If you want things looking less smeary, you should probably adjust the filter threshold in an environment variable (set SST_VIDEO_FILTER_THRESHOLD=0x000000). Setting the gamma correction value lower (default is a washed out 1.7) also could help (SST_GAMMA=1.0)

Some say the image quality is slightly better on Orchid Righteous 3D cards, because of them having mechanical relais instead of solid state. But again thats just hearsay, I have no evidence nor experience.

Miro and Canopus boards can have 6MB, so that few games can run at 800x600.
Also these cards use different pass through VGA cable, some 9 pin mini DIN connector at one end. I made such a cable once. 😀

They even go up to 8MB: Skywell Magic 3D Plus but performance wise it’s not interesting. In some cases you’ll gain one or two FPS. Alternatively there is a Quantum3D Obsidian SB50-4220 with 8MB and two TMU’s (texture mapping unit). Games like Unreal can benefit from this but a lot of games from the Voodoo Graphics era don’t. If you want the most fancy setup you can get stuff in SLI, too.

Bottom end: to get the Voodoo Graphics experience just go with any of the 4MB Voodoo’s, the 3dfx reference driver and install this on something like a Pentium MMX 200 with a CRT monitor 😀.

PD2JK wrote on 2024-07-19, 20:40:

Miro and Canopus boards can have 6MB, so that few games can run at 800x600.

the extra 2 megabytes are texture memory, not framebuffer memory. that's a good thing because on late titles you'd rather be running 512x384 than 800x600 on these cards.

that being said, voodoo graphics is capable of 800x600 if no z-buffer is used.