3dfx Still Hurting

DIE!!!! DIEE!!!!!

100!

I run Lan Partys in England, 1 year ago most people had TNT2's or Voodoo 3's, now everyone has Geforce's.

I got a Geforce DDR last December (just when they came out over here) and we had a Lan between Xmas and New Year. People could not believe the speed of the card at the time.

Ok so UT didn't run that well but it was playable. What was the selling point of the card? Q3 in 32 bit colour. People looked at it and their jaws dropped.

That was what killed Voodoo cards from a gamers point of view, ATI still controlled the OEM market at the time and the prebuilt market (Compaq, IBM desktops and servers) so 3dfx couldn't get in their. They were ahead of the game at one point and stopped running.

Weren't Nintendo once in a similar position? I could think of others Commordore (?) springs to mind immediately.

What Nvidia has to do next is to bring full hardware decoding of DVD's onto their chipset as well as making it faster, more light sources, etc than the GTS Ultra and I'd say they were on a winner.

I still run the DDR I get 100 FPS on Q3 with everything on @ 800x600, it's a great card. Hell I still have a TNT in the server that people can play on. It's not great but it's playable and how old is that?

I hope Rampage is everything it is meant to be cause it will mean a better deal for us, the customers.

However, when your marketing guy goes to work for the opposition that tends to answer a few things about your product line.

Maybe the Bitmap Brothers can teach 3dfx a few things? (and that's a joke btw).

haha

3dfx = owned

it is officil: rosewood hates arabs and japs, as well as practicaly every other race, and wants to kill them all, as well as killing most every other american who isn't quite the same shade of white he is.

What a redneck

I don't think CTF was ever better than sex.

But maybe I'm wierd or something.

big Shame big shame ........NNOT!..............what a fucked up decision to to become sole distributors of their chip!.......as that kid in the Simpsons so elliquently puts it Ha HA!

we can buy stock in them for about 3.50 a share..

Hell the Rage Fury may not fly in FPS numbers but in Q3 @ 800x600x32 with everything on it stayed at 40 fps with no visible slowdown.

damage=idiot:

http://www.tech-report.com/

I running with my underware in my hand

My V5 is gonna be a fucking collector's item!

It will someday be worth more than the whole fucking company at the rate 3dfx's stock price is falling...

Speaking of which, if that shit gets any lower I'm gonna buy a buttload of 3dfx stock and hope that 3dfx can pull a rabbit out of Gigapixels ass. No risk = no reward.

What's amazing is that Brian Burke now works for Nvidia. Now that's something.

Im bored, and I just thought of a bunch of dumbass moves 3dfx has made, so heres the list from the top of my head....
1) tried to make the graphics chipset for sega (dreamcast) but got screwed over in favor of powervr (lot of time wasted there)
2)that crappy voodoo card that had its 2d on a daughter card (cant remember what it was called... anyone?)
3) OpenGl driver? we have mini drivers, they are better
4) were selling too many voodoo chipsets to 3rd party manufactures, we should just buy STB because they were Nvidia's biggest OEM manufacturer so we can screw Nvidia & make our own cards at the same time
5) lets waste alot of money to change 3DFX to 3Dfx and add an orange nike swoosh to our logo, then lets waste alot of money on tv ads
6) voodoo3? it only has to be as fast as 2 voodoo2s & have 2d on it that works
7) Voodoo3 w/ special flatpannel out port.. oh wait scratch that we dumb we cant make it, lets just try and make it like an ati-all in wonder
8) lets make the voodoo5 using .25 manufacturing and huge ass pc boards so it requires an external powersupply, instead of making the chip smaller

can anyone think of any others?

Did you guys read the press release?

3dfx Announces Anticipated Revenue Shortfall Due to Overall Weakness In European Market

R-O-F-L. That didn't work for Intel, either.

Try "Due to the weakness of our motherfuckin' products."

I agree #34... When they started looking at buying out STB, the other board manuf. went strait to nVidia to solidify their relationships, which were kind of shaky before... 3dfx empowered their rival while at the same time, spending money on the buyout that should have gone in R@D... and nVidia poured $ into R@D.... 3dfx was unable to get their products to market in a timely manner b/c of the time they lost in consolidation, and nVidia stomped on them like a narc at a biker rally.

Its the kind of strategic mistake that many high tech companies never recover from... (kinda like when Apple forged ahead with the 'closed' archatecture and *IBM, Compaq, ect* went with the 'open')
{so long ago I forgot the name of that 'Industry Constortum' }

oh yeah one more thing... why the hell did 3dfx waste their time even putting out the v3500? I dont think too many bought the damn thing.. it wasnt even that fast, and you got a better feature set for editing video with matrox or ati cards..

well, the voodoo 5 6000 better be fast... it's freakin humongous

Didnt 3dfx just buy some other vid company (the guys who lost out to nvidia for the xbox)??? They were supposed to have a good tile rendering architecture, that could be the magic rabit from their gigapixel ass

http://www.posters.com/cheese/3107.jpg

Hmm...

3dfx's BIGGEST mistake was buying STB to sell their boards direct... And is it just me, but I could of swore I remember 3dfx talking about Rampage back in the days of quakecast when the voodoo2 was the top of the market...
I think rampage = diakatana (sp?)

Ah well... I have a Voodoo3? but next week I won't! Geforce 2 baby! 64mb!

Ominious better get his server up before my baking is done or nighty night, and you guys will have to wait till tomorrow...muhahaha

OMG...someone help me! Im....playing.....UT! fuck..............

I smell a bankrupt coming.. I wish 3dfx shaped up.. I'd like to be able to get one of their cards again and be proud of owning it.

REVIVE 3DFX, REVIVE DAMN YOU!

even tho i personally prefer nvidia's stuff, i sure hope these guys dont go out of business. competition == good