16MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee GPU from 1998: Quantum3D Raven 

Love your vids! I buy lots of old things from letgo, as I hate seeing them get thrown away. Just bought a toshiba Win xp system

Dunno...a 100hz clock has some appeal. Metric time! Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, and whatnot.

the new Rise of the Triad (on steam) has some pretty fun installer music. RU-vid monster Arlo uses a remixed version of it. (also think Star Citizen has install music, but you can mute it heh)

Windows volume mixer is your friend. Saved me having to listen to it whilst playing another game.

Try the 1024x768 version with -u

Exactly what I was guessing. A not-ready-for-prime-time game port that Quantum got as a selling point for the card.

Sure you were.

@@varisware hey I’m not lying. Lol, I get it seems crazy. I could have put more details in that comment but I thought it went on long enough.

Ha cool

@@varisware Just out of curiosity, why would you think that this is somehow unbelievable? Real people work on these products and presumably have the internet

Yes man

so rare

Pentium II 300 mhz. I feel you, bro.

I have a feeling HL2 didn't exactly run well for yuo

@@NonsensicalSpudz they're talking about the first Half-Life

Pentium II 233MHz..😱 Dreamed of a 300+ cpu ☺️

Pentium II 350Mhz, Voodoo Banshee, 64 megs of RAM and Sound Blaster Live! Man, those truly were the days!

LOL! I was thinking that also! Thought I was the weird one. :)

my hand started doing it on its own and I damn near fell into shock seeing his dance, too LOL

Hehe I had that same thought :P.

I regret everything

1 singular hour? Try 6

@@TARS.. I had a good connection!

i cant even install 1gb in 4 hours

God damn 100 gb in one hour my connection takes 1 hour to install 5 gb whyyyyyy

Because he didn't have an analog wheel and used the Extreme car. Even on the arcade machine the Extreme car physics were unforgiving. Landing at too much of an angle caused it to roll and crash, which is what actually happens to real cars. Phasing through ground though, that's wonky.

@@flinx Compared to sega rally (not 2) though, sf rush always looks worse. The physics always feels unpredictable even in arcades. Sometimes you can land a jump unscathed, while sometimes you can just land, flip, and crash.

@@ZX3000GT1 trees or buildings looking better is a preference. SF Rush has bigger jumps, shortcuts, and more variety of tracks and scenery within each track. That style is why I kept playing it and also California Speed even after machines like Initial D came out.

@@flinx I'm not talking about graphics. I'm talking about physics engine (and yes, I now that I said 'looks'. It should've been 'feels'. Sorry for that). SF Rush feels unpredictable and wonku compared to original Sega Rally. And interesting that you called out Initial D. Initial D never clicked with me. The physics is weird in those titles. I'm always more of a Side by Side/Battle Gear guy myself.

@@ZX3000GT1 I remember Rush with the Medium or Hard car being pretty fair when it came to predictability. Launch at a good angle = safe landing. Launch at a bad angle = crash. With practice I learned the good angles.

LOL I was also thinking: "Imagine Steam rocking some sick tunes while your game downloads"

a few android titles have install music when they require downloads for "extra data" (often just the main menu theme)

@@DanielVazquez-zn6hy If they do that, they BETTER add an option to disable that. I remember how irritates I was at the mid 90s games that played the same music forever on a loop while I tried to install a game. Made it so I couldn't use the computer without turning off the speakers during the installation process.

there's also installation music when downloading that 91GB msfs too. had to mute the game

It's like when you're in the elevator

Definitely will!

@@LGR Oh good

@@LGR Looking forward to it.

My first PC was Pentium 120MHz. After about a year I bought the original 3DFx Voodoo card and went to install it. I opened the case and realised the fan on the CPU was seized solid with dust and was probably not spinning for couple of months already. There were no problems with overheating or performance, I had no idea it's cooled only by the heatsink 😊

Yeah and we have people complaining about graphics!

@@gc_marcelli I'd love to see someone try and run a modern AAA game on a card like the Voodoo5 5500, mostly to give them a shot at even getting Win7 installed, then give them an Intel APU and see them hail modern iGPUs as the greatest thing ever

They were still revolutionary, the first time I loaded up a game on my original Voodoo was a "wow" moment.

@@Zerbey Of course, we owe a lot of what our modern GPUs do to the Voodoo and GeForce 256, and for the time, yeah, it was really impressive. It's also impressive just how far we've come in the past almost 40 years since the Commodore 64, in terms of computing as a whole.

Wow that's some cost cutting right there

It's probably WB Games.

rush 2 was great. I spent so much time trying to unlock everything in the game. So many mountain dew cans and keys

RUSSSSHHHH!

I wonder why you thought the 5500 was terrible? I know the two VSA100s were in SLI, I assume that caused issues?

@@carltonleboss Except for a few games that were optimised for it, most games did not handle two gpu cores via AGP 1x very well at all (and it was electrically AGP 1x - which means you could kill newer AGP boards when you plugged it into the AGP slot - oh and it was too long to fit in most cases of the time). I loved it, but, for actually playing games, it was mostly sub-par.

@@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy As I suspected

I really miss my old ASUS v3800. That thing could run FreeSpace 2 in 32-bit color 1024x768 with zero lag. Diablo 2 was no problem, Quake 3 was a joke to run at max settings and Descent 3 ran like a well-tuned engine :)

@@JohnHoggard_aka_DaddyHoggy It was also available in PCI format. I have a Mac version that I flashed to be Windows compatible. The Mac PCI version has both VGA and DVI ports unlike the native Windows versions which are VGA only.

I fucking love Gex for the PlayStation 1

I can't believe it's tail time

Just don’t drink the tap water at Jerry Garcia’s house. 💀 🌹 ✌️

13:16 I don’t remember the car physics being so weird in Gex. 23:00 WHAT IS THIS??

This is like crossover time at Dunkey's house

It was my first 3d card, too. Quake 2 with colored lighting was a revelation

I had a Sapphire 9600XT with an 80mm fan ziptied to the heatsink and custom drivers whose name escapes me atm. BF2 was a cinematic 25 or so FPS for me 😂🤣

62% loading geometries

Hercules 9800 Pro with 128Mb of ram! I think I paid $599 for it but Battlefield Vietnam and SOF 2 at 60 fps on Gamespy...Good times

That's because Glide was such an awesome API at the time. Just looked so much better then Direct3d at that point.

It's actually more like 12mb and a 4mb framebuffer IIRC. Much like the Voodoo 2 itself, which was 12MB IIRC, coupled with a VGA 2d card that would have 2-4mb of it's own. IIRC the Banshee's 3d side wasn't quite exactly the same setup as a stock Voodoo 2 though. It was slightly better at some things and worse at other, which is why it games would often needed a patch specifically for it.

:)

Those Matrox cards made so nice sharp images on the CRT! No mushiness at high resolutions!

I have two of them, one with the expansion card

Pfft. S3 Trio is where it was at. /s

I had a Millennium, it was awesome in 2D.

That’s ‘go fast’ black!

It kind of looks like a mid-2000s soundblaster.

Lian-Li PC-60. Other high end manufacturers from the days were Thermaltake, Antec and Chieftec, joined by Cooler Master later on.

me too...best way to play console rush is through n64 emulation. Rush the rock was botched in midway arcade classics and the n64 version is blurry and low res if played on original console.

Im lucky to have a working RUSH 2049 arcade cabinet down at my local arcade! Game is old AS me but I really do appreciate it so much, it's rare to see an arcade game having 3 pedals and a shifter!

My fav too

Is it Gex night ? I've been waiting for this for years

I read that wrong

I love only first 2d Gex.

I love your avatar :3

@@riikkatheiceprincess_she_h8725 Thanks :)

Probably during the middle of the night pretending to be asleep? Now afraid your parents woul've heard the noise? :P :D

I only have the 2049 demo on Dreamcast but I have Midway Arcade Treasures 3 on Playstation 2 which has pretty much a straight port of the Dreamcast version and enjoyed it there. Just 4 more years until we're halfway between San Francisco Rush 2049 in the arcades and actual 2049.

Nostalgia is just regret wearing rose coloured glasses.

Even though I have an okay gaming rig - I frequently buy and install retro games. They're just *way* better than the garbage developers call games today. No microtransactions or endless bugfixing.

@@olaf5929 games are.not designed to be challenging these days .

@@Williamstanway depends what you find challenging in a game. Games in 80s, 90s and even 2000s brought you fun. Nowadays games try to form your habits / brainwash you into recurring spending or just try to dazzle you with graphics but don't engage you or connect with your fantasies. But what do I know? I think game design is a sham which made games into an industry producing oven-baked pastries instead of art.

@@olaf5929 I completely agree .

Thanks for sticking around!

Funny enough I never herd of rush till last year. And the best part there is a local arcade near me that have a FULLY WORKING RUSH 2049 cabinet ready to go. It have a few issues but otherwise playable. For real, Rush 2049 is one of the best racing game that I have ever played. And playing on Manual with EXTREME handling turned on while SUNSET ODT is bursting through the speaker's. Only other game that does that well is Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune series; but around in 1996 - 2000.

@@haaxxx9 I played the N64 port of the original all the time, the console versions had a free mode that gave you 900 seconds to explore the tracks. There are a bunch of ramps, playgrounds and pieces of level geometry that are a blast thanks to the game's physics.

@@Tailstraw_xD Since I was born in 1999 I really didn't know there was console ports of SF:R series but I will check em out later! Might give the Dreamcast port a try... But for real, I want a full cabinet of Rush 2049 cause it just so... Amusing! The physics for sure feels real like I am playing Assetto corsa but it's still in development and janky including the floaty physics when you jump. I wish they just port all of San Francisco Rush games to modren consoles/PC already cause it's no racing game like any other... And I play quite a lot to where the point I can play DAYTONA USA well on the expert course! Also reminds me of GETTING THAT GAME ON STEAM AS WELL OF DAYTONA USA 2. So many amazing arcade games still stuck in the past...

@@haaxxx9 Don't hold your breath, Rush was owned by Midway and it is very very dead. I've never played 2049, my only experience was with the N64 port of the original, and the main reason I loved it was because the physics in free mode exploring the areas you just drive past in normal mode was such fun

@@Tailstraw_xD Midway disbanneded in 2009... But finally kicked the bucket in 2011. Damn... But Warner Bros. brought most of there IP's so maybe there IS hope for the Rush series after all! Besides I herd the new Crusin' USA i- *...What the fuck?* ONE PEDAL? NO SHIFTER? VERY SIMPLIFIED GAMEPLAY? RAW THRILLS?!?!?!?! Oh hell no, that's basically dead on arrival for me. Ugh... This sucks man. But at least I am old enough to buy a RUSH cabinet in it's formal glory! But I need room for it of course... Or Daytona USA... Ridge Racer... Yea I know it's going to be very expensive down the road BUT ILL DO IT! Still looking forward for that dream-cast port though.

Way before the school district cracked down on students installing programs to their desktops and issued laptops by adding restrictions

I wish Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics would remake the Gex games, and maybe make a new entry in the series.

My first try with Gothic was with an S3 Virge. 3-5 fps but I got through the first dialogues!

@@MaYstruction i vividly remember my disappointment the first time I went down the hill path facing the Old Camp, right after you speak with Diego at the beginning. Everything except the Nameless hero was flashing white, and I was moving around with a couple of fps only. Also, I remember when I got gifted Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Jedi Outcast but I couldn't get it started because of a crashlog at startup for lacking updated opengl drivers or something... Good Times! Now I complain because I don't have stable 75 fps on Horizon Zero Dawn lol

Mine, too. Got it at the computer shop in the mall if I'm not mistaken. Good stuff.

Yeah these things are cool good times

Exactly, And our phones use less than 2 watts hard to imagine

@@prateekpanwar646 yeah. And that's with the screen and all, which is usually a 1080p panel, even. And it fits in your pocket (with a bit of a squeeze, but still).

Thats why it cracks me up when people whine about modern smartphone prices. Kids today don't realize how powerful of a computer they are buying with that money, you can do things with a smart phone now that you couldn't do with a room full of computers 20 years ago.

@@neoasura Uh, bud, I don't think you understand how much they gouge out on prices of these damn things. Samsung makes like 200% profit on their new flagships. Also, there's kind of this thing in computing where things get faster as time goes on, not sure if you knew about that either...

@@DoxSteele well, it's a different story with flagship phones. But for $250 you can get a very decent smartphone that's not marked up 3x the production cost. I think Neoasura wasn't talking about flagships either. And while things do usually improve over time, what we're saying is that what we have now is already utterly amazing. We've made great progress such that we can fit a powerful computer in our pockets. That's amazing if you think about it. I got this Redmi Note 8 Pro for about $210 five months ago and it's got a MediaTek Helio G90T. It's a very cost-effective chip and I'd much rather have it than a flagship.

you beat me to it... could have listened to it for hours since i foolishly installed it on a HDD

I love my 3do.

I played Gex Enter The Gecko on stream a day ago. I used the PS1 copy in a last gen PS2 Thin with the higher CPU speed which the game didnt like XD The Media Dimensions audio would glitch out something weird randomly every time...even after a professional cleaning of the disk XD

This was one of my favorite games on the PS1.

Because you're a freaking legend 👏

Multi-tasking has come a long way, the installer doesn't really have to entertain you anymore now that you can just go on youtube and watch seal videos while it runs in the background.

Those crack me up!

oh my god YES

There was a song that played on a cracked version of Civilization: Beyond Earth that I would still love to find. It was just a midi, but it was a really great track.

Oh he has, he just doesn't wanna admit it. He did long ago.

It was between PCI and PCI-E ;) At least it isn't VLB

@@partycatplays all better than ISA cards :)

In order ISA 8 bit -> ISA 16 bit -> VLB -> PCI -> AGP -> PCI-E Hope I got it right

What about newbus and pci-x lol used to have a pci-x video card on my power Mac g5 loved that thing

AGP was between PCI and PCI-E.