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by pengaru 150 days ago
I had pentiums with voodoos back then, when Unreal came out it did not perform particularly well on that hardware compared to nvidia and didn't have the same graphics quality. Unreal with the nvidia TNT2/GeForce 256 marked the beginning of the end for the voodoo era, if memory serves.

3dfx hay day was really quite quake-centric, you'd be remiss to not use their hardware in a vintage quake pc build.

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Indeed, in 1998 I wanted a Voodoo for some 3D work I was going to do, and naturally wanted the best and also play with Glide.

However it had a problem with my PCI version, and the shop guy was nice to trade it back for a TNT, which not only had no issues with my motherboard, made me an early NVidia customer.

Thanks, I do recall Unreal has a 3d fx video mode that is pretty good? Or was it bad memory.