LGR - 3DFX Voodoo 1 3D Accelerator Overview
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Fernando
Woow so beautiful. i got mixed feelings. happy to remember, and sad because i wanted to go back to that time. At that time when voodoo1 launched, i was 17 and studying computer science, and we started to do some LAN gatherings at friends house, and connect all computers to play. and one of my friends showed up with this card and we all got so amazed to the beauty and speed. wow that was like comparing night and day. And i had at the time a Riva 128 with 4Mb of ram, but didnt have the abilities to do the same. amazing. of course we pretended the game wasnt that good looking because that guy was so full of himself. After that i had some other cards but when voodoo 2 arrived i had to have. than tech progressed faster and faster, with more and more complex games, like unreal, quake2 than 3 and so on. i could trade everything to go back
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Woow so beautiful. i got mixed feelings. happy to remember, and sad because i wanted to go back to that time. At that time when voodoo1 launched, i was 17 and studying computer science, and we started to do some LAN gatherings at friends house, and connect all computers to play. and one of my friends showed up with this card and we all got so amazed to the beauty and speed. wow that was like comparing night and day. And i had at the time a Riva 128 with 4Mb of ram, but didnt have the abilities to do the same. amazing. of course we pretended the game wasnt that good looking because that guy was so full of himself. After that i had some other cards but when voodoo 2 arrived i had to have. than tech progressed faster and faster, with more and more complex games, like unreal, quake2 than 3 and so on. i could trade everything to go back
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Tomos
I had the first Voodoo Card. and Dual SLI Voodoo2's. and I THINK I had a Voodoo 3 as well, but can'r remember. It was the last card I ever owned. haven't played games since then sadly. Don't have the money for a PC and graphics card, Maybe this new year I will buy a very very old second hand gaming machine
It really was night and day between software render and having the first 3D card. It changed everything
If you have a 3d card now and play games. you owe it to 3DFX for what they spawned.
Sadly, they don't exist anymore - well, their spirit was absorbed into Nvidia - but they laid the path for all future gamersweird that Nvidia is doing AI on their graphics cards now, so thats something else thats going to be the next big thing soon enough
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I had the first Voodoo Card. and Dual SLI Voodoo2's. and I THINK I had a Voodoo 3 as well, but can'r remember. It was the last card I ever owned. haven't played games since then sadly. Don't have the money for a PC and graphics card, Maybe this new year I will buy a very very old second hand gaming machine
It really was night and day between software render and having the first 3D card. It changed everything
If you have a 3d card now and play games. you owe it to 3DFX for what they spawned.
Sadly, they don't exist anymore - well, their spirit was absorbed into Nvidia - but they laid the path for all future gamersweird that Nvidia is doing AI on their graphics cards now, so thats something else thats going to be the next big thing soon enough
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Borris
Was there no brightness options for Tomb Raider? Half-Life was the same way, where software rendering was super dark. If you cranked up the gamma it just looked really shitty and white washed, so software was always very hard to see for either reason.
Also, were you doing software mode with the 3D card already installed? That makes a massive difference. My Pentium 2 could never run games like that in software mode without a 3D card. After I installed my first card, I spent the first month playing Half-Life thinking 'hey yeah it does look a little better and run alot better'. Then I found out I had to manually switch to Hardware rendering. THEN it was like night and day.
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Was there no brightness options for Tomb Raider? Half-Life was the same way, where software rendering was super dark. If you cranked up the gamma it just looked really shitty and white washed, so software was always very hard to see for either reason.
Also, were you doing software mode with the 3D card already installed? That makes a massive difference. My Pentium 2 could never run games like that in software mode without a 3D card. After I installed my first card, I spent the first month playing Half-Life thinking 'hey yeah it does look a little better and run alot better'. Then I found out I had to manually switch to Hardware rendering. THEN it was like night and day.
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Mark
This is so nostalgic. my first 3D card was the -Orchid 3dfx- 8mb. what to say, other than thanks dad (2nd hand off a colleague): -D golden era of computers. I was a great dos duke player, but this made need for speed 3, final fantasy vii, quake a total blast. LGR thanks for the incredible time capsule. we sure struggled back in the days getting things running correctly out of the box. p. s. my greatest gaming surprise was blade runner the game by westwood, found it in a boot fair (literally in a field) in the uk, i had never watched the movie since i was just a child but made watching the movie later on in life even better! ;-D cheers Mark
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This is so nostalgic. my first 3D card was the -Orchid 3dfx- 8mb. what to say, other than thanks dad (2nd hand off a colleague): -D golden era of computers. I was a great dos duke player, but this made need for speed 3, final fantasy vii, quake a total blast. LGR thanks for the incredible time capsule. we sure struggled back in the days getting things running correctly out of the box. p. s. my greatest gaming surprise was blade runner the game by westwood, found it in a boot fair (literally in a field) in the uk, i had never watched the movie since i was just a child but made watching the movie later on in life even better! ;-D cheers Mark
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fanjoy
I bought 3D Blaster (Rendition chip) first
And then I could only play GL Quake at very low resolution
Later on I have found 3D FX to be very popular among DOS games with glide api
Games like Screamer, Quake, Mech Warrior were totally different games with 3DFX
I still remember the -click- sound before the card got activated
My 3DFX was Orchid 3D and I got my most amazed time for 2 years and then I got my 3D Blaster again from Creative: it was Voodoo 2 12 MB RAM version
Thanks 3DFX for my wonderful childhood
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I bought 3D Blaster (Rendition chip) first
And then I could only play GL Quake at very low resolution
Later on I have found 3D FX to be very popular among DOS games with glide api
Games like Screamer, Quake, Mech Warrior were totally different games with 3DFX
I still remember the -click- sound before the card got activated
My 3DFX was Orchid 3D and I got my most amazed time for 2 years and then I got my 3D Blaster again from Creative: it was Voodoo 2 12 MB RAM version
Thanks 3DFX for my wonderful childhood
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krum1985
I remember getting Turok as a birthday present from my dad, but we didn't manage to get it to run on our family PC. Later, we found out that Turok required -3DFX- to run, and the -Diamond TNT something- graphics cards we had didn't have that, so instead of returning the game, me and my dad went to our local hardware store the next day and got a Voodoo card =P Can't remember if it was Voodo 1 or 2 though. think it was 1? I could just do a bit of googeling to find out, but you know. too lazy to do that. =P
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I remember getting Turok as a birthday present from my dad, but we didn't manage to get it to run on our family PC. Later, we found out that Turok required -3DFX- to run, and the -Diamond TNT something- graphics cards we had didn't have that, so instead of returning the game, me and my dad went to our local hardware store the next day and got a Voodoo card =P Can't remember if it was Voodo 1 or 2 though. think it was 1? I could just do a bit of googeling to find out, but you know. too lazy to do that. =P
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magicmulder
I paired mine with a Matrox Millennium for 2D. Plugged into the two inputs of my NEC monitor which resulted in a loud relais -clack- every time the cards handed off duty to the respective other.
Quake 1 and Turok 1 were the first real games I played on it.
On a base system with a Pentium Pro 200 (OC-d to 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM and a 2. 5 GB hard drive (later added another 5. 2 GB. Most expensive system I ever built, something like $9, 000 back in 97. Probably twice that in today-s money.
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I paired mine with a Matrox Millennium for 2D. Plugged into the two inputs of my NEC monitor which resulted in a loud relais -clack- every time the cards handed off duty to the respective other.
Quake 1 and Turok 1 were the first real games I played on it.
On a base system with a Pentium Pro 200 (OC-d to 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM and a 2. 5 GB hard drive (later added another 5. 2 GB. Most expensive system I ever built, something like $9, 000 back in 97. Probably twice that in today-s money.
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Kyle
So on some of these old ISA cards, I often see a male ribbon connector plug on there that is often left unplugged. Can anyone explain that? Based on some of the stuff I've seen on Clint's videos, it maybe looks like some kind of parallel debugging port, I think? It reminds me of how S-100 cards on systems like the Altair 8800 would often have hardware connections to each other off-bus to limit the number of IRQ/DMA lines taken up and such.
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So on some of these old ISA cards, I often see a male ribbon connector plug on there that is often left unplugged. Can anyone explain that? Based on some of the stuff I've seen on Clint's videos, it maybe looks like some kind of parallel debugging port, I think? It reminds me of how S-100 cards on systems like the Altair 8800 would often have hardware connections to each other off-bus to limit the number of IRQ/DMA lines taken up and such.
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Smartzenegger
- 4: 34 That case batch is actually from the latest 3Dfx era: Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 (and the 6) But I guess that was already around in 1999 when the Avenger (Voodoo 3) was the most recent retailing hardware.
The Spash screens you see are part of the drivers, not of the actual cards hardware.
In the Voodoo2 day, you still got the old spashscreen and old logo of the pre Voodoo3 (STB) age.
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- 4: 34 That case batch is actually from the latest 3Dfx era: Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 (and the 6) But I guess that was already around in 1999 when the Avenger (Voodoo 3) was the most recent retailing hardware.
The Spash screens you see are part of the drivers, not of the actual cards hardware.
In the Voodoo2 day, you still got the old spashscreen and old logo of the pre Voodoo3 (STB) age.
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Azminek
What do you think is the best companion for a voodoo? I'm wondering whether it's the ATi Mach64 2MB, the S3 Trio64V+ 2MB or the Matrox Millennium 4MB.
Matrox is famous for it's 2D performance and I already have a Trio64V+ at home though I don't remember if I upgraded it to 2MB so if not, I'm better of buying another one because it's impossible to find memory extension for it.
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What do you think is the best companion for a voodoo? I'm wondering whether it's the ATi Mach64 2MB, the S3 Trio64V+ 2MB or the Matrox Millennium 4MB.
Matrox is famous for it's 2D performance and I already have a Trio64V+ at home though I don't remember if I upgraded it to 2MB so if not, I'm better of buying another one because it's impossible to find memory extension for it.
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