The 3Dfx Voodoo Difference: This is why we love them
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this video we will learn why the 3DFX Voodoo is such a special graphics card!
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I thought about upgrading to 1070, but after seeing this, I think I am going with Vodoo.
No wonder with those convincing commercials at the end ;-)
Better choose Radeon btw!
Feel the pain
i prefer voodoo 2 alright....
voodoo 3 is just epic for RETRO glide2x
What the heck is a 1070?
No other PC hardware upgrade impressed me so much since then, and I guess no other ever will. It was just a complete different world.
The praise of new features today's Graphids Cards manufacturers make with each new generation is just outright boring in comparison.
My brother and me just built us some nice Pentium 2 / Voodoo 3 gaming rigs to do some retro gaming/LAN. Worth every penny! (I still have my old youth rig though: P133, 16MByte of RAM, S3 Virge Shocker DX + Voodoo Graphics. Yeah! :D Today quite some websites would not fit in the RAM those machines hat to run games and even windows in their later days. ^^)
Ok, I have to admit SSDs are pretty awesome. I guess sometimes I forget how much, but then get reminded when I have to use someones 8 years old vista system on a 5200rpm laptop drive. :D
Pentium 2???? Why.
How about the 8800 ultra?
well implemented VR+some sort of kinect device would be a good step forward
@Lloyd Nix
Pentium 2 is a good compromise. It is not to fast for older games like a more modern system would be, but is decent enough for most Voodoo era games. They just hit a sweetspot for me there.
Since I have a couple of P2-350 CPUs and mainboards that people threw away, all I had to buy was a nice CF card as an Harddrive replacement and the Voodoo 3.
I run Win98se on it and am quite impressed. Really, really smooth, fast and snappy system. A joy to use.
For me was unreal, bough a diamond 4mb, had unreal bundle with it and the first time i saw it run in my PC was like another world!
Yes! Someone with the same experience as me when it comes to 3dfx video cards! Unreal under glide teleported me into Napali, for real!
voodoo 2 monster 8meg i might still have it shadows of the empire star wars was a night and day change
For me, Unreal was the first 3d-accelerated game I have ever seen. I still remember just looking at the terrain and the giant waterfall right at the beginning for hours :)
ubbgn Voodoo Banshee 16 MB with Forsaken and Unreal
Wasnt unreal a tech demo to show the capabilities of the 3DFX?
Seeing Unreal running on a Voodoo 4MB after running it on software render on a P200MMX. Seeing the opening castle flyby scene was just...hypnotising!
For me it was the polished floors in Unreal at the beginning of the game where you went to get the first armor suit.
@@stonent it's happening again with ray trading
@@souljastation5463 Yeah I played Control with RT on and those real time reflections, and color bleed from lights, was amazing....
@@souljastation5463 ray trading lol. You mean ray tracing. What a sham with the RTX nonsense, we had much better reflections back then with Unreal and with a first gen pure 3d accelerator like the voodoo 1 3dfx. Now all they can do is stuff a bunch of rays where they dont need it to slow down all cards except the card which pays for the developers to put the code in (Nvidia bastards)
@@sacamentobob This is nonsense, when ray tracing is done well there's no match with a non raytraced game.
I used to play with ray traced Minecraft mods years ago, way before Nvidia invented RTX, and it was impressive.
Now, it's true that some games have no business of being called ray traced, Forspoken is an example of this.
But games like Control, the Matrix Awakens, Minecraft and even Fortnight are just a small example of what ray tracing will bring to the future of visual fidelity.
I still love the fact that we had hardware accelerated 3D DOS games at one point in history.
I remember a DOS demo showing it was perfectly possible for the Nvidia Riva 128 3D acceleration to be compatible with DOS, at least from the technical standpoint. But for Nvidia that would meant to expose the register interface of their chips to a certain extent.
That's why Nvidia, as the proprietary company it has always been, decided to make all their accelerators as Windows/Direct3D only, and never offering any DDK or libraries to access directly the register interface of the chips beyond what is available in the drivers. Direct3D hides the register interface of the chips behind the drivers.
Yes, and INTEL wasn't to happy about it, since they only recently introduced the Pentium and were marketing it as a "You don't need another/other chips" powerhouse.
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Unreal made me get a voodoo card. I will never forget how blown away I was when I saw the graphics. I stuck with 3dfx from that point on. My last 3dfx card was the voodoo 4. This card got me through college until I moved on with a geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb. Good memories.
My 3Dfx memories was that they were too expensive for my parents to buy me one and I had to make do with a 2d VESA graphics card for bloody ages. I remember seeing the Voodoo boxes at pc stores and pc fairs and pretty much drooling.
I got my first job at a subway to buy one....my first payday went right over to EB and bought one. FF7 looked great, and Tomb Raider blew me away.
Same with me, than I got my hands on Nvidia Riva 128.
I have a gtx 950, and is looking for an upgrade, will the 3dfx voodoo be good?
Richard Woo great!
nvidia nailed 3dfx for its business
Yup fuck nvidia
Nvidia rules nuff said
survival of the fittest nuff said
Good god those commercials wouldn't fly today.
Good old days, the youth wasn't brain washed with political correctness.
Yeah, today the world is filled with SJW cucks who are brainwashed with all this "Global Warming" crap.
Actually, these type of commercials are just what we need today to kick political correctness in the backside!
On the contrary, I think these commercials would fit right in in our overly sensitized, PC culture today. It makes light of it like College Humor or SNL does. People wouldn't mind it.
Yes they would.
They’re funny.
Also there’s literally nothing wrong with being PC, it’s more efficient in the long run. It’s better for everyone. You’re pushing this narrative that there’s something wrong with being a considerate, thoughtful person. Of course people over do it, they overdo everything.
global warming is a real thing though
we are experiencing in greenland right now
Great video! Yes, 3DFX turned the industry around =D Carmageddon was great on a Voodoo.
i remember als getting a vodoo card second hand because these were very expensive when i was a kid, also because of tomb raider, i never felt the same wow feeling ever in any piece of hardware than that card. i now have a arcade cabinet from 1998 with a vodoo 2 card in it, and it is absolutely jawdropping
My history of almost 20 years of gpu power!
• Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
• Diamond Monster 3D Z100 3dfx Banshee 12MB my first voodoo card!
• STB Voodoo3 2000 16MB
• MSI GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
• Club 3D Radeon X800XL 256MB
• MSI Radeon 9800 XT
• Sapphire Radeon X1950XT 256MB
• GeForce 8800GT 512MB
• Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3GB
• MSI GeForce GTX 1080, 8GB
and offcourse CPU's
• Intel Pentium, 133MHz
• Intel Pentium 2, 450MHz
• Intel Pentium 4, 2.4GHz
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
• Intel Core i5-3570K
• Intel Core i7-7700K
I beat you on the CPU's: my first CPU was a 80286 :))
Cool, thanks for sharing, I always like to read comments like yours.
My history is small.
2006 - Intel® 82G965 - Fujitsu Siemens computer
2008 - Intel GMA 4500MHD - Toshiba Satellite L300
2014 - GTX 760M 2Gb GDDR5 - Asus rog G56jr
2015 - GTX 980M 8Gb GDDR5 - Clevo P750DM-g
2016 - MSI GTX 1070 Aero - Syber Vapor
CPU
2006 - Pentium 4 3.60GHz
2008 - Pentium dual core T2390 1.86GHz
2014 - i7 4700HQ 2.40GHz
2015 - i7 6700K 4.00GHz
2016 - i5 6600K OC 3.50GHz
likewise Carlos
That's not fair. I only included the ones i bought myself.
My really first pc was a C64 with cassette tapes :)
CPU:
-DTK 80286 (6 MHz, 12 MHz in turbo mode, imagine that, lolz)
-Intel Pentium I (200 MHz)
-AMD K6-2 (or was it a K6-III?) (450 MHz)
-AMD Athlon64 3000+ (1.8 GHz)
-AMD Athlon64 4000+ (2.0 GHz)
-Intel Pentium 4 Willamette (1.6 GHz)
-Intel Core2Duo E4700 (2.6 GHz)
-IBM PowerPC "970" in my 1st Gen iMac G5 (1.8 GHz)
-Intel Core i5-2500k (3.3 GHz, not overclocked)
-Intel Core i5-3450 (3.1 GHz)
-Intel Core i5-2400 (mid-2011 iMac) (3.1 GHz);
and I am forgetting a few laptops that I had/have (like a Pentium III 500 MHz in an ancient Compaq Armada laptop, whose 160 GB WesternDigital HD broke down last week;
Core2Duo Somethings; Pentium DualCore T3400)
GPU:
-S3 Virge DX/GX
-Diamond "Monster3D" (3Dfx add-on card)
-Geforce 1 Something...
-Geforce 6600GT (brand "Crap3D", I mean "Club3D" with a Zalman cooler)
-Geforce6600GT (brand Asus, "Aeolus")
-Geforce 5200FX (Sweex)
-Geforece 7600GS (with Zalman Cooler)
-RadeonHD 3450 (Sweex)
-RadeonHD 6870 (Asus)
-Geforce GTX 460 (Gigabyte)
-Geforce 630GT (Gigabyte)
-a bunch of Intel onboard-video chips...
Whoops, forgot this 3Dfx Voodoo4 4500 that I still have lying around somewhere.
This should be about it, If I can remember correctly :)
The game changer for me was Need for Speed 2 SE! I absolutely love the game, and it gives me the chills just remembering the awe of the first time I plugged in a Voodoo2 card in my P233 back in 1999. It transformed the gameplay SO MUCH, the graphics became so beautiful, new special effects, I was mesmerized! Then, it was Unreal Tournament! This game made me buy my second Voodoo2 for the SLI awesomeness! It was addictive! The first time a PC could run games MUCH better than a gaming console. Too bad they went bankrupt, it was so sad :'(
It was Interstate '76 that changed me, more so as it just drove me nuts with the choppy frame rate.
the so called "gamer community" could never understand why someone that played PC games since the 90's couldn't care less about ray tracing, RTX and other silly gimmicks
For me it was Open GL Quake running on a Voodoo 2 Monster 2. What a fantastic piece of hardware!
My first card was a voodoo 5 and I loved it. It had 2 massive processors and fans.
Same! Had the 5500. Gave it away in the end. Massive mistake
Huh? The 3 was the last 3dfx card worth getting. After the 5 sorry support got dropped over night. DX performance was terrible. No opengl out of the box.
@@_nom_ the cards go for hundreds either way
I love how you added that funny 3DFX commercial at the end, I was just thinking about it before it showed up at the end of your vid.
3dfx had great boxart
Antialiasing? BS.
You might be thinking of something else. Perhaps trilinear filtering?
Antialiasing came much, much later in graphics card technology.
WarpRulez it arrived with the first VooDoo3
Bullshit comment. Antialiasing already been on Voodoo 3
Starting PC gaming seriously around year 2000, Starseige Tribes being the prime example, and going from an integrated card to a Voodoo3.... it absolutely was *exactly* like the side-by-side clips. Before, everything was chunky and the textures were made up of huge, obvious pixels, the framerate was something around 10-20 at best, then with the Voodoo it suddenly became buttery smooth, high framerate, incredible textures, and awesome lighting. No single PC upgrade will ever feel as massive for gaming as this did.
And why I'm grateful for the Xbox and the PlayStation today! They cost less than the video cards that PC games require and output the exact same graphics!!! Or at least I can't tell making it good enough for me. Because I ain't paying 3-6 grand for a PC just to play the newest wolfenstien or doom clone. NVidia and AMD can keep their 600 dollar video cards and Intel can keep their 2,000 dollar processors!!! :(
You think that a gaming PC costs $3-6K and outputs the same quality graphics as a game console?
I had the Diamond Voodoo 1 that I got for my birthday, a year before my father got a extremely expensive GPU , (I can't remember which) when I got the V1 it blew his out of the water he was extremely jealous , as not only did his card not look or perform as good but it was IRQ hell to get it to work as it needed 2 IRQs and on the same PCI interface ...
Needless to say I loved this card to bits as it came bundled with a lot of games I remember F1 looking amazing , this card lasted me for quite some time :)
I had a 233mhz MMX back then
Nice. You would have likely gotten better FPS or at least less FPS dips with that CPU of yours. I was actually really impressed how well it ran with the Cyrix.
Back then I wouldnt have known the difference, I am still trying to find a cheap diamond V1 to recreate the system and see how fast it is and what it was capable of, I remember the only game that struggled it was Unreal 1, but that was more a limitation of the 233mhz P1, I got a 333 Celeron A not long there after with a TNT 1 that was amazing :)
A friend of mine gave me his Pentium 233Mhz MMX system.I did put a Diamond Monster 3D card in it and a Diamond Monster MX 100 (Aureal A3D) Sound card in it too along with a AWE 64 Gold Sound card (for pure DOS mode).
It's one of my favorite vintage systems.I also have a Iomega Zip drive in it too.
I was tempted to put a PowerVR PCX2 card in it but it's better on a faster system like a Pentium II system.Since it's dated in January 1998 I decided to run Windows 95c on the system (I try to keep the system components and the OS around the same time period though it has a later 1999 10 GB Hard drive just I have tons of games to run on that system.
Today's graphics cards suffer from coild whining.
My Righteous 3D back then activated with an audible CLICK.
Those were the days. :)
Came bundled with a couple of games. Really loved Descent 2 but had to buy it seperately, because the bundled version was just a glorified 8 level demo.
That first few minutes of playing it though (compared to Descent 1)... it felt, like my PC had suddenly become an arcade machine.
And then one day I found that GLQuake patch on the id-software FTP...
Shooting into the water on 2fort4. Luckily someone made an invisible water software patch a week or two later!
all my systems and graphics cards don't have coil whines
except logitech G9
It's a relay which clicked. My PSU does the same thing.
I got my first 3Dfx card so I could play Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Wing Commander: Prophecy.
Now I regret selling the ones that I had.
Nice. I loved the Wing Commander series and did play Prophecy on a Pentium 133 with S3 + Voodoo :) I didn't play Turok though.
Mine was an Intel Pentium 233 MMX with a S3 Virge 4MB + Voodoo. It was quite capable back in the days :)
I still have my Wing Commander games on discs (except 1 and 2), I also have the entire collection on GOG :)
My memory got carried away. My CPU wasn't an Intel, it was the AMD K6-2 450.
My first 'proper' graphics card was a Voodoo Banshee 16Mb back in 1998.
Same!
Those commercials were hilarious! To bad i was only a infant in the 90s.
ray ray i didnt even exist in 90s
Doesn't matter. Grab PCem/86box and go ahead, enjoy the days when we the boomers were young.
Back then it was cool to make fun of politically correctness and empty corporate pandering.
Nowadays corporate culture is so embedded in society that people would get angry and protest on twitter until the company takes the ads down.
@@cortexcortexified8623 I'm sure you're joking but to clarify: boomers weren't young in the 90s, they were at least 40.
Re-Volt and Unreal Tournament were the two reasons I went and got a Voodoo 3. Best PC gaming decision I ever made in history haha
Unreal Tournament ran so freaking beautifully on the Voodoo 3. I was getting constant 100+ FPS at maximum resolution.
Never had a 3dfx card back then. Too expensive for me. My first 3D capable card was the Stealth 2000 s3 Virge, then went to the Stealth S220, then Viper V330, and pretty much stayed nVidia till the 7800GS cards, after that I went to ATI. I did snag a VD3 2000 card from a computer in the early 2000's but that was more of a tinker around with card than anything, too bad it died. Loved the commercials at the end.
I was really late to the entire 3D games thing, because StarCraft came out and I didn't really care. I bought my first 3D accelerator to play Diablo II, and it wasn't great. Eventually, even after buying a GeForce 2 MX 400, I was able to get a brand new Voodoo 5 5500 in retail box on clearance for $35 on ebay shortly after 3DFX announced liquidation. Any game that supported Glide was far smoother and responsive then their OpenGL or Direct3D counterparts from nVidia (and you didn't even touch ATI back in the days of the non-HD 8500 series). Now that I've played the new Doom on Vulkan.. that was the first game since that era were the response felt like Glide!
As a side note, I once helped NuAngel attempt a repair of a Voodoo 5 6000 that brilliantly failed and involves smoke (kinda disappointed I wasn't able to go over to his house that day for the testing). XD
Kudos for the ads they're hilarious xD
Screamer 2 was one of the best racing games i've played in my life. Extremely fun and challenge.
Quake 1 was the game that made me buy my Orchid 3DFX card. I am suprised its not on your list.
480p 4k of its time.
For a VERY short time it was as development was rapid.
nah it was more 800x600 and 1024x768 that were the coveted resolutions.
@@TGTK-FreeSpeech-
Ok, the commercials? GREAT touch. I didn't use PCs until I was about 11 years old, my brother had sent us a 233Mhz Pentium machine. The second I saw what a VooDoo card could do for me I got the VooDoo3 2000 and slapped that bad boy in there. Quake 2 was my main motivation but then all of the older games I had never played before became available to play with all the stunning 3DFX glory you could shake a stick at. I used that card all the way until I tried to buy a VooDoo 5. Was so disappointed by the price for performance of that card I took it back and got a GeForce2. It's sad really because 3DFX was amazing at the time, they just dropped the ball so hard that they became irrelevant seemingly overnight.
We miss you VooDoo!!!
Quake 1-2-3, Unreal, Forsaken, Jedi Knight, Decent 3, Outwars, Mechwarriors 3, Heavy Gear 2, etc etc etc
The software that made me decide to go out and buy a Voodoo2 card (I skipped the first generation) was UltraHLE. I was (still am) an emulation freak, and the prospect of playing N64 games on my PC at what then was high resolution was too much to resist. I also enjoyed the speed increases in PSEmuPro (PS1 emulator), Quake2 and Sentinel Returns. And then I bought Unreal... man, what a game.
Great video! I had a Voodoo 2 8Mb bought for my birthday by my dad. Sadly it was DOA, when it was sent back for a return they sent me the 12Mb Voodoo 2 instead. Needless to say it was an amazing day for me. The first game that literally blow my mind was one of the NFS games, that when it rained, left rain drops on the screen. One of my favorite PC gaming memories of my childhood. I've finally source the exact same Creative Voodoo 2 Blaster for my current retro gamin PC. Cannot wait to play some of my old games! Your channel certainly gets me very nostalgic :) Keep up the great work!
I still remember my 16mg vodoo 3 3000
It was around 1996, I passed by the window of the local Computer Store and saw a Demo of Tomb Raider on a 14" Screen and decided to buy my first PC. I already had been in touch with the C64 at a friends house and were also allowed to play Civilization and Doom on a 468 DX100 at another friends house, but this was my first own PC: A Pentium 90, paired with 8 MB of RAM, an S3 Trio and a Sound Blaster 16. 2000 Deutsche Mark! From there on started the journey... If there was a new game worth playing (milestones like quake 2, unreal, half-life, oblivion, Stalker), a new CPU or GPU had to be somehow obtained, no matter what...
CPU/GPU History
P 133 with a S3 Virge
P200 with the Virge and the first Voodoo Card (loved it)
AMD K6.2 333 with a Riva TNT (another legendary GPU)
AMD K6.2 450 bought a voodoo 2
AMD Duron 600
AMD Athlon 1100, and my first Geforce 256
Athlon II x2 240, geforce gt 430, later the 730
Phenom II x4 (what a mess), GT 1030
Ryzen 5 2600, GTX 1050 Ti
have my eyes laid on a ryzen 7 2700x and maybe then it s time for an Nv RTX or AMD R9 card 🤭
The fillrate of 3dfx Voodoo Graphics is 50 million texels per second. The fillrate of the Nvidia GTX 1080 is 257000 million texels per second (=257 Gtexels/s - tested by TechReport - Nvidia claims up to 277 GTexels/s). Thus the GTX 1080 has a fillrate more than 5000 times the Voodoo Graphics - and that's about what it takes to enter VR worlds like Lone Echo ;-)
Imagine fun factor scaled accordingly..
"Bleifuss Zwei" really got me! xD You pronunce it with a bavarian accent wich is hilarious.
Haha, I knew someone would notice it :D
I remember the first time I played GTA with my new Voodoo2. I went from choppy gameplay to so smooth and clear it felt unnatural. Not to mention the first time I saw that 3DFX logo as the card was initialized.
I also remember the first time I fired up Mario64 on Ultrahle. I was insanely amazed to see Mario running around smoothly on a PC.. and to this day the N64 is still poorly emulated
LegoJKL that's why there is a 1-100 rule about emulators
+Freedom Of Motion this is because of the emulator. It's now mostly limited by the software, that is the efficiency of the emulator, in this case Dolphin, but the truth is Dolphin is using some tricks to emulate the Game Cube, it is not a true bit for bit emulation. This is why so many of the games are not playable and so many more are filled with bugs. *In the case of the PS2, which you refereed to as easily emulated, only a small part of it's game library is actually playable, and those that are are done only with hacks, as the PS2 processor is amazingly difficult to cycle for cycle emulate.*
In reality, to truly emulate hardware in a software environment, you need silicon that is many orders of magnitude faster, in fact, even with modern PC's, a true emulation of the MIPS processor in the N64 would barely be possible. The timing on almost all SNES, Dreamcast, and N64 emulators is way off of the true clock timing of the legacy hardware, and is "faked" using hacks. Ironically, the newer the hardware, the closer the legacy hardware tends to mimic the processes, creating less need for many of the hacks, as the newer hardware uses many of the same timings and process for math and memory calls, making the ratio of power needed for true emulation a little less.
Think about it though, you have to execute process that were done between memory and CPU on the same bus using software, meaning to truly emulate you have to make a program synthesize the logic of a solid state silicon wafer, using the closest modern approximation of reducing the calculations by the same processes the silicon would have done using the same timing (very very fast timing that is synchronized by a chip on the bus dedicated to synchronizing square waves) ,something we sometimes refer to as cycle accuracy, with an extra layer of memory access, as you can almost never get a modern PC to behave in the same way as the legacy memory and CPU. This means the software has to interpret the behavior every few steps, telling your CPU and memory bus how to behave in a way the legacy hardware would have, closely scrutinizing the timing, slowing it down or speeding it up every few nanoseconds, then sending that data to the emulation environment.
*The truth is, you need a 3Ghz machine to accurately emulate the 21Mhz SNES processor.*
Here is a great article by the author of bsnes, an extremely accurate SNES emulator about what it actually takes to truly emulate something.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
www.tested.com/tech/gaming/2712-why-perfect-hardware-snes-emulation-requires-a-3ghz-cpu/
In short, we are very far from accurately emulating the Game Cube, PS2, and and the Wii, even though you can play Windwaker in glorious 4k.
*Chicken livers is right as well, to this day the N64 is still poorly emulated.* Just listen to the audio on any random N64 game, it's all about the timing.
@Vineshroom depends on game I guess. An E6400 @ 3.2GHz ran Final Fantasy X very nicely 10yrs ago.
My (2 cents) memories were not about a graphic card, but about a CPU. I remember I had an AMD K7 3D Now, and bought a (marvellous) game called "Outcast", which used a lot of bump-mapping and was cpu-based. My cpu was struggeling just to keep it at some 10 fps. I took the game to a friend, installed on his pc(which had a Pentium 3( of some kind, with half of my AMD speed) and it ran like a devil :D
Thomas Samoht It's called height-mapping, but it's somewhat similar to bump-mapping
Rudolf Rieder yeah, you got that ;)
Well it's been a long time and as far as I know, it's a fan-made thing... So expect no big deal. I'm always waiting for it though...
The original developer is working on Outcast - Second Contact.
www.pcgamer.com/outcast-second-contact-coming-in-march-2017-first-screens-released/
if it's a success they will make a real sequel.
kristof Now that's some great news!
60 fps in 1996!? are you fudjin kiddin mee!?😱
Did you know Diamond still make AMD GPU's?
ray ray really?! I did not know that!
They are mostly reference models though, but yeah they do.
They have a few custom cooler models like the 380's and 90's
I actually didn't :O
PhilsComputerLab Yeah its pretty cool. A lot of people say they just copy HIS though
In 1997 I got back in the "PC scene" after a period of focusing only on my keyboard/synth for a few years. And that was a PII 266 MHz with a Cirrus Logic onboard card.
After waiting all summer for it to arrive with Unreal, it was such a blast in August 1997!
However, it could only pull 320x200 at a decent FPS, so soon after I opted for the Orchid Righteous 3DII 12MB card... and it was like the world exploded! At the time Unreal was the bomb! :D
Still have the machine and the card today, playing from time to time. goo.gl/images/Swy6YI
SiS were crappy chipsets. The best chipset for P2 and P3 was intel 440bx.
There is no P2 or P3 in this video. That SIS chipset board is my fastest Socket 7 board, so yea, you're wrong about SIS :D
PhilsComputerLab i know there is no P2 and P3. I just remember that SiS chipset for those cpus was buggy.
ultraHLE and NFS, Descent and Quake 2
Urban Chaos and Sega Rally. My family was really in to computers, and we didn't get it only for that game, but after playing everything the Pentium 2 233 could handle, and then some, it was an eye opening experience to play the game as it should have look, compared to what my "gaming eyes" had already come accustomed to. Really need to go back to that game again. lol :) EDIT: I think it was Voodoo 2 at that point.
One of my best friends uncle bought a system with an AMD K6-200. That enabled us to play Extreme Assault with it's MMX-patch, which made the game look much better and I was convinced that I needed to upgrade my Pentium 100 with an MMX-processor. However shortly afterwards that friend bought a Colormaster VoodooMania and put it into his uncles PC and we installed the 3dfx patch for Extreme Assault. It blew us away how much better the game ran and looked even compared to the MMX-version. When then went on a 3dfx gaming spree the day before the 1998 Nagano Olympics Opening, which we wanted to watch live. We played Extreme Assault and Grand Prix Legends (which was unplayable with keyboard), but mostly FIFA 98, NHL 98 and Screamer 2 with cheats that enabled bonus cars and a strange underground dragstrip IIRC. The games ran sooo much smoother and looked better at the same time. Needless to say that we woke up too late for the start of the Olympic live coverage, but I switched on the TV and it was still on only to discover later, that is was a re-run :-)
I skipped the CPU-upgrade and waited a bit till I got a completely new system with PII 350 and Creative 3D Blaster Banshee.
One of the most memorable things of that era was the lense flare effect that was used everywhere and loved by us.
All that coupled with EAX/A3D surround sound on multiple speakers and Force Feedback controllers made the late 90s/early 2000 so awesome.
I remember buying a second Voodoo2 and playing Unreal in SLI mode.
Awesome memories :D
What kind of commercials were that? Feed old people their hatred for video games?
Ahhh good old mode 13h... How are you, my old friend?
This card revolutionized the gaming industry
My first VooDoo was a Banshee.
mine too, an asus voodoo banshee ! later creative v2 with 12MB
That's an unusual move to go from a Banshee to a V2.
??? he just said that his first voodoo card was a voodoo banshee
You wrote that your first Voodoo was a Banshee and that you later got a Creative Voodoo2.
6:20 3Dfx version of screamer 2 havetexture filtering and the game runs at 60fps
Damn I can't even get my Tomb Raider to look good now on Steam using my new computer with a GTX 1070 lol. I have it on a 40inch 1080 TV looking horrible and almost unplayable.
Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/eefwR0mn7Vw/v-deo.html
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***** Haha, yea wrong YT channel :D
PhilsComputerLab I wasn't able to do what the guy showed in his video since mine is windows 10 and the nGlide setup now is a different version and doesn't come in a zip folder. I just put it in the Tomb Raider folder and clicked install and it said it was installed but there is no config and I tried the game and it doesn't even come on or anything anymore. Had to delete and reinstall the game but now I wonder if that nGlide set up is suppose to do something in windows not just in the game to make all 3dfx games work on your computer cause after installing it it said that all games will work. I still don't know where it went to in my computer to use it and to config the game with it.
You know that he is talking about "DOS" - Games. That means it predates Windows as the main OS.
i built ALOT of computers in this era... i personally stayed away from the SiS chipsets, but it did work....
Via was slightly better iirc
Great video. I was playing Quake II in software mode when I came into some lucky money and bought a Diamond Monster Voodoo II. Quake II at 1024x768 was breathtaking. Word spread quickly in my neighbourhood and I had complete strangers knocking on my door and asking if they could see a demo. It was a great time for PC gaming.
I remember having a Cyrix 233 Mhz MMX CPU computer... got a Voodoo 2 Diamond Monster 3D 12MB card and damn, it was mind blowing!
brings back memories! I remember spending over $350 USD when the card was first released. If I recall, I had purchased it directly via mail order through Computer World magazine. Good ol' days!!
i still have my voodoo2 and it still works!! rotflmao
I'm too young for that era, I started PC gaming in 2004. Had my godfather's old Pentium II 400 @ 450MHz, 160MB RAM and I got a GeForce 2 MX for a GPU. Now 15 years later, I'm kicking with Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.15GHz, 16GB RAM and Radeon R9 290 @ 1200/1350MHz, CPU and GPU with custom watercooling.
Game that made me want to upgrade to a 3Dfx the most: Either Need for Speed III or Quake II. Night & day difference when moving from software to 3D accelerated..
I don't think I ever had a voodoo. I remember building something in 2002 when I was 12 that used an nVidia Geforce 6600 GT and spare parts my grandpa had to play starcraft and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
For me the best Voodoo card was the Banshee. It made games like Dark Forces 2 and Quake playable on a simple Pentium 200, and did not require a separate graphics card.
I actually bought a Voodoo 1 with my first PC before even seeing how good it was. I had just heard that it was good for games, possibly from the salesman at the store, so I chose to get one with the system. I actually remember thinking that Tomb Raider, even with the Glide (3dfx) API enabled, didn't look very good compared to a lot of other glide based games! XD
Unreal really stands out as a game which looked amazing on a Voodoo card, but earlier on there was Quake 2, and I also remember Need for Speed 3 I think. There were lots of other games I remember using with it, with the original Shogun Total War being the last good game I remember ever running on it.
I would often run games at 512 by 384 for better performance, depending on the game.
i am plays HALF LIFE with S3 Trio ,
and then put the 3dfx voodoo 3000 AGP in it.
my jaws dropped
Was definitely Quake then Quake 2 that made me want one. Having high FPS was more competitive, so I typically ran it at 512x384 for maximum frame rate.
3dfx will always have a sentimental place in my heart. Started my journey into 3d gaming. I had the Guillemot Maxi Gamer Voodoo1. Picked it up because my ATI Rage IIc was just not cutting it. Was so impressed with my GLQuake performance, I was convinced me to pick up the 12mb Voodoo2 as soon as it was available.
Orchid Righteous 3D!!! Game package that came with it was rather decent: Descent 2, Mech Warrior 2, Terminal Velocity, Microsoft Monster Truck and Fatal Racing. There was also demo cd.
Think it was the Voodoo 2 I had back then and an AMD 233mhz chip. The Voodoo changed my entire gaming experience it was really something remarkable back then.
Final Fantasy VIII. It was a mess on the integrated ATI Rage 128 that came with my PII 350. Meanwhile I asked for a RIVA TNT AGP and not only did that not come but the mobo didn't even have an AGP slot! I got a massive discount on it (They allowed me to keep it for the down payment). So there I was with subpar graphics trying to play, well, anything really, when my wife brings me home FFVIII as a gift. My onboard graphics could not handle it no matter how much memory I threw at it (Great excuse for a RAM upgrade, went from 32MB to 512MB). So I called support from the back of the FFVIII box. And lo and behold I got to speak to a programmer of all people that explained the game was designed for Voodoo and I would be better off with a PCI Voodoo 2 3000 than the AGP Riva TNT. I found this hard to believe but I bought the card just the same so I could play this one game. And it worked. Exactly like it was supposed to. Within a year glide wrappers for Nvidia and ATI were a thing so even Voodoo wasn't necessary but I did play that game to the end. And more than a few others. Fun fact, that Voodoo card did not need to be the primary display adapter and just a quick switch in the bios would put me back on the IGP. So I had the best of both worlds for a while until the GeForce 2 GT came out and I got one of those with an ECS mobo and an Athlon T-Bird. Pooped all over that PII and the PIII I got from a guy that was trying to throw it away. It was Max Payne that started THAT upgrade path but that's another memory for another time.
Tomb Raider for me! 1st on a 486-DX2 even in 320*240 low fps around 10fps. With 3dfx, this was literally real game changer. Other games for were also Screamer 2 (Bleifuss 2) and, or course, Quake.
the 1st Tomb raider was the game for me as well, it was at the infancy of 3d gaming, and computer stores everywhere had "tomb raider" as a showcase to impress new buyers, and I also Played "Screamer" like crazy 😂😂, but my ultimate best Game back in the day was the First "Doom" and "Quake", I played it until my brain melted💀☠ with the first dual GPU card (Voodoo-2)
My first upgrade to a computer was a Voodoo 3 2000. It wowed me like no other card has done since (well maybe the GeForce 3). It made Tomb Raider and Rainbow Six instantly jump from less than my Playstation to a light year ahead of it. I miss those days.
For my for that time GL Quake, Turok, Pandemonium, Hexen 2, of course later arrived blasts like Quake 2, Unreal, Tomb Raider 2,3. Anyway Tomb Raider 1 I played on S3 Virge DX, because I didn't had Voodoo that time :-)
PC MASTER RACE does exists for 3Dfx. When all my friends used to play on console, I can remember how I was feeling looking at the 3Dfx logo coming out before FIFA RTWC 98. It was like to be 4 years ahead. My Diamond Monster 3DFX Voodoo. Unforgettable
Yes you cant forget the 3DFX effect, i had the Monster 4MB back in the day, great cards BUT i had the PowerVR 4MB first and that was another great card i would have been more than happy with that if was supported more in games and wasn't lacking a few colour blend effects, you can't argue it was the very first HD 1024x768p PC accelerator, awesome card running Ultimate Race Pro running at 1024x768 that blew Ridge Racer on the Platstation out the water.!!!!!
Half life and Unreal Tournament. I had a Voodoo 3 3000. I still remember when my mother gifted it to me for christmas hahaha. I was 8 I think.
Back then I was really lucky to have a Vodoo3DFX-Card :-) Bad for me!!!! I was a kid and my friend came with his PC to my home to play via LAN a rally-racing game (can't remember the title). On the kitchen table, because the pc and monitors were evil huge back then and there was no internet! ^^+g He always won! :-( He ask me why i am so bad and i said: "i can't see anything! there is snow and rain and fog and stuff" and he replied: "what are you talking about?" ... I looked at his screen: "clear view" ... He looked at my screen: "wtf!? where does the effects come from? i can't see anything because of the fog!" ^^+gg But he bought a 3dfx-card as well, so we were fine and we both lost ^^+gg
My first 3D card was a Matrox m3D with a PowerVR PCX2 chipset which i played a lot of games like MechWarrior 2 and Jedi Knight on. My first 3DFX card was a Voodoo 3 2000 bought primarily for Half-Life. I later owned a Voodoo5 and from there switched over to Ati Radeon. I didn't switch over to Nvidia till Geforce 4 Ti 4400.
It was the first Unreal game 100%! I go and buy this game like couple of months before i get my 3Dfx Voodoo1 :) Running this game for the first time was an experience i will never forget! At the time my PC specs was Pentium 200MMX, 32MB Ram, S3 Virge 4MB + 3Dfx Voodo 1. Best times in my life hehe :)
I had a P90 OC to 100Mhz CPU and I but a 3DFX Banshee 16MB PCI in the system, My friend all had P133/166/200 CPU but no 3Dcard, I was king when it came to all 3D games, Good Times.
My 3dfx Voodoo memories mainly involve drooling over them as a teenager. A couple of days ago I picked up a Dell Dimesion XPS T500 very cheaply as it wouldn't post. I opened it up to discover a Voodoo3 3000. Thankfully the card was working fine and it wasn't posting due to a bad stick of ram, 256mb of PC100 later and the whole system works perfectly and I'm enjoying games as they could have been back in the day.
No particular game actually. Just knew voodoo is cool and wanted to have one and was stuned by the magnitude of improvement compared to software and other cards. But the first game to test was tomb raider for dos. The difference was hillarious, made me a graphics enthusiast up until 2013 and then I switched to crypto. Good old days though.
Good stuff as always Phil. You KNOW I'm obsessed with 3DFX!
Quake 2. Was running on software mode on an Tseng Labs, and then finally got a voodoo2 12 meg card. The difference..... blew my mind.
This was my upgrade from a Cirrus Logic 2MB. Got a 6MB Voodoo on a P166 MMX with 32MB RAM. Good times in High School lol. Jedi Knight and Rainbow Six were the first two for me. What a difference
I even remember this from the far past. It was a time when I was playing Descent and had gotten an S3 Virge VX and was only moderately impressed because the improved framerate came with dithered textures. Relatively soon after that switched to the Voodoo (Diamond Monster 3D) and was very pleased, even though textures looked more blurry due to a strong smoothing filter. Well, not too much of surprise considering it was an addon card.
When you said 3Dfx forced other manufacturers to either adapt or perish, I thought: Well, buying up is always an option.
These days it's telling that it becomes so hard for newcomers to make a quantum leap. The business world solidifies, becomes rigid, and that's death.
Back when graphics cards were ACTUAL CARDS, not thick bricks like today's "cards" (looking at my EVGA RTX 3070)
Can you PLEASE make a vid where you compare VooDoo 1 vs VooDoo 2
Great vids , cant wait to watch more
oh memories. I remember this back during the day when video cards weren't a necessity yet and CPU was all that matters to run games and graphics. it was fun times and 3D was still in it's infancy. not much 3D games available yet but they were awesome when played with AAA titles supported especially with StarWars games used with JoySticks. people were happy enough to play games and no complaints with regards to fps speed as long as the game is visible. back then 20 fps was standard and 30 fps was gold. people weren't even complaining even if the games were running 10fps. we make do with what we have. and yet gamers nowadays are complaining if their fps dips below 60fps or even below 100 fps which is laughable imo. anyway, 3Dfx was a real gem during it's time and people haven't seen something like that of a performance enhancer or 3D drivers. it opened a new chapter in gaming although during it's time, PC gaming wasn't really a thing yet and people were more into console gaming.
I was blown away by game KINGPIN. I remember when my friend went to USA I
persuaded him to borrow 3dfx voodoo2 to me until he go back. I had it for 2 years. Great memories.
Ok I'm 5 years too late :P but for me it was Wing Commander Prophecy. The difference between 3dfx and directx / software renderers was not even funny
For me, NHL 98 is why I bought my first Diamond Monster 3D 3DFX card, paird with a Diamond Stealth II S220
didnt remember what game causing me buy 3dfx card, i think its the need for speed series, but mostly to experience good quality gaming graphic, my voodoo3 died while playing nfs porsche unleashed, driving the moby dick... move to asus geforce 2 gts with 3d glasses, but because of low fps, after a week then i got rid of it and change to voodoo5, after getting tired of voodoo5, no other choice than to move to geforce fx
but 3dfx still impress me, cause its a quantum leap of 3d gaming tech, and i still occasionally wear my voodoo5 t-shirt till now bonus from purchasing the graphic card