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...
59 KB (5,908 words) - 23:07, 13 October 2024
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...
18 KB (1,895 words) - 02:23, 31 August 2024
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...
6 KB (407 words) - 12:28, 28 August 2024
San Francisco Rush 2049 (redirect from San Francisco Rush 3)
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...
24 KB (2,006 words) - 07:36, 28 October 2024
release, 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics had firmly established itself as the 3D hardware benchmark against which all newcomers were compared. The Voodoo was the...
18 KB (1,776 words) - 09:29, 31 August 2024
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...
14 KB (1,221 words) - 18:27, 24 October 2024
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...
11 KB (960 words) - 14:34, 27 October 2024
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...
20 KB (1,678 words) - 16:49, 29 June 2024
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...
12 KB (1,087 words) - 15:29, 1 August 2024
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...
14 KB (1,281 words) - 09:39, 31 August 2024
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...
25 KB (3,285 words) - 17:58, 9 October 2024
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...
18 KB (2,411 words) - 04:03, 23 May 2024
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...
27 KB (2,533 words) - 10:16, 31 August 2024
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...
20 KB (1,722 words) - 09:48, 31 August 2024
violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents. Utilizing 3dfx Voodoo chips for the hardware, the game received attention for its cutting-edge...
15 KB (1,307 words) - 01:37, 20 February 2024
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...
6 KB (575 words) - 07:50, 24 October 2024
dedicated graphics cards, focusing on the Glide API, specially designed for 3dfx accelerators. While OpenGL and Direct3D were supported, they reported a slower...
24 KB (2,017 words) - 16:44, 2 September 2024
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...
6 KB (735 words) - 02:25, 12 November 2023
OpenGL (redirect from OpenGL 3.0)
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...
58 KB (5,749 words) - 02:04, 30 October 2024
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...
18 KB (2,124 words) - 05:29, 16 October 2024
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...
49 KB (4,718 words) - 14:38, 28 October 2024
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...
22 KB (1,928 words) - 04:25, 1 November 2024
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...
7 KB (964 words) - 18:25, 24 September 2024
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...
10 KB (1,198 words) - 08:33, 1 February 2024
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...
12 KB (540 words) - 01:05, 1 August 2023
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...
21 KB (2,435 words) - 10:46, 31 August 2024
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)...
78 KB (4,784 words) - 12:56, 22 September 2024
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...
164 KB (15,055 words) - 15:35, 29 October 2024