DOS Games That Support S3D
With the introduction of their ViRGE graphics accelerator chipsets in June 1996, S3 also created their own 3D API, which they called S3D. This wasn't supported by a great many games, as Direct3D was known to be coming.
This page provides a list of those that do directly support it.
The list here was compiled by Vogons user vetz from his Vogons article from September 2012 - all credit goes to him, and the article above also includes the supported games list of other competing APIs around at the time. I've added several more titles to his list - these additions were mentioned on S3's website when the ViRGE was their latest offering.
S3D Games
| Title | Notes |
| Actua Golf | ActuaGolf By Gremlin. |
| Actua Soccer | Release bundled with some S3 Virge cards as part of the S3 Game Pak. This is the semi finals edition, which is a shortened version. |
| Baseball | Baseball by Microleague. |
| Battlerace | Retail release |
| Confirmed Kill | By Eidos Interactive. |
| Croc | Retail release (only 1.0 version) |
| Demon Driver | Philips' Demon Driver. |
| Descent II | Patch available for retail release. |
| Descent II: Destination Quartzon 3D | OEM & bundled release bundled with Compaq machines and Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 cards. The version bundled with Diamond can't be run on other S3 Virge cards. This is a shortened version of the game with fewer levels. |
| Destruction Derby | Exclusive S3D version - Bundled release with Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 cards. This version is for Windows95. Files for removing driver check and fix bad production disc available here. |
| Fatal Racing | OEM release in Europe bundled with Hewlett Packard machines with S3 Virge cards. |
| Flying Nightmares 2 | By Eidos Interactive. |
| FX Fighter Turbo | Exclusive S3D version |
| Havoc | Exclusive S3D version - Release bundled with some with some S3 Virge cards as part of the S3 Game Pak. |
| Mechwarrior II: S3 Virge edition | Exclusive S3D version - Bundled release, unofficial patch available for retail. [ Patch files - guide ] |
| Megarace 2 | By Mindscape. |
| POD | S3D support in Intel MMX 1.0 OEM release, patch available for upgrade to 2.0 [ 1.0 to 2.0, S3 patch ], retail release with POD Gold. |
| Rocket Jockey | By Rocket Science Games. |
| Screamer | Exclusive S3D version - This game has no retail support for S3D. Several sources [ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ] state this game was bundled with the Number Nine Reality 332FX card. Unofficial S3D patch available. |
| Stratosphere | Acclaim's realtime network strategy space game. |
| Teracide | By Eidos Interactive. |
| Terminal Velocity | Exclusive S3D version - Release bundled with some S3 Virge cards as part of the S3 Game Pak. The OEM release is the shareware version. Patch available for retail and registered shareware version (1.2 version). |
| Terracide DEMO | S3D support only available in the demo. |
| Time Warriors | Retail release |
| Tomb Raider | Patch available for retail release. |
| Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business | Retail release support |
| Whiplash 3D | OEM release for Hewlett Packard computers in the US. |