that's why we're all here after all The old gfx cards do have a certain "smoothness" about their rendering that the newer cards don't seem to have. Playing CS1.6 on a GeForce2 GTS and a 6800GT shows the difference.
I used to have a v3 3000, and there was no tearing without v-sync whatsoever. Though this is probably because it never went above 60fps... I loved my voodoo3, I ended up giving it away in a moment of madness! Glide was awesome, had the most performance of any api back then (it totally spanked powervr, which I had before the 3dfx).
Yeah, i was all about my Voodoo3 too Morbius. I still have it around here to this day You are right about PowerVR though. although its odd that the Dreamcast used a PowerVR chipset and kicked some ass for its time! Atleast im pretty sure it was a PowerVR chipset in there...
yes the dreamcast did use the povervr chipset. and i still have my 2 old voodoo 3 cards a one is a v3 3000 pci 16m3g and the other one is a V3 2000 8meg agp2x
New cards produce tearing even when the framerate is below 60FPS though. That special smoothness from the pre-GF3 cards (not sure if the GF3 had it) was a phenomenon that so far no one has been able to explain (or even notice)
My Voodoo2 12mb was great! Twice as cheap as most brands (it was a Trust, cheap, but never any trouble) Seeing Unreal on that thing, while I was used to Doom1 was a serious treat. I couldn't live with 800x600 as a maximum resolution today though Tearing was indeed NEVER a problem. What's up with that?
My fondest voodoo memory is playing Shogo at almost 100% graphics on a Voodoo2 8mb. That game still works on my 2nd pc
My 1st game with a Voodoo 2 pci card was HalfLife and that just blew me away, and im sorry to say nothing else ever has, we would have much better Graphics cards now if 3DFX were still going, it wasnt about raw speed with 3DFX it was about quality and sadly thats been lost now. Take me back ffs im getting old now, 32 in feb
I wish 3dfx was still around .but here the thing thier company failed for a reason ... I mean I dont know how much better it would be toaday if they were still here.. they made rediculous mistakes in thier architecture which led to there demise..
Thats true, but I think what hurt them equally as much was the decision to go at it alone. Before the Voodoo3 cards, 3dfx decided that no 3rd party developer (at the time diamond, creative and others) could manufacture a card with the voodoo chipset but 3dfx. I think that lost them a lot of business, alienated a lot of the developers and offered less choice for the consumer :grab:
I had the original voodoo i remember now. I was 14 or 15 and i specifically went out and got a job washing cars over the christmas/summer break(australian) so that i could play GL Quake and Quake II in glide. It was magic. Running on a Pentium 266Mhz With 32MB of SD RAM and an extra 8M of EDO RAM(ewww). I swear i could feel the game slow down when it hopped onto the slower bus of that EDO RAM.... I sold that card to one of my mates and got a voodoo II 12MB a few years later and played soooooo much q2 on that thing (anyone remember theclq.com ??? RIP. I'm 23 now and i hang that voodoo II in the living room by its loop-back monitor cable, looped back onto itself on the wall as a piece of 'modern art'. And every once in a while a friend will come by and go "****, is that a Voodoo II??" and I go "Yes, my friend, A 12MB Voodoo II..."
Wow you're almost as bad as my friend, hes actually trying to make an old style machine with 3dfx's SLI!!! :bonk: :bonk: :bonk: :bonk:
The thing I miss the most about the older cards is when they clicked in and you knew you were playing 3D :grin: I still have most of my old cards: Orchid Rightous 4MB(Voodoo1) Creative Labs Banshee Voodoo3 3000 <-Sitting in my smoothwall box! Voodoo3 3500 Then unfortunately I moved to the geforce evil All the cards still work as well, got bored a little while ago so checked them all, lol
Can anyone say Tribes 1 on 2 Voodoo 2's bridged in SLI. You still can't run that game without Voodoo Glide, unless you like software rendering.