Doom 3 win 98 12 mb 3dfx video

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https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-doom-3-running-on-windows-98-and-a-12mb-graphics-card/



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People like The LowSpecgamer have made it their goal in life to run games on the weakest hardware and settings possible. Lazy Game Reviews entered this incredibly pixelated pantheon in a recent video about playing 2004's Doom 3 on a PC running Windows 98 and a 12MB Voodoo 2 graphics card. The results are nothing short of amazing:

As LGR explains, playing Doom 3 on a system like this takes some serious work. Windows XP and a 128MB graphics card are recommended for Doom 3, so it will only run on this setup after you tinker with the files and throw out everything but the kitchen sink, cranking all the graphics settings to minimum and even setting custom texture sizes. Even then, the final product suffers from serious framerate dips and looks like someone took a scouring pad to everything. Still, the fact that it's running at all is pretty remarkable.

If you'd like to replicate LGR's aptly titled "Potato Patch," you can find download and installation instructions here.


copied from pcgamer.com


thought it was funny as hell .............:)
 
Here's the video so you don't have to give Politically Correct Gamer a click.



Here is a short clip running with SLI.

 
Poor SLI .... pushing all those triangles fast but with nothing lit. Too bad, I miss 3dfx....they would be a welcome player in the field today for sure if things worked out better!
 
ShuttleLuv said:
Poor SLI .... pushing all those triangles fast but with nothing lit. Too bad, I miss 3dfx....they would be a welcome player in the field today for sure if things worked out better!
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I owned each generation of Voodoo Hardware with the last being the Voodoo 5500 64mb. I enjoyed each immensely.
 
MavericK said:
Looks more like the first Quake to me.
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The engine of which powers Half Life (more or less) :D

I actually don't think it looks exactly like it, but I have always thought that Half Life (the original) had a somewhat washed-out look compared to a lot of other games of the time period. Even Quake / Quake 2 with all their brown and grey tended to look a touch more vivid IMO. Otherwise, no, it doesn't look all that much like this Doom 3 Voodoo hack I'll admit.
 
I'd like to see the Quake series return to the Lovercraftian theme of the first game.
 
merlin704 said:
I'd like to see the Quake series return to the Lovercraftian theme of the first game.
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There was a little backstory for either Ranger or Phobos (can't remember which, but I think it's Ranger) in the Quake 3 Arena manual. It described him as an early slip-gate explorer. I would love to see a new single player Quake that expanded on that. That way maybe you could visit some of those places from Quake, maybe hit Stroggos as well, and maybe some new places, and it would all make sense in the context of seeing where all the slip-gates ended up.

Side note, there are a lot of those "Lovecraftian" locations in Quake Champions. Of course, it's an arena shooter like Q3A, but most of its themes are in this style. It's also shaping up pretty nicely these days.
 
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