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Article #89200Re: Please help old timer with vid card
From: tm
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:29
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:29
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The Voodoo3 cards (2000 and 3000) are both 2D and 3d but since the company was liquidated by Nvidia a few years back you can only find these cards sold on Ebay nowadays, sometimes for as low as 5 dollars. If you do get a used 3dfx voodoo3 card you can still download drivers for it from www.voodoofiles.com ZiggyPopp wrote: > I feel like an idiot for posting this because I know this has been > beat to death. I just cannot find a solution for my issue. > > I have a Dell Dimension L800r running Win ME. I think it's got 128 MB > ram. I know the PC is fine for D2 since my days of playing date back to > my old P75/3dfx setup. > > The thing I do not understand is that my current PC has no vid card. The > vid input seems to go to the motherboard??? > > I want to get a new card for D2 and D3. I know that any 3dfx card will > do fine, but, isn't the 3dfx family of cards for 3D acceleration only? > My problem is that I would like to get a card that will function as a > graphics card as well as a 3D excellerator(SP?) since I only have one > PCI slot left and would like to get a new monitor as well. > > I have spent so much time trying to figure out which card to get my wife > is about to shut me down. > > Any advice or opinions are greatly appreciated. > > Also, I have tried to register on the DBB and cannot. The email confirm > is never sent?? > > ZP >
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