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I was too young to understand but I distinctly remember the 3Dfx version looking vastly better everywhere to my eyes. Reflections were amazing though. Could have been the higher resolution, or could have been the fact that I was playing on an older CPU at home at the time. I was jealous of the people with hardware acceleration.

The software renderer did display many effects and even textures different. This video does a great breakdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMujOQsjGQ

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