Voodoo 3

Havokie · **Voodoo 3 -** 04-11-2007, 09:43 | posts: 566 | Location: Ireland

Well, I just got an old AGP Voodoo 3! I'm not sure which one precisely yet but I think either a 2000 or a 3000 - it has TV out anyway so it can't be the 1000. Any suggestions on what games to get running in glide glory? Other spec's will be 500mhz and 256mb of ram. I'm thinking UT - the only reason I got the card - but what else use to look great in Glide?

Havokie · 04-11-2007, 14:41 | posts: 566 | Location: Ireland

Ok - I got this up and running fine. But Glide to me looks pretty much identical if not inferior to OpenGL. Where am I supposed to be seeing the difference?

chrismeyer · 04-11-2007, 17:14 | posts: 1,145 | Location: TR N.J

glide is very similar to opengl. if ur card has tv out then its the voodoo 3 3500 or 3000

Glidefan · 04-13-2007, 15:36 | posts: 11,890 | Location: Solar System, Earth, Med, Cyprus

Actually you should be comparing Glide with D3D, because as chrismeyer said, glide and opengl are very similar.

dwax · 04-14-2007, 04:35 | posts: 121 | Location: South Dakota

Quote:

Originally Posted by Havokie

Ok - I got this up and running fine. But Glide to me looks pretty much identical if not inferior to OpenGL. Where am I supposed to be seeing the difference?

Go play Unreal Tournament start with OpenGL then go to Glide. I bet you will see the difference then.

Prodigy Freak · 04-14-2007, 09:59 | posts: 118 | Location: Serbia

Carmageddon

NFS3

Aropredator · *Last edited by Aropredator; 04-17-2007 at 13:00.*

if youre into flight simulation

Jane's AH64D Longbow
D.I.D F22 ADF

or
diablo2
driver
tomb raider
operation flashpoint (the last game that i know support glide)

Glidefan · 04-18-2007, 10:36 | posts: 11,890 | Location: Solar System, Earth, Med, Cyprus

Ultim@te Race Pro, F1 97

Ashrak · 04-18-2007, 12:36 | posts: 301 | Location: Estonia

Half life

Havokie · 04-19-2007, 10:26 | posts: 566 | Location: Ireland

Actually, yes I will give Half Life a go, as I actually do still have my original disc here somewhere...thanks for the lists guys. And yes, I know OpenGL and Glide are similar, but so many people always recommend Glide cards for games that actually Support Glide, yet I don't see any different at all to warrant not just using a regular card with openGL!

Perhaps Half Life will show a difference....UT certainly didn't

jobo · **I can't tell the difference either... -** 04-19-2007, 20:35 | posts: 63

... the games I thought were good on a Voodoo card because of glide actually look the same on a GF3, but these are probably OpenGL games.

A bigger difference for me [but irrelevant here] is between a CRT and LCD/TFT/etc - I may be a luddite but CRTs look a lot better on almost everything I have tried.

Glidefan · 04-20-2007, 08:35 | posts: 11,890 | Location: Solar System, Earth, Med, Cyprus

Glide looks the same on a GeForce3 card??? You mean by using a wrapper right? Or perhaps comparing opengl on the GF3 with glide?

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

afaik glide had better access to the hardware meaning better performance than d3d or opengl in the early days of 3D gaming. By the time the Voodoo3 came into existence the hardware was fast enough to negate the performance difference between opengl/direct3d and glide. That's also why glide was only compatible on 3dfx cards, it's kind of the 'lite' version of opengl.

Glidefan · 04-20-2007, 23:32 | posts: 11,890 | Location: Solar System, Earth, Med, Cyprus

Glide was a proprietary API, meaning that 3dfx didn't give out the license to other to make chips compatible with their API. Also, it does have some differences to OpenGL.

uncajesse · 05-01-2007, 02:06 | posts: 24

if you like fps, Counter-Strike v1.6 should run pretty nice on it still, if you have a halfway decent CPU with an FPU. however i do remember it being important to find driver that can do 2 hat-tricks:
2x line anti-aliasing
per-pixel occlusion/culling

unfortunately it's been so long since i've used my 3500TV that i don't even remember the name of the custom drivers i was using.