Mamba wrote on 2026-07-26, 05:36:

Ok. Reverted to 98SE. […]
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Ok.
Reverted to 98SE.

Radeon 7500 64mb DDR
I am getting 3200 points with Omega drivers and k6-III+ @600

Al wpcredit optimizations suggested gave me 50 points more, not so impressive.

Was expecting more since the gpu was supposed to be a match for gf2 GTS/Pro

It’s because of driver overhead. Older nVIDIA drivers were much better optimized for the K6-2/3 CPUs.
On the other hand, ATi never really had a properly optimized driver for the SS7 platform.

bloodem wrote on 2026-07-26, 05:58:

Mamba wrote on 2026-07-26, 05:36:

Ok. Reverted to 98SE. […]
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Ok.
Reverted to 98SE.

Radeon 7500 64mb DDR
I am getting 3200 points with Omega drivers and k6-III+ @600

Al wpcredit optimizations suggested gave me 50 points more, not so impressive.

Was expecting more since the gpu was supposed to be a match for gf2 GTS/Pro

It’s because of driver overhead. Older nVIDIA drivers were much better optimized for the K6-2/3 CPUs.
On the other hand, ATi never really had a properly optimized driver for the SS7 platform.

I am aware of that, still struggling to find online “7.76 ati equivalent”.
Nothing on first hand experience as well.
Guess I should be happy to see the card working.

Is AI at the point yet where it can write us cool drivers? 😀

it can't invent magic from nothing, but if you have register layout, chip specs, existing drivers etc. it's surprisingly good already

Sphere478 wrote on 2026-08-01, 02:30:

Is AI at the point yet where it can write us cool drivers? 😀

I tried it a year ago 🤣, no luck 🙁

LLMs were toddlers a year ago. give it a new shot today

Skalabala wrote on Yesterday, 23:05:

Sphere478 wrote on 2026-08-01, 02:30:

Is AI at the point yet where it can write us cool drivers? 😀

I tried it a year ago 🤣, no luck 🙁

It was able to write a jazz16 midi port switcher to switch between the onboard wave table, the wave blaster header and the external midi port.

But that was also with a lot of help on my part.