Limedust

I didn't see it posted before, and I thought it was pretty impressive. Voodoo 5 was around 1999 or so?

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=30

Wario64

Heh, man does that look ugly compared to the real thing

neptunes

I remember those shitty voodoo gfx cards

Culex

Glide 4 Lyfe!

Tenguman

Actually that's not half bad for the age of the card.

Ferrarisimo

Voodoo5 was early 2001, I believe.

Spectral Glider

I still have my voodoo 5 in my old Dell PII 450, no way in hell I'm trying Doom on it though, lol. Gotta say though, a few months back I installed XP on that machine and downloaded some drivers from voodoo files and I was playing NHL 99 on it pretty smoothly. Feb. or March of 2000 is when the card came out, I got one to replace the Geforce 1 that just up and died on me. I grossly overpaid for both of those cards IMO ($300 each) and it was then that I vowed to never again jump on the latest and greatest graphics card, money making racket. My Radeon 9600pro that I paid $120 for last year is running Doom 3 just fine.

The Faceless Master

surprisingly, it doesn't look as bad as i thought it would...

Sho Nuff

Holy shit it actually works!

Lazy8s

Another interesting example along these lines would be to see how well Doom 3 could be made to run on the Dreamcast, a system from 1998. The biggest components of the game's look are the shadowing and the bump-mapped detail. The DC specializes in volumetric effects and would be very fast at handling the shadows with modifier volumes. It was also one of the first consumer hardwares to have acceleration for dot-product bump mapping, even predating widespread acceptance of the DOT3 standard.

Tenguman

If Doom 3 can work on a intel-integrated video system, it can work on almost anything.

demon

Funny how, somehow, the visuals in those shots remind me a lot of QuakeII.

Black Deatha

That's unbeliveable, but it looks like ass, may look good for the card it's on, but damn, that still looks horrid. Though makes me think, the game could probably be ported to PS2 and more so GCN.

~Black Deatha

dark10x

I bet it could run it properly...but it would be SLOOOOOOW. It would take a LOT of work to get result as well...

The DC didn't exactly run Quake engine games that well. Q3A was the best Quake engine port and it maxed out at 30 fps. Other attempts were much worse.

Panajev2001a

The SH-4 would be the weak link.

DaCocoBrova

Outrigger... 60fps and pretty...

dark10x

I don't think that was the Quake engine, though. Not only that, the levels were EXTREMELY small.

I don't see why Sega's Japanese teams would have used the Quake engine for an arcade game. That doesn't make sense...

Still, most other Quake engine ports were horrible. Remember Soldier of Fortune? Yeah, that was the Quake 2 engine. Horrible framerate and some of the worst loading times you'll see on a console (and the levels were broken up into tiny segments as well).

mightynine

I'm shocked it looks that decent.

TekunoRobby

This is incredibly impressive. The Doom 3 engine is amazingly scaleable.

jenov4

That doesn't look so bad, I wonder how it would look on a Voodoo 1 though.

Sp3eD

John Carmack made it, are you that suprised?

shantyman

Are you serious? The first 2 Voodoo cards never had any competition back then. It wasn't until they lost the plot and deemed 32 bit color non important did Nvidia overtake them...

TekunoRobby

Yes and no actually. No because John Carmack is a programming genius and yes because I didn't think he designed his new engine to be flexible to that degree.

Wario64

Heh, and if you ever played Quake 1 multiplayer, having a Voodoo was actually an ADVANTAGE than against people who didn't have them. It would let you see through water, while people who didn't own those 3d accelerators couldn't

Lazy8s

dark10x:

It's more like the Quake engine wasn't fit well with the Dreamcast hardware. It's quite common for PC engines to not translate well to consoles, for reasons like lack of customization, differing strengths, and even display synching (a PC port could be able to run 60 fps half the time, but the dev might still lock down at 30 hz to keep the framerate uniform since console games are supposed to synch to TVs at only 60 or 30.)

bishoptl

Yep. That worked a treat on 2Fort4 in Team Fortress.

Fafalada

Bingo.
And neither is Doom3 engine ;)

Mustang

I remember buying a Diamond Monster 3D.

Think I had it running with a Diamond S3 Virge.

Oh, those were the days.

tedtropy

I imagine it doesn't have enough texture memory to even try to load a Doom 3 map...

Lazy8s

The supposition was about how well it could convert if it were customized to the DC. It's an interesting fit potentially, considering the release date of the system and its hardware design.

Fafalada

It's not - the game is first and foremost a near bottomless CPU hog.
That by default makes consoles a poor (or even very poor) fit. There's a reason XBox version looks like ass too.

dark10x