First post, by bmwsvsu
I was experimenting today with a FireGL V7100 on a Windows 98/XP hybrid rig. Per Wikipedia, this card basically has a Radeon x800 XT at its core. But there were never drivers released for the FireGL cards for Windows 98.
So I tried installing it as an x800 card by modifying the inf files from the x800 drivers to swap out hardware ID's. That actually worked great and everything seemed to install properly, just as an x800 XT card instead of a FireGL card. I tested a few games and they played fine. But then on Passmark's Performance test (v6), the fullscreen complex 3D test was pitifully slow - around 17 FPS, yet every single other graphics test (all 2d tests and the other 3D tests) were right in line with an actual x800 card I had previously tested. On the XP side of this computer (which I installed actual FireGL drivers for), the fullscreen 3D test was around 50fps which is much closer to what I was expecting. I tried tweaking the 3d settings in the ATI control panel but with no luck.
Any ideas on how (or even if) this could be fixed? I haven't tried any other benchmarks so it could just be something stupid with Passmark specifically, but I was just wondering if anybody else out there has any experience using a FireGL card as an x700 or x800 on a Windows 98 rig. I'd love to get this card fully working properly as it actually marginally outperforms nVidia's GeForce 6800 in all other tests.