Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2

[Gregory DG]

Ugh! At least it works though!

 

http://www.voodoo.zarovka.com/ss/d3/0_9/ss.htm

[NE146]

Now if only they'd make it work on my tnt2

[+Sauron]

A Geforce 4MX costs about $20 nowadays, so I don't see much of a point in suffering through a Voodoo 2.

[ZylonBane]

It's always so easy to peg the non-technical types in threads like this.

[Fretwobbler]

OK, plug me as a non-technical type and explain why the terminal animations still look perfect? ...for the resolution thats being displayed.

[SteveW]

I'm impressed that it played around 30 frames per second. I've always liked 3Dfx cards. A Voodoo3 card was the only decent video card that would run in my old Taiwanese Mac clone.

[+Sauron]

And how would my comment peg me as a non-techie type? There's several things wrong with this. The video card is massive underkill considering the system that it is sitting on. We all know about the scalability of the Doom 3 engine, so if you want to impress me, put that Voodoo 2 on a CPU that is from around the same timeframe as the video card, which would definitely consist of a processor under 1 Ghz. Even with the same amount of RAM it'll still look like crap, but won't have near the framerate to help compensate. Hell, I have such a PC at home, a 380Mhz K6-2 with a PCI Voodoo 2 with 16MB VRAM, so if I ever get around to paying $50+ for a game with pretty graphics and shallow gameplay, I'll be sure to run a similar test. I'll be more impressed if the game looks better than this running on a generic integrated SiS or S3 video card with shared RAM for video memory.

[ZylonBane]

OK, plug me as a non-technical type and explain why the terminal animations still look perfect? ...for the resolution thats being displayed.

Because the terminals use vector art, not raster.

 

Sauron, this is the proverbial Russian dancing bear. It's not impressive that it dances well (it doesn't), but rather that it dances at all. Running Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2 is a neat hack. As with Textmode Quake, criticizing the graphics misses the point entirely.

[Albert]

Having finished Doom 3 last weekend, I find it pretty amusing that someone went through the effort to get it running on a Voodoo 2. Obviously nobody would want to play the game with that setup (the lighting is probably the biggest victim), but it's amusing nonetheless. At least to me.

 

..Al

[NE146]

(the lighting is probably the biggest victim)

 

Heck at least you don't need a flashlight! That's the way it should've been in the first place

[Mr Egg]

i really miss 3dfx cards myself . i used a voodoo 3 2000 pci for ages with excellent performance starting on a amd k6 400 on a amd athlon 800 .last game played with it was no one lives forever . if that company would still be around who knows what great cards they would have by now

[Albert]

(the lighting is probably the biggest victim)

 

Heck at least you don't need a flashlight! That's the way it should've been in the first place

 

I liked the dark nature of the game, but I do think it's kind of ridiculous that you can't have the flashlight on at the same time you are wielding a weapon. I know there's a hack to allow you to have the flashlight active at any time, although I didn't use it when I went through the game. I probably would have been frightened out of my chair a few less times had I always had the flashlight on.

 

..Al

[JagMX]

everyone looks dead =P

[Albert]

everyone looks dead =P

 

Just a precursor for what's to come later in the game.

 

..Al

[Needles Kane]

It says that this was achieved through a patch that essentially crappifies the graphics. Is there any way to do this with an Intel Extreme 2 card?

[oesii]

Hey this isn't Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2, it's Doom 3 on TWO Voodoo 2 Cards

 

Man, I loved my SLI rig back in the days of Quake II, SOF, and Tribes.