Creative even released GLIDE compatible graphics cards based on TNT and TNT2 chips, making 3dfx going nuts...
Obviously they had to write the GLIDE drivers for it. So they must have put certainly lot of money and research into their products in those times.

Geri wrote on 2024-09-07, 19:51:

Creative even released GLIDE compatible graphics cards based on TNT and TNT2 chips, making 3dfx going nuts...
Obviously they had to write the GLIDE drivers for it. So they must have put certainly lot of money and research into their products in those times.

I had forgotten about that completely, but remember reading about it in magazines. I think that eventually Creative used their superpower of having lots of money to fund lawyers to make the lawsuit go away, as 3dfx had more pressing concerns trying to get VSA-100 and Rampage to market while buying STB.

Geri wrote on 2024-09-07, 19:51:

Creative even released GLIDE compatible graphics cards based on TNT and TNT2 chips, making 3dfx going nuts...
Obviously they had to write the GLIDE drivers for it. So they must have put certainly lot of money and research into their products in those times.

When the original Unreal Tournament demo released in 1999, it was Glide compatible only. No OpenGL, no DirectX support of any kind.

2 of my mates still had Voodoo cards and I'd only recently upgraded to a Creative TNT2 Ultra that had a Glide wrapper.

There were some very minor graphical glitches, but we played local LAN multiplayer all that first weekend it was available.

I don't follow the discussion 😜 I didn't want to bash on Creative I was just wondering if they were actually manufacturing cards at first, or if they always delegated to MSI since the very first cards.