Asking mainly out of curiosity. If I'm not mistaken the architecture of the R400 and R500 cards are somewhat similar... and the 6.2 drivers came out around 2006. Has anyone managed to get these running successfully on 9x? What I mean by R500 is cards like the X1000 series (e.g. X1950 XT).
I think they are only similar at the bottom end, as the top end uses 4x the pipes and shaders etc. So the X1300s are said to be able to be got working whereas the high end cards can't.... or maybe you can dumb them down to X1300 config.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Only x1050 maybe, but its because its R4xx line of card, not R5xx, to be correct its RV370 that manufactured at 110nm. 😀
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-x1050.c1812
https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/sapphire-x1050
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It is interesting how ATI had their 2000/XP 6.2 drivers work with the X13/6/8/900 series cards, but for some reason they decided not to implement it in the 6.2 9x version. Perhaps due to limitations with the software? I wonder if it could be possible to backport support for these cards, but seeing how the driver architecture is very different, I honestly don't think it will work.
I always thought that ATi screwed up with R500. It seems like they should have just rejiggered the R420 for more pipes. Then they could have focused on their unified shader architecture. At the time it looked like ATi was going to dominate the next gen then G80 dropped.
Maybe then they would have been able to release 98 drivers.
