3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 - Half Life (November 1998)

[@efpcvintageplanet3406]

Great game and great performance with 3dfx MiniGL

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@efpcvintageplanet3406 with a faster CPU the FPS would have been higher. Half-Life is very CPU dependent. But it runs very well even with the 650 mhz Pentium 3.

[@efpcvintageplanet3406]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 It already reaches an excellent framerate

[@EquinoxeZX]

At this point, there’s little left to say about this game. A masterpiece of video gaming. The first time I played it was on my Pentium III - 800 MHz with a Voodoo Banshee. Accompanying the Voodoo Banshee was a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 with EAX enabled connected to a 5.1 audio system, and wow! I will never forget that experience. Thank you for the video!

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@EquinoxeZX Pentium III 800 Mhz, Voodoo Banshee and SB Live that was an excellent system to play Half-Life on. Hard to believe that Valve managed to create such a fantastic game in 1998, and even more so when you think that they built it on the old 1996 Quake 1 engine.

[@EquinoxeZX]

​@@3dfxvoodoocards6 The Half-Life engine is based on Quake 1’s engine, but it’s been so extensively rewritten that over 80% of the code is new, and they even gave the engine a different name. However, it's amazing! Later on, HL2 became the Nirvana of FPS games for me. Even today, nothing has managed to surprise me as much on a first playthrough as these two games did back in the day.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@EquinoxeZX Even now I remember when I played it the first time in early 1999, together with my brother. I think the shooters that fascinated and impressed me the most back then where Quake 2 and a year later Half-Life. Fantastic games :)

[@winfriedmaus]

I remember that I bought a Voodoo Banshee card and the Half-Life CD together. For me, HL1 is still in the top three of the best games ever made.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@winfriedmaus for late-1998 it was fantastic, I was hypnotised. It no doubt was the best shooter up to that point. It runs very well with a Voodoo Banshee in 1024x768 with a fast Pentium 2 or a Pentium 3.

[@RealHero101111]

all the sounds are so ingrained in memories

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@RealHero101111 Half-Life had excellent audio quality and soundtracks.

[@matusmikoviny]

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@matusmikoviny with 3dfx MiniGL the brightness and gamma are a little higher than with OpenGL :)

[@noideanoikea]

Is this LCD display? What year of production?

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@noideanoikea Benq G700 5ms from 2007 I guess.

[@jaceklutrzykowski]

🎞️🎥🎬🖥️🎮👍👍

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@jaceklutrzykowski Thank you!

[@prempink12311]

Is the game engine open-source

[@winfriedmaus]

They used the Quake 1 engine in Half-Life 1. So... The answer, by now, is yes.

[@prempink12311]

@@winfriedmaus but they said slightly modified engine

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Half-Life uses a heavily modified Quake 1 engine.

[@VPRHPC]

AGP Voodoo ?

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Yes, it is an AGP version.

[@VPRHPC]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 i'm now tinkering with one PCI version on my channel but i think it got bottleneck by the cpu

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@VPRHPC the PCI version is just as fast, the diferences are minimal. It depends on the game but Half-Life needs at least a P2 400 mhz to run well. Later games released after the year 2000 need much fast CPUs.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

I subscribed to your channel, interesting videos and benchmarks :)

[@VPRHPC]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 thank you,yours are great also,are you somehow from RO?