10 3dfx Voodoo Glide Games in 10 Minutes

[@elektronischermeister]

The 60fps of the Voodoo2 was, for me, the greatest leap for gaming on PC.

[@shammy8703]

Voodoo 3 3000...

[@antjarvis]

The moment I plugged in my 3dfx v1 card and ran tomb raider, my jaw dropped. The same feeling as going from 8 to 16 bit systems, such a huge leap!

[@johnknight9150]

My first moment was with a Voodoo2 and Quake II with a bunch of mates. 🙂 We all just went "whoah" and then went silent.

[@Knogle2]

Voodoo/3dfx just blew everything out of the water back then. The pc jumping a lightyear ahead of consoles at the time. I remember having played games like Driver and Tomb Raider 3dfx style. Then seeing the games at a friend on PS1, it was just sad... :)

[@vr-legion3468]

It took 20 years until computer graphics fascinated me again as much as when the first Voodoo cards appeared. That was awesome back then!

[@Widg8]

Diamond Monster 3D 3dfx Voodoo1 4MB FTW ! So many memories with this card ! Back in the days I was 13 years old and now I'm 34 and I own an RTX 2080. The virus still inside me :)

[@0525ohhwell]

I just said F it and ordered a Monster 3d from Russia hahaha. Should be interesting.

[@olivercox2565]

I was 14 years old playing Unreal Tournament to death. Now im 35 and I own a RTX 3080! We have led a good life it seems.

[@jasongooden917]

Back in the day when you thought.. Wow these graphics look real.

[@MBDB666]

Nothing pleases the eye like the glide api 😊💕

[@GoodieLittleTwoShoes]

Love 3dfx...I remember the first time I saw a demo of Unreal in the store, side by side with a 2D video card VS a Voodoo card. I was blown away at how awesome the graphics looked. Good times! Those who were into computers in the late 90s get it. This was a truly epic time to be a computer gamer.

[@StingyGeek]

Wow. Those graphics don't suck even today. 3dfx just nailed it back in the day.

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

They were AMAZING back in the day. I remember when I got a Voodoo3 2000 and just couldn't believe how amazing the games looked.

[@bmwolgas]

Thanks for uploading this in its native 4:3 aspect ratio - it was a pleasant surprise to have a current youtube video fill up my entire 21" CRT monitor (on which this video and the games in it look fantastic, btw).

[@Pidalin]

Does it still work? What about your table, is it still straight under such weight? 😀

[@bmwolgas]

@@Pidalin Yep - still in use, as I type this. its on an old 1980s desk, they don't make desks like this any more.

[@Pidalin]

@@bmwolgas I actually work in furniture company, so I can have what I want. 😀

[@abergethirty]

Interstate 76. I went from a voodoo banshee to two Voodoo 2 in SLI. It was amazing.

[@slay3rsaber]

I remember playing first Unreal on Voodoo 2 like it was yesterday... and then I realized it was 20 years ago...

[@ted-b]

Aye, those shiny floors, wow! :)

[@mattafaak]

Unreal, Half-Life, and Quake 2 all blew me away the first time I played them with 3D acceleration. And then they blew me away again when I upgraded my Voodoo Rush setup to Voodoo2.

[@elimalinsky7069]

First game I fired up when I got the Voodoo 2 was Quake II. Needless to say my jaw dropped! Just two years before that we were still playing pseudo-3D sprite-based first person shooters. It was a great time to be alive.

[@uranium131]

@@mattafaak The Voodoo 3 2000 was my first real 3D Accelerator. The crisp graphics blew me away. I still own the Voodoo 3. It's in storage. Maybe someday I will try and fire it up on an older rig with Windows 2000.

[@Radek__]

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[@georgeindestructible]

The special charm of some old games hasn't gone away...

[@armorgeddon]

3dfx PC accelerators - so powerful it's kinda ridiculous! :-)

[@fjcampalus]

POD, at a friend's house, first locked 60fps I had ever seen outside of the arcades. MIND BLOWING, unforgettable!

[@epicvelazquez4445]

love your videos man keep up the great work ^_^

[@hansmaker1236]

Unreal and Rune were real great games witch totally sucked me in when i was jung. I will not miss this memories, it was a hightech-future-feeling playing this games. Now a cupple of GHZ and GB!s of ram later i miss that old feeling. Todays games are to close to simulations and a lot of work, expensiv... Thank you for this dose of nostalgic memories. You must have had a lot of fun!

[@cskillers1]

8:13 - "RTX" , glide is amazing , took nvidia so long to make it, except that cuts fps in half

[@boomerkuwanger3700]

Thanks for a good showing of what the Voodoo can do. Reminds me just how far we've come when it comes in graphics.

[@stathissim]

I would make a video side by side with software rendering so that younger people understand why we definitely had to have a Voodoo 2 back in the day.

[@danielberrett2179]

I was actually thinking of something similar but it was vs home consoles of the time. For example Rayman 2 had great texture quality. The PSX and N64 would have looked like smeared mud (although n64 had some of my favorite games)

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea especially the very first games, but pretty much all the games shown also support Direct3D or OpenGL as well. Glide usually performs better though and runs smoother.

[@ravengaming4143]

Young people now think software looks better due to Minecraft, but there was no such thing as "high-rez software mode" back then (atleast not at playlable framerates). Also games tended to lack effects in software mode (e.g. Quake II's coloured lighting).

[@jfjfjf]

daniel berrett Lol I actually remember trying to play rayman 2 without a graphics card, the polygons rendered but the textures didn’t, everything was just white. (And it was like 10fps)

[@linkfreeman1998]

@@ravengaming4143 yea.. Aka the idiots nowadays...

[@37Retro]

Nice, Clive Barker's Undying is a game everyone should play :)

[@philscomputerlab]

Well I still have to play it :D

[@keropiprojects]

@@philscomputerlab it's AWESOME

[@michalm2528]

I remember when the game have premiere, computer which to draw off this game , it cost a bag of money back in the day. Great film like always Phil :)))

[@DeViLzzz2006]

A few games on there look interesting. Descent 3 also looks like something I want to play.

[@soylentgreenb]

@@DeViLzzz2006 Deus ex is frequently mentioned on best-games-of-all-time-lists for a reason and you should play it if you haven't. Graphically the animations kind of look shitty now, but it makes you appreciate how awful most modern games are at story telling and interactivity. As does Ultima underworld, which is a freak; it's like finding rabbit fossils in the pre-cambrian; It's like aliens came to Earth and programmed a game for the 386; it should not exists, and yet, somehow it does.

[@georgez8859]

Great Video. Those were the days Thanks

[@oveidasinclair982]

We still have an old Voodoo card, it was the last of the 3DFX cards to come out, it's still functional too. I think dad keep it because it was his first high end video card he ever purchased.

[@vbmdsm]

A good list Phil, I've played most of those on a KTX Voodoo 2 SLI setup back in the day. Although you missed my favourite pair of 3dfx games - Uprising 1 and 2.

[@ultra_code_]

Phil's aim in _Unreal Tournament..._ :P

[@MidnightToker24]

I was hoping he would get a momomomomomomoomonster kill, kill, kill

[@PokemonMp3]

Thanks for the video Phil I'm always looking for new games to play on my voodoo card i will have to look out for some of these at thrift stores

[@cryptocoinkiwi8272]

I still go round to my mates house and we LAN with Unreal Tournament! Still havn't found a better LAN game that the original UT. Bloody excellent!

[@ZanderLexx]

That intro

[@turbo6780]

Your videos are so entertaining! :D I love old hardware!

[@FunkCakes]

Unreal tournament 🤘 was soo awesome . Used to go LAN cafes with mates from school and jump around. Favourite gun was the flac cannon to kill in all directions and around corners lol

[@zombiedeutsch]

Screamer 4x4 one of my favorite childhood games that took thounsands hours from my life and i dont regret it

[@CaptainDangeax]

I remember the first time I saw Unreal intro and shouted whoah, reflection on the ground !

[@drzeissler]

3dfx was smooth and nice :)

[@Jonen560ti]

I remember I got a disc with a demo version of Tachyon the fringe with my FX 5200

[@gnrtradepro]

I had the V5 5500. Great card.

[@uranium131]

I had one of those as well. To me it was underwhelming as Nvidia was killing it with their new lineup at the time. Needless to say the card did not live up to the hype created in the pre order stage. Sold it after a few months of ownership.

[@lrochfort]

Some damn good looking games there.

[@randomgamingprojects]

Brings me back to when my dad bought us a voodoo 4 so he and I could play Unreal Tournament online. I believe I was About 6 at the time it was around 2001ish I think but I remember saying wow this looks like real life. Good times good times.

[@modernandretrogaming]

Great, I still watched all you maked and I want more :)

[@metalic8655]

This graphics make me feel in home

[@craigkarsten6719]

Loved playing Tachyon The Fringe. Had both 3dfx and nvidia cards back in the day. To my eyes the 3dfx cards had more pleasing and vibrant colours. I was using these on my IBM PS/2 monitor.

[@danielberrett2179]

TUESDAY BONUS VIDEO!

[@vana4054]

As someone who owned a plethora of graphics cards from back in the day, a game that supported both Glide and Direct 3D (or even OpenGL), somehow when running on a Glide supported card, looked better than any other card running the same game in Direct 3D or OpenGL.

[@Delgen1951]

better than I remembered.

[@mariastevens6406]

Glide was so before its time. I wonder if there's a wrapper for linux.

[@rodrigomuller]

Some nice memories.

[@magburner]

3DFX was amazing back in the day. You could have added F/A18 Korea to that list, it looked great on the Voodoo 3.

[@CYON4D]

I have found memories of 3dfx.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

how much better was the Voodoo 4 4500 compared to the Voodoo 3 3500?

[@likeclockwork6473]

man back when I only had an N64 these graphics would have blown my mind

[@Thrasher1984]

While Nintendo 64 owners obsessed over what a masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was PC owners laughed about the blurry graphics and low FPS. Note: I also was a N64 owner...

[@MarkTheMorose]

5 Intel i740 cards disliked this video.

[@ravengaming4143]

Hey it wasn't that bad of a card lol.

[@CreepebrineMC]

Stupid question but will they work fine with my Voodoo Banshee (one by Diamond)?

[@philscomputerlab]

Yes that shouldn't be a problem.

[@bleachwolf6936]

Your videos...excite me.

[@Maxa1]

Nice compilation! I actually picked up Tachyon: The Fringe for 0,50€ at a thrift store last month. :)

[@PKmuffdiver]

I still have my Voodoo2's Its about time I upgraded them to the full 12MB!

[@thewhyzer]

I gotta say, Rayman 2 is my favorite 3D platformers of all the bunches which I've tried. I must have played the Direct 3d version though, given that it was with an 8800GT at the time. Overall, Tachyon and Screamer 4x4 are the only games from this list which I've never played, so this video was full of nostalgia :)

[@tubulartoy]

Do I must be set anything to active the glide or is automatic? Does It run in pure DOS or need Windows 9X?

[@philscomputerlab]

The games all run on Windows 98 SE and yes, you usually need to configure the game to use Glide.

[@armorgeddon]

There are pure DOS Glide games, too. Those DOS games usually have a separate executeable file to start the Glide accelerated version of the game.

[@lazibayer]

Oh man.... Played Tachyon a couple of years ago on my D3D retro build. Should have done it on my 3dfx build had I known it supports Glide.

[@dmk3051]

I am always thankful to your channel. Thank you for making great content. Adobe Shockwave has been discontinued on April 9. Can you make videos about Adobe Shockwave with the following content?

[@czarnykurczak]

Screamer 4x4. Bloody hell... This game was a miracle! It really needs to be remastered by some good devs.

[@ruxandy]

In late 1998 I had an ATI Rage IIC 4 MB (the infamous "3D decelerator"). First of all, very few games actually worked with 3D acceleration, and those that did... well, 10 FPS was all I could hope for (and worst of all, many times there were visual glitches that ruined the game). So it was actually preferable to play in software mode. :-) Anyway, I remember visiting one of my friends and seeing Unreal on a Voodoo 2 (his father was working in a computer company and had access to many "toys", so he constantly switched PCs at home). I was in a state of shock/awe when I saw the floor reflections for the first time and how smooth the gameplay was (I actually think the game was running at ~ 30 FPS, which was considered buttery-smooth back in the day). My very first true 3D accelerator was a cheap Riva TNT2 M64, which I purchased in the summer of 2000 (yep, my folks weren't rich people, but we were doing OK). I never actually owned a 3dfx card during their heyday, so this is probably why I love them so much and now have ~ 15 - 20. :)) Childhood unresolved issues, I guess... :-)))

[@renmorpheus]

Goddamn, such a nice blast from the past!

[@charonunderground8596]

Missing Screamer Rally. PS. I heard that a patch had been supposed to be for 3dfx for the first part Actua Soccer. Somebody does something know?

[@armorgeddon]

Actua Soccer did not I think, only a patch for Matrox Mystique 3D acceleration according to Mobygames. Actua Soccer 2 though should be a Glide game.

[@charonunderground8596]

Thx !

[@SkalabalaK6]

What is Rune system requirements? Will it work on K6-3+?

[@milanvillan]

I owned a voodoo 2 8mb, best card I ever had

[@Surplice]

some of my favorite games ever, Unreal, Deus Ex, UT, Undying, Rune...

[@yollabolly7944]

I've installed an game that my mom bought me on gog and I don't know if it's 3dfx or not but it seems to be running a little slow not jamming however.

[@yollabolly7944]

Well it is lagging but also running a little slow and I've selected another graphics called software and no lag or slow moving but it has color problems the game is called lands of lore 3 so I know now it is 3dfx.

[@hotcoldman777]

Unreal... Childhood Memeories😍😍😍.

[@NightMare-ce4ds]

the memories....a ticket for "nostalgia town" please

[@RabihSaadguitars]

It was early 1997 and i just bought myself a 3DFX v1 and i remember plug it in my video card. Thr first game i ran on it is Doom.. I was blown away. the next year i bought Unreal, it was Unreal...

[@B.E.3.R]

Tachyon the Fringe doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves! Nice picks! With that being said, almost all the games on this list are better off being played in Direct3D these days (especially the Unreal 1 based games, Kentie's D3D10 renderer is a Godsend). I will admit that a real 3DFX card is the most authentic way to play them though.

[@rynz_2893]

3dfx glide... I have emulating driver that can run things in glide on my modern card. Yeah because I loved that game, L.A.P.D. Future cop skirmish mode against the computer. I got that old game to run on my vega with glide emulation and looks identical. Always though 3dfx looked like n64 graphics. Some games that didn't support 3dfx like Blood (fps) later came out with support for it and to see texture blending back then on games that were pretty much "software rendered" was so amazing! I also remember Need For Speed Hot Pursuit looked sweet on my voodoo 2

[@markm0000]

+PhillsComputerLab have you done a video on nGlide yet? I'd like to see exactly how to get that setup and what differences there are compared to real Voodoo hardware.

[@philscomputerlab]

It runs on modern machines, so just try it out?

[@markm0000]

@@philscomputerlab Never mind I watched your video on nGlide. I was wanting to get it setup on my Pentium 3 & GeForce 6x system.

[@badnewsbruner]

My first GPU was a Voodoo 3 PCI (lol). Good times, didn't really get to use glide much, except for Descent and Half-Life.

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi All, back then it was all about the pentium's and the polygon's. A big achievement PC's was when the graphics were almost as good as a playstation 1 So many articles back in the day talking about video cards with 128/256k ram and the ability to do xyz amount of polygons textures rendered per second , then the playstation 2 came out. So when 3dfx was much smoother and far better visuals with transparent water it was very much a major step in the evolution of visual effects PS you can run a lot of the 3dfx titles in software render, it is not as nice, but with modern pc's ( even a core 2 duo ) you can use a glide software wrapper do a lot of the hardware emulation of a 3dfx card, nglide and svenss glide wrapper, sierra games has a page dedicated to dos glide wrappers Regards George

[@ravengaming4143]

"almost as good as PS1" was achieved already in 1993 with Doom on PC (and surpassed in 1996 with Quake), but yes, dedicated 3D accelerators really boosted PC gaming. PS2 was beaten by Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS, btw, although the GPU in Xbox was better from PC's for a short while (similar to Nvidia GeForce 3 but with extra functions - impressive for 2001 but greatly outperformed by Radeon 9700 just a year later).

[@drdave2020]

Another underappreciated 3dfx advantage. The drivers. Nvidia and ATI were still stretching their legs in the 3D world and it was pretty much a given that with their TNT2 and Rage Pro cards, you would always be replacing and/or updating drivers to get rid of glitches, artifacts, and crashes for every game you played. But with a Voodoo card? Generally rock stable and worked the way it was supposed to.

[@philscomputerlab]

Yes! I saw this most when trying old games demos. Voodoo just works. Other cards? Need full version and patch.

[@ravengaming4143]

As a N64 (and a bit dated, non 3dfx Voodoo powered P1 PC) owner, looking at PC games running on top PC hardware was amazing - they looked so sharp and smooth. Meanwhile, a N64 had this pretty fuzzy low-rez look with often sluggish framerates (it still impressed me what they managed to squeeze out of it though). Even N64 and PS1 games looked much better on a PC via emulators like Ultra HLE and Bleem! Then the Sega Dreamcast and PS2 (and later NGC and Xbox) came out and significantly improved console gaming, but PC was still king of sharpness due to running games at much higher resolutions and also kept being the best for PC-centric games like FPS, RTS, MMO, simulators, etc. Then I got a P3 based system with a GeForce 4 MX card and that was quite an improvement, but retrospectively, I'd say a 3dfx Voodoo (2SLI/3/4/5) was a better pick in the long run, as it was better suited to running Glide based games, which were the norm up there to the early 2000s and a GF4 non Ti would run out of breath very fast anyway (Deus Ex Invisible War already made it obsolete, so that's a good year of use for modern games).

[@maryo1sttgaming639]

Amazing love the video amazing games big like

[@glittlehoss]

So can I fun a voodoo2 12mb and 8mb cards together in sli or does the mismatch in sgram cause problems?

[@stuvo1977]

They have to be the same type and memory size.

[@liliwinnt6]

Novalogic Mig-29?

[@FullMetal-Tech]

What glide game would you say really pushed the hardware in terms of graphics?

[@sebaslive3476]

Unreal

[@GiSWiG]

Just a thought, what about a side-by-side comparison video of Glide and Direct 3D on a voodoo card for games that supported both?

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea maybe something for the future, but this type of videos are really an occasional bonus and not going to be the main content...

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

thanks for Unreal, Undying, UT99 and Deus Ex. basically Unreal-engine based games. They love glide, and I love it. Great retro hardware and software, any one else can't get bored of it ?

[@datasoftinc]

Wonderful!

[@igorprecep3420]

Nice list of Glide based games. One more game to add: Forsaken

[@GiSWiG]

Awesome video even for just 10 minutes of gameplay. It's been a long time since I played some of those. I loved Rune, Dues Ex was great but I spent most of my gaming time with UT and UT2004. I preferred UT over Q3A. I stopped playing UT after many would just telefrag everyone. I so hated that. There was no way to defend against that. I got tired of re-spawning just to die in 10-20 seconds. Not to brag but I was good but it was almost impossible to avoid being telefragged. Telefragging ruined it for me.

[@stephanemignot100]

I've just added Descent 3 on my Gog whishlist! :)

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Ultimate Race Pro should be on the list :(

[@philscomputerlab]

Ah I remember that one well. I had a Voodoo 2 and played with dial-up modem :D

[@RelakS__]

I miss Turok here. One of the first, or maybe, the first game, which did not have software renderer, so it definitely required a 3D accelerator. (holy cow, it is so long since we don't have accelerators, because now these are integrated to the video cards :D )

[@NemesisN6]

Test serious sam, i had VooDoo 3000, back in the days, but with my p2 233 and 160mb of ram i had like 10 to 20 fps on average. I wonder if cpu was a bottleneck. Also, as far as i remember half life had glide support, i'd like too see the difference with direct 3d/opengl.

[@philscomputerlab]

I don't think it supports Glide.

[@magreger]

My current retro build struggles with Deus Ex. Fps in the low teens. Especially when reflections are present. Intel 440 chipset, PIII 600Mhz, 256MB PC100 RAM, Vodoo 3 3000. Obviously my CPU is much slower than yours but how much does the 133Mhz FSB matter? The 440 chipset doesn't support it, but I'm still curious.

[@philscomputerlab]

I also used a Slot 1 with 440BX. At 1 GHz it's quite a bit faster than 600 MHz

[@Jerre27]

I got two voodoo2's, unfortunately two different Brands (canopus and creative) so no sli for me 🤔

[@Jerre27]

I'm glad to trade the creative for another canopus

[@philscomputerlab]

The VastVoodoo drivers should work with that!

[@Jerre27]

@@philscomputerlab aaaah 😀. That's something to try out. The dual voodoo2's are installed in a dual slot 1 motherboard Sporting two p2 350's 😀. Fun times ahead.

[@hugovieira6298]

@@Jerre27 Yeah... FastVoodoo 4.6 adds support for V2 SLI with different brands...

[@Jerre27]

@@hugovieira6298 unfortunately sold my voodoo3000

[@PC-ONE]

I'd have added The Need For Speed 3. This game blew me away when I saw it running on a 3DFX.

[@Pidalin]

I am trying to buy some Voodoo card for years, but someone always steals it in last second of auction or it goes to such prices that I don't want to pay it when I am not sure it works a lot of sellers say things like "I can't test it, but it should work" which mostly means it doesn't work and they know it. 😀 How do these games look compared to normal DX or OGL version? Does it look better or does it have more FPS in glide?

[@shammy8703]

3dfx always had superior image quality

[@superduperjew]

Deus Ex and Unreal look gorgeous

[@yollabolly7944]

Did you get the reply from 6 days ago.

[@spacecy]

Clive Barker's Undying.... that game made me shit my pants...

[@zombiedeutsch]

4:24 why do i think this man sounds like sam fischer ??

[@Crazy_Borg]

Bought my first 3Dfx voodoo card just for Unreal. Was not disappointed. Yes, you could already get Voodoo2 cards at that point, but they were too far out of reach with the little money I had.

[@dtemple87]

When I eventually am able to find a good Voodoo card, I plan on replaying through Deus Ex yet again. That’s a game with huge replay value because various outcomes in the game change based on your dialogue choices and actions.

[@madmax2069]

You can always just use a glide wrapper with a modern GPU

[@ravengaming4143]

@@madmax2069 Glide wrapper isn't the same though, you don't even see Voodoo's trademark 16-bit (or "22-bit" in V3's case) dithering on a modern GPU.

[@ThePCPitChannel]

You just made me extend my list. Thanks for that :p