ATI FireGL/FireProSoftmod - Discussion Thread for new members

ugh..i havnt been in this thread for long..I never got to softmodding my 4850 into the near equivalent of the firepros. I started school and will have my first architectural design class next semester (though it wont be computer based)

So how can I do this soft modding?

I remember I need modded drivers..and thats it

 

Thank you,
i've 2 question.
-That scrip is for v5600? i have a 8700 it's egual?
- when I use a script i must modify the original rivaturner scrip or i must create a new from worpad with only this text?



...I don't understand why, in Max2009, the max FireGL driver work correctly and this new for 2011 no

 

-What's your card ? replace it . For example my card is HD4850 then i replace v5600 by v8700 . You need to read schoko's guide carefully !!Create new if you want.
-These plug_ins just for 3ds max and autocad 2010 or 2011 . And it not works really well (for real firepro and modded card )--> we must wait for new drivers from AMD which fixed the problems (black screen ,lost maps....)

 

Sorry for my english

Thank you,
my card is same at your....I have modded other video cards times ago,
I think that driver work correctly because the ati opengl for max 2009 work,
but when i go to install the 2011 returns an error

 

-I thinks you must install newer driver (8.743 or 8.773) , what driver did you installed ?

 

8.773

 

How about HD5850 (Cypress Pro(RV870)), is a pretty common card nowadays, and the correspondent FirePro is the V7800, the main difference is that HD5850 have 1Gb vram and V7800 have 2Gb.

I found some tutorial in other forum for HD5970MR from Alienware G73, but i have no success trying to figure out how to apply this on HD5850.
What i learn is that u basically need change some strings in the atikmdag.dll, to make the professional capabilities work in other cards, just changing entry points from V7800 to HD5850 PCI ID, this is correct?

But looking into atikmdag.dll from driver version 8.773 with XVI for the PCI ID string of HD5850 that is dec 6899 and the id for V7800 is 6889, i found bunch of results, since i dont know what are the start or the end of the function in the DLL.

So im not asking for ready made script, i asking for some tip to identify and change the PCI ID in the actual 8.773 dll and future versions, so i can help too and release some scripts, or made all manually with XVI.

I want use my HD5850 in Maya 2010/2011.

 

I cannot figure out what card is equivalent with my HD3870. I tried with the V7700, but it does not work because Riva tuner says i have a chip RV670 (not RV630 like most of the HD3870). My ID card is a 9501. What should I do? :bang:

 

where can I find acctualy pathscript and modded drivers for 58x0@V8800 ?? for W7 64

 

Driver 8.732

 

and it is working ??
what is the difference betwen 4850@V8700 and 5850@V7800 in
scpecperf or
has anyone of you results 5850@V7800 in specperf 10 in solidworks ??

allready I have a q9550@3800 and 4850@V8700 and I have 108 fps in sw01 specperf10 , I change now on i7 920 and I and thought about buying 4890 or 5850 to modding for pro version

 

or buy 4870 or 4890
anyway will the modded driver 8,634 working with the 4890 ??

I saw the test quadro 6000 it is impresive distans between this on and V9800
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-ATI-FirePro-V9800-Workstation-Graphics-Card-Review/?page=8
pity that the GTX480 can't be modded on quadro

 

Please help! :cry:

 

Specviewperf10 uses solidworks 2002, which is quite dated. But look through the thread, someone tried 5000 series card I believe.

Also if you are just using solidworks, a "properly" modded driver doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. What mostly matters (at least from my tests) is the card name.

What exactly are you trying to do in rivatuner?

This document says they are both RV670: amd device id

 

So, the Radeon HD5850 still not workings as FirePro V7800?

 

thank you snuggles0220 for your clear answer, my choise is clear to bought 4890 now ,
I'm looking but I can not find anywhere 2GB version in poland even used

 

Where the hell are you found this list? Schoko added a link from AMD http://developer.amd.com/drivers/pc_vendor_id/pages/default.aspx where you see that HD3870 has a RV630 chip.

Even when i open the FireGL drivers file C7_86103.inf it says that V7700 has RV630 chip.

"ATI FireGL V7700" = ati2mtag_RV630GL, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9511

Which is correct?



Thanks.

 

The best one is the HD4890?

 

-I think the HD5000 series can mod to firepro so that you could install the autocad + 3dsmax plug_ins .

 

They may have changed the naming scheme.

I'm still confused where you get this error. All Rivatuner script does is modify data in a file, it doesn't care what your current card is. All you need to know is desired device id = 9511.
Mod has been done before: wik, 3870 thread.

I believe knowledge of CAD/DCC is not really necessary for the driver mod. Its more of a reverse engineering task, so a software cracker would likely figure it out.

The problem is, if they have changed the "format" of their newer drivers. If its basically the same structure as the previous driver (which roocoon tried I think) then yes it shouldn't be too hard.

If you are curious you can fire up something like IDA pro, search for the patched byte string, then analyze the assembly in this area.