History of the PC: Graphic hardware, from 3dfx to NVIDIA

I already know this story all too well so I didn't really need to be able to read this to know what it talks about :)

On the side note two reason why 3dfx failed:
- STB acquisition. They should continue to only sell chips, not whole cards
- VS100 was too late to market. It should be direct competition to Riva TNT2 instead of Voodoo3. Voodoo4 performance suggests it was supposed to be just that.
 
Funny to see ones memories be classified as “history”

I guess I am getting old...people today have an easy ride compared how things were in the past

Thanks for sharing
 
Instead of getting nostalgic I get anxiety with these articles. Seriously, tech back then when was so difficult to work with and I got many scars on my hands from being cut up in my old beige PC cases, lol.
 
Factum was just wondering how many people reading that article were PC gaming when it all unfolded.

I still remember moving from an integrated Cirrus Logic VGA adapter to a Matrox Mystique to an i740 to Voodoo2. "Those were the days...."
 
Factum was just wondering how many people reading that article were PC gaming when it all unfolded.

I still remember moving from an integrated Cirrus Logic VGA adapter to a Matrox Mystique to an i740 to Voodoo2. "Those were the days...."

Oh yeah...or trying to load VESA fixes in config.sys to make a S3 Trio+ VESA 2.0 compatible...and hoping you had not put the card in a slot which caused an IRQ conflict...I had Amiga's before PC's...those were more...."human" to work on.
 
I remember seeing ads in PC Gamer back then for the Matrox Mystique...

MatroxMystiqueAd.jpg






After my frustrating run with a Rendition Verite 2200 and a 3Dfx Voodoo Rush 6MB, I eventually moved on to a single (and shortly after an SLI) Voodoo2 setup. Wow, what a difference! 1024x768 3D gaming was amazing!

I eventually paired that V2 SLI setup it with a TnT2 Ultra 32MB. One day while tinkering around just for the hell of it, the game "Kingpin" was the first time that I used the TnT2 for 3D rendering duties, and was instantly impressed with the performance and visual quality vs 3Dfx.
That's the day I said goodbye to 3Dfx forever...
 
Factum was just wondering how many people reading that article were PC gaming when it all unfolded.

I still remember moving from an integrated Cirrus Logic VGA adapter to a Matrox Mystique to an i740 to Voodoo2. "Those were the days...."

No name vga -> ET-6000 + Voodoo Graphics->Wicked3d Voodoo II + i740-> Voodoo 3.

Good times.
 
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