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Re: Please help old timer with vid card

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From: tm
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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