@ps47,

I agree with your opinion's whole heartedly, steam is a terrible solution to game pirating and if all gaming developers imposed a similar system IMHO it would/will ruin the PC game experience.

Valve has a great track record of making very high quality games but steam is a joke

@benna,

Thanks man, I am kinda dumb I guess because I was looking here:

http://www.geocities.com/dborca/mesa/mesa.html#

Could someone who knows post a link to the uncompiled Dxtn.dll source, maybe I'm just dumb because I cannot find it on dborca's site.

QuoteIt will be on line within few days.

I would be willing to bet the farm that Nvidia would never sell the brand name (3dfx) to anyone.

If they (Nvidia) did try (highly, highly unlikely) to revive the name, I personaly would not be interested in the least as it would still be a Nvidia product.

After the acquisition of 3dfx by Nvidia and Nvidia's decision to not support 3dfx cards (with driver updates) or pursue the almost finished Rampage technology, I vowed to never ever buy an Nvidia product

@SFFT,

- Triangle rendering's code changes for Voodoo4/5

This is an optimization ?, the driver should be faster ?

I have been using\testing the alpha 28 since its release date with no problems whatsoever in about half of the 40 or so d3d games on my system (I will try with the rest over the next few days).

* Mafia is running faster at 1024 x 768 X 32bit with the alpha 28

* Theres still a minor flickering effect (lighting ?) observed in GTA Vice City with the alpha 28.

Not sure if you would no, but I can run GTA Vise City at 1024 x 768 X 32bit at good fps but I have to be at 800 x 600 x 16bit to get good fps in GTA3, the older GTA3 is more demanding on the video card than the newer Vice City or this is some kind of driver issue ?

Keep up the fantastic work

@r21vo,

 

Quotebut one thing is clear - 3dfx revolutionized world of realtime 3d graphics. It's like first kiss - those who have felt it never forget, those who don't - doesn't understand, and probably won't.

Exactly, well said

@Caravel,

Sorry, but IMO he was being very rude and disrespectful to all board members and has brought all this on himself by the nature of his topic.

How can you defend his last sentence and think everyone else started the rudeness

@Obi-Wan Kenobi,

Quote3dfx must stay alive here !!! Don't let go my friends.

@esters,

I also wish that 3dfx had not packed it in and given up so quickly, but thats the way things go sometimes in the world of big business (dog eat dog).

I had contacted (by e-mail) Nvidia half a dozen times or so after the 3dfx acquisition and they never responded once to me because they just dont care[}:)]

What would make something 3dfx anymore ?, Technology - too old to be relevant, Management personell - they made the bad decisions that sunk 3dfx.

Resurection of 3dfx = snowballs chance of surviving in hell

Sorry, but I dont believe it will ever ever happen.

@hanksemenec,

QuoteAnyway, board like this is a proof that people appreciated what we have done . hehe

Its a shame that it all had to come to such an abrupt ending

3dfx was the best

@poooooo,

Quotehonnestly y bother with old hardware thats long dead n never works with any of the latest games?

Your missing the point, were not still here because 3dfx cards can properly run the newest games

Quotehell ad rather have a my bitch ass gf4 than a voodoo5 6000.

Thats a ridiculous statement as a Voodoo 6000 is a very unique and rare video card that can go for 1000 + dollars when sold , a geforce 4 can be acquired for maybe what $50

Quotemaybe u could start a stamp collection. maybe it mite be worth summet in a few years.

Nah, I like collecting video cards thank you very much.

Quotesorry 2 b blunt but am only telling the truth. sooner you realise that ur the laughing stock of the gfx card comminity the better.

I love it



Go too an Nvidia site an be the fan boy you seem to be , they may tolerate it, we wont

@SFFT,

I reinstalled Halflife 2 on my 5500 system (Athlon 2400 & 512 mb ram)and tryed it again with the alpha 27, its a bit subjective, but I do not believe it showed any real improvement for the fps. To many situations in the game that the fps go into single digits, this does not make for enjoyable game play.

Realisticaly a voodoo 5500 just does'nt have enough memory and fillrate to play these new games.

I was able to get Rayman 3 working with 2xAA with the alpha 27 which would'nt seem to work with the alpha 24

Thats incredible if true, how could the stock memory (let alone the gpu) have gone that high as the memory and gpu are sycronized on VSA-100 cards, liquid cooling ?

I have 5 (3agp & 2 pci) 5500's in total. I have one (agp with hyundai memory) that will go to 200 mhz with aftermarket cooling, but I run it at 195 mhz to be safe, this is a really high overclock for a VSA-100 chip

The other 2 agp cards (stock cooling & hyundai memory) would start to show visual artifacts at 186 mhz, the pci models (toshiba memory) at 180 mhz.

If your serious about overclocking your card use this utility: https://www.3dfxzone.it/news/reader.php?objid=261 and only go up a few mhz at a time watching for visual artifacts.

Hope this helps