• krdo@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    I forgot the first one, but I remember I upgraded it to an ATi Rage Pro so I could play Baldur’s Gate, which needed 8 megabytes of video ram. Later I paired it with a Voodoo 2. I think it was the Diamond Monster one. And that one got replaced with a Matrox G200, which got replaced with Kyro II. I picked some odd cards back then.

  • azuth@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I think I had a Voodoo 3 at some point. Then a Voodoo 5 at the family PC.

    Then on my own PCs Radeon 1900Xt -> radeon 4780 -> radeon 7770 -> radeon 480 -> rtx 2070 super.

  • Zomg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Nvidia GeForce 8400gs

    Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps

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    1 day ago

    If by graphics card you mean 3D hardware acceleration, then it was a Canopus Pure 3D. It was equivalent to the first Voodoo add-in card but IIRC it had 6 MB of RAM instead of 4. It wasn’t a standalone card so it had a VGA passthrough from your 2D card when it wasn’t active.

    As for 2D cards, idk. Unless it was pro reference grade like Matrox I don’t remember EGA and CGA cards being branded.

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    2 days ago

    First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2

    First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro

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    2 days ago

    Trident VGA?

    I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.

    I bought a Riva TNT

    Then a GeForce 2

    Then a Radeon 9000

    Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.

    Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I’m still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They’re good enough.

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      22 hours ago

      I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.