3D Acceleration Comparison Ep15: Descent on Nvidia NV1 / 3DFX / DOS Software

Descent released by Parallax Software for MS-DOS in 1994. The NV1 version was bundled with the Diamond Edge 3D cards and was called Descent: Destination Saturn, which was an OEM version with the first 15 levels. The version was included in the bundle from the release in November 95 to about February 96 when it was replaced with Panzer Dragoon.

Just incase someone finds a disc and think they've found something special; Descent: Destination Saturn OEM version was also available for DOS and without NV1 acceleration bundled with other products/computers.

Diamond Edge 3D advertisement from November 1995 with Descent included:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57506833/vog...


Captured music from NV1 MIDI output:
Level 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57506833/fil...
Level 2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57506833/fil...
Level 3: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57506833/fil...

Captured with Avermedia GameBroadcaster HD on:
Intel Pentium II 266mhz
Asus P3B-F v1.03 (Intel 440BX chipset)
1024MB SDRAM CL2
Techworks Aureal Vortex2 SuperQuad
Windows 98SE

and:

Intel Pentium 100
32 MB EDORAM
Asus VX97 motherboard
Audio Excel 3D CMI8330 soundcard
Windows 95

With these cards:
Diamond Edge 3D NV1 3240 2MB PCI (Nvlib) (w/ 2.3 drivers)
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP (Glide)
Matrox Millennium 4MB PCI (DOS software)