Is the ATI FireGL 8800 worth getting for Retro Gaming as a cheap Radeon 8500?

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[blakecasimir]

I like those screensavers, particularly the tunnel one. They look like scenes from demos. Another great video, Phil. I never had a Radeon 8xxx card of any sort but I had a couple of 9200s. Didn't get much use, though.

[artisankatstudios]

Aww.. Now that you've started, we need to see some dual-Tualatin and Athlon MP dual motherboard reviews, 3

[devinsmith]

This video is worth putting out, haven't seen allot of people put this type of concept on gaming.

[szponiasty]

You can actually modify driver's .inf files and use generic radeon 8500 drivers for firegl 8800. You just have to note down device id's, copy all radeon 8500 sections of the .inf files, and replace everywhere device id with FireGL 8800 device id. Then Windows will detect FireGL 8800 as an regular 8500, providing everything that standard 8500 has. I've did that in the past years back and it worked just fine. You could also use custom drivers pack like Omega Drivers or sth.

[mr.iot-tech]

Radeon 8500 was my favorite card :) I can remember reading all new Direct3d 8.1 fuctions :) Good old times ...

[MrKillswitch]

Being someone who uses Quadro cards for gaming daily I like their stability and for retro hardly no one knows anything about them making them really cheap.

[NightSprinter]

Whats interesting about the R200 cards, was the fact they featured an early form of tessellation that ATI dubbed "TRUForm". Games either compatible with the feature out of the box, or could be modded to use it, would show more rounded models for both characters and the game world

Also, love your new benchmark graphs. Almost has that TRON style to it, and just how glowy and neon it is appeals to the 80s kid in me! =D

[jhesski]

you are getting close to the time when the custom gaming PC's started to get popular, maybe you could find an old fully loaded alienware and see how it would compare with more common configs? might be interesting.

[KazunaiOwO]

25:00 i love how that benchmark looks!! great video!

[danagoyette]

Another tool I used to use back in the Radeon 9800 Pro days: ATI Tray Tool. It exposes all sorts of hidden driver options.

[philscomputerlab]

What do you think about retro gaming on old workstation cards?

[airmicrobe]

Thank you. It was an eye candy. 9550 is the best, but I paired it with GeForce 2mx because of resident evil 1.^^* Because of games, movies also I rated them again. The movies were absurdly underated. storyline with Alice was actually integrated through whole series.^^❤️

[UpY]

A workstation card that has trouble with OpenGL? I certainly wasn't expecting that.

[MeakerSE]

My old 8500 had a thermal take crystal heatsink thermally glued on in the end. It ran an early sample vbios with tighter memory timings and would run 315/315. Got me into overclocking :)

[cosmin.mic]

you should try "Enable texture compression" for OpenGL games. 8500 uses it by default in Q3 and other OpenGL games.

[rd]

Very thorough and interesting... not an AMD video card guy, but I enjoyed all of your efforts in this video!

[danielson]

Could you flash the 8800 with the 8500 bios then use the 8500 drivers ?

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Time to binge.

[charlesdorval]

Thanks for the upload Phil! I'll have a look in the drivers later today, perhaps a bit of INF fun would do if we're lucky, Playing with the bios update you used might also be an option, especially if you have more than one of them hehehe

[Druze_Tito]

3:35 The radeon 8500 had 8/4 ROPs/TMUs, 4 Pixel and 2 vertex shaders.

The results from the benchmark confirm it is the same chip, but GPU-Z is reporting wrong specs.