Old skool: What was your first 3D card and game?

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For the older gamers, what was your first 3D GFX card and first game(s) that you experienced 3D-rendered graphics in as opposed to the old software?

Mine was a Voodoo II and Quake II and Unreal 1. Was like nothing I'd seen. :]
 
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Diamond Monster Voodoo 4MB

Quake 2 - Coloured lights!!! AMAZING!

Unreal - That green smoke in the air vent!!! /drool
 
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Orchid Righteous 3D - 3Dfx - 4MB paired with a Matrox Mystique 220 - 4MB.

The first game I played with native glide support was TOCA/TOCA 2, I was blown away.

Kids of today have no idea, I doubt most of them know what hardware accelerated graphics are. Remember the pain of running the latest 3D game using directx? (before hardware acceleration).

To this day, experiencing hardware acceleration for the first time is the biggest WOW moment I have experienced while gaming.
 
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nVidia Riva TNT2 32mb I believe. First 3D game I tried out was possibly UT, however I know I bought the original Hitman only to find out that it wasn't compatible with the TNT cards :(
 
Now we’re talking.

Orchid Righteous 3D 3Dfx Voodoo 1 – pass through card
Videologic 2MB Graphic Star 600 2D

Used to love hearing that click and seeing the 3Dfx logo spin up on screen knowing I was about to get 640 x 480 Quake with filtered textures.

Amazingly good performance back in the good old days..

486 Dx2 66 with a 3Dfx voodoo 1 – what a system that was..!! To this day I'll sill remember the 'unreal' castle fly by.. Drool, major eye candy back then and at 800 x 600 - that was a heck of a gaming res that was..!! lol
 
Can't remember what make but it was an original 3DFX Voodoo 1 paired with a bog standard 2d card. Quake 2 was the first proper rendered game and it looked mint. After that went back to original Quake with it's opengl patch and X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter also with an opengl patch (it was pant wettingly awesome!)
 
I don't remember my first graphics cards as we had bought prebuilt systems. But the first graphics card i actually purchsed on its own to go into a build was a Radeon 9600Pro
 
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Orchid Righteous 3D - 3Dfx - 4MB

The first game I played with native glide support was TOCA 2, I was blown away.
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TOCA 2 - what a racing game that was... Back when touring car was worthwhile watching and Nissan ruled..!! lol Yes that was a fantastic game.

you can get GLIDE to work under Windows 7, takes a bit of faffing around but you can relive the 3Dfx days... Be warned, doesn't look as good as you maybe remember.. lol
 
Orchid Righteous 3dfx card, think it was Unreal 1.

Always remember the loud CLICK from the pc as the 3d chipset fired up :)
 
A Radeon 9550 SE, didn't know much at the time.

I didn't keep it for very long and replaced it with a radeon 9800 pro :)

Then I got a 7600gt and soon after 2 of them in SLI, which was pretty pointless as they were not powerful cards.

Then a 8800gt which was my first good card.

After a while the 8800 gt started to struggle with new games so I replaced it with a 4870 which was amazing and I used happily for ages.

Just recently got a 6870, its good yeah but my 4870 wasn't far behind so not a big step up imo.
 
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The first graphics card I can remember us having was a Voodoo 3, the first game I can remember playing was some pool game that came on a floppy disk, after that it was some old game made by Monolith but I can't remember what it was. Then it was Half-Life. :cool:
 
Before I got into system building I had bought systems from places like Tiny, and I bought a pc from Tesco...they did basic 3D but I have no idea what graphics cards they had as I wasn't very interested in PC's then.

I remember playing the likes of destruction derby 2, red alert, tomb raider 1 and total annihilation on the tiny pc which handled them all with aplomb. I do remember it had a 120 mhz cpu but thats all I can remember.
 
Nvidia tnt2 32mb and first 3d game was Gunman chronicle's. Awesome game and got me into multiplayer gaming. Looking back I'm suprised how well it was playing multiplayer on dial up.
 
The Pentium 2 350Mhz PC that belonged to the family had some horrible onboard ATI chip with 4MB of ram allocated or something :/

My first PC that I bought myself had a Voodoo 3 3000 in it and I guess the first game I really looked at and drooled as a result of this was Half Life and TFC :D That lovely green water on CTF Well :)
 
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