Hi Can anyone please help me with the steps to make my X1900 into a fireGL. Without actually Flashing the BIOS....?!?! Point form will be most appreciated. Is there a way to restore a previous configuration? (for games in Crossfire mode) is crossfire supported in FireGL? I know there might be a thread already, then please post the link. Thanks Toxic
copy the patchscript for x1xxx from the following thread http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=199951 paste it onto an empty text file and change the extension of the file to .rts than follow this guide which is easy and pretty much self explanatory using the patchscript provided http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=227800&page=1&pp=15
Thanks Ufster, I'll have a look. Does this eliminate some of the Maya limitations, like hardware rendering black blocky shadows in High Quality mode?
Still some problems... I now have the card saying it is a FireGL7350 but I don't see a difference and I still get black artifacting on Hardware Rendering or High Quality mode on MAYA... Diagnostic Render said I need differenct Hardware etc... Is there a way around this? I tried to follow the Patch steps like ufster suggested by the links... I don't know if I did it correctly... Can anyone assist? ... ... ...
to see if this mod has worked you should measure the opengl capabilities with specviewperf. you should do this once with the original driver for x1900 and once with your new driver for FireGL7350. if the performance doesn´t at least boost up to 200% ( or more ) you did something wrong. concerning the maya hardware rendering , well it´s quite crappy, at least from my point of view. i never had any positive effects on this one , neither with an original old firegl ( 8800 or something ), a Firegl X2 and now my new patched mobility firegl. results ( quality is always not too good) are not differing that much from maya software rendering which about as fast as the hardware feature. for fast previews the software renderer is enough, if you need good pictures you should definitly use mentalray or another plugin renderer ( renderman,final render or vray( which seems to be released soon as a final version for maya)). best
... Thanks schoko, so there is no way to get rig of the Artifacting in HW? I can use the HW Buffer Render and it renders Complex scenes ok in a matter of seconds... It just bothers me when somthing doesn't work 100%.. about the 200% performance increase, I doubt I did the procedure correcly then...
should be more than 200% ( im my case sometimes even 3times as fast) well about the procedure have a look at the linked threads and do some reading ,and i am certain you´ll find the missing piece.
does this script( patchscript for x1xxx )works with X1950XTX .i`m having problems to get firegl? any help?????
X1900 AGP to FireGL? I know that the FireGL range does not include an AGP version of the X1900 series cards - does anyone know if it is possible to mod an X1950 Pro AGP card to a FireGL variant?
