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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
> 

> 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

    Also be sure to get a pci card instead of a agp card, to fit your 
motherboard.

rms 

rms wrote:

>>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
> 
> 
>     Also be sure to get a pci card instead of a agp card, to fit your 
> motherboard.
> 
> rms 
> 
> 

Thank you very much for the info. I have found a guy who has NOS Voodoo5 
5500 pci cards. Are these 2D as well?
Thanks

> Thank you very much for the info. I have found a guy who has NOS Voodoo5 
> 5500 pci cards. Are these 2D as well?

    Yep, great choice.  They will run D3 better.  I haven't tried D3 on my 
6800GT card yet, it should run 1600x1200 at 200fps I'd imagine :)

rms 

> Thank you very much for the info. I have found a guy who has NOS Voodoo5 
> 5500 pci cards. Are these 2D as well?

    Sure.  Mind you, once you get a new machine 3dfx cards probably won't 
transfer to it because of a lack of OS support, so plan on keeping the whole 
box as a unit for playing legacy games.

    I recently bought a nvidia 6800GT for my box, and it's a pleasure to 
gaze at the quality of games like doom3 & farcry at 1600x1200.  Haven't 
tried Descent3 with it yet, but have no doubt it will show 200+ frames/sec 
at 1600x1200.

rms 

any geforce 2 cards, some geforce 4 are PCI
ATI has PCI cards also.

all act as video cards and 3d accelerators

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:49:52 GMT, ZiggyPopp <ZiggyPop@hotmail.com>
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