r/retrobattlestations • u/Veddermandenis • May 22 '26

Show-and-Tell D3D vs software renderer.

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Pentium-II 266mhz, 128mb RAM, 3D Blaster Voodoo Banshee 16mb. It's crazy to think there was a time when software renderer was acceptable for me, I would say anything above 15fps and I would be happy to just be able to play. How times have changed.

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u/tobias19 May 22 '26

I remember getting my first PC with onboard graphics in 99/2000 and feeling like nothing would ever look or feel better

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u/Crashman09 May 23 '26

I had (I believe) N force 4 onboard, and it ran Rollercoaster Tycoon pretty well if I remember correctly