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New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if it can run Quake, it can safely run Doom as well.

The original Voodoo 1 graphics card could run Quake, but NOT Doom. Thanks Obama!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only because the Voodoo couldn't do 2D at all - it had a passthrough on the back, so you'd connect your 2D-capable graphics card to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Oh, I'm aware! It just felt funny that the very first consumer dedicated 3D graphics card prove that poster's assumption wrong. In any other case they'd be right. In fact, in those days in 1996, there was the SECOND graphics card that had a 3D processor that DID do 2D graphics too, the Sierra Screamin' 3D (with the Rendition Verite GPU). It was about 2/3ds the cost of the Voodoo 1 (3DFX) even if the Sierra wasn't quite as fast. You'd buy the Sierra because you wanted dedicated 3D but couldn't afford a high end 2D card and the high end 3D card.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As an enormous Id Tech nerd that's too young to know this, this is very interesting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

IIRC the Voodoo 5 6000 also required an external power supply and people thought this was crazy at the time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that could be interpreted very racially with regards to Obama

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're going to have to explain that to me. I'm not seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Obama seen as a black person could be accused of being able to do 'black magic' or voodoo.

It's just a dumb thought, nothing more to it.