3DFX is Back.............

[ScrewFace]

I think the whole point here is that we a need a 3rd, and possibly, a 4th GPU company to emerge that has the technologies to compete with ATI and nVidia and then we'll see some high-end GPU's we all can actually afford, know what I'm sayin'?:beer:🙂

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: nvfx
Thank you for your comments, waste of space, yeah it is....

While out of all my posts, i had only asked questions and questions.

Most of you are just sitting back, increasing your status.

cant imagine how people go upto the Lifer Status

Helping the thousands of n00bs who post here, that's how 😉 Excluding the ATOT gang who are useless wastes of bandwidth 😛

 

[mrwxyz]

postcount++
😀

 

[DarkKnight]

Originally posted by: Childs
The Voodoo and Voodoo 2 were significant. You guys (and gals) who grew up after 3D acceleration was the norm don't know what it was like to see a game in Glide for the first time. Anything ATI or Nvidia has done since then cannot really be compared to that breakthrough. I'd rather have a Voodoo 1 in 1996 (or whenever) than a 6800U/X800XTPE now.

I agree with that too. A couple of years ago when I bought Quake2 I mainly bought it for the great graphics (I was running at 320X240 software mode and thought it was the best looking game evar!!) I bought a Voodoo2 12mb PCI card a coulpe weeks later, and set the game to 800X600 3dfx opengl and I was amazed. I went back to 320X240 and couldnt believe how I thought that crap looked good.

 

[nvfx]

Well.... The point is that we need some other brand names.

For 3DFX, they had Glide, every rich game of thier times supported Glide.

Take the example of a game published in 1996.

Need for Speed II.

The game supported Gilde and i didnt. Then saw the game under Glide mode and was just stunned to see such awesome Graphics.

Now a days, you can just play with Driver ex. Quality---Performance----High Performance and etc. But these options dont enhance anything which a Gamer would experience.

While i do post some stupid questions but like sometime back i posted "What ATI and NVIDIA Stand for"

Nonetheless, i cant believe why companies like SiS arent doing any thing to compete.

Secondly, i wonder why not the very very large brands like SONY, and Samsung come into Graphic Market.

If Samsung come into Graphics, that will be a cheaper Card.

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: nvfx
For 3DFX, they had Glide, every rich game of thier times supported Glide.

Glide rocked, simply put and 3dfx for their time were masters of the graphical arts! I still remember seeing Mechwarrior 2 for the first time on my diamond monster 3d 4mb pci add-in card. Still think that was one of the smoothest, best looking games of its day!

 

[Goi]

Originally posted by: nvfx
Well.... The point is that we need some other brand names.

For 3DFX, they had Glide, every rich game of thier times supported Glide.

Take the example of a game published in 1996.

Need for Speed II.

The game supported Gilde and i didnt. Then saw the game under Glide mode and was just stunned to see such awesome Graphics.

Now a days, you can just play with Driver ex. Quality---Performance----High Performance and etc. But these options dont enhance anything which a Gamer would experience.

While i do post some stupid questions but like sometime back i posted "What ATI and NVIDIA Stand for"

Nonetheless, i cant believe why companies like SiS arent doing any thing to compete.

Secondly, i wonder why not the very very large brands like SONY, and Samsung come into Graphic Market.

If Samsung come into Graphics, that will be a cheaper Card.

intel themselves tried their hands in the standalone graphics chip market with their i740 series of chips, but still failed. I doubt SONY or Samsung would try. SONY still has their PS systems to handle.

 

[edmundoab]

whats this for? to catch the forum's attention??

 

[TStep]

Originally posted by: edmundoab
whats this for? to catch the forum's attention??

OT, but judging by your sig, it looks like they never left. 😀

I still have and 8 & 12 meg Voodoo2 and a Voodoo3 2000 myself. Great in their day teamed up with a matrox millenium 4 meg monster.

 

[UnTech]

Huh?

Post count +1

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
0/10.

Yeah really, this was one of the most pointless posts i've seen in awhile... 😕

 

[KenSimone]

Not going to happen. Nvidia purchased 3DFX assets, and as part of the deal, all members of the 3DFX development staff were killed.

 

[Ages120]

Voodoo's dead R.I.P. Leave it alone you grave robber.

 

[Whatsisname]

This thread makes me sad

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i actually thought i was gonna get something there.......i have been decieved........poo thread tho, go write fiction somewhere else

 

[MichaelZ]

spam count +1

 

[DKlein]

Originally posted by: Delorian

Originally posted by: nvfx
For 3DFX, they had Glide, every rich game of thier times supported Glide.

Glide rocked, simply put and 3dfx for their time were masters of the graphical arts! I still remember seeing Mechwarrior 2 for the first time on my diamond monster 3d 4mb pci add-in card. Still think that was one of the smoothest, best looking games of its day!

x2

I remember playing Delta Force with one of those at 1024x768 (back when that was actually a huge res for me) along with my P1 166MHz overclocked to 233 (and people think Bartons overclock well). Oh those were the days... the days when graphics cards didn't cost $400+