Hardware / Graphics cards

3dfx Voodoo Banshee

discussed in 960 posts, 1997-2005 · overall tone mixed

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Key threads

Voodoo2 versus Banshee mix-up turns hostile 1999-06-30 · 23 posts
A poster advertised a cheap '16MB Voodoo2' card, and regulars explained that no 16MB Voodoo2 existed and the card was actually a Voodoo Banshee. The poster reacted defensively and the exchange degenerated into insults, with others asking that it be taken elsewhere.
Papa Doc's Voodoo5 vs GeForce3 benchmarks spark long argument 2002-01-14 · 311 posts
Pierre "Papa Doc" Legrand published benchmarks comparing a Voodoo5 and a GeForce3 in Ghost Recon, NASCAR 4, Quake 3 and flight sims, finding the Voodoo5 competitive with 4x FSAA. Many disputed his methodology, including running 3DMark without hardware T&L, and argued the GeForce3 was better in every way. The thread ran to over 300 posts and degenerated into insults, ending up on multi-monitor and LCD resolution arguments.
EA's F1 Championship Season 2000 preview and frame rates 2000-08-26 · 33 posts
Screenshots and details of EA's upcoming F1 Championship Season 2000, with wet weather and a driving school, were posted. The discussion became a debate over F1 2000's poor frame rates compared with NASCAR Heat and GP3, with one poster arguing physics matter more than eye candy and others insisting modern hardware should deliver both.
Celeron CPUs and best video card for GPL 1999-02-07 · 27 posts
A question about whether the new 400 MHz Celeron suited GPL led to a debate on graphics cards, with posters arguing that TNT cards performed poorly because of immature OpenGL drivers and recommending Rendition (Thriller) or 3dfx cards instead. The overclocked Celeron 300A on an Abit BH6 board was praised, and a MirrorsEvery core.ini tweak was offered for TNT users.
Impatience for GPL 1.1 and a GPL versus GP2 spat 1999-07-03 · 29 posts
Borut Srebotnik said he was sick of waiting for the GPL 1.1 patch, and Graham H claimed GPL was not up to Geoff Crammond's GP2 standard, drawing strong rebuttals about GPL's superior physics. Tony Kloosterman credited Randy Cassidy with doing the patch largely in his spare time and said translation by Sierra Europe was the hold-up. Richard Clegg listed real bugs such as Banshee incompatibility, and Randy Cassidy confirmed the patch fixes an auto-shift setting bug affecting multiple player profiles.
GP3 official system requirements 2000-06-25 · 32 posts
Posters discussed GP3's published specifications: a Pentium II 233 minimum, a Pentium III and 128MB recommended, and multiplayer via IPX, TCP/IP, serial, modem or hotseat. Several distrusted the minimum spec after their GPL experience, asked whether it used hardware T&L, and doubted the TCP/IP support would allow true internet racing. Others gave advice on upgrading P2 boards to P3 CPUs.

Busiest threads

Voodoo2 versus Banshee mix-up turns hostile (12 posts about it)
New Banshee Card (11 posts about it)
Which Video Card Banshee or VooDoo II (9 posts about it)
Which of these systems is better for GPL? (8 posts about it)
Whats the Banshee like? (8 posts about it)
Papa Doc's Voodoo5 vs GeForce3 benchmarks spark long argument (7 posts about it)
Banshee or TNT for GPL? (7 posts about it)
Re: GPL and Banshee video cards (6 posts about it)
Banshee? (6 posts about it)
GPL & XP - defaulting to software 3d? (5 posts about it)
EA's F1 Championship Season 2000 preview and frame rates (5 posts about it)
Question about Creative Labs Banshee card... (5 posts about it)
Upgrading my Graphics Card (5 posts about it)
GPL Banchee Fix (5 posts about it)
Celeron CPUs and best video card for GPL (5 posts about it)

Sentiment by year

Each post that discussed it was rated from −2 (very negative) to +2 (very positive).

Year	Posts	Positive	Negative	Tone
1997	6	1	0	mixed (+0.17)
1998	162	52	18	positive (+0.25)
1999	527	146	70	mixed (+0.19)
2000	194	32	28	mixed (+0.02)
2001	56	8	9	mixed (-0.05)
2002	11	0	2	mixed (-0.18)
2003	1	0	1	very negative (-1.00)
2004	2	0	0	mixed (+0.00)
2005	1	0	0	mixed (+0.00)