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VooDoo 3D cards
Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to
my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. (AGP) :-( |
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In article , GearHead says...
Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. They were only PCI anyway. It wasn't a case of only being intended to improve PCI, AGP didn't exist. Most onboard 3D solutions can beat a Voodoo 3D. -- Conor, Same ****, different day. |
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Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance
to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? They were meant to add 3D capabilities to an existing 2D card with no such capabilities. The Voodoo 1 and 2 at least. Voodoo 3 onward were complete primary 3D cards. Today there's only one reason hy one might want to add a Voodoo 2 (or 2 in SLI) to a system: To get native Gilde API support for old game titles that require it. Yet there are Glide wrappers out that play Glide games just fine. |
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The VooDoo Rush......
"GearHead" wrote in message ... Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. (AGP) :-( |
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Conor wrote:
In article , GearHead says... Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. They were only PCI anyway. It wasn't a case of only being intended to improve PCI, AGP didn't exist. Most onboard 3D solutions can beat a Voodoo 3D. Except for V3's, 4, 5... The first AGP was the Voodoo Banshee, it combined 2d/3d, whereas previously you needed to link your existing 2d card with the PCI Voodoo addin via a clunky VGA passthrough cable. The Voodoo 3 and Banshee were loosely related, the Banshee for example was almost the same card but with 1 TMU. |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:46:13 -0800, "GearHead" wrote:
Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. (AGP) :-( I take it you are referring to the Voodoo 1, or Voodoo 2 cards. They are PCI, and add 3D capabilities to videocards that had no 3D chip, or did. However, unless you play games that support the Glide API, then the ATI X850XL will perform leaps, and bounds better. Also, the last official drivers where Win9x/ME only. There are modded drivers for Win2k/XP, but they are for Glide, or OpenGL only. Not sure how stable they are as they are all 3rd party supported. There are some Glide wra`ppers out there that may work with the games you want to play, and on your card, but I never found one for my 6600GT to play Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Red Baron 3D with. |
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The Voodoo 3 and Banshee were loosely related, the Banshee for example was almost the same card but with 1 TMU. I thought the Banshee was more related to the Voodoo 2, except for the 2D capability (they where also in PCI as well as AGP), and the single TMU. |
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I've used two glide wrappers for RB3D and a 6800 with no problems.
http://dege.freeweb.hu/ http://www.glidos.net/baron.html Dirk "Larry Roberts" wrote in message ... On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:46:13 -0800, "GearHead" wrote: Do you guys remember the VooDoo 3D cards? Will these add any performance to my existing AGP setup, or are they only intended to imporve PCI? I'm getting a ATI X850XL soon. (AGP) :-( I take it you are referring to the Voodoo 1, or Voodoo 2 cards. They are PCI, and add 3D capabilities to videocards that had no 3D chip, or did. However, unless you play games that support the Glide API, then the ATI X850XL will perform leaps, and bounds better. Also, the last official drivers where Win9x/ME only. There are modded drivers for Win2k/XP, but they are for Glide, or OpenGL only. Not sure how stable they are as they are all 3rd party supported. There are some Glide wra`ppers out there that may work with the games you want to play, and on your card, but I never found one for my 6600GT to play Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Red Baron 3D with. |
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Yep, even MechWarrior 2 3Dfx Edition can be run using the dgVoodoo wrapper.
-- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Larry Roberts" wrote in message ... There are some Glide wrappers out there that may work with the games you want to play, and on your card, but I never found one for my 6600GT to play Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Red Baron 3D with. |
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The Voodoo2 card had three separate chips (one pixelFX and two texelFX aka
TMU) manufactured on an old process. The Voodoo3 integrated everything onto a single 0.25-um die, allowing twice the clock speed. The memory interface was also doubled to 128-bits. Architecturally the Voodoo2, Banshee and Voodoo3 were all the same. BTW, the Voodoo2 has 2D capability. It can be used in a multi-monitor configuration, using v1.00 beta drivers under Win2K. Well-known limitations of 16-bit color and 1024x768 maximum resolution still apply. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Larry Roberts" wrote in message ... The Voodoo 3 and Banshee were loosely related, the Banshee for example was almost the same card but with 1 TMU. I thought the Banshee was more related to the Voodoo 2, except for the 2D capability (they where also in PCI as well as AGP), and the single TMU. |
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