3dfx Voodoo 2 Review - Was this the ultimate 3D video card | Part 3 

Those times are long gone. Today's prices are almost on par with the list prices :)

How did the test turn out?

And I used faster drivers.

Sure, I'm glad you fancy the video.

The Gold version was the only Unreal I had lying about, so I used that one :)

Thanks. What about auto-generated captions?

It's a program called fraps.

@@KITR-UK I thought fraps have that yellow frame counter in the corner also how is it working with glide?

Sorry, I'm a retard. It wasn't fraps, it was Turok's built-in benchmark. You have to run the game with parameters -benchmark -alldrivers . Additionally, you can can add -nosound

It will, however, I've got some problems with the card.... as usual.

I wish I never sold my Banshee. But it was back in the day and I sold it to buy a new Voodoo 3 , which I still have .

I could've tested the cards in newer games, but unfortunately, one of the Voodoos I used went tits up during the testing :)

@@KITR-UK RIP voodoo, hold on it maybe someone can fix it.

That's Extreme Assault.

Really? Do you remember what game that was, that looked better? It could help for the next review.

@@KITR-UK Yeah I do. It's Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed running in true Glide mode, 1024x768. By default the game treats Voodoo2 as a DirectX device, not Glide, and limits resolution to 800x600 even with SLI. I edited the game's 3dsetup text file (or you can edit the registry) and changed the Voodoo2 line to the actual Glide renderer, like the setting that's already there for the Voodoo1. It renders faster that way and it'll do 1024x768 - that's how I play the game - but I know if I set "limit texture memory to 2MB" (2MB per TMU, like an 8MB Voodoo2) via the 3dfx settings panel, it'll still run 1024x768 but the textures are much lower quality! This may or may not still hold true without changing the rendering setting but I'm not certain so that's why I'm including that configuration info.

Thanks a lot, I'll check it out.

It seems like I was wrong, I have to find out more about that card.

Sure you can. Maximum resolution with one card is 800x600 and 1024x768 with two.

@@KITR-UK that is hardcoded into it, more processing power = more power for the higher resolution... it's nothing to do with the memory... so they don't share the memory but they both store the same info

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What do you mean 'bad driver'? I was comparing the best solution 3dfx was offering at the time, which was 2x Voodoo 2, against the best cards the competition was offering. Nobody usually cares about bit depth and stuff like that while playing games. What matters in the end, is if the game runs fast and plays well and that's where the Voodoo 2 was simply unbeatable for a long time.

@@KITR-UK But it's a bad comparison. That's like comparing a Porsche 911 and a Ford Focus in a drag race. The VooDoo 2 SLI were £270, the TNT 2 just £140. Like I said, compare a SINGLE card, because they cost the same. And ensure you have the correct drivers for the TNT 2. The drivers released 6 months after the cards release, is the safest bet.

@@TheVanillatech it was the choices we had back then, take it or leave it... ppl went with V2 SLI...

@@LiLBitsDK Bullshit. You don't compare a race between a porsche 911 and a landrover discovery, because the outcome is a forgone conclusion and one costs £160k, the onther costs 75k. TNT2 is a better card than a VooDoo 2 for gaming, simple as that. Both were about the same price.

TNT2's picture quality was, indeed, better. But the Voodoo 2s were simply faster and that's what mattered the most (at least to me).