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I remember the first time someone told me about a card that you could put in your computer that would make quake run faster. It sounded so strange and exotic. T
by pault 8y ago
I remember the first time someone told me about a card that you could put in your computer that would make quake run faster. It sounded so strange and exotic. Then I saw the screen caps with all their anti aliased glory and was devastated that I could never afford it on a movie theater clerk's salary.
- shereadsthenews 8y agoOn many computers it did not run faster just differently. Regular quake and glquake were two totally different programs.
- int_19h 8y agoHow would it not run faster, given that otherwise CPU had to shoulder the rendering entirely, in addition to everything else? Even high-end CPUs at the time would struggle with that, especially with resolution and bit depth being equal. IIRC the original Quake didn't even allow more than 256 colors in software rendering for this purpose, and even then I recall having to run it in weird resolutions like 400x300 to get framerates comparable to what Voodoo owners had for 640x480x16bit.
- ahje 8y agoThe Voodoo was the indisputable king of 3D accellerators back then. Not everyone was running GLquake with a Voodoo card in their PC though. I had an S3 Virge in my PC at the time. It was quite possible to get GLQuake running using a Direct3D to OpenGL wrapper, but damn it was slow. It sure looked better than regular Quake, but it wasn't really noticeably faster than software rendering.
- rasz 8y agoAfaik there is no CPU where software Quake would run faster at same resolution as GLQuake on 3dfx.
- Zardoz84 8y agoand an actual CPU ? I think that running at 3 GHz would help a lot.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIt's not just about "running faster". GL adds a lot of shinyness over and above the software renderer.
- Zardoz84 8y agoWell... Software render on zDooM keeps shining. Even handles some quirks better that OpenGL renderer.
- rasz 8y ago/period correct/
- int_19h 8y agoIt was even worse with Unreal, especially when you saw the live intro somewhere. That money could buy this was unexpected - even after Q1 and Q2 - and amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqdeyseQAP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqdeyseQAP4