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Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: qts on June 27, 2005, 01:41:49 PM

Remember 3dfx? Well, I have access to an Obsidian graphics card with 16 VSA chips. It speaks OpenGL.

Were it to be coupled with a reasonably modern computer (it's currently in a dual P3-933 NT box), what games would be suitable? And where can I find a suitable Windows 98 or Windows 2000 driver?

Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: Nilsen on June 27, 2005, 01:47:23 PM

Try googeling for it, Maybe someone has made a driver if Obsidian is out of business or havent made one. maybe Versiontracker has one.

Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: Skuzzy on June 27, 2005, 01:51:11 PM

That was a woorkstation graphics card.  As such, its design will prohibit games from running very well (if at all) on it.

Workstation graphics cards have a very different focus in the design than normal 3D graphics cards do.

Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: Saintaw on June 27, 2005, 04:46:32 PM

I saw a version of civilian sim running pretty smoothely back then on a bluebox... but now that I think about it, it was probably 800/600 16bits.

Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: qts on June 27, 2005, 05:14:59 PM

One of the demos that it has is of a F15 flying over a landscape - at 1280x1024.

Title: Games for a 16-chip Obsidian
Post by: spitfiremkv on June 27, 2005, 05:18:16 PM

That'd be the Silicon Graphics Flight Simulator-designed to run on...a SG machine!


there's a evrsion that works on the PC too, but looks like ****.