Did Anybody Here Program for Virge? | Beyond3D Forum
Dec 18, 2004 · I've been doing a lot of thinking about the "olden days", since I've been messing a lot with a little K6 system. I was wondering if anyone here would have any first hand experience working with a Virge. Now that it's been, oh, a few years since those "glory" days, I was hoping I …
Help me remember all pre-Voodoo PC 3D accelerators.
Aug 14, 2006 · Virge 325 and VX supported trilinear, Voodoo didn't. But Voodoo had much better 16bit rendering due to 24bit rendering -> 16bit dithering -> 4x1 postprocessing. I don't think Voodoo (Glide) had worse IQ than Virge (S3 API).
first PC 3D cards | Beyond3D Forum
Nov 22, 2002 · Diamond (S3 Virge) had superior features compared to Mystique and actually I was pretty much happy with it (dropped few jaws to floor with S3d accelerated Terminal Velocity and Descent II) until christmas 1996, when MikroBitti (biggest and propably oldest computer mag in finland) had huuuuge 3D-card review and my glorious card got to last place.
DirectX 9.0a available. first reports:"small speed incr
Mar 25, 2003 · - S3 virge would not run 3dmark2003 [Fixed] - Issues with the FlowFX ( There were no vacuum cleaner option in the hardware detection service ) [Fixed] - Parhelia had banding issues [not Fixed, but will be soon (2 years)] - Radeon …
Comparison of Cards: DirectDraw | Beyond3D Forum
Oct 30, 2004 · I have a large collection of graphics cards, and now have a little K6-3+ rig I slapped together. I've been messing with it, trying out games, trying out...
Value of Hardware Unboxed benchmarking | Page 35 - Beyond3D …
Jan 2, 2023 · Rendition. Voodoo. S3 Virge. Matrox. ATI. The market exploded for a reason. Where there "some" PC gamers dismissive of it due to consoles? Sure, maybe - there are 'some' people with bizarre opinions on everything. But the idea that 3D acceleration wasn't overwhelmingly promoted and anticipated by PC gamers long before the first arrived is just ...
Discussione about unused old chips features | Beyond3D Forum
Aug 8, 2008 · I remember the Thief and Thief2 quality compared to a Geforce2 Mx 16bit palette was like passing from an S3 Virge to a Voodoo in Quake. Click to expand... PowerVR and Matrox suported internal 32bit rendering. 3Dfx suported internal 24bit rendering and only nVidia and ATi …
For games that use d3dim.dll, how can I check which exact version …
Sep 6, 2023 · There are few 'native' Direct3D 2.0/3.0 titles, since most games from that era have been updated with subsequent game patches to use Direct3D 5.0 DrawPrimitive and Direct3D 6.x vertex buffers and texture stages, and even 'competing' APIs like Glide and miniGL/OpenGL, so they could make a better use of emerging 3D rendering hardware like 3dfx ...
Nvidia Blackwell Architecture Speculation | Page 57 | Beyond3D …
Dec 10, 2022 · There were S3D (that's for S3 Virge IIRC), Rendition's V1000, ATI Rage 3D, etc. and there were far from "a few months" because Glide was first released along with Voodoo Graphics on PC which was around 1995. The first Direct3D …
Texture cache of the N64 vs. that of Playstation
Jul 25, 2018 · As for N64 vs PC of 96, I really wonder how S3 Virge compares. I've played some S3 S3D games and they run not unlike the speed of a N64 game and the detail levels aren't dissimilar really. Rendition Verite is probably superior to N64. PC had such a mess with proprietary APIs back then though. It was all too experimental yet.