Ray Tracing was used in Half Life 2 but its totally static and pre-baked, It was also used in Quake 2 and Half Life 1, Today is basically the same except its in real time and has reflections which weren't possible back then, but Ray Tracing is nothing new, Back in 2000's, Games like Fear 2 and DOOM 3 used real time shadows and in return it aged horribly while Half Life 2 and its static lighting still looks decent today

Everything is old. If you had a cool $20 million in 1981 you could get properly anti-aliased real time 3D: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bL1dpMWQz662mHU.html . Binary space partitioning for computer graphics was invented the same year as the first moon landing, in 1969; it was not invented by John Carmack for Doom. Transform and lighting was just standard fare on silicon graphics machines for professional use in the early 90's long before nvidia "invented the GPU", as they arbitrarily defined it; the real innovation of 3DFX was to take out everything that could be taken out. PCs had to be able to run the games in software mode; so the game had to have few polygons anyway and you already had a 2D card so who cares that there was no 2D core in the voodoo? You don't win by being first or even best; you win by doing the right things at the right times; if doom had come out in 1985 it would have used internal speaker and CGA colours and ran at 2 frames per second; it would not have been a success; it it had come out in 1995 it would have been a "build engine clone" or whatever and not been a big success; if it had been a real 3D engine like ultima underworld it would have ran too slow for an action game, especially in full screen. I think it is too early for raytracing; not that it has been held back arbitrarily; the performance isn't there yet to make a big impact; you're just going to get half-arsed combinations such as rasterization with some raytraced reflections etc. You can see the potential in fully path traced minecraft; but running a proper game with that level of lighting is the better part of a decade away.

Very good basis!

Michael Gardner as Kainia Karia Well, you can also do this today without buying anymore hardware than you own. See PCem or 86box PC emulator software for FREE. You can install Windows 98 and install Voodoo drivers as well as Sound blaster 16 or Sound Blaster Awe32 drivers or even Gravis Ultrasound and it's all completely virtual. You can play all of this on just about any modern laptop and play in a window or full screen and you don't need any hardware. You can choose CGA composite (which makes CGA games look better) or use Tandy graphics which makes CGA look better or use a Voodoo/Voodoo 2 card with SLI. You can emulate all the way down to a 8086/8088 and all the way up to a Pentium II or a Pentium Pro MMX or a non MMX pentium.

A good choice! 👍 Don't forget to max. install 64MB RAM, because the 430TX chipset doesen't like more and with installed >64MB, you loose much of performance.

@@3DfxAslinger Back in the day when I went from 16 to 80mb of ram, i found out windows would stick file cache at the top of ram starting out of cached range. So I would just fix it to 16mb in the registry. And it would work out, but yea, 30% drop in performance for things outside of L2 was painful.

@Dalle Smalhals Interesting CPU for a Super Socket 7 build with a Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo 3 2000.

Boring. Build a Socket 8 legend instead.

Thanks! I like the MIDI Music more in Carmageddon. 😀

Thanks! The music is the Windows XP music installation, or when you see the Welcome screen of Windows XP.

@@3DfxAslinger Aaah, yes! Wow, I forgot XP had this music. Thank you!! :)

For example here: soggi.org/misc/3dfx-voodoo-game-patches.htm

Thanks, not thought about the blood patch, but zombies are also nice. :D

@@3DfxAslinger Nothing is more satisfying than side-drifting into crowd at the end of Maim Street and smearing a little old ladies insides all over the road. Glorious red blood... I think I need to install Carmageddon again.

I was in the war...

Grand Theft Auto has some really ugly tearing also, just shows how fast this Voodoo card can run these games. Quite nice

I know, but you can't see the max. performance with vsync on. I have never played with activated vsync, also in the 90s. That never bothered me. :)

I don't see why that would be a problem. The 3D problem is just a more general problem than the 2.5D problem. You still have proper 3D coordinates for vertices and textures in a 2.5D renderer. You've just defined the level in terms of sectors on a 2D map with heights and so on so that you cannot really have level-over-level geometry without hacks like "portals"; but everything you need to render it in 3D "for real" is still in there. If you just bung that geometry into real 3D and render it on a voodoo it will be almost correct; the possible exceptions being sprites which have to be turned into a billboarded quad and looking up or down which was sort of a hack in the 2.5D engine.

All here on FalconFly: www.3dfx.info/tools.htm

Do all the settings made in that tool go into the autoexec.bat?

That is correct!

Ok, thanks!

Yes, all 3dfx cards can also used with the DosBox under Win 9x/ME.

Also tested on another system? Voodoo 1 or Voodoo 2?

@@3DfxAslinger i didn't tested it on another system, but why would Tomb Raider and Screamer 2 work and not others with external patches? Those external patches without the required Glide files are just asking for troubles it seem... Tomb Raider and Screamer 2 seem to run just fine because they seem to have all the required files compiled inside 1 file, so there's no need to grab the right files that work with the game.

You can can try another glide2x.ovl file version (.ovl=for DOS glide games, dll=Windows) and copy it directly to the game directory with the .exe/.bat file, from where you start the game. The game should now using the glide2x.ovl that is in the game directory. Try it the .ovl from the 3dfx reference driver version 3.00.01. This is the best driver for the Voodoo 1, better than the latest 3.01.00 reference driver.

@@3DfxAslinger i even tried another Voodoo1 and it's doing the same thing. Where can i get that 3.00.01 Glide2x.ovl and dll exactly? i can't find them, not even on the FalconFly mirror sites...

Is here on FalconFly: www.3dfx.info/voodoo1.htm You can extract the .exe file with Winrar/7zip...to get the driver files.

If i understand correctly games such Quake 1 & 2 are OpenGL games, and they have miniGL drivers for 3Dfx. I the other side games like Tomb Raider 2, Turok & Unreal are Direct3d games, and they also have special driver for Voodoo. That’s only my thinking about that.

Yes, the games in the video can run without Windows 95/98/ME, under pure MS-DOS mode. Turok also supports Glide, but under Windows.

Unreal is also a native Glide game while also having a Direct3D renderer.

Windows XP Installation music

Luck! 🙂

Haha, that happens in real rallycross, too.

You can see differences in later games, like Unreal. I have made a comparison video of the 4, 6 and 8 MB version.

@@3DfxAslinger going to watch the video right now

GTA 1+2 has 3dfx Glide support.