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Your 1st 3D accelerated experience ?!?

My first 3D Accelerator was a Diamond Monster Fusion. It was a Voodoo Banshee based card. The first game I played with it was Starsiege Tribes. When I first got in the game and started playing my jaw dropped to the floor. It was just amazing...
 
n64man120 said:
Voodoo Banshee with Motocross Madness!
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w00t! I think my Voodoo Banshee came with that game too. It looked great! I think it came with Motocross Madness and Unreal.
 
Unreal on a Voodoo2 12mb... I was confused at first; having worked with sprite-based games like Doom and Duke 3D, I was convinced the game designers had created animations for the weapons and such using sprite animations-- now that's some per-pixel detail!
 
Same here. Unreal on a 3dfx Voodoo 2 12mb. I had played the game for quite a while before that using software rendering. When I fired it up for the first time with the Voodoo 2 I almost pooped myself.
 
Hellbender demo on a P100 w/16megs of ram and Win95b
video is unknown for sure as of the writing of this post, but there is a good chance it was a 4meg pci S3/virge


...ssSSSsSssSSsMOken'!



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Mechwarrior 2... PowerVR version for the Matrox Mystique :)

I remember being so wowed by the "reflections" on the cockpits of the mechs.
 
Ubisoft POD on a Canopus Pure3D.

My credit card balances have never recovered from that life-changing experience. :p
 
Monster Graphics voodoo 1 and Quake (yes - crappy 'ol quake 1). I got my friend hooked on open GL with the dancing coke can plugin for winamp. lol. I also liked the 3D spectrum analyzer plugin for winamp... ohhh that was a while ago.. wow.
 
Star Wars: Episode 1 RACER...Remember that game?

I got a Voodoo3 2000 PCI...that was right when PCI cards were on their way out...

I was amazed when it wasn't skippy on my 166mhz AMD K6!
 
Maximus825 said:
My first 3D Accelerator was a Diamond Monster Fusion. It was a Voodoo Banshee based card. The first game I played with it was Starsiege Tribes. When I first got in the game and started playing my jaw dropped to the floor. It was just amazing...
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Tribes was AWESOME. I remember getting a 3dfx Voodoo 5 for christmas, the people who introduced me to Tribes had Voodoo 3s and so I was like better get that Voodoo 5... it looked AMAZING like holy crap, the ground was so realistic compared to regular, like, dots that were there. I loved my Voodoo 5.... and Starsiege Tribes was like the best multiplayer game ever...

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just found my voodoo 5, took a pic haha
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Quake on my Canopus Pure3D II. I remember the day the card game, the UPS guy was running late and didn't stop at my apartment. I had to call UPS and then go there and wait until the truck showed up at the end of the day to get the damn card. Came home, popped in Quake and it was unbelievable. Had to hop onto HEAT.net and brag to my fellow footsoldiers about my purchase. Damn, it had a whopping 12mb of ram!!!

Ah, the good old days...
 
ThreeDee said:
Hellbender demo on a P100 w/16megs of ram and Win95b
video is unknown for sure as of the writing of this post, but there is a good chance it was a 4meg pci S3/virge


...ssSSSsSssSSsMOken'!



[H]
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I love Hellbender. Wish I pwned a copy :(
 
I got to play GL Quake a few times at a friends and was pretty taken aback, but after I finally was able to ditch my DX2 50mhz for a still-crappy-but-not-nearly-as-much-so Cyrix PR300MX,, i tried NFS2 and stuff out and was pretty unimpressed. Bought a Voodoo2 and tried it again and my jaw hit the floor. Then came the Athlon classic with a GF2GTS...felt like a god for a minute there! :D
 
AMD K6 350.. Ultima IX was running like a dog.. Little did I know.

A Voodoo 3000 (?), cursing at Compaq on the phone because the integrated 2d card CANNOT BE ******* DISABLED IN DEVICE MANAGER YOU ********!!!!

Led to an Athlon 900 and more headaches with Asus A7V drivers--with an ATI 128 Pro! Nevermind the ahole @ Best Buy that said "Don't get a 64Mb card, nothing will use more than 32Mb."

Now a 3700+ San Diego and 6800GT later, and Ultima IX *still* runs slow.

Popping my 3d cherry was painful.

Still have that unused Voodoo in a box downstairs.
 
Mario Cart 64

For PC, it was Moto Racer 2 but Quake 3 blew my socks off. I had just bought a TNT2 Ultra when they launched (but Q3 did not come out for a good 4 months).
 
Rendition Verite 2100 and GLQuake was my first "true" 3D accelerated gaming experience. I thought the water transparency effect was totally outrageous at the time.

Ditched the Verite and went with a Voodoo Rush and played a Glide enabled version of Tomb Raider that looked a hell of a lot better than the original software rendering.

Got twin Voodoo2 12MB in SLI and played Ultima IX between bugs/crashes.

Oh how I yearn for a WinXP OGL or DX9 version of Duke3D.... Oh well, back to HL2 and NFSMW for me.
 
Quake 2 with a voodoo 3 2000 PCI (which I still have laying around somewhere). I remarked on how it looked like the nintendo 64, but better and faster.
 
Had to be either Viper Racing or MotoRacer on a Trident 9750 4MB card and a Pentium 200. I was running a Matrox Millenium 2D card before that. I "thought" everything was looking great (except for the black squares that were supposed to be tire smoke) until I finally broke down and bought a Rage Fury 32MB, K6/2-350 and 128MB RAM and started to drool.

Now, everything is creeping towards cinematic so there won't be as much of a "wow" factor since it will be gradual as opposed to buying a card and entering a whole new world.
 
Ace Combat 2 on Playstation and/or Sim City 3000 on an old Intel P Pro 133 with 64mb of ram.
 
Velocity 4400 16mb PCI and Action Quake 2. I was blown away.

Wasn't expecting it at all.
 
NFS 4:HS The first 3d game i played on the Pc. 4Mb intergreated intel video card on a Hp 500MHz PIII, with 128mb pc-100. Man that thign was top of the line.
 
Jedi Knight on a Riva 128 I think was my first. I mostly remember that card only supported D3D, and all the games I wanted to play were OpenGL or Glide, like Quake and Unreal. So I was humming along in Software mode for those, on a Pentrium 2, 233 mhz and a Riva 128. This would have been back in 97, maybe 98, I beleive, around X-Mas. Ah those were the days.
 
When I bought a Voodoo 3/2000
Got Quake2 at the same time.
If only they could somehow equal today the charge I felt then, when I saw the glorious difference.
 
DejaWiz said:
Rendition Verite 2100 and GLQuake was my first "true" 3D accelerated gaming experience. I thought the water transparency effect was totally outrageous at the time.

Ditched the Verite and went with a Voodoo Rush and played a Glide enabled version of Tomb Raider that looked a hell of a lot better than the original software rendering.

Got twin Voodoo2 12MB in SLI and played Ultima IX between bugs/crashes.

Oh how I yearn for a WinXP OGL or DX9 version of Duke3D.... Oh well, back to HL2 and NFSMW for me.
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http://lduke3d.sourceforge.net/
 
First for me:

My uncle bought a new "Gaming" PC from CompUSA in 1998. It had a P2-450 256MB RAM and 2 Voodoo 2s in SLI (16MB total!!!!) - the first game I ran on that beast was Combat Flight Simulator. I couldnt believe my eyes!

Still have never been that shocked by a game's graphics since
 
everyone at school was talking about this awesome game called counter strike so for xmas i asked for a PCI Geforce 4 MX 420 to install on my emachine. needless to say i was quickly sucked in to PC gaming and saw my grades drop a bit because of the addiction that was CS 1.5
 
I remember a S3 Virge enhanced version of Descent 2, that all it did was make stuff blurry.

My first proper 3d accelerated gameplay came out of Mechwarrior 2 and GLQuake on a Diamond Monster 3d.
 
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