How the 3dfx Voodoo 2 changed my life - Retro GPU on a Modern PC

[@GearSeekers]

For everyone wondering about Windows 98/KVM: kvm98-3dfx is up on Github. PART 2 IS NOW LIVE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5fRi4WKr5qlgJY github.com/gearseekers/kvm98-3dfx

[@michaelw2263]

This is like one of those scenes in a movie where the hero(s) find random old scrap and somehow builds a device to save them

[@ACLucian79]

good oll` Macgyver

[@philscomputerlab]

Awesome project 😊🎉

[@meandogassbite]

Huh, what a coincidence to run into Phil's comment here! On second thought... it's not ;)

[@dygy7193]

Dear phil, for me no modern project using a 3dfx card is complete unless its capable to run, Ubisoft/Playmobil Interactive "Hype the time Quest".

[@GearSeekers]

Also thanks KZbin for actively trying to kill our channel by burying all of our videos. We appreciate you

[@Artemis_WR]

welp, the algorithm might have blessed you then. i just found this in my recommended, so here take a like. i see some interesting videos on your channel, i think i'll stick around

[@GearSeekers]

I appreciate you!

[@aaldrich1982]

I already love your channel but I'm a 3dfx collector and this was the video I never knew I needed.

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

@@Artemis_WR This made my day. Thank you for clicking on us 🥰🥰

[@Artemis_WR]

@@KlaireGearSeekers 🙂

[@arthurlegardo9366]

Unreal Tournament - this game brings back so many fond memories!

[@ImportRace]

That’s awesome, I still own mine since the day it came out. I found it like 5 days ago in my storage bin. It’s in mint condition

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

Wow! That's so cool it's still fresh!

[@ImportRace]

Voodoo 2 12mb from creative

[@Lemurion287]

I still remember when I finally got a Voodoo2, and put it behind my Riva TNT, I thought I was almost king of the world. Huge step up from my original Matrox M3D.

[@Revenant_Knight]

Believe it or not, I've still got a pair of Voodoo2s new in the box and sealed. Legendary card.

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

Get out :O That's AMAZING

[@1b2m]

I remember how my 2 MB Matrox Mystique (couldn't afford the 4 MB version) was SAVED by the Orchid Righteous 3Dfx Voodoo accelerator card, the original one that still went click-clickety-click whenever it switched between the pure pass-through video and the 3Dfx accelerated video for games. I had the choice back then to get that Voodoo card or a streamer. You know, basically a drive that writes computer data onto VHS tapes. Remember VHS tapes? What an awesome time to have been alive.

[@TheVanillatech]

4MB made no real difference to performance. I had the 2MB, my friend had the 4MB (he bought the module) and we had basic parity. Then his 2MB module set itself on fire mid game, and torched his card. I kept my Mystique after I bought a VooDoo, for a 2D card AND cos the Matrox version of Mechwarrior 2 was way better than the 3Dfx version. But playing Screamer 2, Carmageddon, Myth etc on the VooDoo card was insane. Great days!

[@Shidobuz]

You are a real one for letting Foregone Destruction rock. Thank you!

[@adafrost6276]

The Voodoo 2 was my first 3D accelerator, love seeing one getting some love in the modern age.

[@BrisyTechBytes]

Love this kinda content, proper flashback to my early days of building PC's...all your typical games spring to mind, Quake, Unreal Touranment, Wolfenstein...but for me it just brings back memories of playing Kingpin, loved that game. More of this stuff please Nick and Klaire 🙏

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

We will try!

[@MorrisChannel4]

Star wars jedi outcast 1 and 2, the star trek force games, rainbow six and rogue spear....man so many games

[@dublea2]

I was running two of these in SLI back in 2000! My PC died. Friends dad invited me over and gave me an old server they used to use for CAD rendering. I was able to get Win98SE running on the server hardware and enjoyed several years of UT, Quake, and many more games. I miss Voodoo.

[@jonard7037]

I use to run a UT server back in the day. This made me have tons of nostalgic flashbacks. Thank you so much.

[@Matty-rn5gt]

Love this - I started to build PCs in the era of ATi Rage MAXX, 3dfx Voodoo, Matrox and Power VR. I opted for a PowerVR card back in the day, coupled with an iiyama trinitron flat fronted CRT monitor - it was awesome. Every card took some configuration to get it working well in the games of the day too - thanks for the trip back along memory lane 😊

[@jwaye89]

Banger of a video fams, keep up the hard work. Was a great watch

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

❤

[@joemanfred5738]

Love this channel, polished *and* intelligent content. Absolutely deserves more love. Will always remember this channel for the PowerMac G5 video that dispelled the misinformation on FX 4500 revisions.

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

Appreciate the kind words mate!

[@Raptor_3_fire_37]

this video is going to help someone with a really specific project in the future

[@iansrven3023]

Voodoo 2 was an absolute beast at the time

[@oscarcharliezulu]

Still spewing I sold off my voodoo 5500. Wing commander on it was glorious. I had a monster 3D, a voodoo 3- 2000 then the 5500.

[@clavius5734]

Same here mate, had one in the late 2000's as a 3d card for a pci-only system and sold it for a pittance when I no longer needed it. I need it now though 😢

[@CotyRiddle]

had a voodoo 4 4500 PCI. i was blowna way at the time. loved it and my amd k6-II

[@Trylen]

I still have my Banshee, 2 voodoo1, a voodoo2, voodoo3-2000, Voodoo4 4500 and my Voodoo5 5500. The 2 and one of the 1s need repair, but it's the collection I'll never let go of.

[@TheVanillatech]

I had a VooDoo 1, skipped the VooDOo 2 and bought a TNT2 Ultra (Viper V770). Spent some time working at PC world at Christmas 2001, and stole a VooDoo 4 4500 the day I quit. I'm not a thief, I had good reason to do it. Still got that VooDoo 4! Fired it up a couple of years back.

[@queegfivehundred8197]

To be pedantic, the only thing in common between 3dfx SLI and Nvidia SLI are the idea of combining the power of multiple cards and the acronym... 3dfx SLI was scan line interleave with each card responsible for alternating lines of the render, while Nvidia SLI stands for scalable link interface and each card renders either a separate frame or a contiguous part of a frame. BTW, nice video 😀 I never had 3dfx myself - with the first PC I purchased for myself I chose the Nvidia Riva 128 (a Diamond Viper V330 to be precise), and upgraded it to a Riva TNT when that was released soon after, largely thanks to the store that built the PC giving me an unintentionally great trade in price on the V330.

[@littleretrostudios]

I love this. I still have my voodoo 2. It was my first 3D card ever. I also had a Pentium 200mmx, 32mb ram and a S3 Virge with the Creative labs Voodoo 2 12mb. 800x600 was max resolution for 1 card. If you had SLI you could get 1024x768, I upgraded to a voodoo 3 2000 AGP card after that. Interesting thing to note about this is at this stage of gaming graphics you could get a card every 6 months that would double the performance of the previous card. There was no nonsense of running a modern game on a 10 year old GPU. You have to take into account that the voodoo 2 came out in mid 1998. In end of 1999 the geforce 256 launch. That card was 4 times more powerful. It was insane. Looking back I remember every 6 months to a year I had to buy a completely new computer. People still rocking Geforce Gtx 1070 today and being able to play games is crazy to me. If you bought a voodoo 2 in 1998 there was no way you'd be playing any games released in 2006. You had 12mb VRAM max compared to card launching that year that came with 256 - 512mb. That was the year the Geforce 7000 series and Radeon x1000 series Launched. I remember those days fondly and building a new once to twice a year was amazing to me.

[@snakeplissken111]

Whilst hardware improvement has slowed down itself: Nobody can afford to push only high-end hardware exclusively anymore. Back then Origins, Looking Glass, id et all didn't give a shit. If you were out, you were out. And consoles? Were hopeless to even run most of their games. Today they're the lead platforms for pretty much every graphical blockbuster out there. It's crazy to think that even Doom³ still had a core team of ~20 people. For the entire game. That's the size of Rockstar's task force paid to render horse testicles right now. Then again, at today's GPU prices, it's better that things have slowed down.... The Voodoo 3 (2000) could even be had for fewer bucks than the V1 on launch -- despite being insanely faster a card.

[@highheatbeats2091]

This kind of content is the reason I watch youtube more than anything else and pay for premium. Great video!

[@GearSeekers]

Thanks so much

[@dog_knight]

Awesome vid. I used to play the original UT on a Powermac G3. Had the ATI Rage 128 Pro - 16mb GPU. I eventually upgraded to the Radeon 7000 Pro - 32mb GPU. Good work on getting this working with more modern hardware. Silly part is that the onboard graphics on the CPU would probably do a better job. But definitely a fun experiment.

[@GearSeekers]

Oh the integrated graphics blows the Voodoo out of the water 🤣

[@cavalen]

Nice! ... I wish I had a Voodoo back in the day ... My first 3D card was a PowerVR Kyro II (Hercules), It was a weird card, but fast enough for the games I was playing at that time.

[@GearSeekers]

The Kyro II was such a weird card back then. It was really good at some things and horrible at others.

[@HazewinDog]

My first PC had a GeForce 6800 (no suffix, PCIe & 256MB). I'm from '93 and my first experience with 3D gaming was allegedly A2 Racer (1997) on what was at the time my family's sole computer. In 2005 my mom got her own computer and in 2006 my parents got me one as well, a Dell Dimension 5000 with a hyper-threaded Pentium 4 3GHz and the aforementioned GF 6800. Loved that system, but after I moved out and asked my parents to hold onto it for me, it had vanished by the time I went to pick it up from them :( I have acquired an identical replacement of it since though :)

[@e99g]

The CEO/COO of 3dfx would be proud of you

[@twrex-13]

I keep my media cases in storage and use sleeve case books for the media itself. Makes it easier to access, without all the bulk of the cases

[@TommyCrosby]

My first graphic card was a Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI, it was a true GPU (no VGA pass through) and worked perfectly as a way to get video out on any PC once I didn't use it for gaming. I had it nearby as a backup testing card up until 2013, I think. It was insane to have a single GPU that could work on PCI, AGP, and PCI-E era systems. It's also a great reason I don't buy CPU that don't have iGPU nowadays.

[@GearSeekers]

I wish I had the PCI version!

[@dantevortex]

The Voodoo2 12mb version was my first 3D GPU. Before that it was 2D card gaming only, and that was fine, until I finally got one back in 98. It was a leap. A giant leap in performance. Playing Tombraider 3, Unreal 1 at the time it was insane. You cannot really compare the level of the leap with current hardware. Now you get a better GPU, but it's still somewhat the same as the previous one. Going from a 2D card to 3D card was just... something else. Something many people who missed it will never experience.

[@rbkeir986]

This brings back memories. My system was 1gb p-3, Creative Labs dvd decoder card. SB awe, ati all in wonder pro, 2 voodoo 2 in sli. I had more pass through cables sticking out of my system. But worlds biggest pain. When it worked it was amazing. But it was a nightmare setup everything. lol

[@GearSeekers]

Absolute beast!!

[@steelresilience]

I remember having an Nvidia TNT2 Riva with like 32mb of RAM. I had about 384mb or system RAM too. Mannnnnnn

[@CrusinVK]

oh man... the memories are flooding back... "HEADSHOT!" hahahaha. thank you so much for the trip down memory lane Nick. they say everyone remembers their "first"... I remember my first was an 8mb Voodoo .

[@uhohDavinci]

I still have my Voodoo 2. 12mb version, found it clearing out my moms house. I'd love to get it running one day. What an awesome piece of tech history. Played many hours of UT, Q2, and Descent 3 on that thing.

[@5percentgamer]

Wow, thanks for reminding me how much fun I had playing these games.

[@stephenfellows8638]

I had a pentium 2 with 2 voodoo 2 banshee cards in sli with a tnt nvidia card and well to play quake 2 and half life in 1998 with an 8 gb hard drive! The cards cost a total of £450 at the time! Had to upgrade the cards to an invidia 280 gt and operating system to play home world.

[@MegaStamandster]

This is amazing! I bought a Voodoo 2 new for my Celeron 400mhz system back in the day.

[@jarsky]

I never realised that the Voodoo 2 could be connected to any Video Card. My original gaming PC was a Voodoo Banshee + 2 x Voodoo 2 in SLI. It did me right through in my main PC until the release of the Geforce2 MX400 which I needed to play Black & White

[@32KOFDATA]

My first 3dfx card was a first generation Voodoo, Canopus Pure 3D and then went on to a Canopus Pure 3D II. I still remember getting excited every time I would see in game menus, extra options enabled, for particle effects, trail effects, etc that no other card would render. Such great times. Shame how things ended for 3dfx but mistakes were made.

[@romanpirschel3053]

Unreal Tournament, those sounds took me 25Y in the past and instantly refreshed memories 😂 thx for that Nick 😊 we are geting old

[@DrYak]

Note that pluggin the VGA-in isn't mandatory on 3DFx (it's not genlocking like some MPEG-2 accelerator boards). It was merely a convenience back in the days because very few people used multi-monitor setups - this helped people getting both the 2D image from their main graphics card and the 3D on their (unique) monitors. Nowadays with cheap LCDs everywhere it's possible to leave each card to its own display output (like done when capturing the output in this video).

[@tOSdude]

Yeah, easy enough to run HDMI from the iGPU and VGA from the Voodoo into 2 inputs on a monitor and let that switch between them.

[@DrYak]

@@tOSdude Autoswitch from Voodoo to desktop GPU will work (once the game shuts down, the Voodoo stops emitting a signal, and display will look for something else, finding the desktop GPU). Desktop GPU to Voodoo will _not_ be automatic (unless you tweak some priority list on the display) as the desktop continues to work normally while the Voodoo displays the game (it's possible to run a debugger on the desktop if you need), and thus the display has no reasons to switch away because it doesn't reach a "no signal" situation that would trigger jumping to the Voodoo.

[@lukasjozef1774]

I had Voodoo1, voodoo3 3000 and 3500tv, I loved 3dfx. 90s were absolutely amazing.

[@mworld]

I found an 8MB voodoo 2 (diamond) in a box recently in my stash of PC parts. Still works. Although I got it going in XP, not 98. This is why I'm not selling my LCD monitors with VGA :)

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

I spent no time clicking the bell icon to make Gear Seekers play on my modern PC.

[@m4ryou5h]

Awesome video, I had to show it to my son what I was playing on :)

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

Hell yeah! That's so lovely you can share the memories with him!

[@Phalaxis83]

Awesome video fams. Nothing like a trip down memory lane to start the day.

[@mrthemoonbear]

Awesome video, can't beat the vibe of someone just being super excited about what they are doing. Like I know you love building PC's for all your regular vids but this was just such a passion project it really shone through. My first experience of 3d gaming I reckon would have been Stunts in the early 90's and in my memory I was great at it but I was also like 4 years old so chances are that I was actually rubbish haha It was probably another decade after that before I would have taken any interest in the hardware side of things so no idea what was even in the rig that powered my introduction to gaming but it ruined my life quite effectively 😅

[@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365]

I'm glad the algorithm recommended this to me. Discovering an intersting channel from this video.

[@TerminalzPain]

I remember getting one of these around the time Quake3Arena released, fun times!!!

[@dinocorreia1202]

Still have somewhere my 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000. Was epic!

[@hardware_freak_on_a_leash]

V5 6000 was never released to the public

[@danielkowalski7527]

yea the only revolution that ever happend in 3d graphics

[@AdamPayne]

Awesome video .. I think my first 3d accelerator was the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee..

[@deltara2106]

Quick tip, to access the recovery menu quicker you can hold shift and click restart in the start menu.

[@hansmaker1236]

now i will have the ut music in my ear for the rest of the day. face was always fun. nice project. i love it

[@GUCFan]

Never did i think i would see Windows 10 interacting with a real Voodoo 2 card, much less see the Voodoo 2 render something with the card running on Windows 10! Insane to see that Windows 10 still somehow has support for the card as long as you disable driver enforcement.

[@mannyc19]

12 m 21 s UT99 ! Still play it this day!! From release on the 1st 3 years I put easily 1k hours into it ! More of this, please !

[@himmelskibet]

Nice to see new motherboards that still have PCI slots !

[@KangMinseok]

The fact that you let the full UT 99 intro play... a true man of culture!

[@p.d.k.]

Looks like Gigabyte released a B760 version, the B760M D3H, and it even has DDR5 support. There's also the Asus Pro B550M-C/CSM, though it has no VGA. My first 3D attempt was with a S3 ViRGE, which was more of a decelerator. I remember trying out Mechwarior with it, at around 3 frames/sec. My first real attempt was Voodoo 2 in SLI. I still have the Voodoo 2 cards, but I have no idea if they work. I also have a V5-5500 AGP and two V5-5500 PCI cards. I'm now tempted to try the V5-5500 PCI cards in some older hardware (Core 2 era) just to see if they work.

[@shootloadrepeat]

I had this card also. I also eventually got the next model with SLI either before or after Nvidia bought them out.

[@Trick-Framed]

Looking at this all set up is incredible.

[@aklovl1980]

this was my first 3d card and wow it blew me away in quake 2 when i enabled 3dfx option in game,good times😊

[@yass5020]

3dfx is the father of gpus.. Very interesting and Gold content right here.

[@giorgosapo4508]

Awesome video Nick!!! Full of memories😁

[@geardawg1358]

Yup, still have my Voodoo 2, still works, brings back memories, had to use Scumm Qemm to manage memory, what was it, 584k, 640k, limits, had to be manipulated in DOS to get some of the old non windows titles to run! Was a good part of the fun just getting some of the old stuff to run! Was so cool when I upgraded from 300 baud to my Hayes 1200 ultramodem! then came good old USRobotics modems! LOL, now I'm on multigig fiber....

[@officialr313ntless]

I love shit like this, man. Vintage computing is my jam. I'd love to see the Win98 VM video. My first ever GPU was technically whatever was in my mom's Digital HiNote laptop from 1997-98 (very hard to find info on that thing). The first desktop GPU I ever had was the Riva TNT2, 16MB model, in our family Compaq Presario around 2000. Still have that card!

[@GearSeekers]

The Windows 98 VM video is already up!

[@andrewcallender5420]

This was dope, definitely continue making more vids like this!

[@johnwiesen4440]

My first Voodoo was a Voodoo 2 12 Mb and then a Voodoo 5500 AGP.

[@alphanerd2305]

I ran my Voodoo2 fed by my Matrox Millennium (G200 8MB I think it was) at 1024x768, which was the highest resolution my 14" monitor supported, using the OpenGL driver. It was an awesome card to run up until I got a new 19" monitor and my GeForce 256 DDR a couple years later. Played a boatload of UT and Quake 2. Woooo, nostalgia.

[@gaidin]

Anyone over a certain age remembers spending every cent they had at the time for a Voodoo 2....sweet memories :)

[@enricojeremias5425]

Back then there was also Matrox. As the Voodoo2 was a 3D accelerator, you still needed a 2D card. I actually had 2 12MB Voodoo2's, great days. Today I couldn't afford any of this. PS: the days when you could overclock a Celeron 300MHz to 450MHz - no problem ...

[@GearSeekers]

Matrox didn't really do 3D properly until the Parhelia and that was after the downfall of 3dfx ;)

[@enricojeremias5425]

@@GearSeekers I think I had a Matrox G250 (or something like that) and it came bundled with Ultimate Race Pro and Incoming, but yeah basically just used it as 2D accelerator and the Voodoos did the 3D work ...

[@themiln]

My first experience was Voodoo 1 native dos glide EF2000 - Blew me away especially after visiting an Air Show with something similar! They were probably running Quantum3D AAlchemy setup for their EF2000 Simulator. Essentially the same VSA-100 chips, just more of them. Very Scalable.

[@timramich]

This was my first card as well. I remember playing Goldeneye for N64 with an emulator and using Glide. There was some sort of fog effect that was present that I've never seen since with the other graphics APIs.

[@GearSeekers]

I think it was their 16bit Z-Buffer that did that from memory

[@timramich]

@@GearSeekers It seemed to be an atmospheric effect not even reproducible with Glide wrappers.

[@SianaGearz]

I don't think UT was only 20fps on Voodoo2 back in the day. Something might be going slightly wrong. Even Dreamcast version is faster than that. Voodoo1/2 had eventually Direct3D support which would of course only initialise in a fullscreen context, so game devs had to do some shuffling and working around to get it to work, but fundamentally it did work. So by 1999 a lot of games shipped without Glide support, just using the Voodoo in Direct3D, with some efficiency compromises. Which is also why at the time i switched to a Riva TNT2 if memory serves, since Glide had basically run its course. I don't think Half-Life had a true Glide backend to begin with, but neither did Quake, but that's where originally MiniGL then OpenGL came in, worked well of course at the time.

[@Queso305]

Great. Now i need to buy that motherboard to tet out my voodoos!

[@genx156]

Awesome 👍 I think my first Voodoo card was the 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 which did both the 2D & 3D in a single card (I think), and Unreal Tournament was one of the games I spent most time playing along with StarCraft & C&C 😁

[@Bboyman1150]

I remember using the voodoo graphics in my family’s Gateway Select Edit: I looked and it’s a Voodoo 3 Velocity

[@hitechfl]

I loved the video. First tine on your channel. Looking forward to other obscure hardware.

[@AlexGhostDragonUK]

I also had a 200mmx and voodoo cards back in the day, last version was the voodoo 3500 i think

[@alanw737]

Thanks for yet another reminder that I’m old as shit.

[@GearSeekers]

It's okay. I'm old too

[@KlaireGearSeekers]

Old is good 🥰

[@user-yt3ne8qg2y]

Awesome idea/video! Please also try the VM-variant you talked about. It sounds really interesting, since I would imagine there are a lot of problems with this configuration and Windows 98. That said there might be also a couple of really cool upsides. For example if one would use an older motherboard with more than one PCI-Slot, this could be used for a Multiplayer-Game over the virtual switch and everything runs on one machine.

[@exxor9108]

I was only about 7 years old when the Voodoo2 came out. 1998? I turned 7 years old that year.

[@squeeeb]

Love it, nice video! I have a Voodoo 3 2000 I picked up recently and its been a joy to play with on my Pentium III rig.

[@maketheup7659]

I remember that NFS Porsche Unleashed worked well with Voodo cars. I played it on Pentium 2 233, that was amazing.

[@middle_pickup]

There are actually a lot modern boards that will technically work with old cards. They're normally designed for industrial applications. Your issue will be finding drivers.

[@GearSeekers]

Yeah I mentioned that too. They are usually geared towards Linux also.

[@chrisrudi7162]

I use two Voodoo 2 cards in SLI mode on a PCIe x1 to dual PCI adapter. And it works perfectly. The PC is a Core2Duo E8400 with 3 GHz. Even with 98 SE and XP 😁 By the way, many of these adapter ICs or bridge chips, such as those from Asmedia, are soldered onto newer motherboards with PCI slots. Native PCI from the chipset has long since disappeared.

[@GearSeekers]

I understand how it works its mainly about the ease of installation with a board like this. Sometimes its easier for me to dumb it down so people understand the idea 🤣😋 I wish I had another Voodoo 2 so I could do SLI. I do have a bunch of other 3dfx cards though. I'm currently testing something very spicy with this set up that I haven't seen done yet.

[@Thaleios]

Yeah, I remember playing unreal tournament a lot right out of college. Good times. My young wife was almost a widow right out the gate. 🙂

[@drtweak87]

There are a few new motherboards that have PCI slots. I got 2 AM4 boards with PCI slots. Even finding boards with ISA slots can be found.

[@TheSulross]

Went onto ebay to look for a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 - needed it to be PCI bus for my motherboard, and, of course, wanted a card that would be supported under Win98. But these cards start in around $160 and go for over $200. So for now I've dropped doing a Win98 build and will do WinXP instead - picked up a 2009 vintage Nividia PCIe card for $11. Doing performant Win98 PC builds is an expensive hobby. Doing WinXP builds can still be done on the cheap.

[@tallpaul9475]

Jazz Multimedia Adrenaline Rush was my first, from Sunnyvale Computer super store that fizzled out in early 2000.

[@drewnewby]

A new glide wrapper, nope, a glide unwrapper.

[@baddestmofoalive]

I remember my dad taking me to CompUSA to pick up a Voodoo3 2000 AGP like it was yesterday lol

[@operatorfromhell]

I still have a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP I purchased new back in June of 2000. Sadly no one seems to make a reliable AGP to PCI-E adapter for it, and pretty much most of my old gear is gone.

[@Alan.livingston]

I had a TNT2 PCI running on a AMDK6. Sometimes at 800x600 it'd get to 20fps playing Half Life. I wish I'd hung on to it for posterity sake.

[@AlexGhostDragonUK]

I may still have a old voodoo card in storage maybe even that one

[@GearSeekers]

👀

[@christopheoberrauch784]

Finally, the CPU is no longer the limiting factor.😀

[@NdxtremePro]

Doing the Windows 98 Vm sounds cool, but you could also try and get Windows 98 to run directly on the hardware. There are a few KZbin channels that do this. You can also dig into the world of Amiga. There is an Amiga OS Linux amalgamation, that can use that 3dfx Voodoo card called Amithlon. This is a Linux kernel that boots directly into an Amiga environment, translating the m68k instructions to x86 but also running x86 elf binaries in Amiga. The whole thing is weird and fun and on that system would screem. You may have to run it in a vm if it doesn't work with all the hardware on your board, the last compiled kernel is a 3.x version of the kernel, or a 4.x, I forget.

[@GearSeekers]

I have a pimped out A1200 that I absolutely adore. The next video is with it running windows 98 on the metal 😉

[@NdxtremePro]

@@GearSeekers Sounds fun!

[@Trylen]

My first 3d experience was on 3DFX, but on the Voodoo3 16MB with an AMD K6-2 500 and playing Black & White

[@matthewrichardson2533]

This was my first video card. Came in my Pentium III. I think it was a Gateway I got in 1999 with Windows ME

[@xBruceLee88x]

I still have a pair of Voodoo2s in a drawer waiting for the right rig, and some minor repair (some "pins" along the edge of the chips are bent together) I last used them in a socket 775 rig along with a 9600gt and an ati rage 128 aiw card in an agp slot. It was the ASRock 4coredual-vsta motherboard