Had it. It WAS Good for games up until 2000. Then ran fine some games at 800*600, such as the quake 3 engine ones. Then in 2003 it became too slow for direct x 8 games. Your Ti was solid.Had GeForce 2 Ti during this time, remember MX series was frowned upon by enthusiast to a degree.
Ran vc fine for me, but gta3 wasn't good.It couldn't handle Vice city in my pc. If the rain started or I broke a fire hydrant OR I got blood on my screen the sky became a bugged mirror texture and the hud disappeared. I play some Vice city every few month but it still scares me when I break a fire hydrant.
MX400 was mine. It was the 64MB weaker core version of the MX. Thing was a huge upgrade from the crappy S3 integrated graphics output I was using. Got it in 2000 I believe. I just remember the jump for Half Life and Counter Strike being massive. Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 and 3, Diablo 2, everything just ran so much better.MX440 was my first GPU I think. 21 years ago, holy fuck. I think I was starting highschool? Before that I'd used to just go nonstop to PC clubs almost daily for hours.
Look how expensive PCs were in 1990sThey look back at it now and think, we could have sold that for 3x the price.
Same. That MX440 lasted me a while too.MX440 was my first GPU I think. 21 years ago, holy fuck. I think I was starting highschool? Before that I'd used to just go nonstop to PC clubs almost daily for hours.
GPU market was pretty bad with a ton of fake products with flashed bios in that eraGPU market was so much more interesting back then, you had Nvidia, ATI, 3DFX, Matrox and PowerVR to choose from, all with their own unique designs.
Of course the downside was games advanced just as fast too so if you wanted to play the latest games you pretty much had to upgrade your PC every couple of years. If you thought Crysis was bad you never saw how bad Origin Systems was at time.(In the 90s if your system was a couple of years old their games were largely unplayable, like Strike Commander on a 486. Or Ultima 9 until 2001/2002)MX400 was mine. It was the 64MB weaker core version of the MX. Thing was a huge upgrade from the crappy S3 integrated graphics output I was using. Got it in 2000 I believe. I just remember the jump for Half Life and Counter Strike being massive. Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 and 3, Diablo 2, everything just ran so much better.
Used that card until 2003 when I finally upgraded to the Radeon 9700 Pro, and that thing made the GeForce 2 MX400 look like the S3 integrated piece of crap lol it's amazing how fast technology was improving back then. What we would regularly see in 1-2 years now takes 4-6 years to see. Hell, in the case of CPUs, even 6 years doesn't translate to the kind of gains we could get in a year back then. Imagine going from a 300 Mhz processor to a 1.2 Ghz CPU with significantly better IPC too. We're talking about like 5x the CPU performance in just a year or two.
Now, 6 years only gets you 40% faster single core performance because we've hit a pretty hard clock speed wall and transistors can't really get any smaller. We've reached the end, my friends. Everything going to hell in a hand basket as progress halts. It's sad really, we're nowhere near where I hoped we'd be by now.
I remember they were giving away this game with it that used T&LI had one of these. An upgrade from a TNT2 Ultra.
In games that supported T&L, it was a huge uplift in performance.
I'm 36 now and going through a bit of a health scare this year. My perception of time and its relation to all we do in our lives has been permanently altered because of it. Now, I see these retirees saying "oh I'll keep this same sports car for the next 20 years and never swap it out" and all I see is stagnation and a waste of their remaining years. That's the same type of stagnation we're seeing now with CPUs and GPUs. I'd much rather my system become obsolete in 2 years and have actually meaningful upgrades available to me rather than waste my remaining time never experiencing better. It's a double edged sword, the lack of progress over time, but I truly feel this is the worse of the two ways it could go.Of course the downside was games advanced just as fast too so if you wanted to play the latest games you pretty much had to upgrade your PC every couple of years. If you thought Crysis was bad you never saw how bad Origin Systems was at time.(In the 90s if your system was a couple of years old their games were largely unplayable, like Strike Commander on a 486. Or Ultima 9 until 2001/2002)