How to enable additional shaders on Radeon HD 6950

[f0d]

@f0d Exactly same bug with HD2600XT on dx10 and dx9 at the exactly same place, you can all test in dx10 and 9 at this place here (Heaven bug that it) :


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For the red light i am trying but i havn't , maybe one more stupid bug

made some youtube videos
this one showing the glitch at the start of the benchmark and the red light (i call them christmas lights lol) the video came out very dark at the christmas lights but you can still see them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NX96OHZ-lw

this one is 3dmark11 demo mode - there is fine particles of snow falling mainly at the start and there is some kind of "noise" at the top of the screen at the start when theres no trees and blue sky - is this a glitch or how it was supposed to be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJvZav_Ux4

It's what i said before !!!! A ugly Lullabies , not bug at all on benchmark mod ! only on demo !

i think you are right kaali - these are benchmark/engine glitches or driver glitches or something, i dont get any errors anywhere else

 

[Kaali]

this one is 3dmark11 demo mode - there is fine particles of snow falling mainly at the start and there is some kind of "noise" at the top of the screen at the start when theres no trees and blue sky - is this a glitch or how it was supposed to be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJvZav_Ux4

Same glitch on blue sky with the 2 6950 single and Xfire mod , just ugly mod in 720p when my screen is 1080p !

I forget to said : i havn't bug anymore in crysis since i have installed the 10.12a drivers, now sky run great

But always bug in BBC2 i guess the game or drivers for Xfire Suck like hell ^^ .

AMD i hope your next driver will be good !

 

[AiponGkooja]

Same glitch on blue sky with the 2 6950 single and Xfire mod , just ugly mod in 720p when my screen is 1080p !

I forget to said : i havn't bug anymore in crysis since i have installed the 10.12a drivers, now sky run great

But always bug in BBC2 i guess the game or drivers for Xfire Suck like hell ^^ .

AMD i hope your next driver will be good !

Do you get underscan in Crysis? I have a 1080p monitor, but when I select 1080p resolution and run it, it always underscans Crysis; it shrinks the screen and there is maybe a one inch black border all the way around the image. Actually I think this happens on anything with DX10.

Does it do this for you? Or do you know how to fix it? I currently just alt-tab, continue to hold alt, and then tab back to Crysis. Seems to be the only way to keep it full-screen, but not have it underscanning.

Thanks,
Aip

 

[Kaali]

Hey it's happens when i use a c****d version , but with the one i have bought during the christmas holidays on Steam i havn't this trouble ^^

 

[techie81]

Well, since I didn't have any other overclocking software, I uninstalled catalyst drivers, did driversweeper, and reinstalled drivers. I wasn't sure if I could use the same drivers that I got from xfxforce since it was for the 6950, but I did it anyway. After the reinstall, it all works out the way it should. GPU clock now at 880. Thanks a lot yonef

I had the same problem but an uninstall and driver sweeper did the trick ty.

 

[AiponGkooja]

Hey it's happens when i use a c****d version , but with the one i have bought during the christmas holidays on Steam i havn't this trouble ^^

I have the Steam version too... hmmm

 

[Wijkert]

Hi guys, I have the following problem with my 6950(XFX):
I flashed my 6950 with the 6970 bios(sapphire) set the clocks to 6950(800-1250), but after encountering artifacts in both wow and gta4, but not in Furmark or 3dmark11, I flashed my card with the shader-unlock only bios. Still the artifacts remained, so I flashed my original bios back. Sadly within an minute of playing gta4 the same artifacts returned. I have tried to reinstall catalyst 10.12 drivers, but that didn't help. I am pretty sure that those artifacts weren't there before I started flashing the bios. Do you guys now of any game/benchmark wich stresses the gpu or mem a lot(because those artifacts look a lot like the ones you get when overclocking your mem), wich can give me a second opinion?

Ps took a picture since it would't let me use 'print screen'

 

[SonDoobius]

I'm wondering if anyone can help. I just bought my second Sapphire 6950, and I unlocked it and flashed the 6970 BIOS exactly the same way as my first card. Everything looked like it worked fine, works fine on games like Hot Pursuit, Rainbow Six Vegas and Crysis. But while running BC2 it freezes like 3 mins into playing and I get a dark green/grey screen and have to reset my whole system. The same thing happened with FarCry 2. I don't get what the problem is, I took out the first card and flashed the new card the exact same way. I haven't tried crossfireing yet. Any suggestions?

 

[Whilhelm]

Has anyone else had issues with crossfire not working on a pair of flashed cards? I have tried on A Rampage III Formula and an Asus Sabertooth setup and I get instant lockup and driver crash or BSOD when I try to run any 3D game or benchmark.

Both cards work perfect by themselves and I have tried the following bios configurations

6950-6950 Works fine with 3d apps

6970-6950 Works fine with 3d apps

6950-6970 Works fine with 3d apps

6970-6970 Instant lockup with any 3d app

I have tried the drivers from the disc and the 10.12a drivers. Anyone have any advice for me?

 

[Anvirol]

Perhaps you had MSI Afterburner on when u tried the pair of flashed cards and forgot to disable ULPS in Windows registry? Every time u reinstall drivers it gets reactivated.

 

[so11ex]

Got a 6950 XFX card, unlocked with 6970 bios. First I thought all is fine, Furmark was ok, no glitches at Unigine heaven and 3Dmarks. But in Fallout New Vegas and World of Warcraft, i have noticed some flickering, looks more like a part of the scene, that is displayed in wrong place. Driver bug, or hardware problem, I dont know, its an artifacts (3-5 times in a minute) after getting this, i have flashed 6950 unlocked bios (lower clocs) but still the artifacts remained, but they were not that often, as at 6970 clocks. I have put bios switch jumper to test with original bios, but was receiving artifacts at Fallout and WoW even at stock. I have noticed, that increasing RAM clocks to 6970 level causes more artifacts at same place as i had with stock frequences. I have returned the card back. Imho there can be two problems, a) bad drivers b) a major problem with video ram on all 6950s, its not stable.

 

[Mark22]

Still haven't got round to testing the Zalman cooler on this card (been away). But, a lot of people here seem to think they can unlock a card overclock it and play away with no issue. You do realise such actions generally warrant extra cooling, monitoring temperatures and general competence from the owner.

Overclocking your memory, which the 6970 bios does, and then moaning and blaming AMD when the memory overheats and things go wrong is just retarded. You have no standpoint to send that card back, you let it overheat, simple.

Sorry if you don't want to hear it but someone had to say it. Far to many noobs trying this!

 

[Qed]

Still haven't got round to testing the Zalman cooler on this card (been away). But, a lot of people here seem to think they can unlock a card overclock it and play away with no issue. You do realise such actions generally warrant extra cooling, monitoring temperatures and general competence from the owner.

Overclocking your memory, which the 6970 bios does, and then moaning and blaming AMD when the memory overheats and things go wrong is just retarded. You have no standpoint to send that card back, you let it overheat, simple.

Sorry if you don't want to hear it but someone had to say it. Far to many noobs trying this!

He is bloody right.

 

[dem967]

I have received my Asus 6950 card, unlocked with 6950 modded bios and all is running nicely A card is little loud under load, im thinking about extra cooling for it, less temps less noise

 

[tecnoworld]

with the newly released RBE (1.27) I just created the following BIOS:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=g99jg137mvb

starting from my unlocked 6950, converted to Asus brand, injected the 6970 signature. Now the CCC limits are 950/1450, but I didn't change the voltage (you can do that with SD in Windows, to test the limits of your own card). So the base voltage is still 1.0v for the GPU.

Enjoy

 

[davetheshrew]

about device id changes how about these commands available to use

-padevid and -passid?

is it possible we can go from dev.id 6719 to 6718 from here, making our cards PROPER 6970's? Im going to have a go but I may need a little guidance please

 

[ninefingers]

Decided to reflash the original bios. How do I lock it back once I'm finished?

Since this is the unlock command (atiwinflash -unlockrom 0) what is the lock command?

Thanks

 

[davetheshrew]

you cant, ummmm why?

 

[Frosty]

with the newly released RBE (1.27) I just created the following BIOS:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=g99jg137mvb

starting from my unlocked 6950, converted to Asus brand, injected the 6970 signature. Now the CCC limits are 950/1450, but I didn't change the voltage (you can do that with SD in Windows, to test the limits of your own card). So the base voltage is still 1.0v for the GPU.

Enjoy

Not sure as to why but this BIOS bricked my Powercolor 6950. I had to flash back to the original BIOS to get it to work again.

 

[davetheshrew]

should I keepposting this untill its confirmed?

-padevid [deviceID] and -passid [ssid]? (in ATIFLASH)

is it possible we can go from dev.id 6719 to 6718 from here, making our cards PROPER 6970's? Im going to have a go but I may need a little guidance please


edit screw it im trying this.

 

[manofthem]

My XFX 6950/70 works great. I did the +20% vs the +10% in the 3DMark 11, and I got a better result with the +10%. Anyone else get similar results?

And is AMD going to fix this option with their new batch of cards? I really want to get one ASAP, but I heard that they are going to fix this flash option...

I did the same thing: 10% vs 20%. The first time the 10% was better. Then tonight I did it again and got better results with 20%, but I did have my
RAM at lower timings (maybe that affected it). Not sure.

 

[Amorpheus]

That's what they are in the 6950 default BIOS - if you have two monitors on it. Some people also had the driver bug out and not apply the low idle values, no idea what's up with that.

 

[tecnoworld]

Not sure as to why but this BIOS bricked my Powercolor 6950. I had to flash back to the original BIOS to get it to work again.

very strange; I created that bios starting from my board, which is a Powercolor as well. Try this other one, which is simply the same one with shader unlocked and then reverted to Asus vendor (w/o injecting overdrive limit from 6970) and tell me if it works:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=50zvsqxkllc

 

[davetheshrew]

tecnoworld have you played with these commands?

-padevid [deviceID] and -passid [ssid]? (in ATIFLASH)

possibility of making 6950's into proper 6970's yes?

 

[LagunaX]

I tried RBE also on my HIS unlocked shader bios.

Changed all clocks to match 6970 clocks plus increased limit - BRICK.

Changed clocks only - BRICK.

Changed only first clock to 880/1375 - BRICK.

Thank God for the backup boot ROM.

Back to unlocked shader bios and also 6970 bios when I want...