banshee lol

mcstarr24 · **banshee lol -** 12-15-2006, 04:48 | posts: 57

i was going through my storage room the otherday and ran across this card, and the box. it was PCI. i had forgotten about it, and i found a old matrox card also. both pci. man i was maybe 17 when i had them.

i do still have my voodo 4 in my home it's in an older computer that i use for backups...im gonna load a game up and see how this banshee performs

now that i remeber i actually played damn HL1 on this for a brief period of time, and some TFC..it was crap even then..then the voodoo 4 came out and i was in bliss

anyone have a banshee? it was the **** the day it came out, but was short lived when the vooodoo 2 was put out

Chad720 · *Last edited by Chad720; 12-15-2006 at 07:22.*

yeah it is true, 2 or 3 months ago I've mounted a PIII 9xx Mhz with a GF2 gts (BF 1, Cstrike etc...) and another with a PIII 650 with "THE BANSHEE", just for a quick "old style" lan, it was a diammond monster fusion (voodoo banshee) 16mb bought in 98´s for something really crasy, think that was something like 300! obviously, 6 months ago was at least half of that... (I also still have a diammond monster fussion 3d II w/ 12mb that requires a 2d card, at the days of duke nuckem 3d and quake it was really usefull, and I remmember the first time I play cstrike at my voodoo banshee).
They was the glory days of 3dfx! and the bird of realistic games! Is it true that nvidia bought 3dfx for something about 120kk?
I always has the doubt, banshee is kind of voodoo 3 or wich number is it?
Well, the most I´d managed to do with the banshee was everything before transform and lightning, so whenever it says gf2 you´ll probably get stucked. But I could tell you that cstrike with extra ram and PII 400 run just fine (just try to avoid smoke granades. . .) What really surprises me is the number of drivers and tweakers utils that are aviable for those voodoo cards, so if you´r a die-hard OC you´ll certainly have fun!
Good luck and if you manage to play bf1 please tell me how (I´ve passed too many hours trying lot of drivers and so w/o succes)...

PD: If you will push this card to the limits, please try not to kill it soon, do it for me and for the hours of games the banshee gaves to our lives!!

I forgot! the banshee was an agp model, and the monster 3d II was PCI

Gromuhl'Djun · 12-15-2006, 10:50 | posts: 5,209 | Location: Netherlands

The voodoo Banshee was essentially a Voodoo2 with 2D capabilities, but with only one texture mapping unit VS 2 on the Voodoo2(but with 16mb VS 12 or 8 for the voodoo2)
So in multitextured environments the Voodoo2 would be faster, but with singletextured polygons the banshee was better.
In 3d the Voodoo2 was better overall. The 2D capabilities of the banshee were actually pretty good.

exscalibur99 · 12-15-2006, 11:24 | posts: 250

yeah, I also have the Voodoo Banshee mine is from Creative.. at that time it was the first 3D card that I bought.. first 3D game that I played with the card is Star Wars : Rogue Squadron...

CronoGraal · 12-15-2006, 13:03 | posts: 3,452 | Location: Sweden

i remember my friend has a voodoo I think 3 or someting and would play midtown madness nicely.

Takeout · 12-19-2006, 20:03 | posts: 6 | Location: Canada

I still got a mint V5 5500 agp that i will either use again some day or mount it on the wall. Had every flavor of 3dfx that was made(except v5 6000 of course). Excellent quality and speed and best of all the drivers and compatibility rocked.

mykledw · *Last edited by mykledw; 12-19-2006 at 20:18.*

My first GPU that was also my first add in that I did was.................wait for it................

The ATI Rage Fury Max

Whopping 8Mb of mem, 2x graphics and Dual GPU's on one card............

the good old days.................and that card went in to a Pacard Bell piece of sheit that completely ended up in the trash, but I still have that vid card somewhere....................

Barry J · 12-19-2006, 23:06 | posts: 1,360 | Location: Ipswich UK

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Originally Posted by exscalibur99

yeah, I also have the Voodoo Banshee mine is from Creative.. at that time it was the first 3D card that I bought.. first 3D game that I played with the card is Star Wars : Rogue Squadron...

i loved playing that game on my voodoo2

QuadCannons · 12-21-2006, 14:24 | posts: 2,534 | Location: NYC

Those older cards (Voodoo, all the way up to GeForce2) all had a special smoothness about them not found in modern cards, right?

Gromuhl'Djun · 12-21-2006, 14:49 | posts: 5,209 | Location: Netherlands

Sort of, but not in Direct3D, only in Glide. I think it has something to do with the games being written for Glide.

WLADYC · 12-22-2006, 19:49 | posts: 624 | Location: +62-22

just want to ask, does voodoo banshee support for widescreen resolution ( 1440x900 ) ?

dwax · 12-23-2006, 02:43 | posts: 121 | Location: South Dakota

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Originally Posted by WLADYC

just want to ask, does voodoo banshee support for widescreen resolution ( 1440x900 ) ?

I don't think so. If I remember I had a fun time, I had a voodoo banshee abd set it to a high res. When it set it lost all my screen LOL took me a few minn to correct. I still have it in the original box. AGP. Along with 2 Voodoo3 3000 AGP 2 Voodoo4 4500 AGP and 3 Voodoo5 5500. Most are all in original sealed box's. I have one rig set up just for voodoo games. I love the glide esp Unreal!

Grifty · 12-23-2006, 06:25 | posts: 696 | Location: Sydney, Australia

I still have a rage 128 pro i don't know if its like vintage or anything i got it out of my dell that i got 5 years ago

Steven Hone · 12-27-2006, 11:18 | posts: 2,220 | Location: Ireland

ive never owned a voodoo

t3chn0m0 · **Monster ;) -** 12-27-2006, 14:50 | posts: 8 | Location: Germany -> Cologne

So, lets take a look at this baby

Wildman95GS-T · 12-30-2006, 00:52 | posts: 409 | Location: Alabama, Dothan

I had a 16mb voodoo banshee card connected to two 12mb 3dfx voodoo 2 cards in sli mode.

vbetts · 12-31-2006, 05:58 | posts: 10,247 | Location: Toledo Ohio

I remember my Evil King Voodoo 3, 3500 video tuner combo... It did the job, it was good. Still got it, it's in a web server now.

OldNewGuy · 01-01-2007, 07:59 | posts: 44 | Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan

I had a banshee. Got it when I was a kid for christmas :-)

Great video card. I overclocked the core from 100Mhz to 125 and it ran smoooooooooooooooth.

Back in the day, it was the whip. That was when the 3d voodoo2 add-in card days where coming to an end. Although I will say a SLI-12MB x2 VooDoo2 setup was the shizznit back in the day.

TheWheelman · **Memory**: 2x2GB DDR2 800 5/4/4/18

I once had a Voodoo2. I never really used it, I didn't even think much of it cause.. well, I was what, nine? Maybe younger, so I didn't really care since I had a better card.. now I kinda wish I'd tried it out.

Karl 2 · 01-24-2007, 18:11 | posts: 2,607 | Location: Maine

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Originally Posted by QuadCannons

Those older cards (Voodoo, all the way up to GeForce2) all had a special smoothness about them not found in modern cards, right?

Lol, sounds just like my grandpa used to say about his first car, a 1930'ish Ford Model A when he was comparing it with whatever Lincoln he had at the time.

My grandma disagreed

Karl 2 · 01-24-2007, 18:17 | posts: 2,607 | Location: Maine

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Originally Posted by Steven Hone

ive never owned a voodoo

Gosh

Havokie · 01-24-2007, 21:36 | posts: 566 | Location: Ireland

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Originally Posted by QuadCannons

Those older cards (Voodoo, all the way up to GeForce2) all had a special smoothness about them not found in modern cards, right?

Yep. Unreal Tournament or Half Life look better on a Voodoo card then it ever will on a 8800GTX

Funny as well, because UT looks excellent on the S3 Savage4 card, as there was a special wrapper for the S3 card, which was otherwise a fairly basic card....!

Seriously though, they are poorer then the competing Nvidia and Ati cards in games running OGL and Dx, particularly towards the end of their lifespan, which forced them out of the market....just in a select few older games, they are king, and it's well worth grabbing one for nostalgia purposes.