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I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
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The Voodoo 4440H triples the memory of a standard card, while adding an extra TMU chip, resulting in huge gains in Unreal and GLQuake.
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I thought my first-gen 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing when it came out, with its smooth action in GLQuake at 640 x 480, but this new hot rod shows just how much untapped potential was available in this early 3D graphics card tech. It adds an extra texture mapping unit to the card, while tripling the memory from 4MB to 12MB, resulting in a huge increase in frame rates - I only wish I’d had this card back in 1997. While these early 3D cards are now retro tech curiosities, with a tiny amount of rendering power compared to the best GPU designs of today, there’s a thriving hobbyist community dedicated to getting the most out of them. We’ve seen a homemade 64MB 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 card, giving it twice as much memory as the original version, for example, and I also particularly loved Anthony Zxclxiv’s recreated 3dfx Voodoo5 6000, providing access to the company’s massive swansong graphics card that never quite made it to market.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
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I thought my first-gen 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing when it came out, with its smooth action in GLQuake at 640 x 480, but this new hot rod shows just how much untapped potential was available in this early 3D graphics card tech. It adds an extra texture mapping unit to the card, while tripling the memory from 4MB to 12MB, resulting in a huge increase in frame rates - I only wish I’d had this card back in 1997. While these early 3D cards are now retro tech curiosities, with a tiny amount of rendering power compared to the best GPU designs of today, there’s a thriving hobbyist community dedicated to getting the most out of them. We’ve seen a homemade 64MB 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 card, giving it twice as much memory as the original version, for example, and I also particularly loved Anthony Zxclxiv’s recreated 3dfx Voodoo5 6000, providing access to the company’s massive swansong graphics card that never quite made it to market. Read the full story on PCGamesN: I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
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30 September 2025, 3:19 pm
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Ben Hardwidge
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title: I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
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The Voodoo 4440H triples the memory of a standard card, while adding an extra TMU chip, resulting in huge gains in Unreal and GLQuake.
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I thought my first-gen 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing when it came out, with its smooth action in GLQuake at 640 x 480, but this new hot rod shows just how much untapped potential was available in this early 3D graphics card tech. It adds an extra texture mapping unit to the card, while tripling the memory from 4MB to 12MB, resulting in a huge increase in frame rates - I only wish I’d had this card back in 1997. While these early 3D cards are now retro tech curiosities, with a tiny amount of rendering power compared to the best GPU designs of today, there’s a thriving hobbyist community dedicated to getting the most out of them. We’ve seen a homemade 64MB 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 card, giving it twice as much memory as the original version, for example, and I also particularly loved Anthony Zxclxiv’s recreated 3dfx Voodoo5 6000, providing access to the company’s massive swansong graphics card that never quite made it to market.
Read the full story on PCGamesN: I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
content_text: I thought my first-gen 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing when it came out, with its smooth action in GLQuake at 640 x 480, but this new hot rod shows just how much untapped potential was available in this early 3D graphics card tech. It adds an extra texture mapping unit to the card, while tripling the memory from 4MB to 12MB, resulting in a huge increase in frame rates - I only wish I’d had this card back in 1997. While these early 3D cards are now retro tech curiosities, with a tiny amount of rendering power compared to the best GPU designs of today, there’s a thriving hobbyist community dedicated to getting the most out of them. We’ve seen a homemade 64MB 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 card, giving it twice as much memory as the original version, for example, and I also particularly loved Anthony Zxclxiv’s recreated 3dfx Voodoo5 6000, providing access to the company’s massive swansong graphics card that never quite made it to market. Read the full story on PCGamesN: I wish I'd had this hot-rodded 12MB 3dfx Voodoo card to play Quake in 1997
pub_date: 30 September 2025, 3:19 pm
guid: https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-retro-tech/12mb-3dfx-voodoo-mod
creator: Ben Hardwidge
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