Are You Truly Ready? :D
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Careful now. This baby came out before NVIDIA defined the term "GPU".
Silent_Buddha
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Careful now. This baby came out before NVIDIA defined the term "GPU".
Yes, that didn't happen until Geforce 256. Had one.
Didn't use it for very long.Regards,
SB
Had one too, back in the day. (And, as soon as i could afford it, a voodoo graphics as a decent 3D-Accelerator followed…).
A BOP would be a billion operation per second, no? It's way better than a FLOP: at least that way you don't have to worry about what kind of operation it is as long as some transistors does something!
A BOP would be a billion operation per second, no? It's way better than a FLOP: at least that way you don't have to worry about what kind of operation it is as long as some transistors does something!
I had one as my first 3D accelerator which actually accelerated (not like VirgeGX) !
Riva128 4MB SGRAM AGP
BTW CarstenS, I wouldn't call VooDoo an upgrade from Riva128.
The first did do window acceleration as well as full OpenGL acceleration! That was a must for me when playing with LightWave3D or other animation software.
Also VooDoo could do 15-bit color only while Riva128 was 16-bit 3D ... (I remember how horrible dithering pattern was on nV, still 65536 is more than 32768)
!Riva128 4MB SGRAM AGP
BTW CarstenS, I wouldn't call VooDoo an upgrade from Riva128.
The first did do window acceleration as well as full OpenGL acceleration! That was a must for me when playing with LightWave3D or other animation software.
Also VooDoo could do 15-bit color only while Riva128 was 16-bit 3D ... (I remember how horrible dithering pattern was on nV, still 65536 is more than 32768
)My first 3d accelerator was a Riva 128 ZX 8MB AGP. Not a bad card, played Quake II pretty well @ 800x600 IIRC.
The joys of dithering! It was still quite pronounce even in Voodoo2 at times.
corduroygt
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I got this in september 1997 in my Dell P2-266 that I got new for college. Had to wait until february or march 1998 before openGL drivers came out and I could play 3D accelerated Quake 2.
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Uh..I hope you mean 1997...
I played around with a STB Velocity 128 a year ago or something. I like to get out old hardware occasionally.
One thing I found with this chip is that it has some sort of issue with loading textures. At least in D3D anyway. I was playing Jedi Knight and the game would pause rather frequently as I was running around. If you do a Google Groups search you can find mention of this for other D3D games.
I also tried OpenGL Quake2 on it and it ran that pretty well. I captured a screenshot for Wikipedia. You can see the poor dithering the card does. But you also should take a moment to remember that the competition (Voodoo Graphics) was quite blurry whereas this at least retains a lot of detail. Voodoo tended to turn the mip maps into mush.
One thing I found with this chip is that it has some sort of issue with loading textures. At least in D3D anyway. I was playing Jedi Knight and the game would pause rather frequently as I was running around. If you do a Google Groups search you can find mention of this for other D3D games.
I also tried OpenGL Quake2 on it and it ran that pretty well. I captured a screenshot for Wikipedia. You can see the poor dithering the card does. But you also should take a moment to remember that the competition (Voodoo Graphics) was quite blurry whereas this at least retains a lot of detail. Voodoo tended to turn the mip maps into mush.
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That sure brings back memories! Almost exactly as I remember QII.
corduroygt
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Yeah I meant 1997, just my inner subconcious rebelling against getting old.
corduroygt
Banned
The railgun particle effects in Q2 blew my mind when I saw them the first time.
Silent_Buddha
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Hehe, back when you could still make a AAA PC title with a team of less than 10...
Regards,
SB
Regards,
SB
