HD 4770 softmod to FirePro V8700, success!

gellmar

Forgive me generous master, but this is bull**** . Maya always was being only OpenGL cross-platform application.

This is my old Maya test with X800GTO-256(AGP)@FireGL X3-256
others comp. configuration in my info

scene spec:
1.076.400 - polygons (5 poly spheres)
3 direction lights
texture (1 procedural (simple 2D-perlin noise))
1280x1024@100
Driver settings: AA-off, AF-16x perf.
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Catalist 6.9 (atioglxx.dll(6067))
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12.5 fps - wire
4.4 fps - shaded
4.4 fps - shaded + backface culling
4.4 fps - shaded + lights
4.4 fps - shaded + lights + backface culling
2.9 fps - shaded + lights + textured
2.9 fps - shaded + lights + textured + backface culling
2.9 fps - shaded + textured
2.9 fps - shaded + textured + backface culling

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FireGL 8.293 (atioglgl.dll(6068))
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35.5 fps - wire
67.9 fps - shaded
94.3 fps - shaded + backface culling
41 fps - shaded + lights
51.3 fps - shaded + lights + backface culling
13 fps - shaded + lights + textured
16.1 fps - shaded + lights + textured + backface culling
20 fps - shaded + textured
30 fps - shaded + textured + backface culling
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so... you may try to outstrip X3-256 for beginning

 

Styler,

it may be a bull****, but AFAIK Autodesk uses DirectX since 2008 as the primary platform for windows.

http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/files/autodesk_inventor_opengl_to_directx_evolution.pdf

Which version do I need to run your test? I will check your test and Maryus3D's one.

gellmaR

PS: Your GPU-Z shows 0x9515, and this is weird. V7700 should be 0x9511 (like shown in ATI Feature Test output), HD3850 - 0x9505. And 0x9515 = 0x9505 | 0x9511, that's weirdo

 

Maya 2009 . Is still OpenGL not DX :infinity: .

 

I have checked Bike and TextBench tests on Maya 2k9 x64 (Windows 7).

TextBench gave me 16.5 fps (low quality) / 60 fps (high quality) - strange
Bike gave me 8.5 fps (low) / 2.5 (high)

i could not run mental ray cause it ate all my memory

gellmaR

 

wooowwww very bad news for maya users. A modded 8800 ultra gave 50 fps for the bike and a Quadro FX 580 gave 50 fps for both scenes. To bad. A don't think is your fault or radeon card fault. Is all about ATi stupid FirePro drivers. A real V5700 gave an awful results in maya . You can see on page 3.

Anyway 10x gellmar :cheers:

 

I think the stupid problem is the lack of RAM on Win7
OS consumes 400 MB itself + maya 2009 unlim without scene 260MB + rendering on 1280*1024 = hmmmm, my 2GB were out and the swapping began. I will try XP64, it consumes 200MB itself (that's my modded OS ) Also I am trying to get a render internal dump for real V8700! It may work well with maya. If so, we solve our problems!

gellmaR

PS: I definitely need a new rig And I know that because I can't run the upcoming SolidWorks 2010 ( So I have to open a donation account for ATIFuse despite of this is my hobby

 

@gellmar

Donation is a good idea - if AtiFuse works like promised it will save me much time, so i'm going to donate. I hope we see it soon!

 

I hope ATi will fix the drivers. I think i will buy a cheap 8800GT and bios mod the card if ATi will not fix the drivers. Same happen on XP 32 & 64 take a look on page 3 on this thread and you'll see what is going on. Mental ray & maya software is optimized for CPU . A real FirePro V5700 give the same score as a regular radeon. So is not win7/xp/64&32 fault or yours, is ATi . To bad. :wanker:

 

Hallo
I see there is some progress with the drivers, I just tested a laptop with 2600 hd card.
This was on windows xp (server 2003 to be precise), driver 8.603. I modded the driver using device id 958f.

In .inf I used the string: "ATI Mobility FireGL V5600"

Display Properties -> Adapter tab shows: "ATI Mobility FireGL Graphics Processor (0x958F)"

But I installed the classic control panel and it says (in Details tab):
"Device ID 9581" (this is the original device id)

The specview result for maya-02 is 96.14.

The bike.ma on latest maya 2009 sp1a is
smooth shade: 8.5 - 11 fps
wireframe : ~30 fps
high quality: 2.5 fps

I tried also running specapc for maya 2009 and it could not run a complete run.. Also there are artifacts appearing in the hands scene. (I know these are high polygon count models, if that has to do with anything). Does anyone else notices these? All features though, like overlay seem to be there, sculpting works fine and some of my simple scenes work allright, till now i have been using it for 2-3 days (not very intensively though).

Has anyone tried the newer driver?
I would love to beta test ATIFuse, i have a clean install and spare room for vista/win 7 also.

AFAIK control panel and/or CCC are responsible for applying the settings in ATI driver, it was called 'autodection' or something like that. Should I try with id 958C or install CCC ? I noticed that specview was a little jerky before installing the control panel (maybe this was a placebo effect though..)

 

@gellmar

I have a new rig right now that is itching to try your ATIFuse. I would also be happy to make a donation. I work a lot in CAD and Finite Element Analysis. I also dabble in 3D animation, so you would have plenty of test cases. Thanks for all of your work on this.

Mantis

 

Anybody with real FireGL card.

Please, checking following:
1. Install Driver
2. Install CPanel (not CCC)

will in adjusting the driver this tab (applications compatibles list)? Just like in picture?

 

Styler,

I can ask my friends with V8700 to do this, however they don't have Maya

gellmaR

 

gellmar

Thanks for this

regrettable

Some words about "why this necessary". In previous driver's version (exactly in 8.301.0.0) acceleration in maya could be enabled only after activation Maya-compatibles from list. I think it still the same old song =).

 

Styler test with the bike and textbench scenes please .

 

Maryus3D

bike.ma on maya 2009 sp1a
1680x1050@60

smooth shade: 10.4 fps
wireframe : 38.5 fps
high quality: 0.9 fps

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It's not good result. As i said when we can unlock full FGL CP features, fps will be extremely high, particularly with "shade mode"+"backface culling" options.

 

Thenks Styler .

 

Quadro mod success http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3226853&posted=1#post3226853 :banana::banana:

 

Folks, I guess I found why we have such confusing results in ATI mod... the driver gives the radeon settings to the render despite of the patch (i.e not all entries patched). However, I have no second machine again (it has gone with the friend cause it was has )so I can only do static patches.

gellmaR

 

Hello everybody

I've got a new benchmark for assessing maya performance in the real world; it's called MayaCarBench

here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3321496