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    graphics cards including the Voodoo chipset. 3dfx gained initial fame in the arcade market. The first arcade machine that 3dfx Voodoo Graphics hardware was used...
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    The Voodoo 5 was the last and most powerful graphics card line that was released by 3dfx Interactive. All members of the family were based upon the VSA-100...
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    Voodoo3 (redirect from Voodoo 3)
    and designed by 3dfx Interactive. It was the successor to the company's high-end Voodoo2 line and was based heavily upon the older Voodoo Banshee product...
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  • Glide (API) (redirect from 3DFX Glide)
    developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. It started as a proprietary API, and was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated...
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  • them to earn points to unlock new cars and tracks. The machine used a 3dfx Voodoo 3 graphics card. The original San Francisco Rush 2049 was released in...
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    on a single chipset setup, made by 3dfx. It was released in February 1998 as a replacement for the original Voodoo Graphics chipset. The card runs at...
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    release, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics had firmly established itself as the 3D hardware benchmark against which all newcomers were compared. The Voodoo was the...
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    accelerator to have support for Windows 3.1x. Pixel pipelines: texture mapping units: render output units 3dfx Voodoo2 3dfx Voodoo Banshee Matrox G200 ATI Rage Pro...
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    DirectX and 3Dfx's Glide. 86Box can also emulate various video cards such as the ATI Mach64 GX and the S3 Trio32/64/Virge series. Voodoo cards are also...
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  • based Amiga systems: Picasso96 as used by AmigaOS 4 supports also Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4/5, and Radeon R100, R200, R300, R520 (X1000 series), R700 (HD 4000...
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  • games optimized for video cards with a 3dfx chipset using the Glide API. Only video cards with the 3dfx Voodoo 1 chipset were supported upon the game's...
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    would give better results with some older graphics cards like the 3dfx Voodoo 2. 3dfx and other competing graphics-card companies pointed out that a fast...
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    Diamond Edge 3D 3xx0 nVidia NV1 PCI The Monster3D line was based on 3dfx Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips which did not possess 2D graphics capabilities...
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    Matrox Millennium, ATI Rage, and S3 ViRGE. Only 3DFX's Voodoo Graphics was faster, but unlike the 3DFX Voodoo, the V1000 included 2D/VGA capability making...
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  • RAGE Pro offered performance in the range of Nvidia's RIVA 128 and 3dfx's Voodoo accelerator, but generally failed to match or exceed its competitors...
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    games (such as Quake III), the card outperforms the ATI Radeon DDR and 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 cards in both 16 bpp and 32 bpp display modes. However, in Direct3D...
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  • violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents. Utilizing 3dfx Voodoo chips for the hardware, the game received attention for its cutting-edge...
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  • common 4:3 aspect ratio at the time. Later,[when?] there was an enhanced 3dfx Glide version of the game made. This was bundled with some Voodoo Cards as...
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  • dedicated graphics cards, focusing on the Glide API, specially designed for 3dfx accelerators. While OpenGL and Direct3D were supported, they reported a slower...
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  • underestimated the importance of 3D, and 3DFX decided to invest a lot of time and energy to integrate 2D into their Voodoo line of GPUs. Another difficulty for...
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    main competitor of OpenGL Glide (API) – a graphics API once used on 3dfx Voodoo cards Metal (API) – a graphics API for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS OpenAL...
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  • hardware many times more powerful than the original S3 Savage3D and 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics. Because of Unreal's long development time, the course of development...
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  • Thomas J. Scott's WIF of 1991 (5 exponent bits, 10 mantissa bits) and the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics processor of 1995 (same as Hitachi). ILM was searching for an...
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  • OpenGL applications, it was essentially a "Mini ICD" much like 3DFX had used with their Voodoo boards. TurboGL included support for then-new SIMD technologies...
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  • title to use fully 3D graphics and support hardware acceleration on the 3dfx Voodoo. Steel Panthers was released in 1995 by SSI, very much resembling a board...
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    pair up the Mystique or another Matrox card with a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 3D-only board because the Voodoo cards were the fastest and most well-supported 3D...
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  • commercial failure of Jetfighter 2015. The later games had support for 3dfx Voodoo cards to run natively in DOS. Jetfighter II was produced before the winner...
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    Radeon's competitors, the GeForce 256 is 4×1, GeForce2 GTS is 4×2 and 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 is a 2×1+2×1 SLI design. Unfortunately, the third texture unit...
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  • the games of their time, but weren't quite as fully featured as the 3DFX Voodoo accelerators (due to certain blending modes being unavailable, for instance)...
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    from Sega's Virtua Fighter series. Yamamoto's group opted to use 3dfx Voodoo 2 and Voodoo Banshee graphics processors alongside a Motorola PowerPC 603e central...
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