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Title: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: fromhell on April 12, 2007, 01:58:05 AM
The 3dfx Voodoo Banshee doesn't look too bad. (http://openarena.ws/shots/oldcard/3dfxbanshee/)..... framerate is quite playable too, around 10fps (in 1280x960x16) to 30-60fps (640x480x16)


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: FragUPlenty on April 12, 2007, 09:51:27 AM
doesnt look too bad at all. Just wondering but on the pics where there is lava how did you get like red smoke to come out of it.


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: Keet on April 12, 2007, 01:30:30 PM
Wow, it looks better than my crappy Savage4...

Still owned by my x300 though.


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: dmn_clown on April 12, 2007, 02:02:59 PM
Now try that with a RagePro  (Notorious for alpha problems).


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: FragUPlenty on April 12, 2007, 04:50:04 PM
Then again back in the day 3dfx cards where the shit so its of no surprise to me that it can run something based of the Quake 3 engine.


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: fromhell on June 11, 2007, 11:57:33 PM
Trident Cyberblade3d i7 is ugly (http://openarena.ws/shots/oldcard/tridentbladei7/).


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: tiuk on June 12, 2007, 03:14:41 PM
Yeah, I actually had a Voodoo Banshee in the late 90s. With a P3 450 mhz and 128 MB of RAM Q3 ran fairly well.
After running that way for a year or so, I eventually got a Voodoo5 5500, that was killer at Q3 ;)
Then after that a QF3, at which point frame rate simply wasn't an issue anymore.


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: THOR on June 20, 2007, 09:30:29 PM
Not near as ugly as trying it on the matrox 32 meg agp card with slapped together gl drivers. Why a decent P4 2.66 had that installed is beyond me upped it to a 6800gt low end but alot nicer


Title: Re: Running on old 1996-1998 hardware
Post by: fromhell on February 23, 2008, 03:29:26 AM
100MHz and a Voodoo2 12mb gets you this. (http://openarena.ws/shots/oldcard/3dfxvoodoo2/)