erek
[H]F Junkie
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Just added this to my collection today
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:'(
How come?
I loved the old gpu covers and I've got to admit they looked super cheesy.At first glance at the cover I thought it was an album of some 80's music.
What a great excuse to put it in a machine for fun.i bought it with the seal already broken
It's 2016 now.What year is this card from? What year is it?
ah 1995
Originally? OP's is the non-pro. Those ran about $1000 in 1997 dollars. This card was 2d only.How much did it cost? Are those things actually collectible?
Mine... craft? Should work just fineBut can you mine on it?
These cards seemed to have had barely any actual hardware acceleration for 3d and Direct3D support was atrocious with important effects like transparency missing. Nnot always but enough to render many games unplayable even when performance was sufficient and even better than software mode.I briefly owned a Number Nine Reality 334 (I recall similar box and artwork like OP's), but immediately took it back to the store in exchange for, what I thought was at the time, a superior Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. The thing I remember the most was the Number 9 was slightly more expensive (like $20+ more). The irony is that they both used the same S3 ViRGE chip, but the Diamond card had 4MB VRAM (vs the Reality 334's 2MB), which clearly made it superior.
I could literally count the # of games they supported on both of my hands. I basically wanted them to play Descent and Mechwarrior 3D accelerated. For whatever reason, the Number 9 couldn't pull it off.
Anyway, once the 3dfx Voodoo 1 came out these 3D "decelerators" were considered junk. I don't miss either of them, honestly.