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LGR Tech Tales – 3Dfx & Voodoo’s Self-Destruction

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This episode covers the founding, voodoo-powered rise, and ridiculously powerful fall of 3Dfx Interactive. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

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22 comments

@theopenrift March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Honestly you have to wonder how much this supposed "Rampage" project would've changed the landscape of 3D graphics on the PC if 3DFX hadn't made so many foolish business decisions, or even just the company's presence in general.
@matthewpaulargall9102 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
These videos are addictive!
@christiangomez2496 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
The one thing I found out these was that early pump it up and hydrotunder PCBs were using PC-based hardware with DOS-based OSes and intel processors and most notably, 3DFX GPUs.

The difference is that PIU had the GPU embedded onto the motherboard while HydroThunder had it on a seperate card with the OS being stored on an HDD with PIU having DOS on a Disk on Chip.
@thebasementonlinegaming5394 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
should not had that big lunch
@kingkai3862 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
11923
@lukasgroot March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Hi Clint, long time enjoyer of LGR here, could you tell me the name of the music in the opening seconds of this video?
I think I've heard it before in the Stalker Anomaly mod, it's beautiful.
@AllGamingStarred March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Ah the 90's
Tomb raider 2
System Shock
Sega vs Nintendo
Actual music on MTV

Now:
What the hell is Destiny?
Microtransactions
Only three consoles
Reality tv on MTV
@AllGamingStarred March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
damn I love that music intro, what is it? Is that from Halo?
@velosiped135 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Even today with retro PC builds everyone wants a Voodoo card, even when there are faster and MUCH cheaper options available. Why? It’s a Voodoo!
@StevenCusic March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
gauntlet dark legacy used 3dfx and a mipps r7000, it was pretty much a ps2 with a voodoo
@zaldronthesage March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
you need to make videos like this again. Your new stuff is hot garbage.
@DarkSide3211 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
2015 was 8 years ago? damn
@lemonjumpsofficial March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
I can't believe I've worked on, for a short amount of time, resurrecting an old game engine from quantum3d and now i get to see how they fit into this.
it's kinda ridiculous.

shout out to ppl working on Idata3d! it was a pain getting it to work on intel HD graphics lmao

(the fault was very much on intels and management side)
@barryschalkwijk9388 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
I salute you 3dfx. You provided so many gamers with the biggest bang for your buck upgrade that has not been topped since. And you sparked a competetive market of which the fruits we still all enjoy. I bet you could make a retroactive Kickstarter and make millions of bucks. Godspeed you glorious motherhuggers.
@Michael-it6gb March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
I remember the very late 1990s my buddy had a Voodoo 3 card in his computer and he could claim to be the coolest kid in town. It's funny that Voodoo cards would completely disappear in few short years. It's like Google would drop dead by 2025 and everyone would forget about them. I think it's almost unfathomable.
@BigRyan505 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Had a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. It was one of those "wow" moments.
@markwullenschneider195 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
crazy how a Gateway home syatem with nVidia made a gen
@tonystark6306 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
I have been on an LGR kick lately. Thanks for all the knowledge man. And the back catalogue; top shelf. Loving your content prior to me becoming a subscriber. As a 35 year old man, you're hitting my nostalgia right in the bullseye my guy. 🤣🤘 Rock on.
@Lonewanderer30 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
What happened? They had a great product, but failed to improve it much, instead relying on pretty much adding more chips to a board and calling it a new product, all the while the law of diminishing returns vs cost was a wall waiting to be hit. Eventually the costly marketing couldn't disguise the fact the competition had not only caught up, it had far surpassed 3Dfx. The rest as they say, is history.
@Endorsememe March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
Sega Dreamcast was a big failure, what a bunch of twats crying about that something leaked. Todays world nobody would give a damn.
nice video.
@cobaltblue1975 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
@5:11 And if Intel wants to really break into the market in a big way, they would be wise to pay close attention to this lesson because both NVidia and AMD have both forgotten it. All it would take is one viable player who just makes chips to come along and let the board partners do the designing.
@wrayday7149 March 31, 2024 - 12:45 am
I might be mistaken but:
Pretty sure 3Dfx was the first to get their GPU's to post 1st and display before all the post checks.
I think they were the 1st to do anti-aliasing.
They might of been the 1st to have unified architecture updates (can't really remember). You didn't need to find the exact manufacturer card/driver like AMD and nVidia did.

GeForce paid tribute to the series with their GeForce FX 5500 series cards. Which was also the last number officially released by 3Dfx. It was also touted in the relaunch of one of the best Command and Conquers we got C&C Generals.

It's an absolute travesty looking back on the technology 3Dfx was toying around with well ahead of their competition. The 6600 was supposed to be a multi-gpu card.....

I miss 3Dfx.

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