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

[Shadez]

First 3D game

Orchid Kelvin 64 - Doom

Firsts non software rendered 3D game.

Ati Rage Pro, Quake or unreal cant remember which

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

It was either a Voodoo 2 or 3 and the game was some racing thing of which I don't remember the name and Descent.

 

[iv-tecman]

Power VR!! That's what I had before my voodoo II. I couldn't remember what it was. It came with Ultimate racing, the graphics were out of this world!!

I had one of those as well, I purchased both the Power VR and 3Dfx Voodoo 1 at the same time as I couldn't decide which one was better...

You could run them both in the same PC as the Power VR didn't require a pass through cable and someone wrote a small tray util for Windows 95 that allowed you to switch between 3Dfx or Power VR for D3D games.. Glide or Power VR native games didn't need such a util.

Power VR could run games with 3D enabled in a Window. The 3Dfx couldn't do this..

3Dfx had the advantage over Power VR (it was actually called 3Dx) and the Power VR card I had saw very little usage. I was offered a free upgrade to the Power VR 3DxII as the first card couldn't handle bilinear filtering which was a huge oversight by Videologic and NEC.

given the choices again, I'd buy a 3Dfx over the Power VR and wasted a few hundred pounds on the Power VR. the only advantage the Power VR had over the more power 3Dfx was the fact you didn't need a VGA pass through cable to a 2D card, other then this... I remember playing Ultimate race and yeah it was good, but Quake etc on the 3Dfx was much better...

 

[LizardKing]

Some random Voodoo2 running Jedi Knight 2

Nothing has had the same impact on gaming since!

 

[sc(+)pe]

My first 3d card was an orchid righteous voodoo II 12mb and on the day I bought it I also bought Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. I also got Incoming and G-Police free with the card.

 

[Side5wipe]

Mine was some GeForce 2 and the game was kingpin.

 

[MBennett]

Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo II 12MB

Quake 2

This and it came with a copy of Incoming and G-Police. There was a collective thud as everyone's jaws hit the desk when Incoming first loaded!

 

[stuntmanSLim]

voodoo 3

 

[markyb]

Matrox G200 and Descent

ATi Rage Pro 8mb & Descent - Ran on the ATi setting within the game. Looked fantastic. That was on my K6-2 400 (...@450 )

Then Voodoo 3 3000 16mb with the orignal Unreal. Later upgraded to a TNT2 Ultra gamer.

 

[Overslop]

4MB 3DFX - Don't remember brand.

First game for it was Jedi Knight - absolutely loved it!

 

[shephga]

Canopus 3dfx add on card with matrix mystique to play quake open gl ctf on a 17" iiyama proview CRT, showed it off at a lanparty at my house to my friends, 4 of whom bought the same cards first thing Monday morning.

 

[saguy]

I think I had a Diamond Monster 3D 3dfx Voodoo1 4MB card. Whatever card, it was around 1996 and the first games were Quake and Tomb Raider.

 

[lokiss]

Game you've never heard of called Barrage.

4mb rage pro... course few days after, in pop'd a voo 2 12mb to play Battlezone

Gullimot, or whoever they were.. sold at game for 140 i think.. fuzzy:O

 

[Loosecannon]

Matrox Mystique. 2mb?

Was such a loooooong time ago!

 

[sniffy]

Voodoo 2 and Quake

 

[nitram100]

Voodoo 3 PCI and Quake 3. Mad to think with all the power in my computer now I still play the same game 13 years later.

 

[Bleek]

Orchid Righteous 3D 3Dfx Voodoo 1 for me too, loved it.

If I remember right it cost £200 even 'back then'? My paper round paid quite well it seems!

 

[MofoKilla]

Voodoo 2 3000 16mb and quake.

 

[Rozzy85]

I bought a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI that went into a HP Vectra P233MMX (I think it was under clocked to 166 as it kept overheating) with 32MB RAM. I was finally able to play UT and Lego Racers smoothly... well mostly.

I did have a generic 8MB 3D, most likely SiS, I bought first but it didn't work with this machine.

 

[.Griff.]

Matrox Mystique back in the early days and MechWarrior 2.