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I think everyone understood that having it be 3D-only (and requiring a separate graphics card to do normal 2D desktop graphics) was a half-solution, and 3DFX's
by ryandrake 2y ago
I think everyone understood that having it be 3D-only (and requiring a separate graphics card to do normal 2D desktop graphics) was a half-solution, and 3DFX's long term success would depend on their ability to provide a full 2D/3D solution before existing competitors like NVIDIA, ATI, and Matrox could catch up with their own 3D accelerators.
- ta1243 2y agoAt various points and machines I had a Voodoo 2 (with the VGA handbag from a 2d card), a Voodoo banshee, and a Voodoo 3. The latter two were 2d+3d in one and well before any real competition.
- timschmidt 2y agoTheir 2D engine was incredible for the time as well, implementing 100% of the Windows GDI functions in hardware.
- bombcar 2y agoThey really needed to buy Matrox and make multi-monitor 3D a thing.