3dfx

3owners with an opinion

–of verdicts positive

1/1positive/negative since 2024

0happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance and display.

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Matrox Millennium1

What owners wrote

Doesn’t like it

Ahhh, what a piece of shit that was! I spent summer lawnmowing money on that thing. When I got a real job next summer, bought an AGP Matrox Millenium G200 and after that the NVIDIA GeForce2, and never strayed from NVDA since!

Likes it

I have had three experiences like this in my life: 1. PC Speaker -> Sound Blaster: Most games that I had were instantly upgraded 2. Doom: my first "real" fluid 3D experience, with stairs, etc, compared to maze-like maps in Wolfenstein 3. Software Rendering -> 3dfx (Canopus Pure3D): Transparent water surfaces in Quake (if you re-vis'd the maps), smooth and fluid visuals, it was amazing. The closest thing to this, in modern gaming, has been the boss fights in Elden Ring: https://i.imgur.com/gzLvsLw.mp4 -- visually, they are quite epic.

Neutral

This is how I was introduced to Half-Life - I got it with my GPU and played Day One. Unfortunately I also don't recall which it was. I do recall I had a Voodoo, then moved to a TNT2 and then later a GeForce 2. The TNT2 came out well after Half-Life, so it must have been 3dfx at least.