It probably doesn't completely depend on your age but could be when you started to take gaming more seriously. Can you even think that far back? I had a flashback to when I was a novice to computer upgrades but very much into PC games. I believe it was Lego Island that forced me into buying a *gasp* graphics accellerator card in order to play the game.
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I recall mine being a Voodoo, I think it was a Voodoo3 video card for Asherons Call.
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Was definitely a Voodoo but I'm not sure what for... Unreal Tournament maybe?
That was like.. '99 or so.
I bought my first Voodoo card to run Quake II.
Good times.
Dark Age of Camelot, back in 2002 because it was only guaranteed to work on about 10 tested video cards so I went out and bought one of them. (my current "Hercules" graphics card was not working on it)
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Well it's hard to say i was taking gaming seriously way before that, i begin with The Coleco Gemini and begin my way there with console gaming. For Pc i begin with game like police quest, king quest, hero quest and of course Larry.
So now for the question i think my first serious pc built with a good 3d card was when D2 got out approx. The card was a nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400. But i didnt buy it for only D2, there was a lots of new 3d games like Vampire the masquerade and The Sims. Some FPS too like Soldiers of fortune. I remember seeing all these game in some magazine so i bought a new pc for them.
O i almost forgot yeah before that i had a voodoo card but it was part of a pc i bought from a friend but that dont reallly count because i didnt choose what will be in the pc.
1998 Monster Truck Madness 2 it was Canopus 3DFX card. It worked with the video card you already had by using a pass through cable
Good times.
Ditto.
Can't remember if it was 3Dfx, TNT(nVidia) or S3.
The first "3D" card I had was an S3 Virge... commonly known back then as a "3D Decelerator" card, since games using the 3D features actually ran slower (and often looked worse) than they did with regular software 3D rendering.
First actual 3D card was a 3dfx voodoo that I got mainly for Quake 2..
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Diamond M Voodoo 1 around 97/98 for Quake. Ran Unreal stuff later on a V3.
Funnily though I always remember Comanche Max Overkill and Strike Commander more as a "wow god like graphics!!" moments lol.
I also recall being quite excited about the 0.5MB upgrade I got for my Amiga 500. Made the old C64 I had seem soo obsolete!
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I must not have ever had one of the ten...That game always ran terrible on my PCs.
Voodoo 3 to run Freespace.
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