3DFX website to be closed (again) but some good news for loyalists.....

[OO7MIKE]

its not old news....but its going away for good. So if you have one of those cards...and you want some drivers....you better grab and save them while they are still up. It will become increasingly hard to find them after this.
www.3dfx.com

The good news is that if you think you where screwed when you bought your card.....check this out:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20011126_4364

Trade your card in for a gf2mx.
Cash in....or just keep your card. its up to you.

 

[Zlal]

Originally posted by OO7MIKE
its not old news....but its going away for good. So if you have one of those cards...and you want some drivers....you better grab and save them while they are still up. It will become increasingly hard to find them after this.
www.3dfx.com

The good news is that if you think you where screwed when you bought your card.....check this out:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20011126_4364

Trade your card in for a gf2mx.
Cash in....or just keep your card. its up to you.

Old News? Nooo!
Errrr....is a VooDoo3 a 3DFX?

 

[OO7MIKE]

There site has been closed down for over a year...however they where still letting people download drivers.
Yes a voodoo is a 3dfx card.

 

[Zlal]

Well I'm real slow on stuff like that.

 

[Akuma]

Nice of Nvidia to let people trade their steam powered pieces o'junk in for a real 3d card

 

[Claw]

Good Riddance!

I hated 3dfx right from the start. Why? Because I didn't have one, and I had games like INcubation that only supported 3dfx
Damn those bastards.

 

[Stilgar]

errr... guess I better grab the latest 'steam powered' v2 drivers

 

[StoneViper]

Originally posted by @kuma
steam powered pieces o'junk

if my bro's 3dfx voodoo3 3500 (16mb memory!!!)can run 500+ polys with absolutely no problem, i highly doubt it's steam powered (so to speak). It's ramdac is 350mHz, faster than any other card still out there. I believe "all the others" have a slow 250mHz

 

[Rukee]

Originally posted by StoneViper


if my bro's 3dfx voodoo3 3500 (16mb memory!!!)can run 500+ polys with absolutely no problem, i highly doubt it's steam powered (so to speak). It's ramdac is 350mHz, faster than any other card still out there. I believe "all the others" have a slow 250mHz

Think again!!
My Elsa Gladiac Ultra card runs at 460mHz!!
Before OCing!!

 

[Rukee]

And I`ve play tested maps with over 680 polys with no problem.

 

[Akuma]

A simple analogy for simple folks

UT + 3dfx = putting racing tires on a tractor

UT + Nvidia = driving a Ferrari with the handbrake on

 

[StoneViper]

Originally posted by @kuma
A simple analogy for simple folks

UT + 3dfx = putting racing tires on a tractor

UT + Nvidia = driving a Ferrari with the handbrake on

your acting newbish. maybe i was wrong, maybe very few graphics cards run faster than 350mHz, but your's doesn't. i've checked many gf2, and gf3 boxes. My 16mb card runs smother than your 64mb card. and why is that?, because 3dfx was the standard before they were bought out. You either had a 3dfx card or you didn't. In your case, you didn't. And you missed out on some superbly exceptional graphics.

Maybe you haven't seen anti-aliasing on my other voodoo, the voodoo 5 5500. Maybe you haven't seen the other z-buffer effects in action. They only went away because they had very poor marketing action. They spent too much time and research into making the impossible happen. They did make it happen, but in the end makes the card a little expensive. Which i would pay twice for, because it's worth it.

if 3dfx is to F - 22 (most manueverable fighter in the world),
than nVidia is to the first wright bro. plane.

 

[BangOut]

Originally posted by @kuma
A simple analogy for simple folks

UT + 3dfx = putting racing tires on a tractor

UT + Nvidia = driving a Ferrari with the handbrake on

UT + My ATI Radeon 8500 = putting sugar in the gastank of your pinto and driving off a rooftop

 

[Akuma]

maybe i was wrong,

and not for the first time & certainly not for the last

i've checked many gf2, and gf3 boxes.

not getting out much these days?

You either had a 3dfx card or you didn't. In your case, you didn't. And you missed out on some superbly exceptional graphics

I brought a Orchid 3d the day it came out. I brought 2 V2's as soon as they were affordable. I passed up on the cards they produced after that as I like nice shiny new toys to play with.


They spent too much time and research into making the impossible happen. They did make it happen, but in the end makes the card a little expensive. Which i would pay twice for, because it's worth it.

I have a bridge in Brooklyn that you might be interested in, give me a call & we'll do lunch.

 

[Stilgar]

The latest drivers on that site squeezed an extra 10 frames out of the v2... not bad...

 

[Rukee]

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I can also run the game at 1920x1440@ 32 bit colour and still run the 680 poly maps at 40-60 fps......can your greatest voodoo in the world do that??

 

[StoneViper]

no i said you were an exception, and i can't really try that, i only have a 17" .27monitor

"most", gforce cards use a slower mHz, not all

 

[tool]

sweet! I get a GeForce 2 now hehe, ooh happy days!

 

[OO7MIKE]

Originally posted by @kuma
A simple analogy for simple folks

UT + 3dfx = putting racing tires on a tractor

UT + Nvidia = driving a Ferrari with the handbrake on

Agreed

 

[StoneViper]

im not going to win am i ¿