Comments on: The first 3Dfx card: Orchid Righteous 3D https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d/#comment-56855 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:59:36 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=37186#comment-56855 In reply to Arthur Ahbez.

I can relate a little. I never had an Orchid Righteous 3D, but have had multiple 3dfx cards pass through my hands. I only still have one of them, and don’t know what happened to the rest. I saved a lot of stuff, but I got rid of a lot of good stuff too, and the stuff I got rid of would be worth a fortune today.

]]> By: Arthur Ahbez https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d/#comment-56854 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:44:01 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=37186#comment-56854 Oh man, my cousin gave me one of these, along with the box and cd’s in the early 2000’s. I don’t know what I did with it, but I wish it still had it!

]]> By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d/#comment-56848 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:25:57 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=37186#comment-56848 In reply to neo.

The change was making chipsets that could do both 2D and 3D so there wasn’t a need for separate cards.

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-3dfx-card-orchid-righteous-3d/#comment-56847 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:37:46 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=37186#comment-56847 –the Orchid Righteous 3D lacked any 2D capability. Instead, the Orchid Righteous 3D functioned as an add-in card, complementing a regular 2D-capable card and using a VGA cable pass-through to connect both cards inline to a VGA monitor. It plugged into the PCI bus, alongside your existing 2D card. When AGP was released in 1997, using a Righteous 3D alongside an AGP 2D card became normal.

we no longer have a 3D functioned as an add-in card, complementing a regular 2D-capable card and using a VGA cable pass-through to connect both cards inline to a VGA monitor so what changes

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