2000 as well, with games like Deus Ex, MDK 2, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate 2, American McGee's Alice, Project IGI, Soldier of Furtune, No One Lives Forever, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, Counter-Strike 1.6, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Motocross Madness 2, Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, Supreme Snowboarding (in the US it came in 2000), Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. And 2001 was also great, Max Payne, Serious Sam, Wolfenstein, Black & White. That great PC gaming era ended in mid-late 2002 IMO, when the PC game developers went to the Xbox.
Even though I have two voodoo 2's on sli, I decided to use an athon 2000+, 512mb and an fx5200 to play some old games. I used Nglide 1.05 to emulate Glide in windows ME. This way it is possible to use more modern hardware that still has drivers for win95-98-ME.
Glide was an API that allowed the Voodoo chips to shine. Any engine back then could be modified to capitalize on the special 3D chips 3dfx had developed. UE5 hardly has any hardware bias, yet you could say that Glide was to Voodoo as DLSS is to RTX Nvidia chips. Better frame rates, resolution, physics, exclusive features, and optimization for specific hardware. This is what made 3dfx so special.
@@sonicthejetsetbeat7465 Exactly. Ironically, Unreal Engine 1 was literally the Unreal engine 5 of the 90s, and it was considered earth shattering in the visual fidelity and development support that it provided.
That means your knowledge of new releases nowadays is surface level. You haven't looked around enough. There has never been an era with so many games to choose, which is the reason the good ones need to be found. If you mostly stick to big names, you'll get exactly that: boring, repetitive and mass commerce only. Creativity in games? Tons of it yet, maybe more than ever.
@luisman369 Even the ones that are "innovative" are released half-finished or don't feel as complete and well-defined as most of the pre-PS4 generation games. There's some innovation now, but many of these older games vigorously pushed every boundary available at the time (hardware, software, social acceptance, marketing, etc.) On top of all that, they didn't nickel and dime you after you paid $60 for a game.
For some reason I skipped this era.. playing doom/duke3d then on windows anno1602, StarCraft, Diablo and then bumped up to half life with my voodoo banshee and later voodoo 3 2000 GTA I played fully in Software didn’t know it had support for 3sat glide even
‘96-‘99 where some of the best years in pc gaming, it absolutely destroyed the consoles at the time
2000 as well, with games like Deus Ex, MDK 2, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate 2, American McGee's Alice, Project IGI, Soldier of Furtune, No One Lives Forever, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, Counter-Strike 1.6, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Motocross Madness 2, Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed, Supreme Snowboarding (in the US it came in 2000), Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force.
And 2001 was also great, Max Payne, Serious Sam, Wolfenstein, Black & White.
That great PC gaming era ended in mid-late 2002 IMO, when the PC game developers went to the Xbox.
'91-'94 were even better.
Those early 3d gaming days were so exciting. Great memories.
great memories. 90percent of those games I played on my old mmx 233 and voodoo3.
I just ordered myself a Voodoo Banshee so I'm am excited to try some of these!
What PC are you putting it in?
@@sammiches6859 I've got a K6-2 550
when everyone was on the cutting edge and everything felt fresh...will never happen again lol
Hey yes, those were the good old days.
Even though I have two voodoo 2's on sli, I decided to use an athon 2000+, 512mb and an fx5200 to play some old games. I used Nglide 1.05 to emulate Glide in windows ME. This way it is possible to use more modern hardware that still has drivers for win95-98-ME.
3DFX is basically the 1990's Unreal Engine 5 😆
3DFX was the 90's raytracing. Except that it meant better graphics AND better performance.
Glide was an API that allowed the Voodoo chips to shine. Any engine back then could be modified to capitalize on the special 3D chips 3dfx had developed. UE5 hardly has any hardware bias, yet you could say that Glide was to Voodoo as DLSS is to RTX Nvidia chips. Better frame rates, resolution, physics, exclusive features, and optimization for specific hardware. This is what made 3dfx so special.
@ghost085 Oh oops so the 3dfx is pretty much the 1990's Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU.
@@sonicthejetsetbeat7465 Exactly. Ironically, Unreal Engine 1 was literally the Unreal engine 5 of the 90s, and it was considered earth shattering in the visual fidelity and development support that it provided.
Nice compilation.
I had voodoo 1 and 3 at the time, strange but i remember few of those just can't start in open gl or glide, but it worked fine in software mode. 🤔
when games still used to be fun -) creativity was top priority...nowadays...it's boring, repetitive and mass commerce only
I fully agree. Today the publishers no longer want to innovate.
That means your knowledge of new releases nowadays is surface level. You haven't looked around enough. There has never been an era with so many games to choose, which is the reason the good ones need to be found. If you mostly stick to big names, you'll get exactly that: boring, repetitive and mass commerce only. Creativity in games? Tons of it yet, maybe more than ever.
@luisman369 Even the ones that are "innovative" are released half-finished or don't feel as complete and well-defined as most of the pre-PS4 generation games. There's some innovation now, but many of these older games vigorously pushed every boundary available at the time (hardware, software, social acceptance, marketing, etc.) On top of all that, they didn't nickel and dime you after you paid $60 for a game.
For some reason I skipped this era.. playing doom/duke3d then on windows anno1602, StarCraft, Diablo and then bumped up to half life with my voodoo banshee and later voodoo 3 2000
GTA I played fully in Software didn’t know it had support for 3sat glide even
I'm 95% sure some of that footage isn't running in Glide mode.
i have voodoo 3 still
Imagine not playing The Sentinel: Returns
Original sounds would be better.
100%. 17 minutes of that music was painful
Fun tracks? Looks like ignition
Yes, it's the same game. Well done!
MDK Rulez!!!
Great selection of games. What is the pc spec? Cheers
Thank you. Any pc can be used with the emulation of a 3dfx. It's not very resource-intensive today.
Why remove the gorgeous original music and sounds of each game? Bad choice, mate.
What's that awesome music?
I don't remember but you can find it on this site:
remix.kwed.org/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B
dreams to reality = god of duty or call of war.
😂 Yes 😂
its creepy like shadow man for me
Where Diablo 2?
1:34 pretty sure ISIS would love this game,
I never played shadow warrior on 3dfx 🙁
It's never too late to play!🙂