The Voodoo 2 was my first graphics card. I still remember it fondly. The leap in performance was something that I (and I assume most players) was not prepared for. My PC went from being sub-par compared to the PS1 / N64 (both of which I had) to being superior.. The N64 might of had better effects or colors.. but in terms of frame rate it chugged behind. Quake 1 & 2, The later Wing Commander games, Unreal, Shogo, Rainbow 6, etc. Good times.
1:06 im 15 and i can remember my good old childhood. playing rayman,nfs,pod,tomb raider,abe, and all that good stuff. Once i went my neigbor when we was like 5 yrs old, we played nfs 4 on hes computer (i then noticed my pc graphical was nothing compared to hes) 3dfx
@001freestyle I think you completely missed the point. The RSX graphics processor in your PS3 is based on nVidias NV47 chip found in their 7th gen cards. The voodoo 2 is the great, great, great... great grandaddy.
320x240 was not considered a pretty good resolution. It's just what was available back then. They also had 320x200, you don't want to make games on anything lower than that unless it's tetris or pong with 1 inch pixels.
but still nowaday's it is the same, buy an graphics card and your pc performs heck of a lot better than without.. i bought an HD4670 for my computer back in 2008 as an replacement for my onboard gpu (radeon x1250) i was able to play all the games i wanted to play that i couldn't on my onboard gpu.. Never played pc games before that pc, that pc was bought in 2007... with an amd athlon 64 x2 running at 2.2ghz (slow shit xD)
Cool ! Very nice video, personally I had Voodoo Rush because at that time I couldn't afford any better card. I used it from 1997 up to 2000 and I have also many great memories with this card.
my first graphics card ever was (is) a 55nm revision gtx 260 core 216. I will never look at my console again. I feel like i've been cheating on pc all my life with a cheap substitute... PC FTW
After hitting this video with quite a few comments, I am making the last. I was happy with my Voodoo2 and all, but the greatest change in 3d-gaming was when the Geforce4 Ti series was released. It was the biggest leap into the future of 3dgaming ever!!
I SHIT YOU NOT:
I had my GeforceTi4200 128MBVram running Crysis in 1024x768 pixels and this card was released April 2002!!!
Excuse me.. I'll be heading back to Fifa 2000 for now.. Bye bye..
I had 3dfx Vodoo2 12MB !! I was running all kind of games:) I loved the 3dfx logo jumping up everytime any 3dgame was loaded. I had major problems with the pc though:( I sometimes had to wait for like 2-3 minutes with a black screen when 3dgames was loaded, but I wasn't old enough to find the bug by myself. I played Quake 2 on my Voodoo2 and was thrilled just as the guy in this video!!
Now i'm running a medium gay-ass HD4890 with Pixelshader 4.0 and DirectX 10 and everything. LOL
@sweet10122 A lot of things has changed since 3dfx. I remember having a Nvidia Ti4200 (EXTREMELY AWESOME POWER) which couldn't run Aero in Vista because of missing pixelshader 2.0 if i remember correctly. Modern gaming and Quake 2 is so very different. The basic principle still stands. Having a matrix calculating processing unit and all, but so many new technologies has been added since back then.
uh.. at 1:20.. what a doctored fake screenshot of quake2.
Unless you grabbed that from a like 50x50 thumbnail and expanded it. Quake2 did NOT look that shitty. Quake 2 is old enough, low poly enough.. basically graphically old enough that you do not need to exaggerate how bad it looked.
I don't know if it's worth it to even continue with the video..
dude this is so nostalgic i just ordered my my first gaming pc since 1998 , when i first installed my 4mb voodoo gpu into my pentium rig, and saw quake 2 accelerated for the first time. i remember thinking the same thing, how can games ever look better than this? then turok 2 seeds of evil came out and unreal and half-life 1 ! those were the days that rig was almost 3 grand! thank you for posting this im not alone in my nostalgia!!!
dude this is so nostalgic i just ordered my my first gaming pc since 1998 , when i first installed my 4mb voodoo gpu into my pentium rig, and saw quake 2 accelerated for the first time. i remember thinking the same thing, how can games ever look better than this? then turok 2 seeds of evil came out and unreal and half-life 1 ! those were the days that rig was almost 3 grand!
That Q2 picture is totally misleading. I was around long before Q2 came out, but when it did i played it at a much higher resolution. Also, it wasn't that blurry. That's a terrible picture. It had beautiful OpenGL support...
@LordJummy The Q2 picture is not misleading. The game is capable of much more than the resolution in the video, but it's in softwaremode with a lowered resolution, so that the game would run smoothly. Whenever you added a 3d-accelerated unit to the rig it would be able to blow the resolution up:) Somewhat the point in the video;)
+1 this. I remember getting my voodoo2 12mb when i was about 16 and being BLOWN AWAY by how amazing Quake and Quake 2 looked. This guy is right, if you've only played things today you don't appreciate how shit things looked.
@cxk271 Oh you had 12mb too! A few years later NONE of my friends believed that I had a 12MB graphicscard. Everything had to be in square numbers like 64 and 128mb.
The first computer I built was a Pentium MMX 200 MHz with 3DFx Voodoo card and 64Mb RAM. It was soooo cool. Remember playing games like Quake, Duke Nukem and Hexen with friends. Yeah, the 90's where good!
still to this day i say the best video card i EVER had was my VooDoo Banshee, i had the voodoo 2 and the voodoo 3 3000, i had my 3000 all the way up to the release of the nvidia ti4200 that's how awesome these cards were and still are :D LONG LIVE 3DFX
I had a Viper V550 with the TNT chipset and 16mb but never experienced any incompatibility issues. If you refer to pre-1998 games maybe there were some that ran on Glide only, I can't cite any of them right now though, but the true story is 3dfx cards were the ones not compatible with full OpenGL so they released a propietary watered down version called Glide.
awesome video. I still have my dual voodooII 12MB cards and I'm planning on making a retro rig. I remember playing with the dual Voodoo2 when my machine was a Pentium 233MMX. I think my main video card at the time was a 4MB Matrox Millenium PCI.
dude i got dual voodoo II in SLi i built it about 4 years ago on a ASUS systemboard P3 1GHz and Sound blaster awe64 Gold just to play NFSII SE in glide mode! lmao just for one game i built a retro pc! if i could bring this pc to the past lol.
And back in the day you had to have not only a 3d card but also a 2d card. It took a while before the first combined 2d/3d accelerators that ran both with acceptable speed and image quality were released. A high end Voodoo 2 rig would consist of 2 x Voodoo 2 cards and a third card for 2d all strung together with passthrough cables. Tseng chipset 2d cards were usually the preferred 2d boards to pair with Voodoos.
I still have that exact same card somewhere in my garage :) I actually used to borrow it to my buddy for weeks when a new game came out, for example Quake 2.
I remember my oldest video games were Space Invaders and Alley Cat.
Then i was hooked to the Shareware Doom.
Then back in '98 my dad bought a brand new desktop, calling me over to play a game he just installed.. it was Unreal... I had to pick up my jaw from the floor when i first played. Can't remember, but i think it had Matrox G200. Anyway, DAMMIT, i miss the old times =[
I have kept a Pentium II machine with a Voodoo3 in it, Unreal 1 on a modern machine just doesn't look right, not to mention in any non-glide renderer :-)
Yes I'm old enough (26) to remember installing a second hand voodoo2 card in my Cyrix (233 or 266, I can't remember) and being blown away by how much it improved QuakeII (which I played the shit out of back then). I was also not a rich kid who had the latest shit, and didn't upgrade until the Geforce 2MX came out.
@TheHappyKamper I didn't upgrade till Ti4200 came out. Oh wait I had a Matrox Millinium 16MB dualhead but that doesn't really count as that much of an improvement, except I went dualhead:)
I remeber when games wanted 16MB of 3D graphics memory, and I would think "Holy shit! That's insane!". Here I am now running a HD5870.... Damn, times are good for graphics :P Still, can't resist the charm of the old days :)
I remember playing Quake 2 in software mode and after installing my Voodoo 2 PCI and turning on OpenGL, I was finally able to see the walls of the passgeway in The Edge map. I couldn't believe how much better everything looked. I was 10 back then and I still fiend for Q2 everyone once in a while. I'm fiend Quake Live like it's '99 though haha. Good video, brought back many memories.
@iva666 Coming from someone running a triple core AMD and a Radeon HD 4850, that actually sounds pretty sweet. I can't really think of a cooler old school graphics card to build a retro gaming machine with.
Hell Yeah I remember when I first got my Voodoo2 8mb for my Pentium 2 233mhz/32mb ram (i forget the other specs) pc back in the day. I remember, the difference was UNBELIEVABLE! I thought it was just to make the game faster, but it was such a high/day difference with quake2. I remember, shame I don't still have the card ( got rid of it years ago along with the PC and it's broken mobo)
Damn that's hardcore, my first game was starcraft, so I don't even know wtf you're talking about, that's badass though, wish I could've been born earlier so I could see the evolution like you guys.
I remember suffering along with my onboard shitty video card and then i got my first 3DFX card and i was all... omfg where have you been all my life LOL love todays games but 3DFX was the shit and i miss those days.
I had a Pentium120mhz with 8mb Edo Ram and a 2mb S3Virge Graphic. (S3 Virge was one of the first "wannabe 3d accelerators") - HL1 was such fascinating that i got very far in the game, even i had to play in Software render Mode with approx. 10FPS. Then on Christmas i got my Diamond Monster 3D2 (12mb) and EVERYTHING changed!!
For better explenation: it was like the difference between middle Ages and today- it blew me away- it was so awesome back then!
Nice. I definitely remember. I always wanted a serious voodoo rig but i was too young to pay for building one. I remember when the geforce first stepped on the scene and reading about how much faster it was but how they had all of these driver issues and updates to run well. VooDoo was still going strong and then something happened. I dont know what that was exactly but i guess nvidia got their act together and all of those little driver problems went away along with voodoo : (
It's been so long my memory is a bit ass backwards but I do remember that OpenGL & Glide weren't supported by the majority of the games I played. I've always found OpenGL to be a bit buggy with a number of games. My assumption was either the developers choice was Direct3D or the graphics card didn't fully support OpenGL. There was support but it wasn't uncommon for the render to be full of bugs & glitches.
Was there a glide version of Quake? If you were given a patch with 3dfx I would think it would have been for glide, not OpenGL. I don't recall. I can't believe we once played games in 320x200, but back then everything was a mess a mess of texels & pixels so it must have been state of the art. Which is hard to believe.
yes there was, i have it and still run it, GLQuake it was known as. I have a voodoo 5500 64mb, great card! i run it in 640 x 480, i could get 800 x 600 if i tried!
I still have a voodoo 4. Not in use, but I remember running Max Payne and Half-Life on it. 3Dfx Glide was great for some games but it died out in favor of microsoft OpenGL. Which was the fault of developers, not 3Dfx.
First, OpenGL never really caught on - Quake series were just about the only games that used it. This is a standard which comes from Silicon Graphics workstations. Half-Life used OpenGL in early versions, but dropped later.
GLide was abandoned in favor of Microsoft's Direct3D for a major reason: there were multiple cards fast enough to run modern games (Permedia, G200, Riva TNT), yet 3Dfx would not allow to use the GLide interface on them, thus an alternative HAD to be established.
Gods I remember even the original 3DFX card, before the Voodoo2.
The only downside to these was the pass through way of running the main video card into this card and then to the monitor produced a really _bad_ display in a 2D environment such as Windows. Still, they were neat. I remember being disappointed though over the lack of a VLB card. At the time, I didn't have a PCI mainboard.
I kept a Voodoo2 in its original box on my shelf but I don't know who took it... I planned to enclose it in a plexiglass case like a trophy.
Anyway my 486 ran games like molasses until I plugged in a Voodoo2 board, and man the difference in frame rates was astronomical. Never built a system without an accelerator after that. First game to play with Voodoo2 was Need for Speed III.
sadley i can understand the older graphics but i know when you GeForce 6600 GT is outdated and sitting in my closet i'll come by it and rember it and ware it came from thought i never used 3dfx and never played any of the old games i still know my graphics card's roots so in a way both our cards will live forever ^_^ (i'm only 17)
Full respect man! I'am only 18, but I CAN remember those days, when i had first an Amiga 1200, (we had Commodor Spectrum too)...i do played with them a lot...then My fater bought his first PC in 1999(He had Mac first for work!)...I do remember Voodoe
Man, I remember going to CompUSA and buying my Voodoo 2! I used to take the card to school everyday (yes, school). I had a computer maintenance/repair class in highschool and we all had to build our own computer with donated parts laying around the classroom, mostly 486's and early pentiums, 90's 160's etc. I managed to get my hands on a Pentium 233. We used to play CS beta, Half Life and Quake II. All the kids wanted to use my computer cuz it was the fastest in the class... good times!
Great video, I had a Voodoo 3 and I still play the older games with it. Looks great, and will always hold a special place in the heart of the original pc gamers. : )
I have 3dfx banshee on my p133, 48mb EDO ram and this machine is still working. Today modern children doesn't know and they will never know what is real gaming - what is real enjoying in the PC games. 3dfx forever - this company invented all! SLI , multiple GPUs - these things are "new" - no they aren't new, they were all invented from 3dfx, not from NVIDIA. NVIDIA is living under 3dfx today - and I am feeling very sadly that 3dfx is history. Cheers to all good old gamers around the Globe!
im agree with you i feel the same, but what can we do, i have a little colection of voodoo cards, and im use a v 5 5500 in my old k6-550 and i enjoy a lot, sorry my bad english, greetings from Brasillll.......lol
For a real treat, run the game "Whiplash" using the 3dfx patch, it looks so much better! I had a VooDoo2, then a VooDoo rush, then a VooDoo 3 card...they were great!
OMG!! thanks for uploading! I sware that dude is me! I got really lucky when i was 16. older bro and mom suprise me on x-mas, so i had 2 mismatched 12 meg cards that worked together! it made my crappy k6 fly!
Quake2 came out in 97 and the Nvidia TNT ( i think was released in ) in 98. The TNT was a better card but back in 97 the voodoo2 was a great card, It offerd a low price and relative good graphics. It made multiplayer games so much more fun. 3dfx , and idsoftware helped push 3d gaming forward.
Man 10 years ago the voodoo2 was the gaming graphics card to get. I still have my orginal 3dfx diamond voodoo2 cards. I have two 12mb in SLI. Yes, kids SLI was around ten years ago before Nvidia had it available. I miss those times playing quake tf and unreal during my college days.
I remember vividly the first hardware 3D card i saw - a diamond monster. It was expensive and had a whopping 4mb of RAM onboard. My friend loaded up GLQuake and i saw for the first time colored lighting and glow effects on missles, blended textures etc it was mind-blowing. So i started saving up my money and eventually my brothers and i purchased a voodoo2. Ahh those were the days.
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Why are so many of you retards saying "OHHH I MISS THE OLD DAYS I WISH WE COULD GO BACK". Have fun with that, you nostalgia fags, while I go play Spore and Crysis 2.
well..we nostalgia fags and retards..are missing the old days because we appreciate technology :) as am i and i still own a 3dfx voodoo 1 with 8mb..and i appreciate that board because it can run fifa 2002..and the card is from 1997..aside 3dfx that i appreciate i also appreciate current technology as AMD ATi that makes the best currently and i appreciate them too as i appreciate 3dfx..because they use cutting edge technology even if the everyday idiot doesn't know the truth behind 3dfx and ATi
... i just wish voodoo would have still existed..never mind.. i remember my voodoo1 when i played fifa 99 with those amazing graphics..and i still wish that those graphics would have evolved..i wish it would be right now as in the good old days..and that's something else..peace
I agree with you on your last statement, but if you have no respect for classic games then you're an idiot. If they didn't exist or happen then you wouldn't be playing the games we play today.
They don't want to go BACK. THey want another technilogical leap of (the good old days to the slightly more recent old days) calibur NOW. They don't want us to downgrade you fucking asshole!
have you seen my vids? im running an sli setup in my today like in 2008 still... its working... :) i agree with you in your video. im useing voodoo 2 sli in an dual xeon 1.7ghz/cpu rig.
heh im 15 dont call me one of those younger kids that dont know what "sucky poor graphics" looked like. i would rather have my genesis with sonic 2 and snes with doom then to have a 360 with all the games. thats how much i love the old games.tobad its not like 93 anymore
I see alot of people nitpicking to Evmoious about the 320x240 thing and that no one played on that res back then. When I was in High School, me and my friends did not get their 1st 3D card until around 2000. Playing on 320x240 was a must for us. When I bought 5 Voodoo2 cards for all the Pentium 1 machines in Fall of 2000 (Junior year) my place became the place where my freinds always came to mutliplay Quake 2 & Jedi Knight. A year later, I had better systems with K6-2 & Athlon Thunderbirds.
Still have mine in the box in mint condition :]
mrflash345 1 week ago
I think I just shed a tear for the old days. I had two of those bitches in SLI and it freak'n rocked!
I need to dig through my stash and find those cards for old time sake!
utp216 1 month ago
started with voodoo2, got an geforce 4 ti, then a 8800gt, traded that for 2 HD5770's, threw that away for a gtx590. me gusta
Drugf4c3 2 months ago
nice video but you should have been holding up a voodoo1 for its roots lol
PsiloCybinDreamX 2 months ago
The Voodoo 2 was my first graphics card. I still remember it fondly. The leap in performance was something that I (and I assume most players) was not prepared for. My PC went from being sub-par compared to the PS1 / N64 (both of which I had) to being superior.. The N64 might of had better effects or colors.. but in terms of frame rate it chugged behind. Quake 1 & 2, The later Wing Commander games, Unreal, Shogo, Rainbow 6, etc. Good times.
DEFkon001 2 months ago
aaah the good old days, 3dfx still touches a spetial place in my heart. ;-)
SeedMayers 3 months ago
1:06 im 15 and i can remember my good old childhood. playing rayman,nfs,pod,tomb raider,abe, and all that good stuff. Once i went my neigbor when we was like 5 yrs old, we played nfs 4 on hes computer (i then noticed my pc graphical was nothing compared to hes) 3dfx
TheLonelyGamer24 3 months ago
3Dfx is like computer magic mushrooms.
AlbertFiskpinne 4 months ago
yeah man, I installed a Voodoo 2 recently on a Windows 7 machine. Trying to play quake 2 again.. but 800x600 is max resolution :(
OpticalHaze 5 months ago
buy a ps3 guy
001freestyle 7 months ago
@001freestyle I think you completely missed the point. The RSX graphics processor in your PS3 is based on nVidias NV47 chip found in their 7th gen cards. The voodoo 2 is the great, great, great... great grandaddy.
davejuk 3 months ago
320x240 was not considered a pretty good resolution. It's just what was available back then. They also had 320x200, you don't want to make games on anything lower than that unless it's tetris or pong with 1 inch pixels.
GregSidelnikov 8 months ago
And oh, i was out of typing space, AWESOME video =)
basbas63 10 months ago
but still nowaday's it is the same, buy an graphics card and your pc performs heck of a lot better than without.. i bought an HD4670 for my computer back in 2008 as an replacement for my onboard gpu (radeon x1250) i was able to play all the games i wanted to play that i couldn't on my onboard gpu.. Never played pc games before that pc, that pc was bought in 2007... with an amd athlon 64 x2 running at 2.2ghz (slow shit xD)
basbas63 10 months ago
3DFX is not entirely gone, they just were bought out by Nvidia.
idontfkinknow1234 10 months ago
Cool ! Very nice video, personally I had Voodoo Rush because at that time I couldn't afford any better card. I used it from 1997 up to 2000 and I have also many great memories with this card.
elzabbul 10 months ago
Amazing card, i wish i had gotten into PC gaming way before than i did...
Fucklesticks 11 months ago
first game for me on voodoo 2 was mk4 and then shitload of quake 2. rip voodoo.
b0redavid 11 months ago
my first graphics card ever was (is) a 55nm revision gtx 260 core 216. I will never look at my console again. I feel like i've been cheating on pc all my life with a cheap substitute... PC FTW
psychoclown420 11 months ago
After hitting this video with quite a few comments, I am making the last. I was happy with my Voodoo2 and all, but the greatest change in 3d-gaming was when the Geforce4 Ti series was released. It was the biggest leap into the future of 3dgaming ever!!
I SHIT YOU NOT:
I had my GeforceTi4200 128MBVram running Crysis in 1024x768 pixels and this card was released April 2002!!!
Excuse me.. I'll be heading back to Fifa 2000 for now.. Bye bye..
Mantua64 11 months ago
I had 3dfx Vodoo2 12MB !! I was running all kind of games:) I loved the 3dfx logo jumping up everytime any 3dgame was loaded. I had major problems with the pc though:( I sometimes had to wait for like 2-3 minutes with a black screen when 3dgames was loaded, but I wasn't old enough to find the bug by myself. I played Quake 2 on my Voodoo2 and was thrilled just as the guy in this video!!
Now i'm running a medium gay-ass HD4890 with Pixelshader 4.0 and DirectX 10 and everything. LOL
Mantua64 11 months ago
Dude the new gfx cards of today use the same technology but with a faster clock and the use of shaders so its not much different.
sweet10122 11 months ago
@sweet10122 A lot of things has changed since 3dfx. I remember having a Nvidia Ti4200 (EXTREMELY AWESOME POWER) which couldn't run Aero in Vista because of missing pixelshader 2.0 if i remember correctly. Modern gaming and Quake 2 is so very different. The basic principle still stands. Having a matrix calculating processing unit and all, but so many new technologies has been added since back then.
Mantua64 11 months ago
uh.. at 1:20.. what a doctored fake screenshot of quake2.
Unless you grabbed that from a like 50x50 thumbnail and expanded it. Quake2 did NOT look that shitty. Quake 2 is old enough, low poly enough.. basically graphically old enough that you do not need to exaggerate how bad it looked.
I don't know if it's worth it to even continue with the video..
LanIost 1 year ago
dude this is so nostalgic i just ordered my my first gaming pc since 1998 , when i first installed my 4mb voodoo gpu into my pentium rig, and saw quake 2 accelerated for the first time. i remember thinking the same thing, how can games ever look better than this? then turok 2 seeds of evil came out and unreal and half-life 1 ! those were the days that rig was almost 3 grand! thank you for posting this im not alone in my nostalgia!!!
ttolmbrftttwtbopat 1 year ago
dude this is so nostalgic i just ordered my my first gaming pc since 1998 , when i first installed my 4mb voodoo gpu into my pentium rig, and saw quake 2 accelerated for the first time. i remember thinking the same thing, how can games ever look better than this? then turok 2 seeds of evil came out and unreal and half-life 1 ! those were the days that rig was almost 3 grand!
ttolmbrftttwtbopat 1 year ago
That Q2 picture is totally misleading. I was around long before Q2 came out, but when it did i played it at a much higher resolution. Also, it wasn't that blurry. That's a terrible picture. It had beautiful OpenGL support...
LordJummy 1 year ago 2
@LordJummy The Q2 picture is not misleading. The game is capable of much more than the resolution in the video, but it's in softwaremode with a lowered resolution, so that the game would run smoothly. Whenever you added a 3d-accelerated unit to the rig it would be able to blow the resolution up:) Somewhat the point in the video;)
Mantua64 11 months ago
@matrix803
you're either v. young , a hipster or misguided.
You don't want to build a computer with "really old parts" - they were shit.
OH WOWS IM PLAYING DOOM 2 in 320x400, its only taken me an hour to get working with shitty AWE32 soiunds.
cxk271 1 year ago
+1 this. I remember getting my voodoo2 12mb when i was about 16 and being BLOWN AWAY by how amazing Quake and Quake 2 looked. This guy is right, if you've only played things today you don't appreciate how shit things looked.
cxk271 1 year ago
@cxk271 Oh you had 12mb too! A few years later NONE of my friends believed that I had a 12MB graphicscard. Everything had to be in square numbers like 64 and 128mb.
Mantua64 11 months ago
@tommymonsternz -not true , lowest and highest i think spec was 4 megs, excluding banshee which came with 2 extra megs 4 standard usage
cauda123 1 year ago
LOL! I love this video.
Some day I'd love to build a computer with really old parts.
Matrix803 1 year ago
the Geforce 8800 was a great card back in the day. now most of the new cards from nvidia just overheat like crazy
DannyV1991 1 year ago
The first computer I built was a Pentium MMX 200 MHz with 3DFx Voodoo card and 64Mb RAM. It was soooo cool. Remember playing games like Quake, Duke Nukem and Hexen with friends. Yeah, the 90's where good!
fredrik999z 1 year ago
god was having 2 of those cards...
kakureru 1 year ago
still to this day i say the best video card i EVER had was my VooDoo Banshee, i had the voodoo 2 and the voodoo 3 3000, i had my 3000 all the way up to the release of the nvidia ti4200 that's how awesome these cards were and still are :D LONG LIVE 3DFX
smeckaldorf 1 year ago
@tommymonsternz
I had a Viper V550 with the TNT chipset and 16mb but never experienced any incompatibility issues. If you refer to pre-1998 games maybe there were some that ran on Glide only, I can't cite any of them right now though, but the true story is 3dfx cards were the ones not compatible with full OpenGL so they released a propietary watered down version called Glide.
pterodactilo 1 year ago
I remeber running f1rs in glide. I literally spent 300 bucks after the game told me 3Dfx was better. Ah good times :D
Quaker763 1 year ago
AMEN! i bought my monster in 97 if i remember well. voodoo2 was waaaaaaaay up hi
cauda123 1 year ago
awesome video. I still have my dual voodooII 12MB cards and I'm planning on making a retro rig. I remember playing with the dual Voodoo2 when my machine was a Pentium 233MMX. I think my main video card at the time was a 4MB Matrox Millenium PCI.
svtcontour 1 year ago
dude i got dual voodoo II in SLi i built it about 4 years ago on a ASUS systemboard P3 1GHz and Sound blaster awe64 Gold just to play NFSII SE in glide mode! lmao just for one game i built a retro pc! if i could bring this pc to the past lol.
areacode718 1 year ago
Nvidia TNT was better
pterodactilo 1 year ago
Exactly!! it was KEWL until you BRAKE IT at 2:44 !!!!
thenomadsoulX 1 year ago
Shit, now I miss my voodoo 1. DAMN YOU NVIDIA, DAMN YOUUUu!!!
Quaker763 1 year ago
Nvidia should make a graphic card series call Voodoo FTW
dondonini 1 year ago
You blinked maybe 5 times during the entire video :|
ExtremeBogom 1 year ago
12mb voodoo2 awesome.
sonofhendrix 1 year ago
And back in the day you had to have not only a 3d card but also a 2d card. It took a while before the first combined 2d/3d accelerators that ran both with acceptable speed and image quality were released. A high end Voodoo 2 rig would consist of 2 x Voodoo 2 cards and a third card for 2d all strung together with passthrough cables. Tseng chipset 2d cards were usually the preferred 2d boards to pair with Voodoos.
gamewizard 1 year ago
I still have that exact same card somewhere in my garage :) I actually used to borrow it to my buddy for weeks when a new game came out, for example Quake 2.
Samoutuomas 1 year ago
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I remember my oldest video games were Space Invaders and Alley Cat.
Then i was hooked to the Shareware Doom.
Then back in '98 my dad bought a brand new desktop, calling me over to play a game he just installed.. it was Unreal... I had to pick up my jaw from the floor when i first played. Can't remember, but i think it had Matrox G200. Anyway, DAMMIT, i miss the old times =[
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ArChalypz 1 year ago
I have kept a Pentium II machine with a Voodoo3 in it, Unreal 1 on a modern machine just doesn't look right, not to mention in any non-glide renderer :-)
letshavealookherenow 1 year ago
i think i still have one working voodoo2.
i had two but one of them broke on its own while stored. doesnt work anymore :9 i loved to put those two on SLI
GraveUypo 1 year ago
this is like that i had a onboard video chip and then bought a videocard that was lol
basbas63 1 year ago
yeah 3dFX was the shit back in the day. I had a voodoo banshee with 16mb of ram. Was really nice. Not quite as good as the voodoo2 or 3 though
bottle2lip 1 year ago
So powerful, it's kinda ridiculous.
thatsistheguy 1 year ago
better then quad 480
EddieLolz3r 1 year ago
Yes I'm old enough (26) to remember installing a second hand voodoo2 card in my Cyrix (233 or 266, I can't remember) and being blown away by how much it improved QuakeII (which I played the shit out of back then). I was also not a rich kid who had the latest shit, and didn't upgrade until the Geforce 2MX came out.
TheHappyKamper 1 year ago
@TheHappyKamper I didn't upgrade till Ti4200 came out. Oh wait I had a Matrox Millinium 16MB dualhead but that doesn't really count as that much of an improvement, except I went dualhead:)
Mantua64 11 months ago
how dare you say it was cool. i will deceide for myself what it was like.
fakkyouhomo 1 year ago
One thing, Evmoius - don't assume all "modern gamers" are kids!
Foebane72 1 year ago
I miss my voodoo 2 12MB
decapattack 1 year ago 9
@decapattack
I miss my old Savage4 .We used to compare it with my neighbour's Voodoo Banshee which was Voodoo2 as far as I know. Good times.
BulgarianPsychopath 1 year ago
i remember trying to play games on a 1mb trident video card fun times ... not realy
ST0N3R420X420 1 year ago
I remeber when games wanted 16MB of 3D graphics memory, and I would think "Holy shit! That's insane!". Here I am now running a HD5870.... Damn, times are good for graphics :P Still, can't resist the charm of the old days :)
philbateman1989 1 year ago
My thoughts exactly! I've got a Voodoo 1, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3 and finally a Voodoo 5 and they all were great.
quaddy83 1 year ago
@quaddy83 i got a voodoo 4 4500 agp on my comp rite now lol 32mb of vram lmao!
ken0176 1 year ago
i will remember.
seedililbarf 1 year ago
I remember playing Quake 2 in software mode and after installing my Voodoo 2 PCI and turning on OpenGL, I was finally able to see the walls of the passgeway in The Edge map. I couldn't believe how much better everything looked. I was 10 back then and I still fiend for Q2 everyone once in a while. I'm fiend Quake Live like it's '99 though haha. Good video, brought back many memories.
SJCageProductions 1 year ago
@1:30; 320x240 was good in 1997? Try 1987. I am sure you see that as a mistake now.
djhenyo 1 year ago
i yesterday got 2x voodoo2 from evilKING ....
i`m making retro gaming machine :)
iva666 2 years ago 13
@iva666 Coming from someone running a triple core AMD and a Radeon HD 4850, that actually sounds pretty sweet. I can't really think of a cooler old school graphics card to build a retro gaming machine with.
esca8652 1 year ago
@iva666 I had a 8MB and a 12MB from EvilKING :O
Now I have two 12MB from Creative.
ecchibanzaii 1 year ago
@iva666 I'll hive you 50 cents for it.
TheLackofattack 6 months ago
If Intel wins their court battle against Nvidia, we will return to the days of crappy graphics.
dinnerandashow 2 years ago
Hell Yeah I remember when I first got my Voodoo2 8mb for my Pentium 2 233mhz/32mb ram (i forget the other specs) pc back in the day. I remember, the difference was UNBELIEVABLE! I thought it was just to make the game faster, but it was such a high/day difference with quake2. I remember, shame I don't still have the card ( got rid of it years ago along with the PC and it's broken mobo)
adamhaye 2 years ago
Damn that's hardcore, my first game was starcraft, so I don't even know wtf you're talking about, that's badass though, wish I could've been born earlier so I could see the evolution like you guys.
jaytothelu 2 years ago
Man, that video was blunt! 5/5 easy!
HardWarUK 2 years ago
I remember suffering along with my onboard shitty video card and then i got my first 3DFX card and i was all... omfg where have you been all my life LOL love todays games but 3DFX was the shit and i miss those days.
ElensarFFXI 2 years ago 11
I have a 3DFX Typhoon 3D Max II (Voodoo2) : D
It's a nice Gfx Accelerator!
Steampenner1994 2 years ago
ya exellent cards still have mine in their boxes brand new...
Dorisequador 2 years ago
Ha, you say 'remember the roots' but the root was actually Voodoo 1, which I had :)
I still have my Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo 1 card and I also have a Voodoo 3 3000 card as well.
klaasklapper 2 years ago
in Dec. 97´ Half life came out (Europe).
I had a Pentium120mhz with 8mb Edo Ram and a 2mb S3Virge Graphic. (S3 Virge was one of the first "wannabe 3d accelerators") - HL1 was such fascinating that i got very far in the game, even i had to play in Software render Mode with approx. 10FPS. Then on Christmas i got my Diamond Monster 3D2 (12mb) and EVERYTHING changed!!
For better explenation: it was like the difference between middle Ages and today- it blew me away- it was so awesome back then!
GunBoTT 2 years ago
wow im amazed to find so much 3dfx voodoo nostalgia on youtube. glide was badass.
jprahhal 2 years ago 3
funny how people have same memories -> i agree with every ur word :)
medeborrr 2 years ago
Nice. I definitely remember. I always wanted a serious voodoo rig but i was too young to pay for building one. I remember when the geforce first stepped on the scene and reading about how much faster it was but how they had all of these driver issues and updates to run well. VooDoo was still going strong and then something happened. I dont know what that was exactly but i guess nvidia got their act together and all of those little driver problems went away along with voodoo : (
Lordnicon999 2 years ago
3Dfx were late with their new card and it turned to be not so greate. NVIDIA bought them (which is why we have SLI in NVIDIA cards).
JAhU00 2 years ago
did he just like, drop that voodoo 2 on the floor or summat at the end? :-S sounded kinda harsh!
1700iDiGuy 2 years ago 5
Nope I just put it down on a glass table. For some reason the camera mic made it sound like I dropped it hard.
Evmoius 2 years ago 2
lol! can It run crysis on low setting??
Thet3 1 year ago
It's been so long my memory is a bit ass backwards but I do remember that OpenGL & Glide weren't supported by the majority of the games I played. I've always found OpenGL to be a bit buggy with a number of games. My assumption was either the developers choice was Direct3D or the graphics card didn't fully support OpenGL. There was support but it wasn't uncommon for the render to be full of bugs & glitches.
PopcornCoolie 2 years ago
On my old PC it was always the other way around; OpenGL would be a lot more compatible then Direct3D, so I guess it depends on the videocard.
Agentbromsnor 2 years ago
jeje en aquellos tiempoes tenia la compo de la decada :D...pero ahora solo tengo una lenovo X).
es muy buena,puedo jugar los juegos qu me guztan, pero me guztaria jugar el call of proyat y no puedo T.T
luisfable 2 years ago
i still have a voodoo3 3000 and a 2000 that i used for my second display. that was really cool at this time.
llllbserkllll 2 years ago
LOOOOL I REMEMBER THAT CARD!!!! sWEET ahh a stroll down memory lane
vegeta8850 2 years ago
Was there a glide version of Quake? If you were given a patch with 3dfx I would think it would have been for glide, not OpenGL. I don't recall. I can't believe we once played games in 320x200, but back then everything was a mess a mess of texels & pixels so it must have been state of the art. Which is hard to believe.
PopcornCoolie 2 years ago
yes there was, i have it and still run it, GLQuake it was known as. I have a voodoo 5500 64mb, great card! i run it in 640 x 480, i could get 800 x 600 if i tried!
1700iDiGuy 2 years ago
There was a replacement opengl32.dll (3Dfx MiniGL), which translated GLQuake's OpenGL calls into GLide.
3yE 2 years ago
yea i had a voodoo2. 3dfx revolutionized the graphics industry. then nvidia took over when 3dfx was goin broke.
Hless421 2 years ago
I had a Voodoo2 Banshee, loved running Screamer Rally on it!
AirsoftEire 2 years ago
I still have a voodoo 4. Not in use, but I remember running Max Payne and Half-Life on it. 3Dfx Glide was great for some games but it died out in favor of microsoft OpenGL. Which was the fault of developers, not 3Dfx.
PopcornCoolie 2 years ago
"in favor of microsoft OpenGL" What?! Microsoft have NOTHING to do with OpenGl.
Swoop223 2 years ago
First, OpenGL never really caught on - Quake series were just about the only games that used it. This is a standard which comes from Silicon Graphics workstations. Half-Life used OpenGL in early versions, but dropped later.
GLide was abandoned in favor of Microsoft's Direct3D for a major reason: there were multiple cards fast enough to run modern games (Permedia, G200, Riva TNT), yet 3Dfx would not allow to use the GLide interface on them, thus an alternative HAD to be established.
3yE 2 years ago
Gods I remember even the original 3DFX card, before the Voodoo2.
The only downside to these was the pass through way of running the main video card into this card and then to the monitor produced a really _bad_ display in a 2D environment such as Windows. Still, they were neat. I remember being disappointed though over the lack of a VLB card. At the time, I didn't have a PCI mainboard.
lustacularlysimple 2 years ago
I remember buying my first Voodoo card to get acceleration on Quake 2. The transformation was exhilirating.
LordBifford 2 years ago
I kept a Voodoo2 in its original box on my shelf but I don't know who took it... I planned to enclose it in a plexiglass case like a trophy.
Anyway my 486 ran games like molasses until I plugged in a Voodoo2 board, and man the difference in frame rates was astronomical. Never built a system without an accelerator after that. First game to play with Voodoo2 was Need for Speed III.
reiismael 2 years ago
3dfx was a great company
they made the first multi gpu card, the voodoo 5 6000
it had 4 gpu's, and if it had been released, would have kicked the geforce 2 ultra's ass
it would be awesome if ati/nvidia could revive the 4 gpu card
imagine 4 4890's, or 4 gtx 285's on one card
apbrit2009 2 years ago
Possible, problem is, it has to be long (not so good) or if it was small, u have to do a lot of thermal menegment.
2 X2 Cards would be easyer^^
Also not even TriCore is in the Drivers now, so it would be senceless.
morq13 2 years ago
it would be long, but damn it, in the computing world, if you want the most powerful shit, it's gonna have to be big
also, imagine octo sli/crossfire
about the drivers, with dx11's new multi gpu capabilities, who knows what crazy shit may be possible?
apbrit2009 2 years ago
3dfx days.. so nostalgic!
baskal002 2 years ago
Hail 3DFX - the only gfx company that really put soul and spirit into their cards!
I'm proud to have owned a Voodoo2 card, it just gave respect - it showed that you knew what was quality.
Eskidead 2 years ago
sadley i can understand the older graphics but i know when you GeForce 6600 GT is outdated and sitting in my closet i'll come by it and rember it and ware it came from thought i never used 3dfx and never played any of the old games i still know my graphics card's roots so in a way both our cards will live forever ^_^ (i'm only 17)
bigevilmonsta 2 years ago
Full respect man! I'am only 18, but I CAN remember those days, when i had first an Amiga 1200, (we had Commodor Spectrum too)...i do played with them a lot...then My fater bought his first PC in 1999(He had Mac first for work!)...I do remember Voodoe
Pszichopark 2 years ago 2
Man, I remember going to CompUSA and buying my Voodoo 2! I used to take the card to school everyday (yes, school). I had a computer maintenance/repair class in highschool and we all had to build our own computer with donated parts laying around the classroom, mostly 486's and early pentiums, 90's 160's etc. I managed to get my hands on a Pentium 233. We used to play CS beta, Half Life and Quake II. All the kids wanted to use my computer cuz it was the fastest in the class... good times!
kore464 2 years ago
Great video, I had a Voodoo 3 and I still play the older games with it. Looks great, and will always hold a special place in the heart of the original pc gamers. : )
governator83 2 years ago
The voodoo2 sure was cool!
str0m 2 years ago
I have 3dfx banshee on my p133, 48mb EDO ram and this machine is still working. Today modern children doesn't know and they will never know what is real gaming - what is real enjoying in the PC games. 3dfx forever - this company invented all! SLI , multiple GPUs - these things are "new" - no they aren't new, they were all invented from 3dfx, not from NVIDIA. NVIDIA is living under 3dfx today - and I am feeling very sadly that 3dfx is history. Cheers to all good old gamers around the Globe!
crogeek 2 years ago 2
im agree with you i feel the same, but what can we do, i have a little colection of voodoo cards, and im use a v 5 5500 in my old k6-550 and i enjoy a lot, sorry my bad english, greetings from Brasillll.......lol
toinze69 2 years ago
For a real treat, run the game "Whiplash" using the 3dfx patch, it looks so much better! I had a VooDoo2, then a VooDoo rush, then a VooDoo 3 card...they were great!
VideyoJunkei 2 years ago
1:30 , LISTEN THE NAKED true :D
HatlabuFarkas 2 years ago
I have the same hat as you, its under my computer desk as we speak.
SKIlLL3RoTHEoPURE 2 years ago
I used to have a Voodoo 2 amazing card.
DarkShadowRage2 2 years ago
yea teh voodoo 2 ..The Voodoo 5 was teh monster..with dual fans and 8 inches long..Game sure have come a long way
yaiknowscrewme 3 years ago
OMG!! thanks for uploading! I sware that dude is me! I got really lucky when i was 16. older bro and mom suprise me on x-mas, so i had 2 mismatched 12 meg cards that worked together! it made my crappy k6 fly!
dabbchang 3 years ago
I don't think it got cool till the Nvidia TNT with 24bit color and direct 3D and Open GL support as standard in games.
I don't think Quake 2 had particularly good graphics either. Goldeneye looked much better.
morgs2020 3 years ago
Quake2 came out in 97 and the Nvidia TNT ( i think was released in ) in 98. The TNT was a better card but back in 97 the voodoo2 was a great card, It offerd a low price and relative good graphics. It made multiplayer games so much more fun. 3dfx , and idsoftware helped push 3d gaming forward.
psaux 3 years ago 2
I had a TNT2 Ultra 32mb and 2 voodoo's in SLI 12mb each connected with a p3 450... oh yeah bitch.
nym5678 3 years ago
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nym5678 3 years ago
brings me back
paronfisk 3 years ago
Voodoo will return with a vengeance.
by HP
rocketlauncher2 3 years ago
The voodoo 2 card was epic, I loved it.
3dFx ftw.
MalkavianMadness 3 years ago
when he said god card, that reminded me of yugioh lol
AznBust3r 3 years ago
Voodoo2 is a legend, that cannot be repeated
Szederp 3 years ago
too nostalgic to these Quake2 on GL
Cabroni2 3 years ago
Crazy guy ! :)
Ofcourse we do remember....3dfx- the Pioneer of 3D-Gaming ! :)
i got a v2 banshee, v3 3000, and a v5-5500 ;d
b0ss6769 3 years ago
I had a VooDoo rush, VooDoo 2 and VooDoo 3. The 2 never seemed to work right, and was returned. And I got rid of the 3 :*( I still have my RUSH!
VideyoJunkei 3 years ago
I had 3dfx voodoo banshee with 16 megs of ram, my first video card on my first computer back in '99
Mitche23 3 years ago
CAUSE IT WAS COOL
themangodess 3 years ago
Man 10 years ago the voodoo2 was the gaming graphics card to get. I still have my orginal 3dfx diamond voodoo2 cards. I have two 12mb in SLI. Yes, kids SLI was around ten years ago before Nvidia had it available. I miss those times playing quake tf and unreal during my college days.
gmlasam 3 years ago
RIP 3dfx.
I managed to keep my Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 cards. Don't have Voodoo2 anymore :-/
romeonate 3 years ago
very good,respect!
caleOS 3 years ago
It was cool!
mirikam8 3 years ago
awesome man, you got my vote
grabisoft 3 years ago
wow in this time i was whit a shitty 8mb videocard playing unreal 1
awesome
FELIPEPKPK 3 years ago
I sold my 2 12mb Creative Voodoo2s in 2000 for a very small amount :( I wish I'd kept hold of them, for nostalgias sake.
The first time seeing Quake2 running in OpenGL was mindblowing
waydeewaydee 3 years ago
great Video!
chuibock 3 years ago
I remember vividly the first hardware 3D card i saw - a diamond monster. It was expensive and had a whopping 4mb of RAM onboard. My friend loaded up GLQuake and i saw for the first time colored lighting and glow effects on missles, blended textures etc it was mind-blowing. So i started saving up my money and eventually my brothers and i purchased a voodoo2. Ahh those were the days.
scaryhobo 3 years ago
Quake 1 opengl is godly
Krypticflask 3 years ago
voodoo 2 was my very first card. i remember the first game i saw on 3d acceleration was forsaken. it blew my mind.
pjstyles86 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Why are so many of you retards saying "OHHH I MISS THE OLD DAYS I WISH WE COULD GO BACK". Have fun with that, you nostalgia fags, while I go play Spore and Crysis 2.
Chris123234 3 years ago
well..we nostalgia fags and retards..are missing the old days because we appreciate technology :) as am i and i still own a 3dfx voodoo 1 with 8mb..and i appreciate that board because it can run fifa 2002..and the card is from 1997..aside 3dfx that i appreciate i also appreciate current technology as AMD ATi that makes the best currently and i appreciate them too as i appreciate 3dfx..because they use cutting edge technology even if the everyday idiot doesn't know the truth behind 3dfx and ATi
alexs2tank 3 years ago 2
Blah blah blah fanboy nonsense nostalgia.
There is a difference between loving your NES and wishing it were still "the good old days".
I remember my first Voodoo and how it made Rainbow Six play so fucking fast, but I'm not gonna wish we were still playing on Voodoo 3's today.
Chris123234 3 years ago
... i just wish voodoo would have still existed..never mind.. i remember my voodoo1 when i played fifa 99 with those amazing graphics..and i still wish that those graphics would have evolved..i wish it would be right now as in the good old days..and that's something else..peace
alexs2tank 3 years ago 2
your quite the douchebag
GlycerinZ 3 years ago
I'd have to agree with you.
Dilo22 3 years ago
I agree with you on your last statement, but if you have no respect for classic games then you're an idiot. If they didn't exist or happen then you wouldn't be playing the games we play today.
Dilo22 3 years ago
They don't want to go BACK. THey want another technilogical leap of (the good old days to the slightly more recent old days) calibur NOW. They don't want us to downgrade you fucking asshole!
masterpiraka 3 years ago
320 X 240 realy was the standart.
I played at 800x600 resolution in 1997 only the strategic games. Don't remember it was possible to set 640 x 480 at all...
Artas1984 3 years ago
ahhhhhh remember my old pc. At the time, I have a Voodoo4 4400 AGP x4 32MB
Darkross93 3 years ago
have you seen my vids? im running an sli setup in my today like in 2008 still... its working... :) i agree with you in your video. im useing voodoo 2 sli in an dual xeon 1.7ghz/cpu rig.
37474748 3 years ago
if you had two of them THEY WOULD BLOW YOUR MIND
VoidKeeper 3 years ago
Cool video. Good to see that I'm not the only one who misses the old days.
Kynos1 3 years ago
I remember older games, I was 7 when I played Duke Nukem 3D for the first time :P it was so awesome XD
VoidKeeper 3 years ago
heh im 15 dont call me one of those younger kids that dont know what "sucky poor graphics" looked like. i would rather have my genesis with sonic 2 and snes with doom then to have a 360 with all the games. thats how much i love the old games.tobad its not like 93 anymore
buugtdbgt1 3 years ago
I have a Voodoo 2 12 megs and a Voodoo 3 2000 16 megs i love this cards, Unreal look soo beautifull on it :D
mofaraider 3 years ago 2
I kinda liked 320x240... I miss it..
However.. Voodoo was EPIC!! I had the Voodoo, the very first of them, and.. WOW! My 133 mhz with 16 megs of ram pulled Quake2 with that!
Was truely the amazing time to be a gamer..
Things sure changed.. I'm not sure I like where things are going however.
DusteDdekay 3 years ago
I have a similar card for my thinkpad. I have the S3 Savage IX w/MV card with 8mb video memory. It isn't half bad.
googleguz 3 years ago
i have a voodoo 2 diamond 8mb ram.
ENFDO 3 years ago
RESPECT!
Pylo01 3 years ago
I see alot of people nitpicking to Evmoious about the 320x240 thing and that no one played on that res back then. When I was in High School, me and my friends did not get their 1st 3D card until around 2000. Playing on 320x240 was a must for us. When I bought 5 Voodoo2 cards for all the Pentium 1 machines in Fall of 2000 (Junior year) my place became the place where my freinds always came to mutliplay Quake 2 & Jedi Knight. A year later, I had better systems with K6-2 & Athlon Thunderbirds.
ufowarviper 3 years ago