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Nvidia also had really cool demo programs you'd run with each generation to show off what your new card could do. [0] You'll have to use the Internet archive t
by edgineer 1y ago
Nvidia also had really cool demo programs you'd run with each generation to show off what your new card could do. [0]
You'll have to use the Internet archive to see them all. [1] Several, like 'Dawn' for example, were quietly removed in 2020.
[0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/community/demos/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/community/demos/
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/community/demos/ http://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us...
- cuu508 1y agoYou can watch them on youtube also: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWSJvKFMPE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWSJvKFMPE
- GauntletWizard 1y agoThat's nice, but they were interactive - You could move around the scene or change the camera angles. The fact that you could do this and prove it was realtime and not prerendered was part of the demo and most of the charm. Lacking that, it's just... lacking.
- zamadatix 1y agoMost of that charm is gone after 20 years, nobody needs proving the dynamic lights are really dynamic anymore. They're still some fun to interact with anyways, or just fun as a way to review what was hot shit at the time, but I couldn't get a few of the really old ones to run on Windows 10/11 this summer. A video is a lot better than just saying "well, I'm not going to build an old PC just to play this demo" and not seeing it at all.
- hoherd 1y agoThat bubble demo was absolutely mind blowing. After seeing that I never looked back at 3dfx.