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Your 1st 3D accelerated experience ?!?

First 3d experiance was super mario 64 and to be honest I didnt realise there was a difference from 2d to 3d. In my defense I was 7
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That's not fair, I'm not supposed to feel old when i'm only 22!
 
Panzer Dragon PC on a Rendition Verite and also POD on a 6MB Canopus 3DFX Voodoo I card!
 
UNREAL!!!!! lol. I always felt the Unreal Engine was the first to force people to upgrade there systems. Still own the game. Was so happy when I could run that game at max settings. Ahh the gold ow days.

-DarkLegacy
 
Unreal with a Diamond Monster 3D...or was it Forsaken? Either way...the difference between hardware and software was unbeliveable.
 
I remember getting a handmedown Voodoo Banshee from my uncle, then running Quake 2 to test it. The difference was huge. The game ran at about 20 fps before, a constant 60 after the card was put in.

It wasn't just the jump in speed - software mode Q2 looked like greyscale in comparison. The HW-acceleration brought so much color to every texture... it floored me.
 
I saw the game "Nights" for Sega Saturn being played at Toys R Us....I stood there in awe for like 10 minutes, then I finally got to play it.......I gasped as I grabbed the controller. Then I thought about the amazing graphics all day and night. Then the next day. Then the next day too. Then I ended up asking my parents if I could go to Toys R Us everyday. Then I got used to 3D graphics. :)
 
Well, my first 3D game was Wolf3D, but my first accelerated game was UT99.
 
that intergraph 3d card was my first too. I remember paying so much money for it and having buyer remorse shortly afterwards...that is, until I got home. It was a great card and is still running in my dads machine. Then, monster 3d took it's place, their 12mb card if I recall.


...and lets not forget benchmarking with 3dmark99 :D
 
noobman said:
Pfft... I vividly remember the first time I ran Tombraider with my Diamond Monster3D graphics card. Man, those graphics looked unbeatable at the time. NHL 98 was frigin awesome as well!

That Pentium166 seemed like a monster at the time!
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x 2, but I had a 233. ;) The monster ran in tandem with a 2d card. Ghetto SLI.
 
GLQuake on a Canopus Pure3d. Was a huge advantage, it could render translucent water allowing you to snipe through it in TF.
 
I played the Diablo demo and then built a new computer to play the real game. I put a Matrox Mystique in it. Tomb Raider was my next game and it had a Matrox Mystique specific patch for it that made the game look great.
 
Well the first computer I got w/ a 3d accelerator was the Riva 128zx, which I quickly upgraded to a Voodoo 3 3000 so I can play quake 2!
 
Slartibartfast said:
That's not fair, I'm not supposed to feel old when i'm only 22!
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Dude, shut up. I turn 41 tomorrow and you're making me crave the taste of gun barrel. :rolleyes:

Oh and my first 3d accel. game was GLQuake on a Voodoo 1 3D add-on card (I don't even remember the brand or model; that was like eight video cards ago). The step up in graphics was astounding; I'd never seen a game look that good.
 
Quake 2 on an ATI rage pro 8 mb agp, wasn't the fastest thing ever and it did take a bit of work with the drivers but it was amazing.
 
First 3D experience for me was Quake 2 on a Diamond Viper V550 16mb TNT and Dual Voodoo 2 12mb.:D
 
My first computer was a dell 300 mhz pentium 2 with an nvidia tnt2 card - of which the factory installed drivers did not support direct 3d or opengl. I started playing quake 2 and I was loving it. A friend of mine came over to my house and I showed him the game. He asked me why it looked like ass and looked at the specs and installed updated drivers and I was blown away.

Since then I have avoided using software that comes with devices at all costs if possible. I always get the latest drivers/utilities I can download from the manufacturer's web site. It was a very valuable lesson.

Ah such fond memories...
 
I remember having the voodoo 1 and voodoo 2, back when they came out. it was funny because they didn't connect the vid card and the accel. card inside the comp case, instead you had to run the "monitor like" cable from the 3d card to the video card, and then run the monitor from the 3d card.

I remembering feeling like a badass, telling my friends what I had gotten, and then showed them the first games that supported that... needless to say I was definitely impressed with Duke 3d, Descent, and a few others that were pretty sweet. Also Microsoft Monster Truck Madness...I really liked that game!

Oh and I remember back in the days when I use to have to code my own games from books you could buy, on my old 286 hehe. Good ol' Tandy's.
 
Viper16 said:
Oh and I remember back in the days when I use to have to code my own games from books you could buy, on my old 286 hehe. Good ol' Tandy's.
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:) I used an old 8088 or TRS-80 or Commodore at first. That was awesome. MLX for machine language entry. I was the family debugger. I could find an error in 400 lines of code quick. Still can in some languages! :) I really want to get back into programming.
 
Heh, I was using LCIIs and 486/Pentium1/Cyrix machines early on, but I got into the 3D scene late.

First card was a S3 Savage2000, which I played UnrealTournament (the original) on using the kickass MeTaL thing, on my K6-2 450. Heh, that system rocked, had my sound running through my ISA SB AWE32, that card was fucking huge, it was as big as my motherboard at the time...
 
imExcitebike said:
i remember i got a demo for SpecOps waaay back when, and the demo required a 3d accelerator... well i didnt have one, so i downloaded some 3d accel emulator or something, haha...
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SpecsOps: Rangers lead the way.
LOL man remember that game.
I remember being floored by the graphics thinking it was the crazy shit.

My first time was with my Diamond Monster 4Megger and a game called Jetfighter 3.
I remember flipping back and forth from software to hardware modes and being awe-struck by the 3D accel..
Ahh good times. :)

My brother gave me an old 486 50Mhz laptop with Simcity on it around 95-96, after that I was hooked and all downhill from there lol.
 
LEGO Island!!!!!! ftw

then it was Midtown Madness. God I was such a newb.
 
Tomb Raider with Diamond Stealth S3 Virge. 4MB (2MB that I added!)
 
starsiege tribes on a voodoo 1

I played with a S3 trio 64 for a long time, then got a voodoo. Difference was night and day
 
My first was Quake II on a Vodoo 2000 PCI card with 16mb of RAM. I think I also played that Second Jedi Knight game as well with that card. My first PC (one that I owned, not my parents) was a 350mhz AMD K6-2 with 128mb of RAM and sound blaster audio card.

I "bought" the Vodoo card later when I started reading PC gaming magazines. A buddy of mine jacked the $200 card off the shelf at Wal-Mart and I bought it from him for $20. Not my finest moment, but I was only 16 and was not exactly capable (or willing) to make the best moral choices just yet.

Man, that makes me wonder, what the hell happened to Quake IV?! Quake II was awesome and then this... just not good at all.
 
GLQuake on a Rendition Verite. That was a rush...

Of course though the game that made me start rushing out to by new gear so I could enjoy it more was Wolfenstein 3D...
 
roz1281 said:
a game called Slave Zero i think, then on my own PC UT99. That game blew me away with its graphics.
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UT99 and the slave zero demo as well
 
I was made aware of 3D accelerators in the waiting room of Stone Cold for Quake 2's Rocket Arena 2 mod. I had no idea they existed. I eventually got the Diamond Voodoo 2 and the difference with Quake 2 was unbelieveable. I also was introduced to the NFS series with a demo of NFS2 that came with the card and that led me to the NFS3 demo which was just unreal. I played through Rocky Pass countless times before getting the full game. And I gave Quake yet another playthrough after discovering GLQuake. Good times. It's certainly gone downhill since then.
 
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