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3DFX Voodoo II on a MS-DOS machine

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First post, by paulo_becas

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I was wondering if a 3DFX Voodoo II makes sense on a pure MS-DOS machine? What do you guys think?
I thought mounting one on my AMD 5x86 MS-DOS machine but i don't know if it makes any sense doing so.

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Reply 1 of 4, by maxtherabbit

Posted on Today, 15:39

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Huge waste imo. Yeah you can get some dos glide games to work but it requires environment variables. And the processor will bottleneck the graphics card massively

Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on Today, 17:13

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very much no. the merit of the voodoo2 lives on in windows 95 gaming where there's newer APIs that know what multitexturing is. V2-era dos gaming is probably just Bethesda Redguard and Burnout at best.

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Reply 3 of 4, by paulo_becas

Posted on 59 minutes ago

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Thanks guys, this confirms what i tought.
I already have a Windows 95 Rig with a voodoo II in it, a Pentium MMX 233Mhz
I'll save it for something else or sell it... still didn't figure out what to do with it.

Reply 4 of 4, by Law212

Posted on 24 minutes ago

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With the voodoo ? SLI it with the other one just for the cool factor. With the DOS computer, just have it for pure DOS gaming.

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