If you have ATI Radeon 4870 1 GB video card, you can soft-mod it into ATI FirePro v8700. The princip is simple, it is just forcing the drivers to recognise the card as the V8700. The GPU is identical on V8700 and the 4870. I ordered one 4870, but with 512 MB, It will arrive in 3-4 days, and I will try to soft-mod too
It is a soft-mod, so if you take your card to another PC, reinstall the OS etc. it will be recognized as a 4870, so nothing to worry about if something goes wrong
The results are impressive, here is a benchmark test:
Modded ATI 4870 1 GB into V8700 - 3dsmax - 34.10
Standard ATI 4870 1 GB - 3dsmax- 16.92
It is 100%+ performance boost
The instructions were copied from (http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=288801) :
1. Learn how to softmod from this site http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=227800 (the info might seems to be outdated but what we do are basically the same.
2. download rivaturner from http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner
3. if you want to get more info / guides / tutorials on how to use the rivaturner then go to this site: http://www.vaguetech.com/?pageid=rt207 (note this was taken from http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=195029 original post by boogieman)
4. Get a patchscript from http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275174 , theres more floating around in this forums though. keep in mind theres different patchscripts, like one for winxp 32 bits / 64s / or vista 32bits / vista 64bits.
5. Download the FireGl/FirePro driver that you want your gaming videocard to be softmoded to. http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx click on workstation cards. Select v8700 then you will get a latest driver
6. Don't feel too overwhelmed .. just get rivatruner, patchscript, and firegl/firepro driver - for me its basically
a. find a patchscript for my os (winxp32bits) and my videocard, edit it if you need to (like I did , see my original post and others)
b. go to folder path : C:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.23\PatchScripts\ATI\SoftFireGL\Unified
c. open the file : SoftFireGL w2k.rts with notepad or other text editing software.
d. copy and paste the patchscript code into it. Save.
c. this time double click the same file. rivaturner dialog will appear, click the dropmenu and select force v8700 then another dialog will ask you where is the driver file, you just help navigate it to where you extracted the firegl/firepro driver, to driver folder, the cx_ thing then .. click ok and pray that it work.
d. if it work, then go to mycomputer rightclick it and select manage, select device manager, click display adapter, click on your videocard then right click again, select update river then you know the rest. after that reboot and make another prayer.
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It is a soft-mod, so if you take your card to another PC, reinstall the OS etc. it will be recognized as a 4870, so nothing to worry about if something goes wrong
The results are impressive, here is a benchmark test:
Modded ATI 4870 1 GB into V8700 - 3dsmax - 34.10
Standard ATI 4870 1 GB - 3dsmax- 16.92
It is 100%+ performance boost
The instructions were copied from (http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=288801) :
1. Learn how to softmod from this site http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=227800 (the info might seems to be outdated but what we do are basically the same.
2. download rivaturner from http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner
3. if you want to get more info / guides / tutorials on how to use the rivaturner then go to this site: http://www.vaguetech.com/?pageid=rt207 (note this was taken from http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=195029 original post by boogieman)
4. Get a patchscript from http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=275174 , theres more floating around in this forums though. keep in mind theres different patchscripts, like one for winxp 32 bits / 64s / or vista 32bits / vista 64bits.
5. Download the FireGl/FirePro driver that you want your gaming videocard to be softmoded to. http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx click on workstation cards. Select v8700 then you will get a latest driver
6. Don't feel too overwhelmed .. just get rivatruner, patchscript, and firegl/firepro driver - for me its basically
a. find a patchscript for my os (winxp32bits) and my videocard, edit it if you need to (like I did , see my original post and others)
b. go to folder path : C:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.23\PatchScripts\ATI\SoftFireGL\Unified
c. open the file : SoftFireGL w2k.rts with notepad or other text editing software.
d. copy and paste the patchscript code into it. Save.
c. this time double click the same file. rivaturner dialog will appear, click the dropmenu and select force v8700 then another dialog will ask you where is the driver file, you just help navigate it to where you extracted the firegl/firepro driver, to driver folder, the cx_ thing then .. click ok and pray that it work.
d. if it work, then go to mycomputer rightclick it and select manage, select device manager, click display adapter, click on your videocard then right click again, select update river then you know the rest. after that reboot and make another prayer.
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