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I wanted to buy a Voodoo card, and due to PCI incompatible version, had to trade it back for a Riva TNT.

Back then I was quite p***d not being able to keep the Voodoo, how little did I know how it was going to turn out.

We hold you singularly responsible for the eventual failure of the Voodoo3/4/5 and Nvidia domination.

Sorry.... :)

I had a Riva TNT at the time, and a friend's Voodoo... 2? sure ran Half-Life better than my card. The Voodoo 2 probably really was the better GPU at the time. Later games required later APIs (unsupported by older cards) - and much higher performance - anyway, so longevity was not much either way.

It depended on the game, as well. It wasn't uncommon for titles to be optimized specifically for Glide, so they'd run slower under OGL/D3D.

In general it wasn't until Riva TNT2 that NVIDIA became the card of choice for gaming.

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