Oh, I remember trying to play games on my S3 Virge way back when. The only game that I owned at the time that had direct support was Descent II, and I thought it looked absolutely amazing at the time. But it was so slow that it was unplayable, and so I would just run the game in software mode instead (it probably would have been playable at 320x200, and still looked better than software, but in hardware rendering mode it would only run at 640x480).
I also had one Direct3D game demo that worked, some crappy Star Wars game (Rogue Squadron, maybe? Don't remember). Another Direct3D game that I had, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, pretty much refused to run. I never did get GLQuake running. For the most part, I just utterly gave up and played my old 2D games. It didn't help that back then I just didn't have the cash to spend on hardly any games. So my library was pretty small....heh, nothing compared to the 100+ CD's I have in games today (though, of course, typically more than one CD per game....). I didn't get any significant number of 3D games until I got a TNT a while later...