starfrost013

I don't think the retail sales were very good, there were a lot of them that ended up as OEM cards or on-board (not really integrated at this point) graphics.

Ohhh. Actually, quite a lot of NV3s were sold...You can view that just from Nvidia's revenue totals, and reviews at the time. Note the standards for image quality increased very quickly, so it was described as decent in 1997, but awful in 1999.

Most 3dfx cards are already emulated. I'm just a crackhead. NV2 was not a real product, it was cancelled. You are talking about NV1

Iirc, Riva 128 only supports 8 of the 32 D3D5 blend modes, or something. Usually in the case of GPUs that don't support all blending modes the Direct3D HAL will attempt to compensate by using a different blending mode, or just give up and render opaque pixels. The results are usually pretty ugly. Riva 128 is one of the better ones for the era in this regard.