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To our valued supporters:
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you've given us during the many, many months we have existed as an organization. It's no secret that we've taken pride in our productive, helpful, and active community. We've also enjoyed designing and building the software driver releases we have provided to others during this time, and it is with our greatest apologies that we announce the original intended goals of this project will not be completed.

We are not declaring a cease of all driver development, but over time our ability to effectively build and release drivers has slowly ebbed away as we have encountered increasingly difficult dilemmas in their design.

We encourage others to take up the projects and while dedicated members of our driver development team may continue at their own pace and choice to build and improve drivers for 3dfx hardware, as said, they may not do so with such pace as before and even may not continue at all. That is why we hope others will also take up the production of these drivers to help as much as possible those who still use the products they are built for.

It is with mixed emotion, also, that we release the intended aims of the "Revenge" project long alluded to by our web site.

"Revenge" was a revolutionary new computer graphics rendering hardware design that using modern innovations mixed with the proven reliability of various hardware aspects of rendering hardware as it is now would have been capable of exceeding the performance and rendering detail of currently available hardware by geometric proportions, and quite possibly, had it been produced as planned, leading opposing products by as many as four product cycles.

Originally intended for production by Q1 2003, Revenge technology needed a vast corporate infrastructure to support its production and sale. Revealed to venture capitalist firms worldwide earlier in 2001 and 2002, the technology received promises of investment backing by two major investment corporations and multiple high-capacity single investors, and indeed the seeds of 3dhq, Inc., as it would have been, had already been sown. However, the leading single investor and would-be CEO of the new corporation endured multiple debilitating situations near the final phases of the project, and, due to timing concerns as well as the lost sureness of the project's success and prospective logistics, Revenge technology's finalization and production for sale has had to be cancelled, as of now.

Further technical data and information on Revenge technology can be downloaded from the downloads section of this site, and more information is available on the applicable areas of 3dhq's online community.

The online community of 3dhq will remain intact for as long as it is active and able to help others with any aspect of computing and also provide an excellent place for discussion of events of the graphics hardware and computing world, and beyond. We encourage you to visit our forums via the link on this page, and to become and remain involved in this community that has held constant for well over a year and a half.

Again, we thank all of you for your continued support through this time of refocus for 3dhq. We do still envision a future for this site and this community, and from the kind of quality we've seen in our community ever from its start at the turn of the millennium as 3dfx Underground until now as 3dhq, we securely believe that is possible.

Sincerely,
Devin Phillips
3dhq Founder and Administrator