The 3Dfx Voodoo Difference: This is why we love them

In this video we will learn why the 3DFX Voodoo is such a special graphics card!

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[proxyone]

I thought about upgrading to 1070, but after seeing this, I think I am going with Vodoo.

[chikawng]

Unreal made me get a voodoo card. I will never forget how blown away I was when I saw the graphics. I stuck with 3dfx from that point on. My last 3dfx card was the voodoo 4. This card got me through college until I moved on with a geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb. Good memories.

[ubbgn]

For me was unreal, bough a diamond 4mb, had unreal bundle with it and the first time i saw it run in my PC was like another world!

[defaultdefault]

Seeing Unreal running on a Voodoo 4MB after running it on software render on a P200MMX. Seeing the opening castle flyby scene was just...hypnotising!

[lutijn]

i remember als getting a vodoo card second hand because these were very expensive when i was a kid, also because of tomb raider, i never felt the same wow feeling ever in any piece of hardware than that card. i now have a arcade cabinet from 1998 with a vodoo 2 card in it, and it is absolutely jawdropping

[stonent]

I still love the fact that we had hardware accelerated 3D DOS games at one point in history.

[Tiagotaf]

The game changer for me was Need for Speed 2 SE! I absolutely love the game, and it gives me the chills just remembering the awe of the first time I plugged in a Voodoo2 card in my P233 back in 1999. It transformed the gameplay SO MUCH, the graphics became so beautiful, new special effects, I was mesmerized! Then, it was Unreal Tournament! This game made me buy my second Voodoo2 for the SLI awesomeness! It was addictive! The first time a PC could run games MUCH better than a gaming console. Too bad they went bankrupt, it was so sad :'(

[shepfacexl]

For me it was Open GL Quake running on a Voodoo 2 Monster 2. What a fantastic piece of hardware!

[DimitriosChannel]

I love how you added that funny 3DFX commercial at the end, I was just thinking about it before it showed up at the end of your vid.

[jolly]

PC MASTER RACE does exists for 3Dfx. When all my friends used to play on console, I can remember how I was feeling looking at the 3Dfx logo coming out before FIFA RTWC 98. It was like to be 4 years ahead. My Diamond Monster 3DFX Voodoo. Unforgettable

[hmpeter]

No other PC hardware upgrade impressed me so much since then, and I guess no other ever will. It was just a complete different world.
The praise of new features today's Graphids Cards manufacturers make with each new generation is just outright boring in comparison.
My brother and me just built us some nice Pentium 2 / Voodoo 3 gaming rigs to do some retro gaming/LAN. Worth every penny! (I still have my old youth rig though: P133, 16MByte of RAM, S3 Virge Shocker DX + Voodoo Graphics. Yeah! :D Today quite some websites would not fit in the RAM those machines hat to run games and even windows in their later days. ^^)

[MatSpeedle]

Great video! I had a Voodoo 2 8Mb bought for my birthday by my dad. Sadly it was DOA, when it was sent back for a return they sent me the 12Mb Voodoo 2 instead. Needless to say it was an amazing day for me. The first game that literally blow my mind was one of the NFS games, that when it rained, left rain drops on the screen. One of my favorite PC gaming memories of my childhood. I've finally source the exact same Creative Voodoo 2 Blaster for my current retro gamin PC. Cannot wait to play some of my old games! Your channel certainly gets me very nostalgic :) Keep up the great work!

[Vigulfr]

My 3Dfx memories was that they were too expensive for my parents to buy me one and I had to make do with a 2d VESA graphics card for bloody ages. I remember seeing the Voodoo boxes at pc stores and pc fairs and pretty much drooling.

[UselessDuckCompany]

My first card was a voodoo 5 and I loved it. It had 2 massive processors and fans.

[Larry]

It was Interstate '76 that changed me, more so as it just drove me nuts with the choppy frame rate.

[koopakape]

Starting PC gaming seriously around year 2000, Starseige Tribes being the prime example, and going from an integrated card to a Voodoo3.... it absolutely was *exactly* like the side-by-side clips. Before, everything was chunky and the textures were made up of huge, obvious pixels, the framerate was something around 10-20 at best, then with the Voodoo it suddenly became buttery smooth, high framerate, incredible textures, and awesome lighting. No single PC upgrade will ever feel as massive for gaming as this did.

[rendellvalles]

I have a gtx 950, and is looking for an upgrade, will the 3dfx voodoo be good?

[chickenlivers]

I remember the first time I played GTA with my new Voodoo2. I went from choppy gameplay to so smooth and clear it felt unnatural. Not to mention the first time I saw that 3DFX logo as the card was initialized.

[quajay]

For me, NHL 98 is why I bought my first Diamond Monster 3D 3DFX card, paird with a Diamond Stealth II S220

[GadgetUK]

Great video! Yes, 3DFX turned the industry around =D Carmageddon was great on a Voodoo.