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3dfx Voodoo 3. At this time, 3dfx had two products targeting the low end of the market, the Velocity 100 and Velocity 200. These were effectively Voodoo 3 2000s with one TMU disabled. This TMU could ...

As a result, 3dfx developed its own API, GLide. This was based on OpenGL, so it wasn't unfamiliar to experienced 3D developers, but it pared back the calls and instructions to focus on those used ...

At this time, going down the 3dfx route was the only way to ensure compatibility with the company's GLide API, which was required by some games, and also sometimes looked better than Direct3D and ...

The titles that supported Voodoo’s Glide API delivered an unmatched visual experience in 3D, at resolutions reaching up to 800 x 600, or 640 x 480 for the lower spec.

3dfx Voodoo Rush 3dfx was once a formidable rival to Nvidia and ATI. It rose to fame in the early 1990s, and like several other GPU makers of that time, it rode the wave of 3D graphics until it ...

It produced the Voodoo series of plug-in graphics cards, arguably the first successful attempt to bring hardware-accelerated 3D to PC gamers. As with so many version-one attempts at anything, the ...

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Turok is an interesting case in that it features support for 3dfx's proprietary Glide API, designed for Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerators - effectively the standard for PC gaming in the late 90s.

For Glide, you'll have to use a resolution override in the 3dfx Tools applet, and the resolutions aren't going to be quite what you expect; 16:9 tops out at 1600x900 and 21:9 tops out at 1920x800.