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May 19, 2011, 10:21:47 AM
#19
installed 11.5 on a dual 5870 miner with Debian testing and SDK 2.1.

running DiabloMiner, the only oddity i noticed was that my Mhash/sec started out comparatively high (820+), and then settled down to a lower figure.

i've tried a lot of other combinations of CC + SDK (always on Debian), and the Mhash/sec has always started low and gone up to a higher, stable number.

kinda weird, but it works fine.

and the new version of DiabloMiner with BFI_INT is absolutely killer.  i need more fans... Grin
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May 19, 2011, 08:48:24 AM
#18
It still doesn't fix the mining + movies hangup with 69xx cards. It's getting annoying.

Disable DXVA hardware acceleration Tongue you cant use DXVA anyway, UVD does in fact underclock your card, thats why it hangs.

It's not hardware acceleration itself, but certain card features being polled that cause the hangup. Apps like GPU-Z certainly don't use DXVA yet still hang the card up, while watching Youtube with hardware acc enabled will cause no problems (but videos using html5
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May 19, 2011, 06:28:47 AM
#17
I have a windows desktop/rig with 2x unlocked 6950 Crossfire. 11.5 slows down mining from 720Mh/s to 710Mh/s. But I'm using it for gaming too. So I have reason to stay with 11.5
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May 15, 2011, 09:44:29 PM
#16
A friend of mine running a single 6990 reported a slight gain.  I think it was like +15 MH/s or something.  Nothing to write home about, but it was something.
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May 15, 2011, 08:45:39 PM
#15
It still doesn't fix the mining + movies hangup with 69xx cards. It's getting annoying.

Disable DXVA hardware acceleration Tongue you cant use DXVA anyway, UVD does in fact underclock your card, thats why it hangs.
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May 15, 2011, 08:27:06 PM
#14
It still doesn't fix the mining + movies hangup with 69xx cards. It's getting annoying.

I'll take those 6900s off your hands  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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May 15, 2011, 08:24:40 PM
#13
It still doesn't fix the mining + movies hangup with 69xx cards. It's getting annoying.
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May 15, 2011, 07:55:37 PM
#12
11.5 fixed the problem of my pc crashing when i stop the miners.
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May 12, 2011, 01:52:07 AM
#11
maybe my gui miner will stop crashing my PC when I stop mining. I'll update soon and see what happens. I'm running crossfire 5850s
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May 12, 2011, 12:36:06 AM
#10
Works like 11.4 for me too. No difference.
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May 12, 2011, 12:35:03 AM
#9
works the same as 11.4 for me
same here, my comp still crashes from two 6990s but im suspecting its the motherboard now

Have you tried 1 card alone?
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May 12, 2011, 12:26:02 AM
#8
We are shipping all our Rigs with Ubuntu 10.10, Catalyst 11.5, and SDK 2.4. 11.5 is rock solid, and actually supports some new cards that older drivers didn't.

If you have a working system with an older driver, I don't see any reason to upgrade. There don't appear to be any performance improvements for mining. But if you're building a new box, go with 11.5.
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May 12, 2011, 12:20:27 AM
#7
no upgrade at all... 2.4.595.10
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May 11, 2011, 09:39:56 PM
#6
I updated and seem to be getting the same hashrate. Assuming I was reading info in the installer right, there was no update to the OpenCL drivers from 11.4 to 11.5.
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May 11, 2011, 09:09:07 PM
#5
works the same as 11.4 for me
same here, my comp still crashes from two 6990s but im suspecting its the motherboard now
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May 11, 2011, 08:26:50 PM
#4
works the same as 11.4 for me
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May 11, 2011, 08:26:25 PM
#3
Ahh gee... I have to stop my miners? Damn...
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Computta Mine Your Own BTC
May 11, 2011, 08:14:08 PM
#2
I tried updating to it and I couldn't mine. But I also can't mine with any of the 11 drivers either so :/.
edit: I still use the 10 drivers.
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May 11, 2011, 07:33:27 PM
#1
Just wanted to start a thread on Catalyst 11.5. I haven't updated yet but discussions are welcome.

http://sites.amd.com/US/GAME/DOWNLOADS/Pages/downloads.aspx
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