winuser3162 wrote on 2024-10-29, 01:41:
Just pick up a creative labs graphics blaster, wondering if anyone knows anything about these cards and or has experience with them? My particular card is a PCI creative graphics blaster EXXTREME 4MB model.
i had one of these back in early/mid 1999, really wanted a voodoo 2 or a new voodoo3, managed to convince my dad to get a graphics card, i was disappointed it wasnt a voodoo, and was triggered when he bought a 4mb gpu as an upgrade to the onboard 4mb we already had, though the guy at the computer shop said it would be an improvement, we had an amd K6, turns out these cards need a fairly decent cpu and are not good for pairing with a K6,
also by this point the card was pretty much 2 years old which wasnt great considering how quickly gpus were progressing back then, anyway it did its job, i used it for playing heretic, doom, duke nukem 3d, jet fighter II, links golf, normality, flight unlimited, C&C, red alert, dune 2000, tiberian sun, thief, grim fandango, flight simulator 98, gta/london, WH40K chaos gate, Redline Gang Warfare: 2066, and a gameboy emulator for playing pokemon red.🤣, so not very demanding games. it handled these games just fine, i would get another one but only to re-live the past, though given a choice, today there are much better options.
heres some info.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/87/2
