ArbitraryValue ,

Not the same thing, but I still have my old Voodoo 2 3D-accelerator card (not the same thing as a video card back then).

MehBlah ,

VESA local bus. It was the shit and nothing was ever going to be better. Until next year.

ThirdWorldOrder ,
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I had the original voodoo 3Dfx in 50lbs Alienware case with a 75 lbs 20+ inch crt.. can’t remember the exact size. Wrong choice for university living at the time

HornedMeatBeast ,
@HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world avatar

I miss my Voodoo 2 3000 AGP card.

I got an ABIT Siluro/ Geforce 2 MX400 after that and Diablo 2 ran worse, the frame rate tanked. I was gutted.

Back in the day I tried to play Morrowind but every time I moved my mouse the game would crash, I started removing hardware until I found out it was my soundcard giving me issues, was an old ISA slot. Got a PCI soundcard after that and no issues.

Those were the days.

neo ,

Shitty days, but days nonetheless, when PC gaming was the Dark Souls of gaming.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

It's a good thing you held onto it.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/fdd701de-400f-4021-9a59-ce7451897a75.webp

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

that's why I sold mine a couple years ago :)

realbadat ,

Shit, I should check my bins

postnataldrip ,

Wow, I have a bunch of old stuff laying about too that I figured was worth nothing. Original boxes, games, manuals etc which might help too. Hmm

Aurenkin ,

You had to use Voodoo to see the magic 3d graphics

MadMadBunny ,

Wait, he didn’t even get to the part where you had to configure it!!

I_Miss_Daniel ,

IRQ 5?

ThirdWorldOrder ,
@ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee avatar

I thought 7 was the magic number

TexasDrunk ,

You're both right! It started as 7 for the default and changed to 5 because 7 was also the default for the parallel port.

LEDZeppelin ,

Seriously. And they also didn’t cover the part where the damn driver would randomly get corrupted every now and then

MadMadBunny ,

I have fond memories of these simpler times…

MacNCheezus ,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Grandpa said nothing wrong.

db2 ,

The company name was Creative Labs.

MacNCheezus ,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/8ad157c1-1a84-4adb-865a-163d869f07b9.png

Zehzin ,
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I inferred that the "..." meant he was still talking and his granddaughter interrupted him

Alexstarfire ,

That's the hairiest granddaughter I've ever seen.

Zehzin ,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, there's a template just like this one with a granddaughter and I didn't even clock this is a different one

db2 ,

Sure grandpa, let's get you to bed.

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