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That would of been in software rendering mode then?😉

Btw 133 didn't have MMX ,the 166 was the slowest you could get with MMX 🙂

CP5670
Thanks for the link , is Descent 3 any good?
 
9100 128mb PCI, flashed to work in my 7 or 8 years old Blue and White Powermac. I've also put in a 1.1GHz 750GX G3(That would be with 4-stage pipes and 1MB 1:1 cache) processor and maxxed out the ram at 1GB. Before that for the longest time, I ran a Voodoo 5500 DVI in it under OS9, that would run Quake 3, UT and some adventure games like Alice pretty well.

Even with the Radeon 9100 my powermac is limited by its videocard, which is unusual as I remember my friends G5 2.0 Ghz powermac with a 256mb nvidia 6600 absolutely chugging when there was more than 6 bots.

As such the best games it can run maxxed out is UT2004 and Homeworld 2(both which I still play), also RTCW;ET and Halo(minus the pixel shaders -_-). Its a really unusual computer; despite its slow clockspeed of the CPU, its very unaffected performance wise by heavy AI....or the physics used by a few games in OS X.

 
Mx420 is used ocassionally for the odd LAN party of CS: CZ, Halo demo, Far Cry, FreeLancer and a few other games that I can't remember...
 
just set up a dual P3 1000GHz machine running ubuntu 6.10 with a Geforce 2 GTS hardmoded to a Quadro 2 🙂

I remember this machine being faster than it seems lol.... I think there is some bios issues i am not sure if i want to spend the time to figure out what.
 
Originally posted by: potato28
Mx420 is used ocassionally for the odd LAN party of CS: CZ, Halo demo, Far Cry, FreeLancer and a few other games that I can't remember...
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Ah a fellow Freelancer fan 😀 ,what server do you play on most?
Jolt this end.
 
pentium II 266Mhz @ 300Mhz. has a voodoo 2 16MB PCI card (stupid dell added an AGP slot in the 300Mhz models i hated that) and it played diablo 2, final fantasy 8, NES/SNES/GENESIS emulation just fine.
 
Originally posted by: mozirry
Diamond Monster3d (3d card only) + Matrox Millenium (2d) = Mechwarrior 2

just kidding

Radeon 9700: CS-Source
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ROFLMAI, i am trying to ressurect my old PII 400mhz with 2x 12mb Voodoo 2's so that I can play mechwarrior 2 and its various sequels :laugh:
 
Matched pair of P3 450 Katmai boxes on lan in the basement, both with Voodoo3 3000's.......Quake, Quake2, Unreal, HalfLife, Xwing v Tie Fighter, DukeNukem, Deus EX and some Glide games......also a pentium with S3Virge onboard in the garage for Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Word, maintenance records, etc........also a P3 with a Voodoo5 5500 thats my spare for my main rig........just can't part with the Voodoo goodness. The V3 3000's have awesome 2d thats still hard to top.
 
I don't really have any ancient cards, but I had one system that went through quite a few different cards.

Onboard ATI Rage (not sure what specs)
Geforce 4 MX420 (PCI)
Geforce FX 5200 (AGP) - I HATE these cards.
Geforce FX 5200 (PCI) - First one didn't have a fan, eventually died.
Geforce FX 5900SE (AGP)
Geforce 6600 (AGP) - Still in the system.

It pains me to think how much money was put into that computer. 🙁
 
Oldest card I can remember was a 16MB Vanta I had with my PIII HP system. Upgraded to a PCI Voodoo 4 pretty quickly after that, which made CS look awesome at the time since I could smoothly render it in OpenGL instead of software 🙂
 
2mb S3 Trio 64bit / Pentium 133, 16mb EDO = Doom, Doom2, Duke3D, Quake, Half-Life <---talk about choppy).
16mb ATi Rage Fury 128bit / K6-2 400, 64mb DDR = Half-Life, Counter Strike 1, Quake 2, Unreal (Infiltration) <-- nice colors
16mb Voodoo3 2000 128bit / k6-2 400, 128mb DDR = Half-Life, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal (Infiltration) <---nice framerate 🙂
128mb nVidia FX5200 / AMD XP 2200 / 512mb DDR = Half-Life 2, Counter Strike 1 and Source <--decent overclocker
256mb ATi x300 / AMD 64 3500 / 1gb = HL2, CSS, BF2 <--framerate was as good as my old 5200 / xp2200
256 (512tc) 3D Fuzion 7300GS / AMD 64 3500 <--this card overclocked 200mhz on the core and mem
256 Foxconn 7900GS / Intel C2D E6600 / 1gb DDR2 667mhz =NFS Carbon, CSS, BF2 <---silky smooth

I cherished my Rage Fury 128 and still have it. The colors on that card were excelent at that time. Still have my Voodoo3 also. Loved them cards.
 
i have a
voodoo 1 4mb
rage flurry 32mb
Geforce 4 MX420
fx5200
9800pro

and no i don?t care to play them 🙂 my x1900xtx would get jealous
 
Originally posted by: 308nato
Matched pair of P3 450 Katmai boxes on lan in the basement, both with Voodoo3 3000's.......Quake, Quake2, Unreal, HalfLife, Xwing v Tie Fighter, DukeNukem, Deus EX and some Glide games......also a pentium with S3Virge onboard in the garage for Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, Word, maintenance records, etc........also a P3 with a Voodoo5 5500 thats my spare for my main rig........just can't part with the Voodoo goodness. The V3 3000's have awesome 2d thats still hard to top.
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I used a couple of V3 3000s on my father-in-law's business computers for this exact reason. When you can buy them for $20 a pop (even a few years ago), why not? Especially with good 2D and a totally passive cooling solution.
 
I have a Hercules Geforce 3 in my Win98 Box that I use for playing games that don't work in XP. I used to use it as a Dos Box too until I discovered Dosbox. heh. I also have a Voodoo3500Tv lying around somewhere. It has a P3 866Mhz with 512MB of RAM. More than enough for games like Homeworld and Mechwarrior 2. Shame I can't get Homeworld to work on Xp. 🙁
 
Matrox Millenia 4mb err something like that with Master of Orion, Command and Conquer and definitely Ultima 7, 8 and 9. It was the card that competed with the first line of voodo cards I think.

wow...that was a long time ago 🙂
 
Interesting... I have had no issue running Homeworld in XP.

I have tried many things to get the Mechwarrior 2 franchise to run in 2k/xp. As far as I can tell, it is an issue of the game making direct calls to VXD driver functions in the OS.

Since 2k/xp are 32bit NT unlike the 32bit/16bit hybrid of 9x, there are no VXD drivers, just WMD.

I can't even get Mechwarrior 2 to run under cedega or wine in *nix 🙁
 
Originally posted by: tanishalfelven
Originally posted by: Endlessshampoo
still got my vodoo banshee lying around somwhere with bazing 16 mb ram 😱
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i wonder if some day we'll say that about 8800gtx.
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Not if, but when.

I remember when my PII 400Mhz, 160MB RAM, and Voodoo 3 3000 combo was a high end gaming rig.
 
I have a Voodoo2 12MB expansion card if that counts, though I don't use it. Otherwise, strictly "GPU," my oldest one is a Creative Geforce 256 Ultra on my Pentium 3.

This was only a few years back, when $200 was insanely expensive for a video card.
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
That would of been in software rendering mode then?😉

Btw 133 didn't have MMX ,the 166 was the slowest you could get with MMX 🙂

CP5670
Thanks for the link , is Descent 3 any good?
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It's fantastic. 🙂 It came out seven years ago but I don't think there has been any other game of that type since then. You can probably get it for a few dollars off ebay.
 
Up until recently when I cannibalized it for the drives I had a PII 300mhz running at something like 378mhz. Back in '98 that was my rig for school. Last 2 cards I had in it were an STB Velocity 4400 and an ATI Radeon 7series, 7800 I think. It played FFVII nicely when it had Win98 on it. UT and Quake ran but without all the visual goodies turned up. I put Windows 3.1 on it just for kicks but It was a bit too fast for games that old. I have a cd of old RPGs like the AD&D Eye of the Beholder series and the early Bethesda games like Arena and Daggerfall. Ah the good ol' days.
 
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