Probleminfected
[H]ard|Gawd
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I remember I entered a contest to name what became the GeForce.
I think my entry was The Discombobulater.
I think my entry was The Discombobulater.
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I had a RiveTnT2 and upgraded to the Geforce256 a couple of months after it came out. Then got a Geforce 2 GTS
I remember running all the nvidia demos with every new upgrade up until the Geforce 6800
Alright, so anyone recognize every game those were from? I saw:
UT2004 / Painkiller / Bloodrayne / Borderlands
I wasn't sure what the mech / cult guy / black stamp ones were from.
Damn, I'm dumb. You're right, it was VtM, not Bloodrayne.One was Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.
We commonly referred to them back then as "3D Accelerator" , or "2D/3D cards" I don't remember using the term gpu til much later.Nvidia always claim they coined the term "gpu", am i the only one that can recall that term floating around years previous to geforce? Pretty sure "gpu" was already being used by people to describe voodoo etc. I remember amd trying to steer away from saying "gpu" and instead saying "vpu" but that didn't last long.
Had a 256 ddr, those were the days when you didn't have to have a heatsink the size of a small house along with a hairdryer for a fan bolted onto your card to keep the fucker "cool".
*hint* Nude patchnVidia fairy was hot!
I can remember a colleague getting a 20 inch or so 1600x1200 CRT monitor and wanting to physically harm them out of red-hot jealousy.
Oh man, I remember refresh rates of like 144hz (or more? i can't recall) on a viewsonic that literally started smoking and died at some point. Replaced with a Dell CRT with similar refresh, so smooth for my Counterstrike gamingLOL........and it was a CRT.
3d Decellerator in the S3 Virge
You took the words outta my mouth. I miss those times so much. I still love computers but it just doesn't have the same awe and wonder it did back then. It truly was the golden age of HW. I mean we got 2X the performance every 6-15 months.
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Only today would that be true, but Cirrus logic? Maybe.
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It was all in good ribbing. He was the only one of our 'group' that didn't either have a Voodoo 1, 2, or Matrox G400 at the time. And the Virge was slower than all of them.
I beat shadows of the empire using a Virge. And Jedi Knight too. @ 400x300 and under 5fps in open areas. And lots of weird graphics errors or effects missing.I can't remember if I was still using a Voodoo Rush, or if I had upgraded to a Voodoo Banshee at that point. I skipped the Voodoo 2. I had a buddy at the time who I said was using the world's first 3d Decellerator in the S3 Virge...
I beat shadows of the empire using a Virge. And Jedi Knight too. @ 400x300 and under 5fps in open areas. And lots of weird graphics errors or effects missing.
TNT? When I had the Virge 3D was very new. I've had a Voodoo1, a Riva 128, and a Savage before getting to a TNT later.Dear God I had an S3 virge that
You poor poor soul...I had a Virge for about a week. I was so disgusted with it that my dad went out and bought me my TNT to replace it when I showed him that it couldn't actually accelerate. I guess he felt bad since it was a gift for me getting Straight As all year.
I had and still do have my voodoo banshee 16mb.. loved that card.. first nvidia card I ever got was the leadtek winfast ti4600 with the giant aluminum heat sink. But yeah I remember the s3 Virge. Looking back though it's sad to see all these great manufactures that no longer exist.I can't remember if I was still using a Voodoo Rush, or if I had upgraded to a Voodoo Banshee at that point. I skipped the Voodoo 2. I had a buddy at the time who I said was using the world's first 3d Decellerator in the S3 Virge...
TNT? When I had the Virge 3D was very new. I've had a Voodoo1, a Riva 128, and a Savage before getting to a TNT later.
I was probably charging you 50p for a res that you pleaded for in tell because I was the only cleric in the zone or not busy meditating from the other 20 dead corpses from some damn noobs train!I was probably camping some stupid rare spawn in EQ to get something ultimately wildly disappointing which made me question life choices. That happened a lot in EQ1.
Rez's were solid money! The horrible pathing in Kunark skyrocketed my income!I was probably charging you 50p for a res that you pleaded for in tell because I was the only cleric in the zone or not busy meditating from the other 20 dead corpses from some damn noobs train!
Actually the Virge was released in 1995, I've got mine in January 1996. There was at least two years between the two chips. S3 kept releasing various derivatives of the Virge during that time, (GX,VX,GX2, and who knows what) but they were all equally crap.You are correct, I was mistaking my Creative Riva 128 for the TNT. I believe the Virge had been out for a year or so before this occured.