Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20120712125232/@comment-1496755-20120909095234

Remember the 3dfx Voodoo era? In the late 1990's those were considered to be the best video cards and many games were optimised for them (making their software and OpenGl renderers more unrealiable). This is one of the reasons games from this period have problems running on modern computers - the old hardware they were meant to run on had many peculiarities.

I never had a Voodoo card. My first 3D-accelerated card was a Riva TNT 2 and it was an awesome thing to have because it enabled me to play a lot of things that would not even run before (or run really bad). The feeling of playing a game in Direct3D mode, on 800x600 resolution, was simply... amazing.

After a while, 3dfx cards died off... and I believe this had a positive effect, as the future video cards became more standardized, which also allowed game engines to be more stable and compatible with a greater variety of hardware.