The big GPU companies don't always get it right -- here are the graphics cards that dissapointed gamers with slow performance ...

By the end of 1997, 3dfx’s Voodoo Gaphics and the GLide API were the dominant 3D accelerators and 3D graphics API for the consumer market. Orchid Technologies Righteous 3D, the first Voodoo card An ...

However, 1998's 3dfx Voodoo 2 was a worthy successor, arriving just a few months after another iD showcase, Quake II. This purple period wasn't to last, as GLide fell out of favor and ATi and ...

If you played games, the 3dfx Voodoo 2 was undoubtedly the ... get reflective floor surfaces in Unreal using GLide, for example. But the Voodoo 2 was the last of its era - the competition was ...

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. However, the 3dfx Voodoo ...

The GPU served up 6MB of EDO DRAM, a maximum core clock speed of around 50MHz, and support for things like the Glide ... of the Voodoo Rush wasn’t what ultimately sealed 3dfx’s fate, though.

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 ...

The film “Voodoo Macbeth” tells the story of how this groundbreaking production came to be, from the perspective of a then 20-year old “genius” Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridges), who ...

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.

Among the rarest of desirable hardware are 3dfx's Voodoo graphics cards ... but retro gaming enthusiasts swear by the Voodoo cards' superior Glide performance and excellent image quality.