Anyone remember this bit of nostalgia?

Merlin5 · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:35

Just found this disc.

It's disc 2, but I think disc 1 would have been the installation disc for the 3Dfx voodoo cards. I had voodoo 1 and voodoo 2 I think.

They were the first of the 3D graphics card companies to my knowledge before nvidia came on the scene and bought them out. Something like that, correct me if I'm wrong.

shannowdr · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:47

Friend had one of those.

I think i had a S3 ViRGE in them days. 2meg affair which was then upgraded to 4.

Merlin5 · 16 Feb 2011 at 19:50

S3 virge, that name rings a bell.

Marshy · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:11

Oh the memories, the original Quake running in Glide (or was it D3D? can't remember now)

Makhaira · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:52

I didn't join the discrete graphics scene until the nVidia breakthrough that was the 4mb STB Velocity 128. The beginning of the end for the mighty 3dfx!

Muel · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:04

A CD is considored nostalgia now?

Merlin5 · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:22

Muel said:
A CD is considored nostalgia now?

Duh, no, it's the name on the CD that I'm referring to.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/graphics-cards/2686/orchid-righteous-3d

I must have owned one of those orchid righteous 3D cards then, and voodoo later on.

Makhaira said:
I didn't join the discrete graphics scene until the nVidia breakthrough that was the 4mb STB Velocity 128. The beginning of the end for the mighty 3dfx!

Apparently the 3dfx Voodoo2 was the first card to introduce SLI.

Michaeljcox24 · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:36

I had an orchid righteous, bought it so I could experience tomb raider II maxed out lol...

GiT · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:40

I remember daisy chaining my normal vga card to the voodoo 3dfx card. At the time it was a HUGE improvement in visuals.

phatboy · 16 Feb 2011 at 22:49

GiT said:
I remember daisy chaining my normal vga card to the voodoo 3dfx card. At the time it was a HUGE improvement in visuals.

Yep same here....s3 virge 3d with the 3dfx piggy back card!!! Ultimate race pro ran great lol!

Mate had 2x sli voodoo2 cards quake 2 was epic with them

bhavv · 16 Feb 2011 at 23:23

I remember way back when I specced my first cheapo gaming PC as a teen, I picked a 32 mb ATI Rage Fury over a 16 Mb Voodoo 3 because I thought more ram = better.

Boy did that card coupled with a K6II 450 disappoint, it could hardly run a thing with decent frame rates.

Ati used to be so crap in their pre Radeon days compared to the others. And I remember the Geforce breakthrough that reshaped graphics technology for ever, and completely put 3dfx out of business when they got completely rofflestomped by the Geforce 2.

Merlin5 · 16 Feb 2011 at 23:33

bhavv said:
. And I remember the Geforce breakthrough that reshaped graphics technology for ever, and completely put 3dfx out of business when they got completely rofflestomped by the Geforce 2.

I found my old g-force2 MX200 64MB AGP card and box (jumping leopard on box cover) a couple of days ago. Stared at it, went "wow look at that", then binned it

WoZZeR · 16 Feb 2011 at 23:46

I still have my Hercules GeForce GTSII, nice looking card, it replaced my Voodoo 3 2000.

I think 3DFX were compromised by sticking to 16bit colour more than anything else.

Dazboots · 17 Feb 2011 at 01:33

Was about 12 years ago i had 2 voodo 2 cards in sli.
thats going back a bit

Liquid · 17 Feb 2011 at 02:13

I remember having a 2mb matrox mystique card that came with ultimate race pro(amazing looking for the time, but in reality a turd lol) and incoming. Upgraded to a 12mb voodoo lol, arrrgh those were the days 4 meg ram................he he

dmsims · 17 Feb 2011 at 02:43

Memories

Descent II

PhillyDee · 17 Feb 2011 at 03:01

Loved that game!

bhavv · 17 Feb 2011 at 03:06

WoZZeR said:
I still have my Hercules GeForce GTSII, nice looking card, it replaced my Voodoo 3 2000.

I think 3DFX were compromised by sticking to 16bit colour more than anything else.

Oh yea, thats why my Rage Fury was slower than the Voodo 3, because it used 32 bit color lol!

It was cheaper too, if I remember correctly it was £89.99 for the 32 Mb Rage Fury, £119 for the 16 Mb voodoo 3, and maybe £200 for the 32 Mb Nvidia Riva TNT2?

3dfx were still doing great while sticking to 16 bit colour, they went out of business when they didnt create a T+L engine on their Voodoo 5000 range and fell far behind the Geforce 2 and Radeon video cards. The cards were just as expensive as a Geforce 2 GT, while no where near on par with their complete lack of a dedicated GPU.

Nvidia pretty much put every other brand out of business back then. Only ATI remained competitive and produced cards on par with what Nvidia were making - The Geforce 1 was rivaled by the Rage Fury Maxx, The Geforce 2 by the Radeon DDR, Geforce 3 by the Radeon 8500, and then the Geforce 4 came out and was a very strong card for some time ......

.... Until the legendary Ati Radeon 9700 pro was released. Then ATI became a major powerhouse as well.

MikeHiow · 17 Feb 2011 at 03:06

I think my first card was a TNT2

Before that, I think my games were limited to the original Doom and Wolfenstein.

That TNT2 lasted me well, my next upgrade was a ti4200 IIRC, and that was second hand! I couldn't believe how much better counter-strike ran.

MCMLX · 17 Feb 2011 at 03:12

I think my first GPU was the original GeForce 256,I remember a few of the names in previous posts but that 256 cost me a fair bit back in the early 90's iirc.

Got to love nostalgia!!