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Offline JoeLo

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Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
on: February 17, 2006, 09:08:47 pm
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Please sticky as everyone coming here needs to no this.
 

Offline Taristin

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #1 on: February 17, 2006, 09:16:23 pm
Drink much?
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Offline JoeLo

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #2 on: February 17, 2006, 09:23:30 pm
Nope even if I did it would be underage. Seriously it was the greatest card ever.
 

Offline Nuclear1

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #3 on: February 17, 2006, 09:39:15 pm
I suppose this is on the same level as the dizzy thread.

But whatever. I like a graphics card as long as it runs FSO and Homeworld.
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #4 on: February 17, 2006, 09:59:02 pm
I remember when I wanted a Voodoo so I could see the lights on an Orion.
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #5 on: February 17, 2006, 10:00:59 pm
? software mode did that well enough.
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #6 on: February 17, 2006, 10:03:03 pm
:smacks head:

NOW you tell me...
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #7 on: February 17, 2006, 10:10:34 pm
Quote from: WMCoolmon on February 17, 2006, 09:59:02 pm
I remember when I wanted a Voodoo so I could see the lights on an Orion.

Oh, god. Sharp stabbing pain in the frontal lobe. At first we played FS1 with either no 3d acceleration or something crappy.. and then we got a Voodoo(2, i believe) and then WHOA-LY **** everything looked so much better, namely the Orion. God, that's a blast from the past.
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Offline JoeLo

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #8 on: February 17, 2006, 10:13:08 pm
Its really not on the level with the Dizzy topic. This is a relevant point, it was actually a great card.
 

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #9 on: February 17, 2006, 10:17:45 pm
And this should be stickied why?


Oh woo! Let's sticky opinions!
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #10 on: February 17, 2006, 10:17:56 pm
but it doesn't deserve to be stickied. stickied topics are for things of importance, just because you say it needs to be and for an outdated video card that my ATI Radeon 9250 can do 4 times as better.

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Offline JoeLo

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #11 on: February 17, 2006, 10:21:53 pm
It was pretty much a joke the last part about it being stickied. I have a Radeon 9250 pro as well is yours PCI bus?
 

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #12 on: February 17, 2006, 10:22:33 pm
Software mode rules all in FS1. You get both the "glowmaps" and the high resolution textures. Although in those days the processors weren't fast enough to run software smoothly, so a Glide supporting card was it worth it just for the framerate increase.

I have my V3 3000 lying around somewhere. It was great for its time but is not as versatile as the GF3 / V2 SLI combo that sits in my old game computer, especially since I have two Glide games that only work properly with V2s and nothing else.
 

Offline JoeLo

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #13 on: February 17, 2006, 10:30:16 pm
A pair of Voodo2's can play Quake 4 is that kick ass or what?
 

Offline Nix

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #14 on: February 18, 2006, 03:55:36 am
You've GOT to be kidding me.  I'm pretty sure anyone who's been up on hardware already knows about this.  But I got one little gripe about Voodoo cards. The only thing that card had going for it was GLIDE, and that's IT.  The ONLY Games I thought ran well on a 3dfx card were any games that used Gilde natively, such as Hexen II, and Deus Ex to name a couple.  Of course, if you had an nvidia card like I had way back then (Riva TNT, the FIRST TNT card) all you needed was the Glide wrapper for DOS and it'd play with that Glide accel, just as good as one of those voodoo 2's that I think were out at the time.  Take away the specific GLIDE API and your precious Voodoo is no better than any other graphics card that was released around the same exact time that one was.    Everyone thought Rendition Verite would have been the top dawg, then S3.  Oh, anyone remember S3 and it's two failed ressurections?  I'm GLAD that nvidia "acquired" STB, because that eliminated one goofy-ass standard that was already starting to show it's age.
 

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #15 on: February 18, 2006, 04:55:53 am
I'm leaving this open since it seems to have turned into a proper discussion rather than spam. That said JoeLo, please cease spamming topics of this kind.
 

Offline Descenterace

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #16 on: February 18, 2006, 06:11:57 am
A Voodoo 3 may be nice, but I'd rather have a Radeon 9-series or X-series... even the low end Radeons beat the hell out of a Voodoo.

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #17 on: February 18, 2006, 07:37:12 am
Other points AGAINST Voodoo-Cards are:
- AFAIK, Voodoo cards only ran games at 16 bpp
- Hardware Transform & Lighting that came with the GeForce 256
  

Offline Cyker

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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #18 on: February 18, 2006, 08:08:07 am
Pfft. V3 was a pansy card!

Best card setup ever was that 6xVoodoo2 thing that Quantum 3D did. :D

And then there's the OpenGL accelerator in my Sun Ultra 5 - The machine is terminally slow by today's standards, but that 3D card is as long as my arm!

nVidia and ATI have come a long way 'tho - All nVidia's cards sucked arse until the GeForce2 GTS.

ATI's Radeon, aside from having a much better name (I mean GeForce... that has to be the stupidest name I've ever heard!), was always good hardware.

Sadly, ATI are like Creative, and couldn't write a decent set of drivers to save their lives. They have improved there considerably 'tho.


One card I want to see for Real is a 3Dfx Voodoo 5 6000.
It just looks impressive :D
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Re: Voodoo 3 was the greatest graphics card ever
Reply #19 on: February 18, 2006, 09:09:54 am
Quote from: Ghost on February 17, 2006, 10:10:34 pm
Oh, god. Sharp stabbing pain in the frontal lobe. At first we played FS1 with either no 3d acceleration or something crappy.. and then we got a Voodoo(2, i believe) and then WHOA-LY **** everything looked so much better, namely the Orion. God, that's a blast from the past.

I still remember the first time I saw Freespace 1 running on a 3DFX graphics card using Glide... It was mind-blowing.

Why did they drop Glide?
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