Whats the difference between these and the regular drivers. I'm not familiar with Firepro.

 

Better performance in industry apps such as Adobe Photoshop CC, Autodesk Products, 3d Modeling Toolkits.

These are based their drivers off their 13.6 Beta 2 so it shouldn't hinder your performance even if you use it for gaming.

 

Ahh...thank you,thank you,THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH
This what i've been looking for i lost hope until i found this thread by luck i hope this will work with my 5830 and my future sapphire vapor-x hd7970 ghz:thumb:

 

yeah that guy at benchmark3d got recently hired so the driver mods have been dead for a while

AMD only releases FirePro drivers every 4 months too so next release will be in 4 months.

 

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Originally Posted by treedude

Better performance in industry apps such as Adobe Photoshop CC, Autodesk Products, 3d Modeling Toolkits.

They based their drivers off of 13.6 Beta 2 so it shouldn't hinder your performance even if you use it for gaming.

Thanks for the reply.

 

Will they make the real view in solid works good

 

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Originally Posted by treedude

yeah that guy at benchmark3d got recently hired so the driver mods have been dead for a while

AMD only releases FirePro drivers every 4 months too so next release will be in 4 months.

Do you have Specviewperf 11 benchmarks (and possibly specapc)?

last I heard only HD4000 series was possible through softmod.

Do you need an equivalent Radeon?

Firepro W9000 = HD7970GE (384-bit memory bus , 2048 shaders) with 6GB ECC VRAM (Tahiti XT) <--- like $3K for this, HD7970 ~$400
Firepro W8000 = HD7950 (1792 shaders) with 256 bit memory bus and 4GB ECC VRAM (tahiti pro) <-- ~$1.2K
Firepro W7000= HD7870 (1280 shaders) but with 4GB ECC VRAM (pitcairn) <-- this retails for $350 after 50% rebate , HD7870 is about $200
Firepro W5000 = HD 7850 but with 768 shaders instead of 1024 (pitcairn) <-- retails for about $220 after 50% rebate , no consumer equivalent but HD7850 is about $170

V7900 = cut down HD6950/HD6970 Cayman 2GB VRAM , same number of shaders as HD6930 (1280 shaders) <--- this retails for about $700 now, a HD6950 is sub $200
V5900= cut down HD6950/HD6970 Cayman 2GB VRAM w/ 512 shaders <-- retails for about $400 right now
V4900 = HD6670 Turks , 128 bit memory bus <-- about $50 for a HD6670 , ~$150 for a V4900

END OF LIFE

V9800 = HD 5870, Cypress XT 4GB VRAM
V8800 = HD5870 , Cypress XT 2GB VRAM
V7800 = HD5850 , Cypress Pro 2GB VRAM
V5800 = HD5770 Juniper XT, 128 bit memory bus gimped to 64GB/s
V4800 = HD5670 Redwood XT, 128 bit memory bus

 

I used Orca (an msi editor) to swap out the included tables of the Radeon to the Firepro Drivers. (AMD_ASIC_Includes).

Within AMD_ASIC_Includes there is a list of Cards, for Radeon Drivers there are Compatible Radeon Cards which are (FirePro+Radeon), for Firepro Drivers there are only Compatible FirePro Cards.

I swapped the lists for the msi's that had only FirePro cards on them and then edited C8158352.inf (Windows 8 x64) and C7158352.inf (Windows 7 x64), you can see familiar lines from the driver inf's from that link down below.

It's nothing that makes the cards read as if they are a certain card (but it's possible to spoof a card in Catalyst Control Center for locked AMD Catalyst Control Center Features, but not as a recognizable Hardware ID that would require precise bios modding).

All I'm doing is making the FirePro drivers can be installed on Radeon Cards.

I am running these Drivers on My 7970 GHz edition.

I am not adding in HD Radeon files or swapping folders, this is purely editing a couple files to allow install.

 

Can you run Specviewperf 11 on 1080p ?

http://www.spec.org/gwpg/downloadindex.html

thanks

Last I heard from softmodding people was on http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=313065

Laptop ones seem to have been worked on http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1144-%5Bsoftmod%5D-amd-6970m-firepro-m8900-*update*-6990m-works-too.html

I can help a bit with the Firepro HD5000 series I have an actual Firepro from that series.

Firepro drivers are basically bug-less for professional apps (they're checked and validated) that's why I'm very interested in this thread.

edit: I found the benchmark3d driver you were talking about http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-9-003-3-firepro-modded-for-desktop-cards.

edit 2: also can you run BOINC (Poem@Home, Einstein@Home in particular but Milkyway@Home, PrimeGrid, SETI@Home, DistrRTgen and Collatz also)? You said it's unsuitable for gaming (obvious) but what about BOINC?

 

My processor isn't officially supported bad speeds on both benchmarks.

 

Something's buggy then (or it just changes the driver but not functionality), you should be getting at least 30FPS on Sw-02 even with Radeon drivers (assuming you're using an i5/i7).


http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-trinity-a10-5800k-vs-intel-ivy-bridge-i5-3470-reviews-with-synthetic-benchmarks-dont-matter-right/17271.html

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

http://www.xtremehardware.com/recensioni/schede-video/amd-radeon-hd-7950-in-single-e-crossfirex-tutta-la-potenza-dei-28nm-a-prezzo-scontato-201203066589/?start=9
http://www.tomshardware.de/Workstation-Grafik-2013-Benchmarks,testberichte-241269-13.html
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2070/3/
http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-gtx-680-2gb-overclocking-review-win-some-lose-some/15322.html/4

For Solidworks you can turn on Realview without resorting to driver swap.

You're using 64 bit Specviewperf 11 right?

 

I downloaded the 64 bit version it was right beneath the 32 bit.
Processor might be a big problem thought it's an FX-8150.

AMD Catalyst has a list of gpus that share the same board in xxxxx/config/chipsets.msi that determines which catalyst center to install and all their ASIC.

Edit: Seems that the list only contains old cards (128mb cards) that shared the same chip.

It might be possible to swap out Hardware ID's from consumer cards with the same architecture to get the carded recognized as a FirePro.

I've made a v2 mod only for HD 7900 cards with device id 6798 and vendor id 1002 (it's a hassle making them, 30 mins each card so I decided to only do 1.
(It is a mod I've been working on (The one on Page 1 doesn't include FireGL usage, it just unlocks the performance of the card (because of drivers it allows higher performance) with slight improvements) the one I'm currently testing with has the FireGL includes from a r575gl (w9000) note: 7970 is r575, same architecture.

My benchmarking seems to be bugged atm.

 

I noticed you have 2x FSAA , maybe that is a problem

Or it could it be that specviewperf 11 is trying to access an extra 3GB of VRAM present on the Firepro W9000?

 

SolidWorks RealView & Full Scene AA unlocked and confirmed working at 60+ fps.

 

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Originally Posted by AlphaC
For Solidworks you can turn on Realview without resorting to driver swap.

actually nope only workstations can use it, without them only perspective would be available and bad performance.

 

There's a registry hack for Radeons to enable Realview "Realhack" also modifying Device ID works.

http://www.portalcad.com/index.php/hardware-e-acessorios/180-realhack-agora-e-3-5-para-solidworks-2010-a-2013

http://solidworks.burkesys.com/2011/10/realview-graphics/

 

Can't wait till I get a new 64-bit system and try this out

 

Here are my results

 

now thats interesting so treedude you modded your 7970 and your computer thinks you have an w9000 thats awesome

can you perhabs post a step by step guide what to do?

all over the internet is info with scripts patches but i dont know how your moddified version works

cheers and thx

janosch

 

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Here are my results

That'd be a low result for any system running a Sandy/Ivy/Haswell i5 or any i7 + Firepro.

 

Treedude, your work is cool. Just wondering if you've found success with your "v2" mod? Many thanks

edit: I see that your "v2" mod was added to your original post. And that Solidworks realview is working well for you. My results have been the same as others, with low Specviewperf results (though I haven't tried Solidworks itself). What are your specviewperf results? I wonder if there is something we can do to improve further.

 

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hi can someone elaborate better on how to do the mod? I have a 7950, and id like to try out the driver, but the op confuses me.

 

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Originally Posted by treedude

FirePro Drivers use the full power of the card, usage goes up to 84%-99% use, they are suited for rendering because they are meant to be used at full power for short amounts of time and then put back at idle temperatures

Can anyone else vouch for this statement?

 

this driver is better for gaming??