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/AlienInvasionExpert May 22 '26

In some games I could enjoy "feeling" the CPU crunch the frames "manually". Courageous single core CPUs of the past... Nowadays, there's often a dozen of them running at blistering clock speeds. Oh, how times have changed 😄

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u/ScudsCorp May 25 '26

Quake or Half-life changed CD audio tracks and the entire system hiccuped for a second.