There is a wide range of components that make it easier to use 3dfx hardware.  Fortunately, the prices for items such as KT333 motherboards, 333FSB CPU's and DDR333 memory is always dropping.

It makes it easier to build a more cost-effective 3dfx system! 

I made sure I bought my Chaintech 7VJL Apogee as soon as I could buy it. 

http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=138

Chaintech had stopped making them and they were coming towards the end of their line, when I bought mine brand new in 2004.

It's still wrapped up as it awaits the rest of my components for a 3dfx rig.

I just don't have any room to set it up anywhere at the moment. 

We're moving off-topic here anyway. 

I have been selling stuff.  Lot's of rubbish just to make room. I just need to buy a bigger house.  One with about 6 bedrooms this time! 

Well my Chaintech board will have nothing to do with WGF 1.0 and 2.0 as it will be a legacy 3dfx system supporting only Windows 98 and 2000. 

Other cards such as nVIDIA Geforce series and ATI's Radeon series will be okay as they support DirectX 9.0c.  WGF 1.0 is a legacy support for this.  See the other topic.
Matrox Parhelia series will struggle, as they only support DirectX 8.1, so there cards will have some difficulty.

I suspect much older cards from vendors who are currently still around, will either try their best to support older cards (i.e software API bridges and wrappers) or just tell folk to go and upgrade.

It is a shame, because the first thing I saw was '512-bit GPU and 256Mb graphics memory' and thought, 'wow!' 

It was just a shame the performance of the card let it down. 

Even so, it is a sad shame that it will not be supported by WGF 1.0.

Whether or not it does, at this stage the idea has not been put into development yet.  So there is a good chance that it will be developed to coincide with the WGF driver API.

However, this is Matrox we are talking about, who built a DX8.1 based card (I know it runs DX9 but its built to only support the DX8.1 API) when DX9 based cards had been out for ages.  So who knows.

Lucky bugger.    Nice one Obi.   

It is a nice card after all.  If I was to get one, I'd splash out and go the full way with the 256Mb.

Don't worry too much about the difference that you may see in Vista.  If anything, it may be a 5 - 10% performance increase (according to what Microsoft tell us in general about modern day GPU's).

@ FalconFly

Well no-one else bothered this topic I guess but yeah we kept it going, sorry that it went on for so long Falconfly, afteral it's an interesting thread afterall. I suppose that kept us go'n.

@ Janskjaer,

The 256Meg Parhelia is 570 euro's here compaired to the 384 Euro'ed 128MB one hehe, I will test it in the Beta Windows Vista, I will let you know on how it will perform. Though I'm not sure if WGF1.0 is allready implented in the latest Vista beta, anyone ideas?

yeah I was thinking in the same direction jan, soon we will be the left overs, auw that's gonna feel lonely, I really hope that the others will join in the quest to keep 3dfx alive and working in the newst OS's with thier newer technologies.

to me WGF 1.0 should be possible on a Voodoo4/5 but then alittle tweaked.