Did the first voodoo feel like this?

[FearoftheNight]

Once upon a time I had a Celly 400 mhz with no AGP slot and onboard video/audio....one day I ended up with a p3 800 with a tnt64...no more software accelerated unreal tournament...wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!.....

Is this the feeling people got w/ the first voodoo?

 

[DeeSlanger]

Perhaps I felt a little better with the voodoo cause everyone else seemed to be having problems with nVidia then as they are having now.....

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: DeeSlanger
Perhaps I felt a little better with the voodoo cause everyone else seemed to be having problems with nVidia then as they are having now.....

why does everything in this forum turn into a nvidia bashing frenzy?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: DeeSlanger
Perhaps I felt a little better with the voodoo cause everyone else seemed to be having problems with nVidia then as they are having now.....

why does everything in this forum turn into a nvidia bashing frenzy?

ati was last year?

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: DeeSlanger
Perhaps I felt a little better with the voodoo cause everyone else seemed to be having problems with nVidia then as they are having now.....

why does everything in this forum turn into a nvidia bashing frenzy?

Why do you have to respond every time?

 

[TourGuide]

Originally posted by: DanDeighan

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: DeeSlanger
Perhaps I felt a little better with the voodoo cause everyone else seemed to be having problems with nVidia then as they are having now.....

why does everything in this forum turn into a nvidia bashing frenzy?

Why do you have to respond every time?

That's a really ghey answer to a legitimate question. This thread was supposed to be about the thrill of getting 3D for the first time and not about how disappointing nVidia is/was/will be.

In response to the original question, that is what it was like for me except I was playing Descent (glider version) for the first time when I was hooked. From that moment on, I was sucked into a very expensive hobby.

 

[sandorski]

When I first put a Voodoo 2 into my k6-2 300 system, I was blown away as I have not been since. Quake 2, Unreal, and other games were vastly improved. Not only did the games look a hell of a lot better, they were also equally faster.

 

[Matt84]

I remember the day in 97 or early 98 I got my Diamond Monster 3D I installed it into my machine and immediately fired Quake 2 and changed the renderer to 3Dfx miniGL. The quality change was astounding, I was blown away, no more software rendering from this point onwards. I was the envy of all my mates.

 

[FearoftheNight]

software rendering sux...but the jump from software to hardware is much higher than bumping up res or detail like we do nowadays....

we need something else to make us say "wow" now

 

[Robor]

For me it was my Diamond Monster and Unreal. The first part where you escape the ship and get outside and look around. Then walking up the the edge of the cliff to look across at the waterfall. Even my (now ex) wife was like, holy crap that's amazing!

 

[KillaBong]

I was something like... well, less than ten years old. I got my original voodoo to play mechwarrior 2, but it didn't work for some reason in my computer. I bought, I think, an ati rage instead. It's hard to remember it now, but mechwarrior 2 was pretty fun.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Robor
For me it was my Diamond Monster and Unreal. The first part where you escape the ship and get outside and look around. Then walking up the the edge of the cliff to look across at the waterfall. Even my (now ex) wife was like, holy crap that's amazing!

Yes, that waterfall was amazing, though I was boggled with just the flyby.

 

[CombatChuk]

I had a good feeling when I got a RIVA TNT 16MB card of upgrade my S3 Virge (First 3-D decelerator ) and I played the 3-D accelerated version of Mechwarrior 2 31st Century Combat and the first Descent Freespace. I agree with you FearoftheNight, with the move to pixel, and vertex shaders, nothing so far beats the immense difference from software to hardware acceleration (Half-Life 2, and doom 3 might come close)

 

[sodcha0s]

My "WOW" experience was with the Diamond Monster 3D and the original Quake. Unbelievable difference. I just stared open mouthed at the demo for like 10 minutes... LOL

The original Quake.... now that was a game with atmosphere.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I concur ... nothing matched the gameplay shift that I got when I reran Unreal's setup engine and said "Yes" to the age-old question ...

Do you have a 3dfx card in your system?

Utter. Gaming. Bliss.

Nothing has even matched that since.

- M4H

 

[erikistired]

3dfx + carmageddon = instant bliss.

 

[edmundoab]

Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Once upon a time I had a Celly 400 mhz with no AGP slot and onboard video/audio....one day I ended up with a p3 800 with a tnt64...no more software accelerated unreal tournament...wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!.....

Is this the feeling people got w/ the first voodoo?

no idea... lol

 

[BuckNaked]

My first experience also was with the Diamond Monster 3D, but with Janes Longbow Apache flight sim... Blown away.... only to be outdone by Longbow 2 and the Voodoo 2... Quake was pretty killer too, but both those flight sims were just unbelievable at the time...

 

[Mitzi]

I remember going round to my friends house to see his 486DX/2 with a Voodoo 1 running Quake II....I couldn't believe my eyes!

Since that day I've never had the same feeling looking at computer game graphics...all in all modern developments are evolutionary whereas I feel the Voodoo 1 was revolutionary.

Saying that I remember going from my Voodoo 2 to a Matrox G400 MAX?dang I loved that card!


Edit: And to the n00bie Nvidia bashing idiot go hang out on another forum we don't need/want your sort here. :|

 

[NEVERwinter]

my first experience was running mechwarrior2 winh Voodoo (on my friend's place).....
and then running Halflife & FF7 with TNT on my own PC
O__O

 

[DefRef]

Since I'd added a Rage II card (4MB! w00t!) to my first Compaq which only had 1MB video RAM so I could play Blade Runner (req'd 2MB RAM, but was 2D) and had only played Duke Nukem 3D, I didn't have the religious experience switching to Glide.

When a friend got a Monster Voodoo 3D, however, I was there when he first saw Quake 2 w/colored lighting. As he fired the RL and HB and the yellow glow shone on the walls, he was ecstatic.

Ironically, he never upgraded and now only plays games that don't require acceleration or can stumble by on the integrated SIS chipset of his current hooptie rig. Weak.

 

[Genx87]

I picked up a voodo 2 for about 70 bucks when they first came out. I went home and fired up Battlezone and was blown away by the difference. I was used to 9-13 fps in software mode on my K6-233. I put the voodo in and got 35-40 fps and nice crisp graphics.

That was the best day in my computer history by far. I woke me up to the new world of 3d rendering on the graphics card.

When I went to school and fired up quake I. My friend was so impressed he went out and got a voodoo 2 also

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I think the biggest ooooohhhh, ahhhh, OOOOOOO! feeling I had was going from my old IBM PC XT 8088 W/monochrome straight to an Amiga 2000 W/ Commodore RGB monitor and stereo sound and expanded 9mb of ram? Many of the games were well made and some were really gorey for the time, like Barbarian1&2 AKA DeathSword &Axe of Rage. You could play DS 1on1 and decapitate your buddy, and in AoR "pulling off a swinging attack on the fat man makes his heart fly out of his body and land on the floor still beating!" and other sweet fatality moves. Man did those graphics seem awesome and my system seem uberfast,you could even add the bridgeboard for PC compatability and use DOS stuff. I won't even start on how cool the video toaster was

 

[tech]

Diamond Monster 3D!!!! That card costs me thousands of dollars in upgrades! Yeah, the game for me is Incoming. And, YES, I still own that card.

 

[pukemon]

Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Once upon a time I had a Celly 400 mhz with no AGP slot and onboard video/audio....one day I ended up with a p3 800 with a tnt64...no more software accelerated unreal tournament...wowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!.....

Is this the feeling people got w/ the first voodoo?

Ahh yes the Diamond Monster3D on my then state of the art Pentium II 266MHz. Mechwarrior II custom version and also a custom version of Tomb Raider and I think there was one for Descent (remember that?)

The pass through cable kinda sucked though. I had a Matrox Millennium II - awesome 2D for the time.