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For some reason, I always think that Descent II came out around the same time as DOOM, but then I remember that Descent II was one of the first games to support 3D accelerator cards.

Pretty sure it came with my S3 VIRGE.

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I was so excited when I got my ViRGE. Then I tried playing games with it. Mechwarrior II came with it but you had to run at 512x384 and even then it didn't run great. My next video card was a 3dfx Voodoo and I was in heaven.

My second GPU was a Rendition 2200. I was pretty upset, to be honest. I had asked for a 3dfx Voodoo for Christmas, and was given the Rendition instead.

It was mostly worthless. At the time, games were almost all using the Glide API.

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