Well -- I'm not sure as to the official ruling on this... but so long as its not for a commercial project I don't think there's any harm in mentioning this option then --
There's been people around several forums who were talking about "Softmods"... basically, the architechture of a GeForce is identical to a Quadro. (If it wasn't encrypted) My GeForce FX 5700 Ultra is EXACTLY the same as a Quadro FX 1100, unfortunately nVidia turns everything off in their drivers. Aparently for the GeForce 4 cards, however, they are unencrypted and -- using a script which I will not mention the name of on VERY specific driver versions -- will register your GeForce 4 Ti as its equivalent Quadro 4, thus the drivers will unlock all functionality.
Now comes into the legality of this: My opinion: C'mon, they put it in there! how is that any worse from putting a tank of Nox or overclocking your computer. No-one's gonna come to your house and arrest you. But -- your warrenty is likewise garbage (which you most likely won't even have ANYWAY if you have a GeForce 4)
That's softmodding... it only works with specific cards on specific drivers... but some benchmarks shown like -- I think it was 1000% improvement (correct number of zeros... yes.. 1 thousand) in lighting, etc. calculations (on hardware mode!)
There's also -- hardmodding... but you have to have a lot of gusto, and a lot of money to attempt that (its basically unsoddering 2 bridges, and resoddering 2 different bridges to register the card perminantly as a Quadro)
There's absolutely no difference between the two cards speed, memory, or any other wise (I think the RAMspeed is increased on certain QuadroFX cards compared to their GeForces... but that will automatically be done by the drivers.) All the FX cards and the 6#00 lines are encrypted aswell...
Note: The Radeons up to at LEAST the 9800 Pro from what I hear are 100% unencrypted, thus can be softmodded to a FireGL through software easily.
And the script does NOT work with GeForce 4 MXs (just Tis), and ESPECIALLY not ones which are onboard.
Also -- if this doesn't work -- which is commonly doesn't unless you REALLY know what your doing -- you just wasted money.
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Last edited by Phopojijo; 12-10-2004 at 02:38 AM.