Rendition Vérité V1000

[AdamK47]

One of the best cards in 1996. I remember it fondly. vQuake looked spectacular. Much better than GLQuake which came out later for the VooDoo. I was into computers then, but these new 3D accelerators cemented my addiction to PC hardware.

 

[Auric]

I got a V2100 in 1998 for $0 after rebate and it was frickin' awesome. Alas, Rendition was aquired by Micron... never to be heard from again. Dun dun dun!

 

[McWatt]

How much did they pay you to shill on Anandtech? Next you'll be telling us that 2d-support matters to anyone other than Verite fanboys.

This is pure astroturfing - everyone knows all decent games use Glide and always will. This forum has devolved to a Rendidiot Mecca. You can play your 3d-Blaster PCI all week - my 3DFX Voodoo pass through cable and I will be laughing at you the whole time.

 

[AdamK47]

I actually had a Diamond VooDoo 1 along with the 3D Blaster Vérité V1000 in my system at the time.

 

[nenforcer]

Glad to see this thread got made.

Proud owner of a Genoa V-Raptor (Verite V2200) 8MB PCI in 1998. Was my very first 3D accelerator.

I played Quake 2 on that bad boy. Only switched to a Matrox G400 later since it couldn't run Max Payne very well.

 

[Elixer]

V2200 card was much better.
In fact, Bjorn3D was a playground for lots of rendition users...


It is a shame that micron didn't do anything at all with the IP that I can tell.

 

[Zap]

My first (besides an S3 Trio or Virge or something) was a Matrox M3D with a PowerVR. "Look ma, no passthrough cable!"

 

[nonameo]

My first was a Diamond monster 3D II. We did it bareback though and I only lasted a few strokes before I got fragged

 

[FalseChristian]

My first (besides an S3 Trio or Virge or something) was a Matrox M3D with a PowerVR. "Look ma, no passthrough cable!"

My 1st was also a Matrox M3D using Power VR. It wasn't as good as a Voodoo 1 but it rendered water beautifully.

 

[Silverforce11]

Its actually really amazing to see how far PC tech has gone since only a little over a decade. The graphics in games these days are astounding.

Yes, i've owned a V2200, first 3D accelerator. Followed by Voodoo Banshee and TNT2. First ATI card i've owned was 9700pro.

 

[Keysplayr]

Voodoo2, TNT, TNT2 ..... etc. etc.

 

[nemesismk2]

I was mostly in the S3 Savage4 camp but did also own video cards made by ATI, Nvidia and 3dfx.

 

[Anarchist420]

My first was a Diamond monster 3D II. We did it bareback though and I only lasted a few strokes before I got fragged

That was my first 3d accellerator too. I got the 8MB version instead of the 12MB version.

 

[AdamK47]

My first (besides an S3 Trio or Virge or something) was a Matrox M3D with a PowerVR. "Look ma, no passthrough cable!"

I wouldn't even consider the Virge to be a 3D Accelerator. It was in a lot of PCs at the time though.

 

[Zap]

I was mostly in the S3 Savage4 camp but did also own video cards made by ATI, Nvidia and 3dfx.

I had all of those cards, Savage 3D, Savage 4, Savage 2000. I remember selling a 32MB Savage 3D (or was it a Savage 4) on eBay for $0.99 and the buyer trying to get a refund from me including shipping and didn't want to pay for return shipping either. He claimed the card was broken because it was slower than his 8MB Nvidia card, and "32MB should be faster than 8MB."

I wouldn't even consider the Virge to be a 3D Accelerator. It was in a lot of PCs at the time though.

It was and did do 3D acceleration. I remember it making a big difference in some early games such as Moto Racer. OMG anyone remember that game? I remember playing it at my weekly LANs BITD and first time one of us tried it with a Virge (over whatever 2D cards we were using at the time) we were all "oooh" and "aaah" because not only did the graphics look smooth instead of pixelated, the controls were much more responsive without having to turn the resolution all the way down. That was such a fun game - even though my gaming buddies pulled a fast one on me. I was having such a tough time with it because for a few weeks nobody told me that hitting the space bar was turbo, and they ALL knew it except me. I would catch up in corners (mad skillz!) but then they would pull away from me in straightaways. Bastards! And good times!

 

[Auric]

ViRGE was more aboot quality than speed. Savage3D came after both it and Verite 2200 and was even more frickin' awesome... especially due to exclusive high-resolution textures for UT3. Only dolts opted for fugly DooDoo.

 

[ViRGE]

It was and did do 3D acceleration. I remember it making a big difference in some early games such as Moto Racer. OMG anyone remember that game? I remember playing it at my weekly LANs BITD and first time one of us tried it with a Virge (over whatever 2D cards we were using at the time) we were all "oooh" and "aaah" because not only did the graphics look smooth instead of pixelated, the controls were much more responsive without having to turn the resolution all the way down. That was such a fun game - even though my gaming buddies pulled a fast one on me. I was having such a tough time with it because for a few weeks nobody told me that hitting the space bar was turbo, and they ALL knew it except me. I would catch up in corners (mad skillz!) but then they would pull away from me in straightaways. Bastards! And good times!

The problem with the ViRGE was that it was incredibly slow at bilinear filtering; turning it on would result in performance lower than good software rendering engines towards the end of the PMMX era. Compared to software rendering the quality was much better, but then the Voodoo could do all that and more...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

StarSiege: Tribes was a Glide game so naturally I had to support Voodoo.

 

[Douglar]

I have a Verite 2200 card that I picked out of the leftovers of a collapsed dot com company in 2000. The card still works. I pull it out when I need a PCI card to test failing mother boards.

Ironically, I used to run voodoo lights on it back in the day.

 

[AdamK47]

ViRGE was more aboot quality than speed. Savage3D came after both it and Verite 2200 and was even more frickin' awesome... especially due to exclusive high-resolution textures for UT3. Only dolts opted for fugly DooDoo.

Never heard anyone say the Virge was about quality before. It was actually released to be a very affordable mainstream card. That's why it was in so many prebuilt systems at the time. It wasn't called the worlds first 3D graphics decelerator for nothing.

 

[SunnyD]

ViRGE was more aboot quality than speed. Savage3D came after both it and Verite 2200 and was even more frickin' awesome... especially due to exclusive high-resolution textures for UT3. Only dolts opted for fugly DooDoo.

The ViRGE series, particularly the DX was most definitely NOT about quality. S3 only put in a popular subset of common 3D functionality (at the time) in the ViRGE chips, and it was extremely limited on the DX side due to using SDRAM. The GX used dual ported SGRAM, making things marginally faster, but still the limitations of the ViRGE chip where there. Often times, no matter what you did, stuff would simply not render properly because of incomplete hardware support for full 3D on the ViRGE. It's slowness came from having to drop to the software renderer in order to make things look right.

I remember the days of my PowerVR Kryo. Fun card. Voodoo Banshee ... another good one. I actually owned an ATI Rage Fury MaXX at one time. Dual GPU goodness...

 

[DaveSimmons]

I had a Diamond Stealth S220 rendition card and remember it less fondly, because DOS VESA mode performance for games like Duke3D and Doom was awful

 

[nemesismk2]

I had all of those cards, Savage 3D, Savage 4, Savage 2000. I remember selling a 32MB Savage 3D (or was it a Savage 4) on eBay for $0.99 and the buyer trying to get a refund from me including shipping and didn't want to pay for return shipping either. He claimed the card was broken because it was slower than his 8MB Nvidia card, and "32MB should be faster than 8MB."

I had a Inno3D Savage 2000 with a massive 64mb memory Thought it was a great video card, very cheap but let down by poor driver support

 

[finbarqs]

you guys all got owned: Canopus Pure3D, and a Pure3D 2!!!! the first VooDoo 1 card with 6MB (Pure3D) + TV Out, and Pure3D 2 had faster clockspeeds, and a T.V. Out! Paid 300 bucks for that sucker!

all in all, Matrox Mystique was where it was at! Not to mention Trident 9680.

 

[pukemon]

I wouldn't even consider the Virge to be a 3D Accelerator. It was in a lot of PCs at the time though.

Remember how the S3 ViRGE and ATi Rage Pro series were called "3D Decelerators" because at the time, games' software renderers were faster than the hardware?