16MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee GPU from 1998: Quantum3D Raven

[@LGR]

At one point I misspoke and said it had a 100 _hertz_ clock. Obviously meant 100 _megahertz,_ heh. Also! Since recording this video, installer music has made a return with Flight Simulator 2020. I now regret requesting more installer music.

[@kaydenbloomfield7388]

Love your vids! I buy lots of old things from letgo, as I hate seeing them get thrown away. Just bought a toshiba Win xp system

[@AdamKlein77]

Dunno...a 100hz clock has some appeal. Metric time! Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, and whatnot.

[@lyianx]

the new Rise of the Triad (on steam) has some pretty fun installer music. KZbin monster Arlo uses a remixed version of it. (also think Star Citizen has install music, but you can mute it heh)

[@OfficialGeek]

Windows volume mixer is your friend. Saved me having to listen to it whilst playing another game.

[@HomelessTechnology]

Try the 1024x768 version with -u

[@MarshMelonCOM]

I was the lone tester for this card in the Quantum3D demo room (I was an intern with no office) I was testing our frame rates against other offerings on the market. I remember the day my boss came in and said we got rush for the pack out. It was a big deal because we needed something to make up for the lack luster performance. I think I remember it was offered to q3d because the quality wasn’t retail ready. I was an artist turned engineer and I did the art for the spinning logo in the display properties dialog. Great memories, Thanks for posting this and jarring these memories loose!

[@johncate9541]

Exactly what I was guessing. A not-ready-for-prime-time game port that Quantum got as a selling point for the card.

[@varisware]

Sure you were.

[@MarshMelonCOM]

@@varisware hey I’m not lying. Lol, I get it seems crazy. I could have put more details in that comment but I thought it went on long enough.

[@joshweigel1131]

Ha cool

[@itsfine5818]

@@varisware Just out of curiosity, why would you think that this is somehow unbelievable? Real people work on these products and presumably have the internet

[@theoldar]

We do still have installation music. I listened to it for an hour installing FS2020!

[@LGR]

I regret everything

[@TARS..]

1 singular hour? Try 6

[@theoldar]

@@TARS.. I had a good connection!

[@khaled-b.971]

i cant even install 1gb in 4 hours

[@kings2020]

God damn 100 gb in one hour my connection takes 1 hour to install 5 gb whyyyyyy

[@joeltyler3427]

2:30 Please do a video on that card. When you have the time to do it.

[@LGR]

Definitely will!

[@AlliaNCeYoutube]

@@LGR Oh good

[@Mineav]

@@LGR Looking forward to it.

[@leigh9360]

This was the first GPU I ever had. Bought it for my Dell Dimension that had a 350Mhz Pentium II. Then I got Half-Life. Aah magical times.

[@Nanyael]

Pentium II 300 mhz. I feel you, bro.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

I have a feeling HL2 didn't exactly run well for yuo

[@kaitbelll]

@@NonsensicalSpudz they're talking about the first Half-Life

[@freddel1to]

Pentium II 233MHz..😱 Dreamed of a 300+ cpu ☺️

[@Dalathe]

Pentium II 350Mhz, Voodoo Banshee, 64 megs of RAM and Sound Blaster Live! Man, those truly were the days!

[@Replicant2600]

That satisfying feeling when windows 98 finds the drivers, mmmmm.

[@MichaelPareda]

Yes man

[@KingGameReview]

so rare

[@DarthTella]

10:40 Glad to know that there are other people in the world who makes their cursor dance to the music. XD

[@wtbeecher]

LOL! I was thinking that also! Thought I was the weird one. :)

[@desmofan1864]

my hand started doing it on its own and I damn near fell into shock seeing his dance, too LOL

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Hehe I had that same thought :P.

[@Loofrewop]

For some reason I thought, at first, this was an LGR Blerbs, but once you've started disassembling the PC I was "Wait.. there is too much effort for just a Blerb" and I saw it was a "regular" LGR video. Good video as always.

[@mello2136]

San Francisco Rush 1 and 2, nice memories playing N64. Love this late 90's hardware videos, keep up the good work. Greetings from Spain. :)

[@kasuraga]

rush 2 was great. I spent so much time trying to unlock everything in the game. So many mountain dew cans and keys

[@MMmmmVarley]

RUSSSSHHHH!

[@DoctorAllanGrey]

*car phases through the ground, flips over twice and explodes* "The physics are a little wonky". Minor understatement.

[@flinx]

Because he didn't have an analog wheel and used the Extreme car. Even on the arcade machine the Extreme car physics were unforgiving. Landing at too much of an angle caused it to roll and crash, which is what actually happens to real cars. Phasing through ground though, that's wonky.

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@flinx Compared to sega rally (not 2) though, sf rush always looks worse. The physics always feels unpredictable even in arcades. Sometimes you can land a jump unscathed, while sometimes you can just land, flip, and crash.

[@flinx]

@@ZX3000GT1 trees or buildings looking better is a preference. SF Rush has bigger jumps, shortcuts, and more variety of tracks and scenery within each track. That style is why I kept playing it and also California Speed even after machines like Initial D came out.

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@flinx I'm not talking about graphics. I'm talking about physics engine (and yes, I now that I said 'looks'. It should've been 'feels'. Sorry for that). SF Rush feels unpredictable and wonku compared to original Sega Rally. And interesting that you called out Initial D. Initial D never clicked with me. The physics is weird in those titles. I'm always more of a Side by Side/Battle Gear guy myself.

[@flinx]

@@ZX3000GT1 I remember Rush with the Medium or Hard car being pretty fair when it came to predictability. Launch at a good angle = safe landing. Launch at a bad angle = crash. With practice I learned the good angles.

[@conkeitime]

The way that these older GPUs look really goes to show just how much more powerful our modern day cards are. Nowadays you'll grab an mid-range card and you'll still have a huge heatsink and fan most of the time. Most 90s GPUs only has a small heatsink over the main chip itself, no thermal pads or anything, maybe a small fan or two for particularly powerful cards, like the Voodoo5 5500.

[@repo4]

My first PC was Pentium 120MHz. After about a year I bought the original 3DFx Voodoo card and went to install it. I opened the case and realised the fan on the CPU was seized solid with dust and was probably not spinning for couple of months already. There were no problems with overheating or performance, I had no idea it's cooled only by the heatsink 😊

[@gaminwithgc]

Yeah and we have people complaining about graphics!

[@conkeitime]

@@gaminwithgc I'd love to see someone try and run a modern AAA game on a card like the Voodoo5 5500, mostly to give them a shot at even getting Win7 installed, then give them an Intel APU and see them hail modern iGPUs as the greatest thing ever

[@Zerbey]

They were still revolutionary, the first time I loaded up a game on my original Voodoo was a "wow" moment.

[@conkeitime]

@@Zerbey Of course, we owe a lot of what our modern GPUs do to the Voodoo and GeForce 256, and for the time, yeah, it was really impressive. It's also impressive just how far we've come in the past almost 40 years since the Commodore 64, in terms of computing as a whole.

[@stathissim]

gotta love the synchronisation you have achieved with the CRT refresh rate

[@BROTRRer]

LGR: "installation music. Why don't we do it anymore?" CODEX: "hold my beer"

[@BadHombre-Chicho]

LOL I was also thinking: "Imagine Steam rocking some sick tunes while your game downloads"

[@Cruptile]

a few android titles have install music when they require downloads for "extra data" (often just the main menu theme)

[@WarrenGarabrandt]

@@BadHombre-Chicho If they do that, they BETTER add an option to disable that. I remember how irritates I was at the mid 90s games that played the same music forever on a loop while I tried to install a game. Made it so I couldn't use the computer without turning off the speakers during the installation process.

[@fyae]

there's also installation music when downloading that 91GB msfs too. had to mute the game

[@pardonless]

It's like when you're in the elevator

[@_Thrackerzod]

One of the best things I remember about Gex was that he helped me save 15% on my car insurance.

[@joshm264]

Is it gex night again?

[@troyX]

It's tail time!

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E N I M E

[@adesignersperspective]

the rush series doesn't get NEARLY enough love on youtube. still one of my fave racing series of all time - i really wish whoever the hell has the rights to this series these days would bring it back.

[@SolidSonicTH]

It's probably WB Games.

[@coeus1469]

Oh man, my first 3D video card. lol. love it. I remember that heat sink.

[@narcopsy]

It was my first 3d card, too. Quake 2 with colored lighting was a revelation

[@vicchopin]

Only 16mb running this smooth... damn thats some eye candy right there

[@mozamboni]

That's because Glide was such an awesome API at the time. Just looked so much better then Direct3d at that point.

[@TheTurnipKing]

It's actually more like 12mb and a 4mb framebuffer IIRC. Much like the Voodoo 2 itself, which was 12MB IIRC, coupled with a VGA 2d card that would have 2-4mb of it's own. IIRC the Banshee's 3d side wasn't quite exactly the same setup as a stock Voodoo 2 though. It was slightly better at some things and worse at other, which is why it games would often needed a patch specifically for it.

[@Evgenii_Fedorovskii]

I LOVE these videos! Many thanks! This does not apply to video, but I want to say: I also recently learned that you helped the site "old-games .ru" get some seemingly lost games. It was so sudden and pleasant to find you name in the "special thanks". Thank you for making such a contribution to the largest Russian site dedicated to old games !!! And thanks again for having subtitles for the video! Google translator does wonders and I can enjoy your work for a long time =). Thanks again for the video !!!

[@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy]

I've worked on old military sims from the late 90s and early 00s that had Quantum3D cards in them. I still miss my old Voodoo5 5500 from 3Dfx (terrible though it was).

[@carltonleboss]

I wonder why you thought the 5500 was terrible? I know the two VSA100s were in SLI, I assume that caused issues?

[@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy]

@@carltonleboss Except for a few games that were optimised for it, most games did not handle two gpu cores via AGP 1x very well at all (and it was electrically AGP 1x - which means you could kill newer AGP boards when you plugged it into the AGP slot - oh and it was too long to fit in most cases of the time). I loved it, but, for actually playing games, it was mostly sub-par.

[@carltonleboss]

@@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy As I suspected

[@Darkdaej]

I really miss my old ASUS v3800. That thing could run FreeSpace 2 in 32-bit color 1024x768 with zero lag. Diablo 2 was no problem, Quake 3 was a joke to run at max settings and Descent 3 ran like a well-tuned engine :)

[@smbu]

@@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy It was also available in PCI format. I have a Mac version that I flashed to be Windows compatible. The Mac PCI version has both VGA and DVI ports unlike the native Windows versions which are VGA only.

[@MrQuicksand75]

Great video. San Francisco Rush the rock Alcatraz edition was on Midway Treasures deluxe edition for Windows from 2006

[@MontieMongoose]

That black PCB is really neat!

[@glenncaughey5044]

That’s ‘go fast’ black!

[@boheyo]

It kind of looks like a mid-2000s soundblaster.

[@antonnym214]

In case it helps: $120 in 1998 is $191 in today's money. In those days I was POOR (I got married just for the RICE!), so I didn't have money for that kind of luxury, but It the result is very nice! Great video!

[@TheHuskyGT]

Oh, man, RUSH! I remember the arcade even had a clutch. It absolutely blew my mind.

[@bcal5962]

Your videos are absolutely fascinating

[@generalgk]

"This is like playing 3D accelerated games at LGR's house"

[@calebibas5537]

I fucking love Gex for the PlayStation 1

[@MrVader104]

I can't believe it's tail time

[@Norweeg]

Just don’t drink the tap water at Jerry Garcia’s house. 💀 🌹 ✌️

[@nickwallette6201]

13:16 I don’t remember the car physics being so weird in Gex. 23:00 WHAT IS THIS??

[@hoardershelpdesk8546]

This is like crossover time at Dunkey's house

[@VncentValntine]

I'll never get over how beautiful that Aluminum case is.

[@Cpt_Wolf]

Lian-Li PC-60. Other high end manufacturers from the days were Thermaltake, Antec and Chieftec, joined by Cooler Master later on.

[@CardboardSliver]

I thought I recognized that install music! Mate of mine had a Yamaha DJX keyboard. That's one of the demonstration tracks!

[@soulintake]

Wow that's some cost cutting right there

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

The last time I was so early, I still had a Matrox Mystique.

[@vegetasalvaje6795]

:)

[@robertmartinu8803]

Those Matrox cards made so nice sharp images on the CRT! No mushiness at high resolutions!

[@stathissim]

I have two of them, one with the expansion card

[@catriona_drummond]

I had a Millennium, it was awesome in 2D.

[@keitatsutsumi]

Wait you watch this channel? That’s awesome

[@norcalrallyx]

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes San Francisco Rush, Rush 2, and Alcatraz my absolute favorite race franchise! To this day I still want the Arcade cab in my house!

[@bmshaven]

me too...best way to play console rush is through n64 emulation. Rush the rock was botched in midway arcade classics and the n64 version is blurry and low res if played on original console.

[@haaxxx9]

Im lucky to have a working RUSH 2049 arcade cabinet down at my local arcade! Game is old AS me but I really do appreciate it so much, it's rare to see an arcade game having 3 pedals and a shifter!

[@frostech3149]

Been waiting for another one of these video card videos! Love your content LGR, keep up the good work!

[@tylernilson7021]

LGR: "installation music. Why don't we do it anymore?" so we can watch LGR videos while waiting for install to finish

[@RaposaCadela]

Awesome!! Really wasn't expecting to wake up today, and see LGR post a video about one of my favorite games of all time. Made me really happy to see someone remembers it :)

[@allangoncalves1453]

My fav too

[@AustinLutz01]

I remember playing rush San Francisco on my N64. Still one of my favourite games. Loved hovering over the extreme vehicles and hearing ITS DANGEROUS!

[@malelonewolf80]

The perfect start of a weekend, a LGR video featuring 3dfx gameplay. :)

[@Tailstraw_xD]

IT'S DANGEROUS!!!! Oh the nostalgia that brings me

[@haaxxx9]

Funny enough I never herd of rush till last year. And the best part there is a local arcade near me that have a FULLY WORKING RUSH 2049 cabinet ready to go. It have a few issues but otherwise playable. For real, Rush 2049 is one of the best racing game that I have ever played. And playing on Manual with EXTREME handling turned on while SUNSET ODT is bursting through the speaker's. Only other game that does that well is Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune series; but around in 1996 - 2000.

[@Tailstraw_xD]

@@haaxxx9 I played the N64 port of the original all the time, the console versions had a free mode that gave you 900 seconds to explore the tracks. There are a bunch of ramps, playgrounds and pieces of level geometry that are a blast thanks to the game's physics.

[@haaxxx9]

@@Tailstraw_xD Since I was born in 1999 I really didn't know there was console ports of SF:R series but I will check em out later! Might give the Dreamcast port a try... But for real, I want a full cabinet of Rush 2049 cause it just so... Amusing! The physics for sure feels real like I am playing Assetto corsa but it's still in development and janky including the floaty physics when you jump. I wish they just port all of San Francisco Rush games to modren consoles/PC already cause it's no racing game like any other... And I play quite a lot to where the point I can play DAYTONA USA well on the expert course! Also reminds me of GETTING THAT GAME ON STEAM AS WELL OF DAYTONA USA 2. So many amazing arcade games still stuck in the past...

[@Tailstraw_xD]

@@haaxxx9 Don't hold your breath, Rush was owned by Midway and it is very very dead. I've never played 2049, my only experience was with the N64 port of the original, and the main reason I loved it was because the physics in free mode exploring the areas you just drive past in normal mode was such fun

[@haaxxx9]

@@Tailstraw_xD Midway disbanneded in 2009... But finally kicked the bucket in 2011. Damn... But Warner Bros. brought most of there IP's so maybe there IS hope for the Rush series after all! Besides I herd the new Crusin' USA i- *...What the fuck?* ONE PEDAL? NO SHIFTER? VERY SIMPLIFIED GAMEPLAY? RAW THRILLS?!?!?!?! Oh hell no, that's basically dead on arrival for me. Ugh... This sucks man. But at least I am old enough to buy a RUSH cabinet in it's formal glory! But I need room for it of course... Or Daytona USA... Ridge Racer... Yea I know it's going to be very expensive down the road BUT ILL DO IT! Still looking forward for that dream-cast port though.

[@ocircles738]

the 10:37 installer music for this came bundled as a preset song on a synthesizer I used to mess around on when I was a kid. Has the whole soundfront of people going "HEUUH" "COME ON!" etc that you could play around with, and this really cool drum feature that would string together different beats and fills on the fly. Man I never thought I'd hear that again :D still have it sitting around wasting space

[@MlnscBoo]

I had NFL BLitz on n64 and it will forever be one of my favorite games. I did not know there was a pc port. It looks GREAT!

[@ninek666]

Love all your 3DFX Voodoo videos!!! I had voodoo 1,2 and 3 (AGP and PCI) back in the days.

[@mjdxp5688]

Oh, I love Gex!

[@MarimeGui]

Is it Gex night ? I've been waiting for this for years

[@skiez7430]

I read that wrong

[@adam1984pl]

I love only first 2d Gex.

[@KeriSqueak]

I love your avatar :3

[@mjdxp5688]

@@KeriSqueak Thanks :)

[@KingGameReview]

I always loved computers, but when I was a kid I didn't really know too much about them. My friend's dad was really into tech and the first time I ever remember hearing about a graphics card was when they were upgrading their computer's voodoo Banshee to the new GeForce 2. I remember going over there and playing Half-Life and some racing games and I was like man, this looks way better and runs way better than my computer at home.

[@TomXizor]

Holy schnikes, that Radeon 9800 PRO brought me back hard nostalgia.... BATTLEFIELD 2 AT FIFTY-FRAMES-PER-SECOND AT MEDIUM! Wooooooo!

[@Sun-ut9gr]

I had a Sapphire 9600XT with an 80mm fan ziptied to the heatsink and custom drivers whose name escapes me atm. BF2 was a cinematic 25 or so FPS for me 😂🤣

[@khaled-b.971]

62% loading geometries

[@jameschiles872]

Hercules 9800 Pro with 128Mb of ram! I think I paid $599 for it but Battlefield Vietnam and SOF 2 at 60 fps on Gamespy...Good times

[@lloydmaliakal6256]

Excellent video mate. Thinking of purchasing voodoo 3 2000 gpu for my retro build in 2021. Vintage is the best :)

[@DevilHunterWolf]

You must have better memories of installation music than I do. I just remember the sudden bursts of loud music out of speakers with neither a headphone jack or volume control on them. Ah, the days of no volume control standard on keyboards and having to try to frantically adjust the volume in Windows past those always full screen installers!

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Probably during the middle of the night pretending to be asleep? Now afraid your parents woul've heard the noise? :P :D

[@paulrippcord506]

Reminds me of how much I loved NFL Blitz. That 90s in your face attitude and that over the top announcer. I’m not even a sports fan and I loved Blitz.

[@jdatlas4668]

Arcade hardware you could put in your PC always had this awesomeness to me. Man, I kinda want one now...

[@AllboroLCD]

I do own a set of ELSA 3d revelator shutter glasses which matches that DIN connector on your Banshee. Happy to lend for a review, LMK!

[@PlayStationPaul]

13:16 - Picking full sim and playing with a keyboard is how that happened.

[@aa664_]

WOW, i loved playing that SF RUSH game back in the day... it was SOOO fast and fluid in the arcade for its time... quite remarkable really. Strange to find it bundled indeed. nice vid. keep it up :)

[@mswilladsen]

Nostalgia hit with the Gex: ETG, damn I've spend many hours with that.

[@RaleTheBlade]

You know, LGR, I've been on KZbin for years and I've subscribed and unsubscribed from a lot of channels. But yours always keeps me coming back. Your content is interesting, informative, and entertaining. A perfect storm of awesome. Keep up the great work 👍

[@LGR]

Thanks for sticking around!

[@Handheld_TECH]

Nice video! I think your channel is great and I really like it 👍 Thank you for your great work👋👾

[@SolidSonicTH]

When I saw Rush in the preview clip my curiosity was piqued immediately.

[@XxAnimeReaperxX]

8:00AM sunday morning (work night shift) getting ready for bed eating a bowl of spicy noodles watching an LGR video, perfect.

[@hunketi]

I loved that game in the arcade, and loved Rush 2049 for the Dreamcast.

[@SteveBrandon]

I only have the 2049 demo on Dreamcast but I have Midway Arcade Treasures 3 on Playstation 2 which has pretty much a straight port of the Dreamcast version and enjoyed it there. Just 4 more years until we're halfway between San Francisco Rush 2049 in the arcades and actual 2049.

[@tahsin8296]

damn a walk down memory lane, love this content. keep it up!

[@JG-nx3jg]

I wonder whether we truly miss these old machines or whether it's just our childhood that we miss. I think it's easier to project those uneasy emotions about getting old onto the inanimate tech of our early years. Anyway voodoo graphics cards were the bomb back then.

[@bghoody5665]

Nostalgia is just regret wearing rose coloured glasses.

[@olaf5929]

Even though I have an okay gaming rig - I frequently buy and install retro games. They're just *way* better than the garbage developers call games today. No microtransactions or endless bugfixing.

[@Williamstanway]

@@olaf5929 games are.not designed to be challenging these days .

[@olaf5929]

@@Williamstanway depends what you find challenging in a game. Games in 80s, 90s and even 2000s brought you fun. Nowadays games try to form your habits / brainwash you into recurring spending or just try to dazzle you with graphics but don't engage you or connect with your fantasies. But what do I know? I think game design is a sham which made games into an industry producing oven-baked pastries instead of art.

[@Williamstanway]

@@olaf5929 I completely agree .

[@VulcanSpock]

You are doing a great service for archiving computer culture and preserving computer history, as they are vanishing into oblivion so quickly

[@GummyGruffi]

Release groups: keeping the dream of installation music alive.

[@johnboydojo]

Wow that's crazy! San Francisco Rush 2049 is one of my all time favs. Me and my buddy's used to play the Dreamcast port (4 player) all the time! Good video man

[@thomasvnl]

I love the installer music of that game. Indeed, why don't we do that anymore. Also, big feeling of nostalgia from GEX. As a kid I used to play this on the pc (on a Voodoo card no less, not sure if it was a Voodoo 2 or 3 though). Loved it, altough I didn't got very far back then.

[@themadrusski2256]

Oh man "the good ole days". Just had some flashbacks playing Destruction Derby 1 and 2, sneaking quake onto my Compaq using floppys. Inspired to put together an old retro build myself now.

[@alessandrodelisi5884]

My father had this on his Pentium II ! Such memories, we played together games like Quake 2 and Half Life. I also remember trying to run the first Gothic on it with awful results, like glitches and flickering stuff all over because of incompatible drivers :D

[@MaYstruction]

My first try with Gothic was with an S3 Virge. 3-5 fps but I got through the first dialogues!

[@alessandrodelisi5884]

@@MaYstruction i vividly remember my disappointment the first time I went down the hill path facing the Old Camp, right after you speak with Diego at the beginning. Everything except the Nameless hero was flashing white, and I was moving around with a couple of fps only. Also, I remember when I got gifted Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Jedi Outcast but I couldn't get it started because of a crashlog at startup for lacking updated opengl drivers or something... Good Times! Now I complain because I don't have stable 75 fps on Horizon Zero Dawn lol

[@akalyx]

was browsing 90s graphics cards last night on ebay for absolutely no reason...neat to see this

[@norcalrallyx]

Installation Music....Download and install Flight Sim 2020 and get back to me about installation music. I can still hear it in my sleep.

[@LordWaldema]

you beat me to it... could have listened to it for hours since i foolishly installed it on a HDD

[@DeedleTech]

Didn't know if you knew. But Rush the Rock is also available on the PC version of Midway Treasure Vol. 3. But its not the 3dfx version though. Love the videos! Thanks for the memories!

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

"Installation music... Why don't we have this anymore?" have you not heard of crack installers

[@formdusktilldeath]

Those crack me up!

[@Hotdogbunker]

oh my god YES

[@WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe]

There was a song that played on a cracked version of Civilization: Beyond Earth that I would still love to find. It was just a midi, but it was a really great track.

[@OfficialDJSoru]

Oh he has, he just doesn't wanna admit it. He did long ago.

[@livefreeprintguns]

I was today years old when I learned California Rush had a PC port from the arcade...

[@davidwhitney2524]

lol I forgot Gex had that Tuxedo. Such a funny series.

[@IvanovIvanAKrutoi]

I wish Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics would remake the Gex games, and maybe make a new entry in the series.

[@once-and-future]

Back in the day I had their Obsidian X-24 with the Dual Voodoo2 SLI on a single PCI card - it eventually died because the weight of the card stressed the PCB so badly. Can't wait to see your video on that beast.

[@elijahpostdc]

It's funny, I spent my lunch breaks in 9th grade playing this game on school computers using an emulator...for me it's weird *not* seeing it on a PC.

[@NielsonLucas]

Way before the school district cracked down on students installing programs to their desktops and issued laptops by adding restrictions

[@adelj4984]

I love this channel and how you upload in 4K, subscribed! And I dont even like technology lol!

[@ronch550]

It's cards like this that got the whole PC 3D gaming off the ground. Good times, back in the late 90's! And it's cards like this that make me really appreciate the tiny SoCs like Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek Helio chips that provide performance that's just leagues ahead of these 3D graphics cards that cost a kidney back then. That's how amazing our phones are these days, men.

[@prateekpanwar646]

Exactly, And our phones use less than 2 watts hard to imagine

[@ronch550]

@@prateekpanwar646 yeah. And that's with the screen and all, which is usually a 1080p panel, even. And it fits in your pocket (with a bit of a squeeze, but still).

[@neoasura]

Thats why it cracks me up when people whine about modern smartphone prices. Kids today don't realize how powerful of a computer they are buying with that money, you can do things with a smart phone now that you couldn't do with a room full of computers 20 years ago.

[@DoxSteele]

@@neoasura Uh, bud, I don't think you understand how much they gouge out on prices of these damn things. Samsung makes like 200% profit on their new flagships. Also, there's kind of this thing in computing where things get faster as time goes on, not sure if you knew about that either...

[@ronch550]

@@DoxSteele well, it's a different story with flagship phones. But for $250 you can get a very decent smartphone that's not marked up 3x the production cost. I think Neoasura wasn't talking about flagships either. And while things do usually improve over time, what we're saying is that what we have now is already utterly amazing. We've made great progress such that we can fit a powerful computer in our pockets. That's amazing if you think about it. I got this Redmi Note 8 Pro for about $210 five months ago and it's got a MediaTek Helio G90T. It's a very cost-effective chip and I'd much rather have it than a flagship.

[@Aruneh]

My first PC that I bought myself had a Voodoo Banshee, and just two weeks ago I built a retro machine with a similar card! Nice timing on this video.

[@scruffythejanitor1969]

Qantum3D Raven- 16MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee GPU." There is NO part of that title I don't like.

[@rectangleboy]

Whoa whoa whoa, we're DEFINITELY gonna' need you to make a video on using those stereographic glasses with this card.

[@Ninjachucks]

I love the dancing cord during the installation music, yes why don’t we have installation music anymore?!!

[@boheyo]

Multi-tasking has come a long way, the installer doesn't really have to entertain you anymore now that you can just go on youtube and watch seal videos while it runs in the background.

[@michaelbates6474]

wow, seeing your win98 machine brought me back. I built donzens of PCs in that Lian Li case. Sweet!

[@VectraQS]

The last time I heard installation music was on Microsoft Money 2005.

[@AnnCatsanndra]

It's dangerous!! San Fransisco Rush on the N64 was the first videogame I owned, given to me on Christmas with Killer Instinct Gold and an N64 to play them on. I don't like playing Rush anymore, but I still have fond memories of that and experimenting with its variety of secrets and cheatcodes. Like playing as a flaming wreck! And the random halfpipe in the sky!

[@codenamemati]

I used to use a program called "CPU killer" to run old games at proper speed.

[@tw3nz0r]

Thank you for this. When I saw the thumbnail, I was shocked just as much as you probably were, and never knew this port existed!

[@artchic528]

Time for some LGR!

[@spooksy1982]

I had that exact lian li case. Very high quality at the time. Loving this retro gaming 👍

[@jacejai]

Yay my first video accelerator was a 3dfx voodoo banshee :) (diamond monster fusion if anyone is wondering)

[@millertimedroid]

Mine, too. Got it at the computer shop in the mall if I'm not mistaken. Good stuff.

[@rogerjohnson9391]

Yeah these things are cool good times

[@thenothing2786]

Watching you install the drivers for a crappy graphics card is so cathartic and calming.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

Coming from the UK, it's weird hearing that Gex voice.

[@danielaustin6756]

I had this exact card. Got it fall of 98. Was my first real 3d graphics card. Played unreal and quake with open gl with it. Absolutely loved this card.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

"Full Simulation" [CAR CLIPS THROUGH THE GROUND AND EXPLODES]

[@eod696]

this was one of my favorite games for n64 when i was a kid ('the rock' edition was never officially ported to n64, but a couple of tracks from this version made it into the n64 conversion of 'sf rush', along with a couple of stunt courses that you can find by poking around the off-course areas...not to mention countless untold shortcuts). it was good times, and a great way to show off that fancy new joystick nintendo invented for the console. good stuff lgr!

[@jr2904]

When I was a kid I liked Gex haha, haven't seen it in a long time. I played it on 3DO

[@RetroGamerBB]

I love my 3do.

[@ProfZodira]

I played Gex Enter The Gecko on stream a day ago. I used the PS1 copy in a last gen PS2 Thin with the higher CPU speed which the game didnt like XD The Media Dimensions audio would glitch out something weird randomly every time...even after a professional cleaning of the disk XD

[@Dochomie]

This was one of my favorite games on the PS1.

[@suprastevio2264]

Because you're a freaking legend 👏

[@iainh]

Oh nice video, I had a Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix (which you can actually see mentioned at 1:50). It was my first proper 3D GPU. It was not around for too long though, I replaced it with an ATI Radeon about a year or so later. Still, the Phoenix was a decent card for me at the time.

[@hardrivethrutown]

Wow that's interesting, never would have thought. Also I wonder how well Xp works on your 98 machine... I'm curious to see what using Xp would have been like to use on launch in 2001, seeing as the Pentium 3 would have still been relevant at the time

[@UltromanTheTacoman]

10:36 - I burst out laughing like a maniac when you said "Installation music. Why don't we do it anymore?" Thanks for that. That music IS really trying to get you hyped for the game, isn't it XD

[@CopperPopperComputers]

Imagine LGR reviewing RTX 2080 ti in the year 2050 😂

[@christopherbollinger86]

San Francisco rush was the reason I clicked on this video. Classic game.

[@Bill-lt5qf]

The word AGP confused me for a second, then the memories returned. Literally forgot that anything came before PCI & PCI-E.

[@theceilidhinthemists]

It was between PCI and PCI-E ;) At least it isn't VLB

[@rebelyell1983x]

@@theceilidhinthemists all better than ISA cards :)

[@dan3a]

In order ISA 8 bit -> ISA 16 bit -> VLB -> PCI -> AGP -> PCI-E Hope I got it right

[@kathrynradonich3982]

What about newbus and pci-x lol used to have a pci-x video card on my power Mac g5 loved that thing

[@Cinkodacs]

AGP was between PCI and PCI-E.

[@bowtopostulio]

i loved installation music. got me pumped to play the game. and i did the mouse pointer dance as well.

[@hellofyou]

it's odd to me to hear that you got annoyed by gex so quickly. I could have sworn that this would be one of the odd things you would like. Weird.

[@MichaelJONeill333]

New LGR Video! It's going to be a good day.

[@mrbendawg]

Does this count as a port considering the arcade hardware was literally just a similarly spec'd PC in the cabinet?

[@davidfranzkoch9789]

This actually is a port. SF Rush in the arcade ran on Atari Flagstaff, which used a MIPS CPU (and presumably not Windows for OS). At the very least they had to recompile the code with x86 as target platform and add support for keyboard.