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Topic: Where the f*ck is 3dfxx???

Outlaw
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Member # 1733

posted 12-24-2000 12:18 AM

This is *really* starting to piss me off! I'm looking to download drivers for my V5 and the driver site is down over at 3dfx. If 3dfx has pulled the plug this quick on their customer base, then every one of those f*cking piece of sh*t suits can suck a d*ck. I hope thier holiday is sh*t...

I'm pissed!!!

-Outlaw

Posts: 212 | From: Coeur d'Alene, ID | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Bill Hewett
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Member # 115

posted 12-24-2000 05:36 AM

There are plenty of alternative sites for drivers. Here's one:
http://www.3dchipset.com/

Merry Christmas

Posts: 1279 | From: MA, USA | Registered: Sep 1999 | IP: Logged

Outlaw
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Member # 1733

posted 12-24-2000 10:41 AM

Thanks Bill,

I may have been a little off base with my comments, but really, how hard is it to keep a server plugged in? 3dfx will not get one ounce of sympathy from me and they deserve everything they get for leaving thier customers without any support. Screw them. What they have done is unexcusable. To just flat out "dump" those of us who have stood behind them since the Voodoo1, is pathetic. Of course we know that every suit in 3dfx will pop thier golden chutes and live on to screw up another company. Sadly it will be the hard working ones and us customers who suffer while management survives. Typical...

-Outlaw

[This message has been edited by Outlaw (edited 12-24-2000).]

Posts: 212 | From: Coeur d'Alene, ID | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Casey
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Member # 873

posted 12-24-2000 11:24 AM

I installed my old TNT2 Ultra this morning and downloaded the latest Detonator drivers.

Coming from me, that's a form of protest!

Posts: 636 | From: America | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

dschin
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Member # 6088

posted 12-24-2000 12:21 PM

Give them a fair chance, Outlaw. If you are
patient and stiil they obviously screw us (I have a Voodoo 32000), take it out on Nvidia.

Posts: 287 | From: Madison WI USA | Registered: Aug 2000 | IP: Logged

Casey
Member
Member # 873

posted 12-24-2000 02:33 PM

Unfortunately, the latest nVidia drivers caused crashes in Quake3, Flight Unlimited 3 and NASCAR Heat. So now I'm in "vid card research and testing" mode (my girlfriend is shaking her head and making faces at me each time I shout "f*ck" and reboot, come back in the kitchen and get another beer).

I guess, after all my Voodoo praising over the past few months, my old TNT2 Ultra doesn't like me any more!

Posts: 636 | From: America | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

LakeCountryFireworks
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Member # 8433

posted 12-25-2000 05:52 AM

It would appear that they are back up now. I was able to grab some VooDoo 3 3500 drivers late last nite and early this AM.

Posts: 5 | From: Farmington,NY, USA | Registered: Dec 2000 | IP: Logged

Casey
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Member # 873

posted 12-25-2000 08:51 PM

Yes; I downloaded the newest drivers (1.07) this morning.

Posts: 636 | From: America | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

Outlaw
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Member # 1733

posted 12-25-2000 10:21 PM

I was just there...

If they were up it was for a very very short time. They are down again.

-Outlaw

Posts: 212 | From: Coeur d'Alene, ID | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Softball
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Member # 1953

posted 12-26-2000 12:36 AM

Try here: http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=2428

Works for me.

--Softball

Posts: 89 | From: San Diego | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

rizzbird1
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Member # 6765

posted 12-28-2000 12:33 PM

Well i read today that all 3dfx cards are to be pulled from the shelves, and none! are to be sold, while they put all stock into a wharehouse. Maybe they have no intentions of doing anything with 3dfx, so they can concentrate on ATI. Which is not good news if you need dx9 drivers in the future.

Posts: 46 | From: essex,england | Registered: Sep 2000 | IP: Logged

geishpmp
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Member # 8657

posted 12-28-2000 12:55 PM

A suggestion for ppl who like to buy vid cards.......GET AN NVIDIA BASED CARD. NVIDIA HAS THE BEST SUPPORT ON THEIR PRODUCTS AND THEY ARE STABLE. VOODOOS ARE FINE IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY, BUT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING EASY TO INSTALL ANS IS STABLE, GET AN NVIDIA. IF YOUS USE ATI's, GOD HELP YOU. I truly hate ati's. They inhale profusely (basically they suck)!!!!

Posts: 23 | From: houston, tx | Registered: Dec 2000 | IP: Logged

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