14 Facts About Voodoo Rush

Voodoo Rush stated that Glide's creation was because it found that no existing APIs at the time could fully utilize the chip's capabilities.

Voodoo Rush manufactured only the chips and some reference boards, and initially did not sell any product to consumers; rather, it acted as an OEM supplier for graphics card companies, which designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold their own graphics cards including the Voodoo chipset.

The first arcade machine that 3dfx Voodoo Rush Graphics hardware was used in was a 1996 baseball game featuring a bat controller with motion sensing technology called ICE Home Run Derby.

Furthermore, the Voodoo Rush chipset was not directly present on the PCI bus but had to be programmed through linked registers of the 2D chip.

Sales of the Voodoo Rush cards were very poor, and the cards were discontinued within a year.

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Voodoo Rush2 required three chips and a separate VGA graphics card, whereas new competing 3D products, such as the ATI Rage Pro, Nvidia RIVA 128, and Rendition Verite 2200, were single-chip products.

Many users even preferred Voodoo Rush2's dedicated purpose, because they were free to use the quality 2D card of their choice as a result.

Voodoo Rush2 introduced Scan-Line Interleave, in which two Voodoo Rush2 boards were connected together, each drawing half the scan lines of the screen.

Voodoo Rush hired hardware and software teams in Austin, Texas to develop 2D and 3D Windows device drivers for Rampage in the summer of 1998.

Acquisition of STB was one of the main contributors to 3dfx's downfall; the Voodoo Rush 3 became the first 3dfx chip to be developed in-house rather than by third-party manufacturers, which were a significant source of revenue for the company.

Voodoo Rush 3 was hyped as the graphics card that would make 3dfx the undisputed leader, but the actual product was below expectations.

The Voodoo Rush3 sold relatively well, but was disappointing compared to the first two models and 3dfx lost the market leadership to Nvidia.

Originally, this was just a Voodoo Rush3 modified to support newer technologies and higher clock speeds, with performance estimated to be around the level of the RIVA TNT2.

Voodoo Rush 4 was beaten in almost all areas by the GeForce 2 MX—a low-cost board sold mostly as an OEM part for computer manufacturers—and the Radeon VE.