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AMD Radeon HD 7470 driver for Windows 98 - Velocity Drivers

AMD / ATI · AMD Evergreen

AMD Radeon HD 7470

Velocity9x: Verified working

A Caicos card with 2 GiB of video memory mapped above 4 GiB in the GPU’s address space, running Quake 3 under Windows 98.

Specification
Manufacturer
AMD / ATI
Chip
Caicos
Family
AMD Evergreen
3D engine
Evergreen (BTC), through AMD’s Caicos CP microcode
Bus
PCI Express
PCI ID
1002:6778
Velocity9x · Windows 98 SEVerified working

Package

ati

Supported since

0.34.0

Tested on

One tester’s machine (A10-5700) through remote help.

Acceleration by interface

2D / DirectDraw
Tested
DMA engine, flips
Direct3D
Tested
Direct3D 8
Not run
OpenGL
Tested
Two texture units
No
Glide
Probe
Glide 2 probe only
ATI 3DCIF
Not run

What has been tested

Direct3D at 16 and 32 bpp with 16-bit Z, one texture stage; OpenGL; DirectDraw on the DMA engine and page flips. Quake 3. Modes from the VBE, up to 1400x1050. The Glide 2 probe passes; 3DMark not run.

Tested games and benchmarks

TitleAPIResultVersion
Quake III ArenaOpenGL34.6 fps, demo0010.34.0 build
Quake III Arena on AMD Radeon HD 7470fps
  1. AMD Radeon HD 7470
    A10-5700 · 640x480 · v0.34.0 build
    34.6 fps
    Test setup and source
    Machine / CPU
    A10-5700
    Resolution
    640x480
    Driver version
    0.34.0 build

    Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.

    Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ.

Install on Windows 98

  1. Take a cold backup and confirm you can reach Safe Mode.
  2. Download the ati package(ATI Mach64 / Rage and AMD Radeon).
  3. Device Manager → Display adapters → Update Driver → Have Disk, over the top of the current driver.
  4. Shut down fully, then cold-start once.

Download velocity9x-0.48.0-ati.zipFull install guide