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3dfx Interactive, Inc. was an American computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing...

developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. It started as a proprietary API but was later open-sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated...

all TNT2 cards were the same. RIVA TNT2's competition included the 3dfx Voodoo2, 3dfx Voodoo3, the Matrox G400, and the ATI Rage 128. The main competitor...

5 was the last and most powerful graphics card line that was released by 3dfx Interactive. All members of the family were based upon the VSA-100 graphics...

of three specialized 3D graphics chips on a single chipset setup, made by 3dfx. It was released in February 1998 as a replacement for the original Voodoo...

and assembly of its products. With the decline and eventual bankruptcy of 3dfx in 2000, ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players...

would give better results with some older graphics cards like the 3dfx Voodoo 2. 3dfx and other competing graphics-card companies pointed out that a fast...

in litigation brought by the trustee of 3dfx's bankruptcy estate to challenge its 2000 acquisition of 3dfx's intellectual assets. On November 6, 2014...

to produce a single output. The technology was invented and developed by 3dfx and later purchased by Nvidia during the acquisition of the company. SLI...

games during RIVA 128's lifetime used 3Dfx's proprietary Glide API. Legally, only 3Dfx cards could use 3Dfx's Glide API. Like the competing ATI Rage...

was a series of computer gaming video cards manufactured and designed by 3dfx Interactive. It was the successor to the company's high-end Voodoo2 line...

The TNT was designed as a follow-up to the RIVA 128 and as a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2. It added a second pixel pipeline, practically...

graphics company. It was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics...

type Graphic chip 3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI Avenger 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 Avenger 3DFX Voodoo3 3500 Avenger 3DFX Voodoo4 4500 Napalm 3DFX Voodoo5 5500 Napalm...

Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond...

otherwise provided their own APIs. The original implementation came from 3dfx Interactive, and was designed around supporting Quake. Other companies implementing...

violence, with characters graphically slaying defeated opponents. Utilizing 3dfx Voodoo chips for the hardware, the game received attention for its cutting-edge...

first games optimized for video cards with a 3dfx chipset using the Glide API. Only video cards with the 3dfx Voodoo 1 chipset were supported upon the game's...

rendering via support for various early 3D accelerators like the 3DFX Voodoo Graphics via the 3DFX Glide API. It supported Windows, Linux, Mac and Unix. Epic...

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Matrox Millennium, ATI Rage, and S3 ViRGE. Only 3DFX's Voodoo Graphics was faster, but unlike the 3DFX Voodoo, the V1000 included 2D/VGA capability making...

allowed them to earn points to unlock new cars and tracks. The machine used a 3dfx Voodoo 3 graphics card. The original San Francisco Rush 2049 was released...

Ultra was intended to prevent 3dfx taking the lead with their Voodoo 5 6000 that was ending up never released as 3dfx went bankrupt. The Ultra model...

Impression but by this time the series was lagging behind emerging vendors like 3dfx Interactive. Matrox made several attempts to increase its share of the market...

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company funding Ardent at the time, and likely brought the algorithm to 3dfx Interactive circa 1994. Jim Blinn demonstrated a simple approximation of...

Voodoo Graphics, a series of graphics-acceleration cards manufactured by 3dfx Interactive Voodoo, a 3D match moving software program Voodoo (company),...

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final special effects was the spatial anti-aliasing technique used by the 3dfx Voodoo cards. These cards add a slight blur to the output signal that makes...

vendor of multimedia computer products. In 1999, the company was acquired by 3dfx Interactive. STB Systems, Inc., was founded in Richardson, Texas, in 1981...

other tweaks), VESA, as well as various video APIs such as DirectX and 3Dfx's Glide. 86Box can also emulate various video cards such as the ATI Mach64...

14th. ATI hired many of the remaining employees for a new Orlando office. 3dfx Interactive had sued Real3D on a patent basis, and Intel's purchase moved...

demonstration program initially written by Gary Tarolli (later founder of 3dfx) at Silicon Graphics, Inc in the summer of 1983. It represents landmarks...

prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the Windows version of the game installs an OpenGL ICD (opengl32.dll) designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware...

3Dfx from Image Tech...

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Macronix graphics subsystem on a 3Dfx Voodoo Rush...

a better price–performance ratio than existing products like those from 3dfx Interactive. Rapid changes in that market, notably with the introduction...

retail graphics cards. The move paralleled the 1999 3dfx purchase of STB Systems, which changed 3dfx from a graphics chipset supplier to companies including...

fighter from Sega's Virtua Fighter series. Yamamoto's group opted to use 3dfx Voodoo 2 and Voodoo Banshee graphics processors alongside a Motorola PowerPC...

to 3dfx adapters. Due to the emulator's popularity, several Glide to DirectX translation utilities were made specifically for UltraHLE for non-3dfx video...

model. RAGE Pro offered performance in the range of Nvidia's RIVA 128 and 3dfx's Voodoo accelerator, but generally failed to match or exceed its competitors...

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even on hardware many times more powerful than the original S3 Savage3D and 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics. Because of Unreal's long development time, the course of...

after the commercial failure of Jetfighter 2015. The later games support 3dfx Voodoo cards. Jetfighter II was produced before the winner of the Advanced...

did not, targeting their fixed-function T&L pipeline. PS 1.0 — Unreleased 3dfx Rampage, DirectX 8 PS 1.1 — GeForce 3, DirectX 8 PS 1.2 — 3Dlabs Wildcat...

different configurations: the GeForce 256 was 4×1, GeForce2 GTS was 4×2 and 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 was a 2×1+2×1 SLI design. The third texture unit did not get...

"Graphics+" patch, which added Rendition Vérité hardware support and Glide API for 3dfx graphics card support to EF2000. EF2000 is a combat flight simulator of the...

startups:[citation needed] CompCore purchased by Zoran, GigaPixel purchased by 3Dfx and Mobilygen purchased by Maxim Integrated Products in 2008, as well as...

"Abort" button. San Francisco Rush was built around the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics dual chips. The 3dfx hardware was cheaper to develop for than proprietary systems...

neared, gameplay videos were created to demonstrate its support for the 3dfx graphics card. It received a port to the PlayStation as Uprising X, which...

Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) is a multi-GPU method developed by 3DFX for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together to produce a single output....

Mechwarrior 2 on PC supported resolutions up to 800 × 600 on the original 4 MB 3dfx Voodoo due to not using z-buffering. In rendering, z-culling is early pixel...

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Righteous 3D using 3dfx Voodoo...

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Name Country of origin Year of market entry Year of market exit Fate Notes 3dfx United States 1994 2001 Bankruptcy; acquired by Nvidia in 2002 3Dlabs United...

1997. It included new tracks, vehicles, environments, network levels, and 3Dfx support. The Carmageddon Max Pack, released on February 17, 1998, bundled...

developed to take advantage of the rise in video cards using 3D accelerators and 3DFX, and it was distributed with many video cards. Upon release, Terracide received...

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three extra cars, three bonus cars, a new driving style called "Wild", and 3dfx Glide hardware acceleration support. Attributed to multiple references: "Game...

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"Diablo II, Sequel To The Number-One Selling Role-Playing Game, Debuts With 3Dfx Support" (Press release). London: Blizzard Entertainment. September 8, 1998...

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particular, the Rage Pro was one of the first viable 2D-plus-3D alternatives to 3dfx's 3D-only Voodoo chipset. 3D acceleration in the Rage line advanced from the...

for the IBM PC compatible market, competing with established firms such as 3dfx and emerging competitors like Nvidia. ArtX became better known for designing...

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enthusiasts to frequently upgrade to the latest CPUs and graphics cards (3dfx, ATI, and Nvidia) for their desktops (usually a tower case) in order to run...

Looking Glass Studios. It was initially designed to run only on a P200 with 3dfx acceleration, hardware which was beyond the reach of the average consumer...

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Computer Systems (ECS) Gigabyte Technology MSI PowerColor Sapphire Technology 3dfx AMD Intel "Articles of Incorporation of EVGA Corporation". California Secretary...

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This is a sortable list of first-person shooter engines. List of free first-person shooters List of game engines First-person shooter engine...

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Point: Korea add-ons. It includes a Windows executable. Also included is the 3Dfx update, which adds a Glide renderer. Longbow Anthology was released in 1998...

title to use fully 3D graphics and support hardware acceleration on the 3dfx Voodoo. Steel Panthers was released in 1995 by SSI, very much resembling...

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cross-platform, only hardware developers which supported Mac (ATI, NVIDIA, and 3dfx) produced drivers for it. This left any comparison between QD3D and alternative...

Piggyback Interactive. The 15-person team at Toka created the game using the 3dfx Interactive Glide API for PC hardware in the same fashion as Midway Games'...

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Thomas J. Scott's WIF of 1991 (5 exponent bits, 10 mantissa bits) and the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics processor of 1995 (same as Hitachi). ILM was searching for...

GeForce 3 was introduced three months after Nvidia acquired the assets of 3dfx. It was marketed as the nFinite FX Engine, and was the first Microsoft Direct3D...

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Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 3dfx Interactive (acquired by Nvidia in 2002) Achronix Actions Semiconductor Adapteva...

texture compression scheme for 3D graphics, invented by the hardware vendor 3dfx Interactive and offered as an open source rival standard to S3TC in September...

a high-performance all-terrain vehicle Voodoo Banshee, a video card by 3Dfx Banshee (video game), a 1994 Amiga shoot 'em up video game Banshee (collection)...

programming.) Vulkan Direct3D (a subset of DirectX) Glide API for the pioneering 3DFX accelerators QuickDraw 3D developed by Apple Computer starting in 1995, abandoned...

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titles to use fully 3D graphics, and supported hardware acceleration on the 3dfx Voodoo. The game's expansion pack, The Wilderness Missions, was released...

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Screamer 2, but changes context to a rallying game. The game made use of 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset, allowing the game's graphics hardware acceleration...

marketed today. From the mid-1990s as 3D gaming was taking off, companies like 3dfx (with their Voodoo) and Nvidia (with their RIVA 128) advanced the market...

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distributed on the internet. The von Ahlen video utilized animated stills using 3dfx and version 4.2 of Adobe Premiere. It has now become the de facto music video...

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bolster their Grass Valley broadcasting and network product line. When 3dfx's Voodoo series of PC-gaming-oriented 3D graphics cards became popular in...

the 1990s while graphics chipsets firms such as Tseng Labs, S3 Graphics, 3Dfx, nVidia and ATI Technologies became popular, but sales of graphic cards were...

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and two DMA-driven DACs, outputting in stereo. This was used in Midway's 3DFX-based hardware (NFL Blitz, etc.). This system would be adopted by Atari Games...

on the port as his first task at SingleTrac. The PC version also features 3Dfx hardware acceleration, which allows for higher resolution gameplay and visual...

issues with software and hardware. Savage4 was hardly a match for the new 3dfx Voodoo3, ATI Rage 128, Matrox G400, or NVIDIA Riva TNT2. In OpenGL games...

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 1063. Electronic Buyers News. Smith, Tony (1999-10-06). "GigaPixel takes on 3dfx, S3, Nvidia with... tiles". Gigapixel. The Register. Archived from the original...

evolution of graphics processing took a major leap forward in the mid-1990s with 3dfx Interactive's introduction of the Voodoo series, one of the earliest consumer-facing...

Graphics, which went bankrupt in 2009. Three former SGI employees had founded 3dfx in 1994. Their Voodoo Graphics extension card relied on PCI to provide cheap...

dedicated graphics cards, focusing on the Glide API, specially designed for 3dfx accelerators. While OpenGL and Direct3D were supported, they reported slower...

place between Chromatic Research and 3dfx Interactive at a time when Chromatic did not have a good 3D story, and 3DFX did not have a good 2D story. However...

animation [Hand-drawn]) Angst (Mixed technique: pencil drawings/video/photo/3DFX) A Peach for the Teach (Traditional hand-drawn animation, colored on computer)...

memory directly resurfaced with the introduction of the Scan-Line Interleave (3dfx SLI) technology, although this technology is aimed at connecting two equally...

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XB-70, Miley Cyrus vs. Billy Ray Cyrus, Delicious vs. Malicious, 3dfx Voodoo2 vs. 3dfx Voodoo3, Nvidia RIVA 128 vs. Nvidia RIVA TNT, AA Batteries vs. D...

support all OpenGL applications, it was essentially a "Mini ICD" much like 3DFX had used with their Voodoo boards. TurboGL included support for then-new...

Adventures: Redguard, support was implemented for 3D graphics cards equipped with 3dfx graphics processors. Competing technologies from Matrox and Nvidia were not...

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RARS (Robot Auto Racing Simulator). When Espié and Guionneau acquired a 3dfx graphics card for game development, they made the first 3D version of the...

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Device Video card Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430 ISA Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 PCI 3dfx Interactive Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo3 Sound card Sound Blaster 16 (ISA, no...

generated terrains (which was supported through the first-generation Voodoo 3dfx 3D accelerator card effects), a more streamlined interface system, and an...

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benefit when used in conjunction with a dedicated 3D graphics card like 3dfx's Voodoo range. The game received an expansion pack, Mysteries of the Sith...

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Direct3D – main competitor of OpenGL Glide (API) – a graphics API once used on 3dfx Voodoo cards Metal (API) – a graphics API for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS OpenAL...

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a software display mode and an accelerated Glide mode, because in 1998, 3DFX cards were the de facto standard for gaming 3D graphics. However, modern...

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Windows version was supported. 3D acceleration is supported only through 3dfx hardware. The game now contains 13 alien races, 25 castes. The in-game map...

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Scan-Line Interleave: The origin of the SLI trademark, as employed by the 3dfx Voodoo2, which renders a frame's even scan-lines on the first GPU and its...

world's largest commercial aircraft market Nvidia (who acquired competitor 3dfx in 2002) and AMD (formerly ATI which AMD acquired in 2006) in the GPU market...

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Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from S3 Graphics, 3dfx, ATI Technologies and NVIDIA. Previously the only privately owned company...

proprietary programming interfaces. On the whole, earlier graphics accelerators by 3Dfx, Matrox and others relied on the CPU for geometry processing. This subject...

After the demise of Media Vision, several of Pellucids employees founded 3dfx. Jain oversaw the development of several multimedia chips because he quickly...

for drivers. The 3D graphics provided in the simulation were supplied by 3dfx's 3D Blaster Voodoo 2. Drivers could also modify the performance of their...

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yields, and thus, higher costs. ATI, perhaps mindful of what had happened to 3dfx when they took focus off their "Rampage" processor, abandoned the R250 refresh...

3D first-person shooter titles of the time, most notably Quake III Arena. 3dfx and other competing graphics card companies contended that a fast CPU would...

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game is notable as being the first NASCAR game to have 3D Acceleration: 3Dfx Acceleration through DOS, and Rendition through Windows. Like its predecessor...

by Daryl Reaugh, who provided color commentary. EA Sports also introduces 3Dfx Glide support for the first time in the NHL series. Despite his career ending...

to which the VGA card was connected (a similar solution was later used by 3dfx Voodoo graphics). Elan Graphics Extreme Graphics - Supplanted Express Graphics...

VideoLogic NEC 350 nm ? ? Voodoo Graphics 1,000,000 1996 3dfx TSMC 500 nm ? ? Voodoo Rush 1,000,000 1997 3dfx TSMC 500 nm ? ? NV3 3,500,000 1997 Nvidia SGS, TSMC...

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mainly due to the introduction of first generation 3D accelerators such as 3DFX Voodoo. The faster CPUs were capable of simulating increasingly realistic...

in Las Vegas, but did not appear on the show floor. The arcade board used 3dfx components and included 600 MB of RAM. Gameplay is a cross between real time...

graphics API. While supporting 3D accelerators from Nvidia, ATI (now AMD), 3dfx, Matrox and S3, possessing a 3D accelerator was not mandatory for running...

dropped out of the war due to the only manufacturer supporting it — that is, 3dfx — ceasing production of their video cards. Video disc formats: MMCD versus...

It was not uncommon to pair up the Mystique or another Matrox card with a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 3D-only board because the Voodoo cards were the fastest and...

video chipsets featuring AGP support included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage...

multiple Nvidia video cards Scan-Line Interleave, for connecting multiple 3dfx video cards Service level indicator, a measure performance from a service...

support from fellow video game hardware manufacturers Nintendo, Sega, and 3dfx Interactive, while Connectix was backed by fellow software firms and trade...

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known for their cutting-edge graphics and effects. The game utilized the 3dfx technology, and was included in some retail versions of the Voodoo2 graphics...

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the Direct3D graphics API, as well as a 3D graphics chip lent to him by 3dfx. Nalin submitted the game into a competition held by the magazine Edge and...

number of companies including bleem!, Sony Online Entertainment, Ubisoft, and 3dfx Interactive, among others. Kauppinen is the founder and CEO of the International...

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interface, during the time when many competing 3D accelerators (notably, 3dfx Voodoo Graphics) still used the PCI connection. A unique characteristic,...

Picasso96 graphics card drivers and operated in a similar fashion to the 3dfx Glide API, which provided a uniform and standardised way for programmers...

four different ships available.[citation needed] Hyperdrive uses the same 3Dfx-based board as Midway's earlier game NFL Blitz, but with a faster processor...

support for Rendition's Redline, and 3dfx's Voodoo Rush. Soulblighter originally supported software rendering, all 3dfx and Rendition GPUs, and any graphics...

titles to use fully 3D graphics and support hardware acceleration on the 3dfx Voodoo. Other titles in the series are mainly tactical wargames featuring...

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Arena. 1995 – The Sega Saturn launch is unsuccessful. E3 is first held. 3dfx release the Voodoo GPU line. Key releases that year include Rayman, Ristar...

in 2002 by Pyrogon (an indie game company founded by former employee of 3dfx and id Software Brian Hook) as a digital download. LGP took interest in publishing...

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card. The New Straits Times also appreciated the game's performance with a 3Dfx Voodoo card, praising the graphics of the terrain, as well as water and helicopter...

number 5c, was playable in Windows. It supported both software rendering and 3dfx Glide-based 3D cards. The demo included two levels, one based on Switzerland...

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that fronted his bootleg version of Lineage II. In 2003, one year after 3dfx was bought by Nvidia and support ended, the source code for their drivers...

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doubling) of more than fifty gaming PC (Glide, Direct3D and miniOpenGL) 3Dfx Voodoo2 graphics card with infrared glasses H3D in 1998. A year later, Elsa...

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varied, but encountered sluggish performance and graphical bugs without 3Dfx settings enabled. Retrospective reception of Streets of SimCity has been...

4 Netscape Navigator Computer graphics Pixar Goes Public after Toy Story 3Dfx Voodoo ATI Rage Pro Voodoo Banshee Word processors Word 95 for Windows Corel...

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physical footprint as its predecessor. The introduction of competing hardware, 3dfx's Voodoo Graphics and Rendition's Verité, and game titles such as Id Software's...

initially planned to create a "B-title RTS game". As development progressed, 3dfx video cards began to proliferate amongst consumers, leading the Creative...

clock speed for the R250 chip. ATI, perhaps mindful of what had happened to 3dfx when they took focus off their Rampage processor, abandoned it in favor of...

developed from Mantle Glide – another low-level API, by the now defunct 3dfx GNM – low-level API of the PlayStation 4 GNMX – high-level API of the PlayStation...

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support was added to Mesa in 1997 in the form of a Glide driver for the new 3dfx Voodoo graphics card. Paul continued working on the SSEC Project after graduation...

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OpenGL, but to compete more effectively with other proprietary APIs such as 3dfx's Glide. From the beginning, the immediate mode also supported Talisman's...

Games Strategy Plus stated "TigerShark looks good normally, but throw a 3Dfx accelerator card into your rig and it looks spectacular". Peter Sharpe of...

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December 2, 1993. ProQuest 398397102. MacLellan, Andrew (December 4, 1995). "3Dfx, Alliance Semi target games $$". Electronic News. 41 (2094). International...

VOGONS discussion thread "SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing Help", post by...

Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019. "3dfx Announces Three Major Initiatives To Protect Creditors and Maximize Shareholder...

Sierra's Betrayal at Antara and Activision's MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries 3Dfx Version and Twinsen's Odyssey. "Twinsen's Odyssey". GameSpot. Archived from...

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have been written, including ones for ATI Mach64, ATI Rage128, ATI Radeon, 3dfx Voodoo3 through Voodoo5, Matrox G200 through G400, SiS 300-series, Intel...

These issues were also caused by the game development starting before the 3dfx Voodoo 1 moved towards 3D hardware. As a result, some techniques, including...

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filtering. Texture filtering became ubiquitous on PCs after the introduction of 3Dfx's Voodoo GPU. In the 1985 game Rescue on Fractalus! for the Atari 8-bit computers...

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valley. The Fallen Lords originally supported both software rendering and 3dfx's Glide hardware acceleration. Soon after it was released, Bungie released...

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for XFree86, Precision Insight created the first version of DRM for the 3dfx video cards, as a Linux kernel patch included within the Mesa source code...

photographs. The PC version introduced support for 3D acceleration, utilizing 3dfx's Glide API. The PlayStation, PC, and Saturn versions feature Ernie Johnson...

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graphical application programming interfaces (APIs) were tested, including 3dfx Glide, OpenGL, and Direct3D. Ultimately the game shipped with only Direct3D...

clock speed for the R250 chip. ATI, perhaps mindful of what had happened to 3dfx when they took focus off their Rampage processor, abandoned it in favor of...

yields, and thus, higher costs. ATI, perhaps mindful of what had happened to 3dfx when they took focus off their "Rampage" processor, abandoned the R250 refresh...

OS operating systems. Supported hardware included video processors from 3dfx, 3Dlabs, Alliance Semiconductor, AMD (Geode GX2), ARK Logic, ATI, Chips &...

showcased at a Demo Day by publisher Virgin Interactive Entertainment, and a 3Dfx display at the Computer Game Developer's Conference. A tech demo featuring...

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common 4:3 aspect ratio at the time. Later,[when?] there was an enhanced 3dfx Glide version of the game made. This was bundled with some Voodoo Cards as...

support was added to Mesa in 1997, based upon the Glide API for the then new 3dfx Voodoo I/II graphics cards and their successors. A major problem of using...

opponents. The arcade board is called the Seattle System, which is based on a 3Dfx chipset. According to Divita, the team decided to make the game support just...

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graphics and uninspired sound." Smith, Erica (October 29, 1997). "Game Pieces--3Dfx Sues VideoLogic". CNET Gamecenter. Archived from the original on August 17...

in contact with technicians at GPU manufacturers like Matrox, Nvidia, and 3dfx to sort out issues. Croteam announced Flesh, a multiplayer first-person shooter...

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Windows. The Windows release came in two versions, one with support for 3dfx video cards, and another with a software renderer. Electronic Arts imported...

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emulate a S3 ViRGE/DX graphics device, which supports Direct3D 3, and a 3dfx Voodoo2, which supports Glide, among others. When using a VGA or an SVGA...

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3dfx Interactive's Voodoo Graphics chipset. This enabled it to produce up to 300,000 polygons per second. The bulk of the code was written to 3dfx's direct...

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functionality. The Fallen Lords originally supported both software rendering and 3dfx's Glide 3D acceleration. Shortly after the game was released, Bungie issued...

DXKV. The Glide API was also made open source following the dissolution of 3dfx in 2002. The Genesis3D engine project, Crystal Space and Cube also spawned...

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warping. Increased draw distance. Higher resolution than the arcade version. 3dFx compatibility for filtered textures. 8 player multiplayer, like the arcade...

for Mac and clones. The ix3D Game Rocket was a 3D accelerator based on the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee chipset. The ix3D Road Rocket was a 2D and 3D CardBus video...

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innovative technology was the GeForce 256. This card was superior to what 3dfx had to offer at the time, namely Voodoo3, which only fell short because the...

capable of 70,000 times as many instructions per second. November 6, 1995 3dfx releases Voodoo, the first consumer 3D accelerator, able to render scenes...

goldhawkinteractive.com. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015. Treiber-Quellcode von 3dfx im Netz aufgetaucht – Von Nvidia offenbar geduldet by Christian Klaß on Golem...

"VOGONS • View topic - 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)". www.vogons.org. Retrieved 2019-04-18. "Hyperblade - PC Review...

version was ported by programmer Duane Johnson, who previously worked on the 3dfx versions of the original Descent and Descent II. Descent 3 was ported to...

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called “DIS” systems in contrast to “UMA” systems. Technologies such as 3dfx's Scan-Line Interleave, Nvidia's SLI and NVLink, and AMD's CrossFire allow...

comes the East meets West, PC meets Console RPG, Anachronox, this week's 3dfx Game of the Week". Next Generation. 1999-04-23. Archived from the original...

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distributed on the internet. The von Ahlen video utilized animated stills using 3dfx and Version 4.2 of Adobe Premiere. It has now become the de facto music video...

both points, contending that the graphics only look good if the optional 3dfx card is used, and that the simplistic gameplay and limited story will quickly...

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was set in a fictitious future Korea war theater and featured support for 3DFx graphics cards. It garnered a score of 8.7 as reviewed by editors at GameSpot...