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StivBators Full Member Offline Hello Posts: 238 Location: New Jersey Joined: Jan 15^th, 2012 Gender:	Nostalgia Mar 9^th, 2012 at 3:16am	Print Post
	Been playing the last couple days on my old Win98se computer upgraded from 600mhz to a 1ghz pIII 384mb ram and a 3dfx voodoo 5 card. Love the look of UT in Glide. And this was a bmp converted to jpeg

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 3:18am	Print Post
	what is the 'Glide' you refer to?

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StivBators Full Member Offline Hello Posts: 238 Location: New Jersey Joined: Jan 15^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #2 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:02am	Print Post
	Glide was the proprietary renderer from 3DFX. I think they were first to market with a 3d accelerator card back in the day. Unreal and UT were primarily programed with 3dfx's glide renderer in mind. As matter of fact the first demo release of UT was for 3DFX cards only. I still have this demo. D3D came out a little later. So for that reason the game looks awesome on 3dfx cards. But my frame rates are suffering big time. So I will be switching back shortly, but it's fun to mess around with the old stuff !


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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #3 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:36am	Print Post
	Kewl. The screenshot does look good.

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Hermskii Senior Member privatehook Offline Posts: 478 Location: Houston Joined: Feb 1^st, 2011 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #4 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 5:03am	Print Post
	I have lots of Voodoo cards. I love them all! Yes, When UT was made, it was designed for 3DFX.

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medor Full Member Offline Hello Posts: 242 Joined: Oct 5^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #5 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 12:54pm	Print Post
	you can play glide with new cards to http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/index.php?dir=Video_Renders/Glide/&fi... Put the 2 .dll and .vxd , .ovl in C:\UnrealTournament\System

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Hermskii Senior Member privatehook Offline Posts: 478 Location: Houston Joined: Feb 1^st, 2011 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #6 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:07pm	Print Post
	thanks medor. I thought I had heard that before. Have you done it?

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StivBators Full Member Offline Hello Posts: 238 Location: New Jersey Joined: Jan 15^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #7 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 4:43pm	Print Post
	medor wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 12:54pm: you can play glide with new cards to Your not really playing Glide with a wrapper, "A Glide wrapper is a piece of code that will convert all Glide API calls passed through it into OpenGL or Direct3D which most graphics cards use". A wrapper was used to play glide games on non-glide cards. A lot of games in the day were glide only, so a wrapper was used so you didn't have run out and buy a voodoo card. No need to use a wrapper on games that support opengl and d3d. But for games developed for glide, a voodoo card was a good choice. In my opinion the look of the game is much better in glide.


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Hermskii Senior Member privatehook Offline Posts: 478 Location: Houston Joined: Feb 1^st, 2011 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #8 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 6:27pm	Print Post
	Yes it looks great in glide. I recall now the wrappers. I never used them. I always had a voodoo card! I tried Open GL a couple times on several of my voodoo cards. Let me just say.....don't do it. It is awful. Voodoo ruled because the card did all of the work so you could put a good voodoo card in the worst of computers and play the game like you were on a awesome computer with a awesome video card.

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RiTALiN Senior Member Offline Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Posts: 408 Location: Los Angeles, California Joined: Oct 4^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #9 - Oct 25^th, 2013 at 8:38pm	Print Post
	Sadly I no longer have my Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 5 5500 AGP's however I am well familier with both OpenGL & 3dfx Glide, Glide is perhaps one of the best ever & I love it dearly, so that brings me to a question, I do have an EVGA 8800GTX which is capable of running the Glide Wrapper however I am on the lookout for a Glide Wrapper not designed for Nvidia cards but for Intel based graphics, which have always had good OpenGL support but I digress, does a Glide Wrapper exist for the Intel Video Chip's? Figured the slew of Voodoo fanatics here might know something about em

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StivBators Full Member Offline Hello Posts: 238 Location: New Jersey Joined: Jan 15^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #10 - Oct 27^th, 2013 at 3:52am	Print Post
	I don't know, but try nGlide. It only says your graphics needs to be DirectX 9 compatible. http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide ; good luck.


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RiTALiN Senior Member Offline Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Posts: 408 Location: Los Angeles, California Joined: Oct 4^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Nostalgia Reply #11 - Oct 28^th, 2013 at 4:48am	Print Post
	As Advertised. Thanks Much, I Missed The Pretty 3dfx Logo with it's lovely reflectivity @ Game Load...Truly Nostalgic. Thanks Stiv!

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