Who remembers this when playing PC games with 3D support..!!

iv-tecman

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Now who remembers this -


What a blast from the past, how I used to love seeing this before playing Quake..!! lol

Erm not sure I did the youtube thingy right.. Its
 
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Thanks Klo... I entered in the whole youtube address line. thanks.. I'll edit my post to clean it up a bit.. Was my first time entering a youtube into a forum post... lol I'm getting too old.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Did you also purchase an AGEIA Physx card too? ;)
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tut tut now play fair... lol

Power VR or 3Dx wasn't as good. 3Dfx voodoo was just amazing for its time. I just saw a link to the 3Dfx spinning logo and I'd forgot about.... I do remember it when playing Quake and Tomb Raider, made games running at 800 x 600 look amazing..
 
iv-tecman said:
http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/boxes/box_v1_orc.jpg

That's almost brought water to my eyes..!!!
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Great pic.

I am certain I got some games/demos with mine.

I think I had Mech Warrior 2 (Full Game) and Incoming (Might have been a demo).

I honestly believe that not a single upgrade has had the "WOW" factor as much as that card did.

Any upgrade now is just an incremental step up... going from Software rendered VGA to Hardware rendered VGA is just CRAZY.. Try explaining that to the kids of today.

When they introduced the "all in one" cards, I pooped.

I think I had a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.

After that, 3DFX became sloppy, DirectX overtook Glide and the rest is history :(

A VERY VERY important and memorable era for PC gamers though.
 
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Gimpymoo said:
Great pic.

I am certain I got some games/demos with mine.

I think I had Mech Warrior 2 (Full Game) and Incoming (Might have been a demo).
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Remember getting Mech Warrior 2 (full game) but not Incoming... I think i got Incoming with a Voodoo 2, or remember playing Incoming on a voodoo2.

I stupidly got a Creative Labs 12MB Voodoo 2, which had poor driver support instead of the much better Diamond or Canopus boards, the Creative board always struggled with ref drivers, or so I remember whereas others would work with proprietary or ref drivers...

All I remember is that after the Voodoo 2 I hardly purchased Creative Labs products ever again… Shame, the Voodoo 2 was a kick as Gfx card, and cost a small fortune and I couldn’t afford to change it for some time after I got it…
 
Gimpymoo said:
When they introduced the "all in one" cards, I pooped.

I think I had a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.

After that, 3DFX became sloppy, DirectX overtook Glide and the rest is history :(

A VERY VERY important and memorable era for PC gamers though.
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Quite so... 3Dfx or so I remember, didn't they not want to support D3D, and as Direct X was easier to work with, and OEM's were using lots of ATI and Nvidia products, 3Dfx never got into the OEM markets, their D3D support was too late and glide went to the wall, 3Dfx, along with a poor purchase of STB Graphics meant the company that pretty much kick started the GPU market died..!!

Anyhow, looking at Steam I can buy the entire ID pack on there for £37... does the older ID games run in windows 7 64bit? I quite fancy a bit of Quake and Quake II, and I can get Doom and Doom II as well as Doom 3.. I lost all my install CDs etc for Quake etc yonks ago.. and anyhow, Doom was a floppy, I don't even have a floppy drive now.. lol
 
Gimpymoo said:
Do you think we are any worse off for having DirectX now instead of Glide?
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No... Glide was too proprietary. It was locked to 3Dfx hardware only, you needed 3Dfx hardware to use Glide applications..

Direct X was released as a fudge, or a work a round for game developers to access hardware over the Windows hardware protection layer. However direct input API’s also allowed anyone to design a ref board, and for programmers to write their games to one set of instructions.

When Windows 95 was released to run games in Windows 95, Direct X was the only way to do this if you wanted to directly access the hardware. Dos wasn’t so protected, I don’t know the full ins and outs. But either way, Direct X has allowed for so many great games and Direct X is still with us today.

It has greater universal support, although Direct X also holds back PC gaming as well. Direct X 9 should have died years ago, but due to Xbox 360 using it, and Windows XP, Direct X 9 will be with us for some time to come…

I’m sure those more in the know will correct me, or add to this..
 
Sleepery said:
The main thing I remember about DirectX was thinking when it was released - "This is rubbish, it'll never catch on" :p
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Funny that but i think we all did... I just remember Direct X 3.0 for Windows 95 and I installed it for Lucas Arts Shadow of the Empires game, or so I remember... I think other games at the time used it, I do remember it being a total nightmare to remove if it caused problems..

Direct X 3.0 was also included with OEM SR2 versions of Windows 95, and rolled into Win 95 Service Packs. Actually, Tomb Raider II used Direct X and I think that might have been the first time installed it.

At the time Direct X had names such as Direct input, Direct Draw etc.....

How times changed eh?
 
first 3d card I bought was a powerVR card for £80
didnt install the right drivers and so never used it for the year it was in my pc !
then got a 3dfx voodoo2 pass-through card and again didnt install the right drivers and so it did nothing haha

geforce2 mx was the first card I had that actually did anything haha
 
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