New Voodoo3 3000 driver!

[Guest]

Ok several weeks ago I downloaded 3dfx's at the time new V3 driver 1.05.00. Anyways, this new driver had FXt1, at least the option to enable it. I thought that was kinda odd, so I along with several other THF members emailed 3dfx with the obvious question why?

Well it seems that it wasent supposed to be in that driver. Now I just finised instaling 3dfx's new V3 driver 1.06.00. They took the liberty to take that option out. But now they have included a new feature in the driver. This is the new added feature that now comes with the Voodoo3 driver:

Depth Precision - This feature optimizes the precision used for depth calculations in 16-bit modes to improve performance, especially at higher resolutions. This optimization could also produce some display artifacts or visual defects in some programs.

Disable - Select this option to use normal depth precision.
Fast - This setting provides optimized depth precision, and may produce some visual defects in some programs.
Faster - This setting provides maximum depth precision optimization for faster performance, but it may produce more visual defects.

Anyone care to comment on this new option?

 

[mpjesse]

Who's 3DFX? ;-)

 

[cleeve]

That post was made 6 days before you were a member of the forum in November of 2000.

 

[bfellow]

Bah I still have a Voodoo 3 3000. I was hoping it was a driver that allow me to try Oblivion at max settings! :lol:

 

[lltfdaniel]

3DFX!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVOCV8QeLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrERPOBMO04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvhNnM850w

YEAH run oblivion at full on voodoo, don't think so :-D maybe at 0.01 fps.

 

[dean7]

Bah I still have a Voodoo 3 3000. I was hoping it was a driver that allow me to try Oblivion at max settings! :lol:

Actually, it will. It pwns G80 and R600 with no problems.

 

[dean7]

3DFX!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVOCV8QeLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrERPOBMO04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvhNnM850w

YEAH run oblivion at full on voodoo, don't think so :-D maybe at 0.01 fps.

Holy crap those were funny. It gets me all teary-eyed thinking about 3DFX. What a kickass company.

 

[SEALBoy]

Hmm... it should pwn the X1950XTX... but the G80 and R600 are slightly out of its league. That's why the monstrosity known as the Voodoo5 6000 was born.

 

[mpjesse]

3DFX!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVOCV8QeLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrERPOBMO04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvhNnM850w

YEAH run oblivion at full on voodoo, don't think so :-D maybe at 0.01 fps.

LMAO. those are classic. too bad 3dfx died... it really is. ATI and nVidia are almost completely devoid of any humor

 

[vanka]

Man I loved the Voodoo 3. I still have two Voodoo 3500 TV cards. 16 MBs of video RAM (or frame buffer); I'm still drooling. It kicked ass in NFS (4 and 5) and Half-Life; heck it even got decent performance and detail in Return to Castle Wolfenstien - especially compared to a nVidia TNT with 8 MB video RAM that I had on another computer.

 

[mpjesse]

i've decided i'm going to buy 1 card from each 3dfx generation off ebay. i'm already bidding on the voodoo1 and voodoo2. then i'll move on to the 3000 and 5000 series

 

[Valtiel]

3DFX!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVOCV8QeLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrERPOBMO04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvhNnM850w

YEAH run oblivion at full on voodoo, don't think so :-D maybe at 0.01 fps.

LMAO. those are classic. too bad 3dfx died... it really is. ATI and nVidia are almost completely devoid of any humor

Woooooooooaaaaaaaaahh this thread is old. Yeah I really liked those commercials but I wasn't technologically savvy when 3dfx was around so I guess I missed out =/

 

[dean7]

Well too bad, because 3dfx made some really killer products in their day. I liked their idea of including multiple GPUs on one card (um, yeah, SLI or 4 GPUs on a single card? What do you think?).

 

[djplanet]

Yeah, kind of scary though.

 

[sviola]

Actually, nvidia bought 3dFX, that's why they can use SLI as the name of their multi-gpu configuration (well, it's based on the 3dfx design anyway - that might explain why it works better than Xfire).

Btw, Nvidia did a SLI on a single card...the 7950

 

[FeareX]

This thread is old lol, the only voodoo i owned was a voodoo 2.

It really helped my pentium 100 running nfs 2 se

 

[stallyn]

Good riddance to 3dfx, bought a card a week before they went under, were good for a brief time in the 20th century LOL

 

[nukemaster]

had to do it didn't you....

 

[lambofgode3x]

Btw, Nvidia did a SLI on a single card...the 7950

yeah, and it sucks...i bought one and i want to shoot myself in the head. i honestly regret not going with 7900gt's or 7950gt's in sli.

 

[axilon]

I still have a VooDoo 3 3500 somewhere, with the huge adapter for it.. blah

 

[carpcmelee]

I wonder how a voodoo 600 would compare to my pci gforce fx 5500. id be pissed if it was like 3 years ahead of its time.

 

[dean7]

Um, the 7950 GX2 doesn't really count because it pretty much IS 2 cards.

BTW, I have a 3500 and it's still working (gave it to a friend for his budget rig). That thing was a tank.

 

[Hemi]

How would that fit in any computer case :S and what is that waste of board t the end that ooks like it has no pcd on it :S wierd design

That extra length of board was so the card was "full length". Old school. It allowed the card to reach the front of the case and slip in the expansion slot guides. Helped support the card both front and back instead of just at the back in a tower system. Ship a system with that card not supported at both ends and it would snap the AGP slot off the board. :lol:

Expansion slot guides is that gray thing at the front of the case that line up with the cards in this pic:
http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/TitanRobelaH20case-Liquid3D-12221.jpg
(cut 'n paste that link if you're curious)

 

[Slobogob]

Who's 3DFX? ;-)

You know, i saw a Vodoo 5 5500 being sold for 29Euro on ebay a few days ago. Thats about 35$. It broke my heart to see such a magnificent piece of computer history go for such a low price.

BRING BACK 3DFX! :twisted:

 

[atp777]

I remember when a friend of mine bought a Voodoo 3.. I was Jealous. My first GPU was a Riva TNT2 Ultra. Bad a$$ back in the day.