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Sombrerotron posted:good advice 
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Captain Foo posted:hnnnrggh it’s insane how nostalgic that sound is. instantly takes me back to being a kid kneeling in front of the tube and getting blasted by that sound
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i skipped 3dfx. the texture filtering in the glide wrapper washed out the textures too much imo, and wtf you need a 2d card too? there was one gpu I remember that required a daughter card or whatever (voodoo banshee I want to say?) but all other voodoo 2+ dropped that insane architecture.
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Nuts and Gum posted:there was one gpu I remember that required a daughter card or whatever (voodoo banshee I want to say?) but all other voodoo 2+ dropped that insane architecture. lol yes Voodoo1 card I owned had an output from your 2d card into your 3d card and then an output from that to your monitor - the card came with a very short VGA-VGA connector.
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early 3d graphics were poo poo on consoles, I was there. it looked uglier than 2d sprites, the controls were poo poo or at least much worse than 2d predecessors (yes I am talking about Mario) and many game creators seemed to think that having 3d absolved them from creating actually good games
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Nuts and Gum posted:there was one gpu I remember that required a daughter card or whatever (voodoo banshee I want to say?) but all other voodoo 2+ dropped that insane architecture. also it should be noted that 3dfx wasn't the only company initially creating purely 3d hardware: nec's first line of powervr cards also required a separate 2d card NoneMoreNegative posted:lol yes Voodoo1 card I owned had an output from your 2d card into your 3d card and then an output from that to your monitor - the card came with a very short VGA-VGA connector. Neco posted:early 3d graphics were poo poo on consoles, I was there. it looked uglier than 2d sprites, the controls were poo poo or at least much worse than 2d predecessors (yes I am talking about Mario) and many game creators seemed to think that having 3d absolved them from creating actually good games well except for the early 3d platformers because the vast majority of platformers are dreadful to begin with
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there are a few nice-looking PS1 games that have stood the test of time but for the most part console 3d games needed a few more years in the oven at least until the turn of the century. the entire N64 catalog looked like absolute poo poo. Starfox for the SNES looks better than anything on the N64 that and control schemes were really rough until dual thumbsticks became universal as well.
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I miss when when 3d cards had insane names like the Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix which was the voodoo banshee I got as my first card. It came with a free copy of half life it ruled.
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wow, 1996 for my first card  https://www.pixelrefresh.com/3dfx-orchid-righteous-voodoo-1-where-3d-acceleration-truly-began/ 
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and the box art was combat robots, the card itself was purple
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Sapozhnik posted:there are a few nice-looking PS1 games that have stood the test of time but for the most part console 3d games needed a few more years in the oven at least until the turn of the century. idk, Mario64 looked great as did Mario kart64. ocarina of time wasnt gorgeous or anything but I think it was way ahead of the PS I think it was Need for Speed or maybe some snowboarding game that really blew my mind on the PS, but everything else was mediocre and sometimes downright clunky
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actually yeah all of the first party n64 games looked really good compared to everyone else.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I miss when when 3d cards had insane names like the Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix which was the voodoo banshee I got as my first card. Diamond Monster Fusion Rage Fury Turbo Orchid Razor Wolverine Thunderbolt Titan Ringmaster Blitz Viper Hammer Manticore Judgement Volcano Leviathan Stuntman Promise Firestorm Savior Rumble Tornado Lightspeed Hobgoblin Triggershot Whirlwind Detonator Sweevo fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Aug 16, 2022 |
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Sapozhnik posted:there are a few nice-looking PS1 games that have stood the test of time but for the most part console 3d games needed a few more years in the oven at least until the turn of the century. for consoles imo in the brief period where it was psx vs. snes and saturn the only good actually 3d rendered games were racing sims or fps, and those weren't really 3d anyway until quake (which, iirc, was on saturn but not psx) i'd say the n64 changed that, even if it wasn't always beautiful, although i think they did a decent job considering the technical restraints. i don't think many people would say mario 64 wasn't a good platformer for the time the n64's debut also forced psx devs to step up. the games that came out afterwards are far better than the ones before it, i think
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When I die, rig my coffin to play the PS1 startup sound if I'm ever exhumed.
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my first proper 3d accelerator was a 3dfx pass through that I spent about a week of the summer holidays trying to get the right combination of drivers and settings for it to work in a panic that I had wasted my money but once I actually got it rolling on my 200mhz/32mb machine (with MMX!) it looked great for the time had a banshee later but it didn't feel as cutting edge by then
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InternetOfTwinks posted:When I die, rig my coffin to play the PS1 startup sound if I'm ever exhumed. Windows XP startup noise
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first 3d accelerator i ever saw was the Unreal intro running on a Voodoo Rush (voodoo1 + 2D chip, meaning you didn't need two cards). i though it basically looked like real life and that it was impossible for graphics to ever get better
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i want fully path traced games. i don't care about poly count any more, simulate light rays instead. yeah look at valheim for example. super low poly but an incredible lighting engine. good lighting is what makes all the difference
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Radio Paranoia posted:Windows XP startup noise mac startup chime or The Microsoft Sound.wav if you want to curse my remains
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Beeftweeter posted:mac startup chime or The Microsoft Sound.wav if you want to curse my remains horns.aiff for all yosposters imo
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scatch that actually just rig it to play random chimes of death
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NoneMoreNegative posted:wow, 1996 for my first card https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPA9nTWXxjE Beeftweeter posted:for consoles imo in the brief period where it was psx vs. snes and saturn the only good actually 3d rendered games were racing sims or fps Sweevo posted:first 3d accelerator i ever saw was the Unreal intro running on a Voodoo Rush (voodoo1 + 2D chip, meaning you didn't need two cards). i though it basically looked like real life and that it was impossible for graphics to ever get better anyhoo i know the "graphics can't get any better than this" feeling but i'd already experienced that first upon seeing doom and then upon seeing daytona usa, so by the time unreal came around i was already sliiiiightly less quick to draw that conclusion
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Nuts and Gum posted:there was one gpu I remember that required a daughter card or whatever (voodoo banshee I want to say?) but all other voodoo 2+ dropped that insane architecture. it had such bad faps (typo love it leaving it) that they offered a trade-in for the daughter card and a monster 3dfx 4mb took it and kept the 2mb 2d card
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Sombrerotron posted:
I kind of thought this recently and then I tried turning ray tracing on Control and was like "woah" and then turned it off because it crushed the frame rate on my non rtx card
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this got me lookin at some old 3d stuff and lol holy poo poo someone did a port of quake to the gba in 2002  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XGrP6u_c (yeah yeah some of you probably already know about this but i didn't)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxnbfRYM-g
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Exactly. The review of that card really drives home how great it was.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:i want fully path traced games. i don't care about poly count any more, simulate light rays instead. lovely tv speakers did not do the bass justice Also the euphoric feeling when the playstation logo came up because if only the sony one came up it meant there was some error
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pro-click twitter account https://twitter.com/nejumipro/status/1445311653076082688
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I don’t remember what my first 3d card was but I do remember upgrading to a new one as I was playing final fantasy 7 for the first time. after the upgrade I had to do a complete reinstall of the game for some new drivers or something and didn’t think about backing up my saves or if you could even do it on the pc version then. I was all the way at the crater and have still never beaten the game even though I’ve owned it for 5 different systems
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NoneMoreNegative posted:wow, 1996 for my first card oh poo poo yeah that's the one my mum and dad bought me
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To this day I can't track down a pic of the 3D NUCLEAR POPE video card box
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