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creo que éste video debería ser preservado como un legado de la humanidad.

This video is pointless. S3 Virge was never meant to compete with Voodoo 1.

Why does croc look filteted?

I prefere the colour tones of the Matrox card by far, just needs a 3D accelerator strapped on it but I genuinely think it does colours better despite the choppy performance and texture problems.

讓我想起 mystique + M3D 的日子……

Otherwise reffered to as the Matrox Mistake. haha... but frame rate back in the day wasn't always everything. I had the priviledge of owning a Voodoo2 card, ATI Rage Pro, STB Velocity 4400 (nvidia), and a Matrox G400. For the most part, the Voodoo2 was the smoothest and overall best, but there were many times I preferred running the ATI Rage Pro over it because the image quality on the Voodoo was always washed out in comparison. The Nvidia card while also fast, and image quality between those two often hitched and made the game unenjoyable. I ended up settling on the G400 because of it's amazing colors, definition of image, and overall picture quality, while still offering smooth frame rates. It seemed to just work. I was really dissappointed the Matrox Parhelia didn't do better, because it would have been great to have an extra player in the 3D card game today, but ATI hit a home run with their next gen and dominated everyone putting to bed even 3dfx, and nearly bankrupting nvidia. If it wasn't for Sony bailing them out, Nvidia would be bankrupt. Wild times.

The marketing on these cards were terrible. Remember the weird jester they used in their PC Mag ads? lol

two radeon x1900 xtx connect via crossfire cable to ati mach64gt on motherboard with intel core 2 quad qx6700 conroe processor install windows xp professional then computer game half life 2 will run normally with high graphics settings

oh I thought this was a 2D card

Along with the MilleniumII still my favorite card for older PCs - speed and picture quality(Rivas are nice too). Only downside is they have no VESA 320x200x16/32 support out of the box unlike some other older cards. I think I got my first Mystique in December of 1995 and never got it to work on my P60 in windows due to resource conflicts.

What api or mode did you use to get this running with some acceleration?

Also is very surprising i think this version of HL playable with all this translucent walls ! very funny and very strange technicalluy speaking, how is it possible ? z-buffer or something missing ?

Hahaha i love this psychedelic version of Croc, haha ! :D

Well that's not so bad, frankly. It might be the least worst game card tested here, no ? :)

3D deccelerator

These videos should be on a separate tech channel

i had this in 1998 and played games on software 2d rendering. my next card was a voodoo3 2000 16mb ram this was after 2 years of struggling with 2d software rendering. glidefx amazed me. i finished carmageddon 1 on s3virge 2d 4mb sdram in one year. i finished carmageddon on voodoo in one week :))) . even played delta force online. counter strike on vga res. now i have a 7900xtx, frustration can be noticed easily.

Warhammer: Dark Omen mentioned! Great game, and pain in the ass to run on modern PC, somewhat made easier by dgVoodoo. Great video, shame 3D Rage is such a trainwreck

Matrox Mystique - I bought this card [1997] because I couldn't afford anything better or more expensive, it served me for about 3-4 years until I replaced my PC, I have many nice memories with this equipment, if you don't have what you like, you like what you have !

Just buyed one for 20 bucks. This card is awesome fast in plain DOS. For accelerated 3D a voodoo sits beside.

3dfx voodoo 1 dont support Direct3D, only support Glide and OpenGL.

Let me guess, you would prefer a S3 Trio 3D 2x with 4 or 8Mb without any difference? That for sure is one the worst cards ever produced and far bellow the SIS 6326. SIS did a great job for it's time, just by providing onboard IGPs better than some cards available specially from S3. You really don't know what you are dealing with.

This is approximately what 3DO 2 graphics would have looked like. I'm sure the performance would be slightly higher without Direct3D weighing it down 😂

makes the gt210 look like some kind of space age marvel in comparison.

Much better than RTX 4090 💯🔥

Don't forget to mention the low frequency noise it seems to cause in your footage. And well, with textures looking like shit and alpha blending not working,the framerate doesn't really matter...

Great with the voodoo 1

The most common weakness I'm noticing with these very early pre-voodoo 3D cards is texturing. They almost all either just absolutely butcher the texture quality, leave them out entirely or have a ton of glitchy artifacts. Or in the case of the S3 ViRGE, are horrendously slow when drawing them.

Wait wait wait. It's 96/97. That card was resly great. Ok Alpha + bilinear missing but there were patches fixing problems. And You forgot to mention about special games for this card, still I have them at my home. All in all great card, perfect for 2D + 3Dfx 3D compatibility.

For comparison, here is Amiga AGA graphics performance: ua-cam.com/video/rGBUzfMWVsM/v-deo.html

I played Half Life 1 and NFS3. 320x240. When I upped it to 640x480 the frames were in single digit. Then I upgraded to GeForce 2 GTS and experienced the same games smooth as butter at 1280x1024.

How to achieve that crazy-amazing bokeh??

Pretty good when paired with some 3D-only cards of the time

Interesting video. We had several of those in our NT workstations at that time, mostly in relation to 3D content creation (Lightwave, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCAD etc.). Too bad it all became e-waste pretty fast.

I've been looking for this card for a year and never seen any, not even on eBay. Why is it so rare? 😀

No one doubts that all graphics chips from Alliance are crap. However, it is possible that a bit smaller than we could see. Why? Some old graphics such as S3 VirgeVX and DX were sensitive to which PCI slot they were inserted into, depending on the used chipset (VIA). They gave less power, or it made errors in the sound, or other nonsense. It seems to me that the bad sound in the video indicates that the AT3D somehow communicates poorly via PCI, and subsequently it affects what is happening on the sound board. So it could be a similar situation. It might be worth trying a card on a motherboard with an Intel chipset from that era (such as something with an i430HX or VX). Something may have gone wrong during development and the chip may have a problem with a newer PCI implementation or with specific PCI slots. It's just speculation though, I don't have it tracked for this particular chip unlike others.

my first gpu was this card with 8 MB of ram and I hated it.

I owned one of these beauties. The apocalypse 3dx2. Played tomb raider 1 + 2 great. Struggled with TombRaider 3 though. Wish I'd watched your channel when you made this video. As I literally threw it away when moving in 2018. You could have had it for free. Instead, it's rusting away on the tip somewhere :(

I bought a Mach64 PCI in late 1995 because it supported YUV video acceleration in hardware, which not many other cards did at the time. It made a huge difference. AVIs on CD magazines or CDi/VCD were a new thing around that time.

'90s were the real wild west for graphics cards. Irony is that most weren't even that bad, it all depended on a game developer specifically supporting the given architecture (as is evidenced by Tomb Raider and Quake in this very video). But of course most didn't bother to support all 10+ vastly different designs and related graphics APIs and thus only few manufacturers came out on top.

In Final Reality it looks as if Mystique supports only a single transparent layer at once, completely disregarding every other behind it, and even then it can't properly do it and uses dithering to only simulate transparency. Not unlike Sega Saturn. Except Saturn had software specifically written trying to work around that, but obviously Final Reality was made for better chips. Almost as if Matrox tried to emulate 3D with the 2D hardware they had (which would also explain the terrible performance), not unlike Saturn. In fact all following games confirm that it couldn't do transparency.

i worked on that chip. we told mangement what we should build. they told us what to build. it failed.

This chip became the 2D part of the Voodoo Rush. Even if 3D was utterly broken the ProMotion created a good 2D image. Most likely 3dfx got that chip for cheap because nobody else wanted it. ^^

The ending seems to be a bit rushed

I had one of these! They were terrible.

Yea, I had a card with this chip on it back in the day. I was in highschool at this time and back then we didn't know/care about FPS. Back then we just wanted something that would play Duke3D or get windows 95 to be stable enough to run for an hour or two. When more graphics demanding games started coming out we spent more and more time trying to forcefeed whatever graphics card to run these games until finally we would hop in the car and run over to bestbuy for whatever was cheap. Goodtimes, really brought everyone together back then, before the (cable)internet showed up.

i bought 15 of these in high school to go on the computers in my A+/Cisco networking class so we could play quake III and Counter strike 1.6 on LAN. i also still run one of these, in my macintosh performa 6360cd. i was running benchmarks on the Rage 128 just the other week. did you know that when paired with a 877Mhz G4 PPC CPU - the rage is just 10 or so % slower than the CPU in work station benchmarks and quake III fps rendering.

This is not half as bad as i thought it would be.

Dont mention Crysis anymore fkin Jensen ruined that one

good^^. 제가 사용하던 카드입니다. 3d 기능은 없다고 생각하면 좋지요