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>>BirAda+(OP)
I have fond memories of playing Quake 2 for some time and then buying a Voodoo card. It suddenly looked like a totally different game. It wasn’t just the resolution and texture filtering - Quake 2 in GL mode used a totally different, dynamic lightning system and back then it was simply stunning.

Comparison pics: https://www.marky.ca/3d/quake2/compare/content.html

>>M4v3R+r5
Yes, I had to play Quake 2 on 320x240 due to low performance of my S3 Virge, but still got floored by the lighting.

>>sedatk+F7
I was trying to remember the first hardware acceleration I saw - it was the S3 Virge.

>>4RealF+BD
Die it do anything? I remember S3 cards saying you would get HW acceleration, but it was impossible to tell a difference to software rendering.

>>muro+vh1
It worked at very low frames-per-second. Edges and textures were more well-defined. I was very disappointed. I picked up a Voodoo card soon after. S3 made a major mistake releasing unusable 3d acceleration.