The Glide good ol days

DSparil · *Last edited by DSparil; 05-19-2007 at 03:55.*

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

Steven Hone · 10-29-2006, 10:04 | posts: 2,220 | Location: Ireland

I never had the privilege of using 3dfx

jiu-jitsuGOD · 10-30-2006, 16:28 | posts: 1,556 | Location: Was NY now SA TX

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Originally Posted by DSparil

I remember when I got my new Voodoo 3 3300AGP 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

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.......

Zeppo · 10-31-2006, 19:53 | posts: 1,418 | Location: London, UK

I still got my Voodoo3 lying around, I wont be throwing it away either!

AMD64 · 11-01-2006, 19:52 | posts: 7 | Location: Sweden

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

QuadCannons · 11-02-2006, 18:09 | posts: 2,534 | Location: NYC

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.

morbias · **Memory**: 6GB HyperX @1600 6-7-6-18

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).

DSparil · 11-05-2006, 03:28 | posts: 2,389 | Location: Tampa Bay, FL

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...

chrismeyer · 11-06-2006, 00:36 | posts: 1,145 | Location: TR N.J

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

QuadCannons · 11-06-2006, 21:13 | posts: 2,534 | Location: NYC

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)

Gromuhl'Djun · 11-06-2006, 21:55 | posts: 5,200 | Location: Netherlands

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?

Brian the King · 11-21-2006, 02:46 | posts: 1,300 | Location: IL

My fondest voodoo memory is playing Shogo at almost 100% graphics on a Voodoo2 8mb. That game still works on my 2nd pc

SniperDaws · 11-22-2006, 00:08 | posts: 2,567 | Location: UK

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

jiu-jitsuGOD · 11-22-2006, 01:08 | posts: 1,556 | Location: Was NY now SA TX

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..

chrismeyer · 11-22-2006, 14:49 | posts: 1,145 | Location: TR N.J

now their part of nvidia it would be cool if they just for kicks released a voodoo card

DSparil · *Last edited by DSparil; 11-22-2006 at 16:55.*

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Originally Posted by jiu-jitsuGOD

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

Boris.G · 11-24-2006, 06:21 | posts: 6

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..."

Xion999 · 11-24-2006, 23:11 | posts: 436

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Originally Posted by Boris.G

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!!!

MR_James · 11-29-2006, 15:49 | posts: 36

The thing I miss the most about the older cards is when they clicked in and you knew you were playing 3D

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

Evele · 12-05-2006, 18:54 | posts: 26

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.

Gromuhl'Djun · 12-05-2006, 18:55 | posts: 5,200 | Location: Netherlands

Sure you can, just get a glide emulator.

sonoma1983 · 12-06-2006, 03:04 | posts: 82 | Location: michigan

I remember when I got my 3dfx voodoo 2000 pci for christmas. It was awesome playing jedi knight dark forces II, nascar racing 3, and some others games using it. Then I flashed the card to a voodoo 3 3000 pci model

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cyclone3d

Well, I decided today to finally build the retro gaming system that I have been meaning to build for quite a while.

Anyway, the specs so far are:

Micron Millenium Mxe computer case
Tyan S1854 motherboard
1Ghz Intel Celeron (I hate Intel BTW, but this is the only working board I had that had AGP, PCI, and ISA slots).... and it will definitely be fast enough for any old games.
1GB PC133 SDRAM - 1x512MB & 2x256MB
3DFX Voodoo 5 - 5500 AGP
Soundblaster AWE64 Gold!
3Com Parralel Tasking II PCI Ethernet
Antec 450w PSU
3.5" floppy
32x CD-ROM
100MB Zip drive (I left it in there because I don't have another 3.5" drive cover. It won't even be hooked up at all.)
And Win98SE as soon as I figure out which HDD I am going to use.

And then I can retro game like never before!

Oh, these parts are all old stuff I had laying around and/or required from other people getting new computers.

Now I just have to figure out where my old game pad is... I think I left it at the parents' house.. oops.

cyclone3d · 12-10-2006, 09:14 | posts: 140

oh yeah! I am typing this on my retro rig... I had to use a 3Com 3C905C card instead of the 3C905B card.. the B card ended up being bad... now it is time for me to go to bed.. I will have to test with games later.

Oh, and I am using a 40Gb WD HDD.

And I think I actually got rid of my old game pad a while ago.. I couldn't find it... now I just have to hunt one down at the thrift shops.. argghh

BTW.. I haven't seen a system start up or shut down this fast in quite a while. Win98SE is blazing fast on this rig :-D

DSparil · 12-10-2006, 21:57 | posts: 2,389 | Location: Tampa Bay, FL

thats awesome. you are gonna have some good retro times on that comp ;-)

Windows 98SE was my favorite version of windows until XP pro, and was easily the best for games I think. Pretty stable too