3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card reverse engineered and re-created by enthusiast
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A M D BugBear
Thanks alot for sharing this, goes WAAAAY back to the Diamond Stealth s540 age, Long live the old era:
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And never forget Unreal 1 + 3dfx, The reflections where absolutely incredible for its time, something like this was very unheard of for its time, absolute masterpiece:
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2 Games that really brings me back during the Savage 4 Pro+/3dfx Era, owned 2 games in the past:
Drakan: Order of the Flame:
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And last but not least:
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind:
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Thank you for sharing the good ol'times, Brings back royal memories, Very memorable times, The very best of gaming, if it wasn't for games back then, you will never see games as they are now and also been an absolute pleasure, going way back to the Apple ][e age, my favorite computer of "ALL TIME".
Sorry for the off topic, and back to on topic, One lucky guy here owning this bad boy(Final Video), damn thing is a Beauty, look at that, Jesus:
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Venix
i had the voodoo 3 2000 on my first pc ever !! Hilbert benchmark that card if you have the chance will be fun ! ...well and frustrating i guess :P
rocky01
Totally geeking out ...
stereoman
The good old days of Glide I loved my Voodoo 2's, makes me wonder what would GPU's be like now if 3DFX hadn't sold out to Nvidia
Sempaii
Haha good memorys from back then. try tell your kids how it it worked with loop cabel haha
jbscotchman
Voodoo 3 3000 was my first ever card. I felt like such a boss going into Babbages and buying Aliens VS Predator that had a sticker on the box that said: "3d Hardware Accelerator Required." 😎
wavetrex
Actually, there is no need to port anything, or write any special drivers.
The solution exists and has existed for a long time, and it's called PLX PEX8112. https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Avago%20PDFs/PEX_8112-AA_Data_Book.pdf
I'm looking at it on my old sound card with a chip designed for PCI, but implemented as PCI-e x1 via this bridge chip.
The problem is that these chips are not being made anymore for quite a long time, since PCI is basically dead outside of maintenance of industrial environments, and existing ones are probably not easy to obtain ... maybe only by unglue-ing it from some sound card ... ;-)
But there is no point indeed, since it doesn't bring any performance benefits... it's simply a bridge chip.
schmidtbag
Good point - not sure why I didn't think of that. This GPU probably doesn't use much bandwidth either so I'm sure there'd be no performance penalty.
vbetts
Moderator
Nvidia SLI and 3dfx SLI are not the same. Nvidia did not get SLI from 3dfx.
vf
I remember trying to squeeze every bit of fps out for Quake 3 with WickedGL on a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP on 640x480 back in 1999/2000. Those were the days on CRT heating up the room, in between cleaning the ball mice as it messed up your tracking.
350winder
My first 2d card was an ATI linked to a 3Dfx Voodoo. PC has been bought used and I quickly bought a Voodoo 2 (12mb). Graphics were amazing for the time!
Witcher29
3dfx on!
Francesco
I think 3dfx era ended before Morrowind got released.
I may be mistaken though.. was it possible to play Morrowind with a 3dfx?
As far as I remember I upgraded from a Voodoo3 to a Geforce 4 exactly to be able to play Morrowind.
zipper
Voodoo3 3000 on my Amiga 4000 towerized! Great card compared to Permedia 2.
mackintosh
Come on Hilbert, we're a lot older than you think. I still have fond memories of my first Orchid Righteous 3D. I wish I hadn't given it away.
ruthan
Not bad, but Voodoo 5 9000 is still better..
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mackintosh
Damn, that looks like it will beat the BitchinFast 3D 2000. How many Bungholiomarks does it get?
Aura89
Scan-Line Interleave (3dfx) and Scalable Link Interface (nvidia) are not the same thing and nvidia has literally no reason to "thank" 3dfx for it, as they are different technologies.
A M D BugBear
That was an april fool's thingy if I remembered correct, yuppers, Bitchin' fast.
Speaking about the crysis in the video:
I Remembered back in the days when I had the 2 fastest cards at that time when crysis came out:
ATI's: 2900 XTX
Nvidia's: 8800GTX
Remembered playing the online beta at that time.
Can it run crysis at that time? HELL NO, If I remembered correctly, 8800GTX pulled couple more fps but I believe it was below 15 fps, virtually it was like unplayable, more like a benchmark tool at that time.
kanenas
I vividly remember the hours I wasted on Need for speed high stakes with the Voodoo 5500 in glide api
