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Voodoo?  I doubt it does.  Voodoos haven't been supported for a long, long
time.  Why not go out and spend a few bucks to get a low-end nVidia card?

Alanb

Glide died years ago, get over it.
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1.  ATI Radeon.
2.  nVidia GeForece.

Glide is Dodo spelled backwards.  Both are gone.

-Larry

I have always owned a nVidia card so I can only recommend on that side of
the equation.  Try maybe a GeForce 3 Ti200.  If you can still find such a
card, it's got to be dirt cheap.

I would think you could go even to a GeForce 4 card, maybe a Ti4200, and
spend under $100.  Stay away from the MX cards, though.

Alanb

In case anyones interested, you can get newer 3rd party VooDoo drivers here.
Even for XP.

http://www.falconfly.de/3dfx.htm

There are other 3rd party sites as well.

No, although OpenGL does use the Glide rasteriser, usually with a
game-specific mini-GL helper file.

Direct3D is the 3D graphics part of DirectX. This is a rasteriser and
requires specific driver support. Functions not supported in hardware (by
the graphics card) are emulated in software (by the CPU) as long as the
driver supports the feature.

OpenGL is another rasteriser, and GLide can be considered a partial
implementation of OpenGL, introduced at a time when full OpenGL support in
hardware was too expensive to be mainstream.

GLide became very popular when 3D graphics were new, but struggled to keep
up with both performance and filtering quality as the technology
progressed, as did other rasterisers such as Rendition & various others.

Because 3dfx cards are specifically optimised for GLide, they run
relatively quickly in GLide compared to D3D, but since 3dfx development
stopped a few years ago 3D graphics technology has progressed such that,
for example, an nVidia Gf4 4200 can run OpenGL or D3D faster and with
higher quality filtering than a Voodoo3 running GLide, and as fast and
approaching (and exceeding in many areas) the same quality as a Voodoo5.

There really is no need to hang onto your 3dfx card as long as the games
you want to play support OpenGL or D3D, although for 2D quality a V3 or V5
will hold it's own for years to come.

I have a pair of V2's, a V3 2000, a V3 3000 and a V5 5500 in various PC's
as well as other manufacturer's cards, and I think they're all great. But
my main PC has a Gf4 in it because it's the best all round card of the
lot, and is considerably easier to set up & run in Win2k or XP than any
3dfx card.

hth, Malc.

Is it not true that anything ?X with nVidia is not a good-performance card?
I recall someone saying (with many concurrences) that the GeForce 4
MX-something-or-other was the equivalent of a GeForce 2 card.

I see nothing wrong, however, with recommending the GeForce 3 Ti200 card.
It's cheap and has decent performance (I used to own one.).

One of these days I'll get an ATI card.  As with the AMD chip, what concerns
me most with the ATI card is its stability.  I've never had stability issues
with the Intel chip or with an nVidia card.  Performance counts; but so does
stability.

Alanb

It is NOT the card to get for the future though because it is not a DX9
card.

-Larry