True, when I had a 3dfx card the difference between Glide and DirectX was massive, IMO it was way better than DirectX at the time and really showed how much cards are held back by the API since then.Duff-Man said:
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Yeah, I guess a lot comes from the first time I started Quake with a Voodoo card, I have never seen a bigger difference since then when upgrading to a new card.Gerard said:Its amazing the 3dfx community is so strong that they continue to come out with drivers for the cards, i really miss the old 3dfx\voodoo brand, truly the only real hassle free cards ive ever owned.
There is even a review of a V5 6000: http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/divers/v5-6000/v56kgb-1.htm
But the performance is dismal, it gets spanked by a GeForce2 and although DoomII runs on the card it runs at <10fps at 640*480 low detail
Dutch Guy said:Yeah, I guess a lot comes from the first time I started Quake with a Voodoo card, I have never seen a bigger difference since then when upgrading to a new card.
There is even a review of a V5 6000: http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/divers/v5-6000/v56kgb-1.htm
But the performance is dismal, it gets spanked by a GeForce2 and although DoomII runs on the card it runs at <10fps at 640*480 low detail
Theres a few other reviews at some other sites, one shows its performance inbetwen a gf2 ultra and a gf3.
Could be, the other thing is the fact that perhaps 3dfx thought that the new features like 32bit colour and T&L were not yet needed in the games at the time, much like the fact Nvidia was too late with implimenting a 256bit memorybus in the FX cards.Pottsey said:
And with the delay of the Voodoo5 the problem was even bigger because at the time it was released those missing features were a big difference compared to the competition.
Also diminishing Glide support hurt them as the DirectX performance was well below par compared to Glide.
Duff-Man said:Both fantastic cards. The first time I installed the voodoo1 and ran GLquake I almost soiled myself
Me too, although it was Quake2/Voodoo2 for me. went from my humble p200 (non-mmx... lol!) running at 320x240 in software mode to 640x480 or 800x600 full screen hardware beauty at a high framerate, ahh the memories! I remember paying £250 or something for it ,had it on pre-order for ages.
