3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 - Quake 3 (December 1999)

[@Rossi_83]

I played this a lot on my Voodoo Banshee, Pentium Celeron 333 MhZ. Nostalgia overload.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@Rossi_83 With the Voodoo Banshee Quake 3 runs fine in 800x600 high details.

[@Rossi_83]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 25 years ago everything was flying on this pc:)

[@BigMuff75]

I played this game for many many hours. Actually on a Voodoo 3 as well.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@BigMuff75 one of the best games of 1999 with probably the most advanced graphics of that time. And it run very well on a Voodoo 3 2000 in 1024x768 maximum details.

[@RealHero101111]

pretty good performance. impressive

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@RealHero101111 Quake 3 runs surprisingly well with the Voodoo 3 2000 in 1024x768 maximum details. And Quake 3 not only was released almost 1 year after the Voodoo 3 but it also had very high system requirements for that period.

[@efpcvintageplanet3406]

Great V3 2000. Incredibile Card🤩

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@efpcvintageplanet3406 Considering that the Voodoo 3 2000 was a mid-range card sold for 129 $ and released almost a year before Quake 3 it still manages to run the game very very well in 1024x768 with all details at maximum.

[@efpcvintageplanet3406]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 I know. Bought it in march 2000 with a Pentium 3 533 MHz. Still have🤩

[@jayhool5482]

It never got better than this 😍😎

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@jayhool5482 one of the best games of the 90s.

[@mundocpc]

So many memories... I had a Geforce 256 back in those days. I came from an ELSA GLoria XL that was good for 3D Max but terrible for gaming, massive difference.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@mundocpc the Geforce 256 was really expensive in late 1999 and 2000. Elsa was a german company as fas as I know. I also have a TNT2 made by Elsa.

[@chaser1254]

Gezzusss, I can't believe it goes from over a 100 to less than 30 when some action's goin on.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@chaser1254 the difference between the highest and lowest FPS is pretty big. But overall it’s a very pleasant experience in 1024x768 maximum details.

[@BeaugosseRiche]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 My Riva TNT released more than a year before the Voodoo 3 performed much better with Q3, if I remember well.

[@Duchovicius]

Used to play that on Riva TNT

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@Duchovicius Quake 3 works very well with a Riva TNT1 in 800x600. The first time I played it was on a Riva TNT and Celeron 400 mhz back in 1999.

[@jaceklutrzykowski]

Quake 3 . 🖥️🎮👍👍👍👍

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@jaceklutrzykowski thank you

[@servantofthealmighty77]

Voodoo 3 x 2 those were the days

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@servantofthealmighty77 those were great times to be a gamer.

[@servantofthealmighty77]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 I'm in my early 60's I still love to play. I have a RTX GPU still playing RT versions of Quakes. I love it.

[@PashaDefragzor]

Good bye school ^^

[@halfben7991]

🎉🎉

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@halfben7991 thank you

[@jake_reviews_games]

Perfect video! Can you test Interstate 76' on Voodoo?

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@jake_reviews_games Thank you. I tried to run Interstate 76 in Glide with the Banshee and Voodoo 3 but I couldn’t make it run properly. If I remember correctly the game showed some visual artifacts no matter what I tried. I will have to try again to make it run and if it works I will certainly upload a video with it :)

[@Wobbothe3rd]

The game had much higher contrast and brightness than this, this video doesn't do it justice...

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@Wobbothe3rd that's correct but I make those videos to see the FPS with the Voodoo cards in the games of that time. Image quality is of secundary importance.

[@novinovic298]

I think cpu is holding back that card big time but again it's more period correct than running P4 and Athlon XP 2ghz+ monsters

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@novinovic298 That is true for very CPU dependent games like Max Payne, Deus Ex, Warcraft 3, etc. But Quake 3 is not very CPU dependent, the P3 650 mhz doesn’t bottleneck the Voodoo 3. I tested it with much fast CPUs and the frame rate is the same.

[@novinovic298]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 Intresting considering other games based on Quake 3 engine do like strong CPU myb not as much as some other engines but it helps. I wish someone will do a proper retrospective of cpu performance in most popular engines of late 90s-early 00s era

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@novinovic298 yes later games that used the Quake 3 engine needed faster CPUs to run well. But Quake 3 being the first game to use the IdTech 3 engine, not so much, in 1024x768 a P3 500 mhz does not bottleneck a Voodoo 3 or TNT2.

[@metalmartin6.6.6]

Not max details (lightmap)

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

@@metalmartin6.6.6 lightmap means higher details then vertex. With lightmap it looks better and runs with lower FPS.

[@metalmartin6.6.6]

@@3dfxvoodoocards6 You're right, my mistake :)