PC Gaming History. How PC gaming evolved and where it's going. PC Gaming industry leaders discuss the global gaming landscape and how it has affected their lives.
Seeing Grant Imahara in this hurts with his passing. I am sure when he recorded this he did not think in less than 10 years time he would no longer be alive. RIP Grant, I enjoyed watching you on Mythbusters.
This is so wrong.... the part about inventing the gpu... 3DFX invented the PC hardware accelerator add-in card, it required a 2d card as well.. Ever hear of Voodoo graphics. The voodoo banshee was their first all in one card... but it was a gpu and this was before nvidia came on the scene. 3dfx also invented SLI, which nvidia now uses the name, it involves having two grfx cards hooked together rendering alternating pixel rows. Voodoo used an Api called glide which most games at the time ran flawlessly on.. It was essentially an Open-GL like api that had 3dfx specific instructions. It rocked for any Unreal based game and games like Thief and Deus ex, need for speed etc.. ran better on glide. DirectX was crap until DX7, which didn't hit until 2000. 3dfx made a bad investment, bought STB and started making thier own cards instead of letting other companies make the cards, like they did for the voodoo 1, and 2. Nvidia and Ati let others make the cards for them. This investment killed 3dfx and they missed releasing the 4 gpu 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 (I owned a 2gpu voodoo 5 5500 at the time).. They ran out of cash, and went bankrupt in winter 2000. Nvidia then bought all their assets and their engineers, as well as the rights to their technologies. It's why nvidia uses SLI and ati ues the phrase crossfire and not SLI. Everything else about this video is right but the part about nvidia inventing the gpu, as they did not. It's disingenuous for them to say that, and disregard the history that 3DFX started all those years ago... I remember because I just got out of high school when the first voodoo card came out to market. Voodoo 2 was a killer for GL Quake and Quake 2 back in the day!
Well it depends on perspective right ? I mean if 3DFX was bought completely by Nvidia and most if not all engineers then went over to Nvidia then the original inventors are now part of Nvidia. And if they call themselves Nvidia now, then in a way they were the inventors. But I agree with you on them making claims that aren't quite true. It's really not endearing. (Edit : Fixed typo investors to inventors)
Dude, i was yelling at my screen whenthey said "in 1999 the first GPU was created". thats SUCH BS. the 3dfx Voodoo and the VirGe Diamond were from 1997-98 i think
Yup, I was thinking the same thing! I still remember getting my first Voodoo 1 and then playing GL Quake. It was the most incredible gaming experience of my life. As great as 4K gaming, Virtual Reality and other neat moments have been/will be, nothing will ever top that first Voodoo 1.
@@Dargone007 yep the transition to real 3d was one of those turning points, and it was a big one. Similar to going from SD to HD in recent times. Yeah the switch from doom style to full 3d in quake and other games of the time was amazing and I don't think many realize how awesome it was as a lot of people were on consoles or on non 3d enabled pcs at the time.
@@janadriaanjansenvanvuuren6502 Nope. 3DFX & NVidia were competing for a long time before 3DFX died and was bought out. I can remember the first time I saw 3DFX running (it was a daughter board that connected to a standard VGA card) and it was mind blowing. The N64 was the benchmark at the time and the 3DFX matched it. It was awesome: 640x480x16@60fps with hardware accelerated texture mapping/filtering. A quick look on wiki kind of validates this, the first NVidia card I can remember taking notice of was the RIVA TNT and that was released in ~1998 and, tbh, the 32-bit colour was its biggest selling point, other than that it wasn't really game changing. The first 3DFX Voodoo was available in '96.
Strictly speaking it was a collaboration between Nintendo and SGI; Nintendo new what they wanted for the then Ultra 64, and tasked SGI with actually creating the hardware. SGI subsequently didn't want to go in consumer electronics themselves focusing on their high-end graphical workstations, but the engineers saw the money to be made, quit SGI and started 3Dfx.
History of PC Gaming "Aug 31st 1999 NVIDIA invents the world's first GPU..." Sigh... I know this is advertisement and marketing bullshit, but you can say "one of the world's first GPUs" and still it would sound fine, because otherwise it is factually incorrect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
It may not be the first, but most of the "GPUs" your talking about that came before hand were mainly graphics accelerators, Nivida was the first company to use make a dedicated GPU running off OpenGL/DirectX which is the point they made in the video.
William Snitselaar They didn't make that very clear at all, people viewing the video may not make that same interpretation ... and thus it is somewhat misleading. I'd wager it was worded the way it was purposely to make NVidia look better, and it's why i turned off the video half way through.
I knew a guy who would tell his wife he had to work late so he could play Doom, as she didn’t approve of him playing it. I remember the early days when PC gaming had a bad rap
Nice. As a beginner PC gamer what might you recommend in terms of peripherals? I was thinking keep it basic to get used to the platform, particularly cuz i play a lot of shooters. Maybe a Kinzu V2 (nice compact form factor, basic, reliable looking.) and a apex raw, and some mousepad.. not sure where from
Logitech g502 Proteus core mouse is great for first person shooters, and a cool keyboard, maybe a little pricey, is the corsair k70 rgb (also good for fps)
People raided in Everquest.. Don't know why they are saying WoW was the birth of raiding.. it just turned millions of people onto its existence and organized it further than any other game had before then.
Not enough Battlefield series scenes shown in the video! :( And Command & Conquer Generals for example, one of my first games (my first game actually was Prince, 2D and much blood lol I was scared). Then Toy Story etc. and finally saw Battlefield 1942, Vietnam etc.
Need help! :/ Intel Core i7 4702MQ 2,2 GHz Quad Core Intel Core i5 4210M 2,6 GHz Duo Core Which one of these two processors is better/perform better for Online gaming ? Both laptops has the GTX 850m Graphics card.
People say that around the time the Playstation 2 came out console became weaker than gaming PCs, which was in 2000. Some may say back when the Playstation 1 was new PCs surpassed consoles. I think the latter because of the powerful GPUs that came out that made games run faster and look better than their PS1, N64, and/or Sega Saturn counterparts.
+DestructiveBurn Look I'm a PC gamer but I think mobile gaming with AR and VR is the future we are talking 15 - 20 years down the line here but if you can get a VR headset down to the size of a pair of glasses and we can expect mobiles to be in 15 - 20 years to be far more powerful than today's PC. With cloud gaming and the cellular network getting ever stronger etc the mobile is going to the main platform for gaming, Its going to be a while though. And Nvidia and Intel know it as why Intel is selling its mobile CPU's at a loss and Nvidia is developing the Tegra mobile chips so that when its able to happen they will be there at the fore front. AMD well it needs to make money right now so it needs to be focusing on the hear and now to secure its future, looking ahead is a luxury it cannot afford.
The Voodoo Gfx card came out 11 months before the Nvidia Riva. Glide was the main API for ages. your video has it wrong, oh, and its pronounced "ZED-X 81", not "ZEE-X 81". 2/10 for effort.
NVidia created the first GPU? If you mean the first expansion card with it's own Graphics Processing Unit, then sure... but there were certainly cards before NVidia, anyone remember 3DFX? (loved my Voodoo card)..
I believe Crysis took the next level of gaming when it came out, especially the SDK mods and community that pushed the realism. Shout out to ENBDEV series ;)
Think about RAGDOLL, Physics, Character AI response, gaming computer specs also required new hardware thanks to this game, not that it was any good but It lead players to discover more technology in order to run this game. I think It did revolutionize in graphics, and Character AI that is.
amadexi When Crysis was out, it was the next "step." I mean not just graphic fidelity but gameplay physics. "Can it run Crysis?" That was the quote that just gave me a "wake up" call in terms of "wowing" me to take another look at PC gaming. At least on a consumer level, at the time I was tight on a budget for school---so I couldn't build a PC capable of running Crysis. Not that the technology existed at the time for mainstream budgets; of even running the game.
fleet wood Yes in this sense it changed a lot. About the hardware, i had a 800+€ computer at this time (Nvidia 260 gtx and E8300) and i was able to play it with the highest parameters.
this is more of a marketing video than anything else. I am an Nvidia user but the history is very selective and quite innacurate. 0 mentions of ATI/AMDs very real contributions to the industry and some would say larger contributions to the industry, and 1999 was nowhere NEAR when the 1st gpu came out. it may have been the first to coin the term GPU but dedicated graphics accelerators had been available for nearly 15 years previously.
They mean the first dedicated graphics card using OpenGL/DirectX, so the first mainly "stand alone" type of card, I agree, AMD didnt come into the industry until 2002 really, and until the last couple years has never been up to par. It would have been nice if they included AMD's mantle, even if its buggy yet.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure that 3dfx invented the world's 1st GPU. It was called the Voodoo, and it predated the GeForce 256 by at least 3 years!! Granted, Nvidia bought them out in later years but you need to give credit where credit is due!! Shame on you, Nvidia!!
YOU GUYS DOING THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS TOO WELL DONE ATLEASE YOU DID ONE THING RIGHT LOL....WAIT YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT YOURSELVES THEN THESE VIDEO SUCKS....IF YOU TALK ABOUT PC GAMING THEN TALK ABOUT ONLY PC GAMING HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND OTHERWISE CHANGE THESE TITLE SOMETHING ELSE FOR SAKE......UNFORTUNATELY YOUR GPU IS NOT WORLDS FIRST GPU......
Seeing Grant Imahara in this hurts with his passing. I am sure when he recorded this he did not think in less than 10 years time he would no longer be alive. RIP Grant, I enjoyed watching you on Mythbusters.
3dfx started those gpus, and before that there were others. Nvidia simply bought them out later down the road.
This is so wrong.... the part about inventing the gpu... 3DFX invented the PC hardware accelerator add-in card, it required a 2d card as well.. Ever hear of Voodoo graphics. The voodoo banshee was their first all in one card... but it was a gpu and this was before nvidia came on the scene. 3dfx also invented SLI, which nvidia now uses the name, it involves having two grfx cards hooked together rendering alternating pixel rows. Voodoo used an Api called glide which most games at the time ran flawlessly on.. It was essentially an Open-GL like api that had 3dfx specific instructions. It rocked for any Unreal based game and games like Thief and Deus ex, need for speed etc.. ran better on glide. DirectX was crap until DX7, which didn't hit until 2000. 3dfx made a bad investment, bought STB and started making thier own cards instead of letting other companies make the cards, like they did for the voodoo 1, and 2. Nvidia and Ati let others make the cards for them. This investment killed 3dfx and they missed releasing the 4 gpu 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 (I owned a 2gpu voodoo 5 5500 at the time).. They ran out of cash, and went bankrupt in winter 2000. Nvidia then bought all their assets and their engineers, as well as the rights to their technologies. It's why nvidia uses SLI and ati ues the phrase crossfire and not SLI.
Everything else about this video is right but the part about nvidia inventing the gpu, as they did not. It's disingenuous for them to say that, and disregard the history that 3DFX started all those years ago... I remember because I just got out of high school when the first voodoo card came out to market. Voodoo 2 was a killer for GL Quake and Quake 2 back in the day!
Well it depends on perspective right ? I mean if 3DFX was bought completely by Nvidia and most if not all engineers then went over to Nvidia then the original inventors are now part of Nvidia.
And if they call themselves Nvidia now, then in a way they were the inventors.
But I agree with you on them making claims that aren't quite true. It's really not endearing.
(Edit : Fixed typo investors to inventors)
Dude, i was yelling at my screen whenthey said "in 1999 the first GPU was created". thats SUCH BS. the 3dfx Voodoo and the VirGe Diamond were from 1997-98 i think
Yup, I was thinking the same thing! I still remember getting my first Voodoo 1 and then playing GL Quake. It was the most incredible gaming experience of my life. As great as 4K gaming, Virtual Reality and other neat moments have been/will be, nothing will ever top that first Voodoo 1.
@@Dargone007 yep the transition to real 3d was one of those turning points, and it was a big one. Similar to going from SD to HD in recent times. Yeah the switch from doom style to full 3d in quake and other games of the time was amazing and I don't think many realize how awesome it was as a lot of people were on consoles or on non 3d enabled pcs at the time.
@@janadriaanjansenvanvuuren6502 Nope. 3DFX & NVidia were competing for a long time before 3DFX died and was bought out. I can remember the first time I saw 3DFX running (it was a daughter board that connected to a standard VGA card) and it was mind blowing. The N64 was the benchmark at the time and the 3DFX matched it. It was awesome: 640x480x16@60fps with hardware accelerated texture mapping/filtering. A quick look on wiki kind of validates this, the first NVidia card I can remember taking notice of was the RIVA TNT and that was released in ~1998 and, tbh, the 32-bit colour was its biggest selling point, other than that it wasn't really game changing. The first 3DFX Voodoo was available in '96.
SGI invented the GPU.
3dfx brought it en masse to the PC.
Strictly speaking it was a collaboration between Nintendo and SGI; Nintendo new what they wanted for the then Ultra 64, and tasked SGI with actually creating the hardware.
SGI subsequently didn't want to go in consumer electronics themselves focusing on their high-end graphical workstations, but the engineers saw the money to be made, quit SGI and started 3Dfx.
Bring backs memory of mine first game in PC
PC ROCKS!
History of PC Gaming
"Aug 31st 1999 NVIDIA invents the world's first GPU..."
Sigh... I know this is advertisement and marketing bullshit, but you can say "one of the world's first GPUs" and still it would sound fine, because otherwise it is factually incorrect.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
It may not be the first, but most of the "GPUs" your talking about that came before hand were mainly graphics accelerators, Nivida was the first company to use make a dedicated GPU running off OpenGL/DirectX which is the point they made in the video.
William Snitselaar
They didn't make that very clear at all, people viewing the video may not make that same interpretation ... and thus it is somewhat misleading. I'd wager it was worded the way it was purposely to make NVidia look better, and it's why i turned off the video half way through.
true story... still remember my Riva TNT 2. 128MB of VRAM if im not wrong. Still couldn't play serious sam. *weeps*
8:16 Blizzard released WoW on November 23, 2004. Not 2005.
I knew a guy who would tell his wife he had to work late so he could play Doom, as she didn’t approve of him playing it. I remember the early days when PC gaming had a bad rap
PC MASTER RACE
Ok I ge PC the centric history, but this seems historically inaccurate.
9:23 "a new genre", says the guy who ripped of DayZ :P
Neutrino DayZ is dead
honestly , i thought we'd be further along in PC gaming technology by now.
I began with Quake 3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and haven't looked back since
Nice. As a beginner PC gamer what might you recommend in terms of peripherals? I was thinking keep it basic to get used to the platform, particularly cuz i play a lot of shooters.
Maybe a Kinzu V2 (nice compact form factor, basic, reliable looking.) and a apex raw, and some mousepad.. not sure where from
Logitech g502 Proteus core mouse is great for first person shooters, and a cool keyboard, maybe a little pricey, is the corsair k70 rgb (also good for fps)
hello from the future. just curious how your foray into the pc gaming world went. hope youre still with us.
i started with UT99 then CS 1.6 and never looked back ever since
People raided in Everquest.. Don't know why they are saying WoW was the birth of raiding.. it just turned millions of people onto its existence and organized it further than any other game had before then.
Not enough Battlefield series scenes shown in the video! :( And Command & Conquer Generals for example, one of my first games (my first game actually was Prince, 2D and much blood lol I was scared). Then Toy Story etc. and finally saw Battlefield 1942, Vietnam etc.
Need help! :/
Intel Core i7 4702MQ 2,2 GHz Quad Core
Intel Core i5 4210M 2,6 GHz Duo Core
Which one of these two processors is better/perform better for Online gaming ?
Both laptops has the GTX 850m Graphics card.
www.cpubenchmark.net/
I7 is better but the are almost the same
ATI & 3DFX had "GPU's" before 1999. Nvidia may have coined that term, but they existed prior.
just a question,from which year and later the pc surpassed consoles?
People say that around the time the Playstation 2 came out console became weaker than gaming PCs, which was in 2000. Some may say back when the Playstation 1 was new PCs surpassed consoles. I think the latter because of the powerful GPUs that came out that made games run faster and look better than their PS1, N64, and/or Sega Saturn counterparts.
actually when I say surpassed consoles I mean when it became the master race it is now?was it always possible to upgrade it's hardware as it is now?
videakias3000 I would say in the 90s people were configuring their on PCs which is around the time the PlayStation one was a new.
PC gaming is here to stay. Console gaming is a if. Oculus Rift is the future.
+DestructiveBurn Look I'm a PC gamer but I think mobile gaming with AR and VR is the future we are talking 15 - 20 years down the line here but if you can get a VR headset down to the size of a pair of glasses and we can expect mobiles to be in 15 - 20 years to be far more powerful than today's PC.
With cloud gaming and the cellular network getting ever stronger etc the mobile is going to the main platform for gaming, Its going to be a while though.
And Nvidia and Intel know it as why Intel is selling its mobile CPU's at a loss and Nvidia is developing the Tegra mobile chips so that when its able to happen they will be there at the fore front.
AMD well it needs to make money right now so it needs to be focusing on the hear and now to secure its future, looking ahead is a luxury it cannot afford.
funny u say that. Oculus is dead now.
Microsoft hollow lens is were it's at today.
Okay, am I the only one who went 'wat' after seeing Grant here
nope,not at all
The Voodoo Gfx card came out 11 months before the Nvidia Riva. Glide was the main API for ages. your video has it wrong, oh, and its pronounced "ZED-X 81", not "ZEE-X 81". 2/10 for effort.
Not one mention of Diablo. It was multiplayer in what 1996?
PC GAMING + VR = LSD
Oussama Erraji VR + 4K = now
NVidia created the first GPU? If you mean the first expansion card with it's own Graphics Processing Unit, then sure... but there were certainly cards before NVidia, anyone remember 3DFX? (loved my Voodoo card)..
in 10 years a company will launch something like nervegear
ha SAO might happen one day
Needs to be updated so nvidia can say "And then in 2018, we made it expensive"
are there full interviews of everyone shown here? every clip seemed so short
My got CPU is the same as GPU
The pdp 1 isn’t a pc. Pc stands for personal computer
Pick Or Leave !
I believe Crysis took the next level of gaming when it came out, especially the SDK mods and community that pushed the realism. Shout out to ENBDEV series ;)
***** It didn't change gaming as a whole, just the fast-food singleplayer blockbuster type of game.
Think about RAGDOLL, Physics, Character AI response, gaming computer specs also required new hardware thanks to this game, not that it was any good but It lead players to discover more technology in order to run this game. I think It did revolutionize in graphics, and Character AI that is.
amadexi
When Crysis was out, it was the next "step." I mean not just graphic fidelity but gameplay physics. "Can it run Crysis?" That was the quote that just gave me a "wake up" call in terms of "wowing" me to take another look at PC gaming. At least on a consumer level, at the time I was tight on a budget for school---so I couldn't build a PC capable of running Crysis. Not that the technology existed at the time for mainstream budgets; of even running the game.
fleet wood Yes in this sense it changed a lot. About the hardware, i had a 800+€ computer at this time (Nvidia 260 gtx and E8300) and i was able to play it with the highest parameters.
I was born the same day as 3D FPS
To the people 6 years ago, I got rtx 3080 😂
PC MASTER RACE !!!!
#PCMR
Soo no one watch anime sao aka sword arts online
NVidia had the first GPU, Valve pioneered modding capability.... SMH Guys learn your history.
this is more of a marketing video than anything else. I am an Nvidia user but the history is very selective and quite innacurate. 0 mentions of ATI/AMDs very real contributions to the industry and some would say larger contributions to the industry, and 1999 was nowhere NEAR when the 1st gpu came out. it may have been the first to coin the term GPU but dedicated graphics accelerators had been available for nearly 15 years previously.
They mean the first dedicated graphics card using OpenGL/DirectX, so the first mainly "stand alone" type of card, I agree, AMD didnt come into the industry until 2002 really, and until the last couple years has never been up to par.
It would have been nice if they included AMD's mantle, even if its buggy yet.
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Hmm... I'm pretty sure that 3dfx invented the world's 1st GPU. It was called the Voodoo, and it predated the GeForce 256 by at least 3 years!! Granted, Nvidia bought them out in later years but you need to give credit where credit is due!! Shame on you, Nvidia!!
YOU GUYS DOING THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS TOO WELL DONE ATLEASE YOU DID ONE THING RIGHT LOL....WAIT YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT YOURSELVES THEN THESE VIDEO SUCKS....IF YOU TALK ABOUT PC GAMING THEN TALK ABOUT ONLY PC GAMING HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND OTHERWISE CHANGE THESE TITLE SOMETHING ELSE FOR SAKE......UNFORTUNATELY YOUR GPU IS NOT WORLDS FIRST GPU......
H1Z1 lololololol
Chubs
consoles sucks
AMD the way it is not ment to be played no advance physx they copy nvidia amd user go to hell ;)
you are whats wrong with pc gaming. just looks bad dude.