For anyone curious, I did some other benchmarking with this card on both Windows 98 (with modified x800 drivers) and on XP (with the native v7100 drivers). I used 3dMark03 for my testing and ended up with the following results (compared to a GeForce 6800 card and an ATI x800 GTO card, also noting that this is running on a rather modern system) :

Overall Score (Windows 98) :
11,529 - ATI v7100
9,387 - ATI x800 GTO
9,288 - GeForce 6800

Overall Score (Windows XP) :
13,911 - ATI v7100
11,454 - ATI x800 GTO
9,705 - GeForce 6800

The v7100 was the winner in virtually every single sub-score with the only exception being one of the CPU tests under Windows 98 (which scored terribly low in the single digits - not sure why, but so did the x800). One test where the v7100 blew the other two cards out of the water was the multi-texture fill-rate which scored as follows:
6412 (6412 Windows XP) - ATI v7100
4454 (4456 Windows XP) - ATI x800 GTO
3749 (3770 Windows XP) - nVidia 6800

The v7100 appears to be a pretty fast, viable card for Windows 98. It also perfectly runs Midtown Madness 1 which had all kinds of graphical glitches on the GeForce 6800 as well as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Rogue Spear (which constantly crashed on the 6800 under Win98 and flickered and jumped around like crazy on XP).

Apologies for the thread necro but I just bought one of these cards as a backup for my X850PRO, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the modified X800 drivers that work with it?

appiah4 wrote on 2021-02-09, 07:53:

Apologies for the thread necro but I just bought one of these cards as a backup for my X850PRO, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the modified X800 drivers that work with it?

I also apologize for posting in an old thread, but were you able to figure out how to mod drivers for Firegl V7100 so that it becomes a X800 XT? I have the V7100 and would very much like to make it work in Win 98

Not that I have experience with this particular card, but modding a driver as described here consists of editing the .inf file in the driver package to add the hardware ID of the new card.

Basically:
- Decompress the driver in a directory (that's what it does automatically when you launch the installer). Kill the installer at this point to only keep the files
- Edit the .inf file, (usually in c:\AMD) and you will see that there are lots of lines with hardware IDs, this is how Windows "knows" that your card should be supported by this driver
- In your Device Manager, get the Device IDs corresponding to your card, it's somewhere in the advanced or details tab
- Add your ID to the .inf file
- From the Device Manager, manually install the modified driver

xtreger wrote on 2024-01-14, 09:27:

appiah4 wrote on 2021-02-09, 07:53:

Apologies for the thread necro but I just bought one of these cards as a backup for my X850PRO, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the modified X800 drivers that work with it?

I also apologize for posting in an old thread, but were you able to figure out how to mod drivers for Firegl V7100 so that it becomes a X800 XT? I have the V7100 and would very much like to make it work in Win 98

I actually got sent the relevant inf files by someine IIRC, I'll have to check if I still have them.

appiah4 wrote on 2024-01-15, 07:14:

xtreger wrote on 2024-01-14, 09:27:

appiah4 wrote on 2021-02-09, 07:53:

Apologies for the thread necro but I just bought one of these cards as a backup for my X850PRO, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to the modified X800 drivers that work with it?

I also apologize for posting in an old thread, but were you able to figure out how to mod drivers for Firegl V7100 so that it becomes a X800 XT? I have the V7100 and would very much like to make it work in Win 98

I actually got sent the relevant inf files by someine IIRC, I'll have to check if I still have them.

I'd be really grateful if you could share them with me! Also in case you did any benchmarking with it in Win98, do you remember any of the scores? (e.g. 3dmark 2001)