Topic: AMD Catalyst 13.4 and 13.5 Beta Released - page 2. (Read 5667 times)
Did everyone see a decrease in performance? Would like to hear win7 32/64 cgminer 3.1 experiences.
Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed.
People need to learn how to image backup their OS before messing with drivers. I've seen quite a few people already reinstalled their OS, because of a driver failure of some sort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image
Few softwares that can do it, clonezilla, acronis true image. Probably a lot more. But those two are the main two.
Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
What cards are you mining/gaming with?
I tested 13.4 but my bitcoin hashrate dropped from 630 MH/s to 560 MH/s. Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed. Using Sapphire 7950 boost OC @925 MHz stock version (of course my GPUs are overclocked over these values).
I do not know how is on Linux but if you have similar setup, just do not bother with 13.4.
I can play WoW while mining on a Gigabyte 7970. I do have to lower my intensity to somewhere around 2, sometimes less if I'm doing heavy graphics stuff. Skyrim is another matter, will crash the driver every single time if I try to run it and cgminer at the same time.
I'm currently running the 13.3 beta driver.
I'm currently running the 13.3 beta driver.
interesting... mining and gaming at the same time. 
Well its not intresting atall IMO really, When i run BF3 with nearly maxed graphics (AAx2, SSAO, High shadows) i get 40fps, and 120mhs with my 7950 Intensity 2 Turn off BF3 and i get 550mh/s
Play BF3 without mining, 60fps, and only 70% gpu usage, so i clearly have room to spare
interesting... mining and gaming at the same time.
I know!, Thats what i keep doing!, I've been stuck on these 12.8 drivers for a fucking Year, Every damn other driver pack i try Shits all over my computer
Right now League of Legends shows graphic erros when i play while mining, BUT IT WORKS.
All other games run flawlessly (bf3 for example)
But Any Fucking time i upgrade my drivers, I cant even mine with intensity 1, Everything lags, then eventually CGminer stops functioning
Right now League of Legends shows graphic erros when i play while mining, BUT IT WORKS.
All other games run flawlessly (bf3 for example)
But Any Fucking time i upgrade my drivers, I cant even mine with intensity 1, Everything lags, then eventually CGminer stops functioning
7950
Weird, the way amd drivers are, I wouldn't doubt the trouble, I had major amd goofup troubles with anything between 13.2 beta 7 & 13.4/13.5beta2 for my 5850's. No sensor readings on second card, overclock on second card failed, weird shit. I just stopped updating for a long time, and decided it was time to try 13.5beta2, and what ever they did, it solved the issues I was having. Maybe skip a few months again for your issue and see if the problem gets resolved down the road. ionno, bud.
Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
What cards are you mining/gaming with?
Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
What cards are you mining/gaming with?
I tried catalyst 13.4 and for some reason I get a black screen when using tightvnc. Went back to 13.3 and everything's ok again.
Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!
I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!
Ah, thanks a bunch! So 13.4 has which version of the SDK integrated in the driver? 2.8? And if yes, is it benefitial for a hd7870 BTC miner to downgrade to something like 2.6 SDK? Thanks!
This where I am stumped, and have no real source on how to see which sdk is installed. I am in the same boat as you are, beats me which sdk comes with 13.4 & 13.5 beta 2.
Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen
Sorry, can't say I've tried.
Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2.
from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?
from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1976247
OpenCL is now part of the drivers and no more a seperate package, this should be related.
Ahh, I did not know of this, I was wondering how opencl got installed when I installed 13.5 beta 2, cuz I did not see the sdk package at all in the driver package. I was clueless.
This is something to note. Thanks.
Ah, thanks a bunch! So 13.4 has which version of the SDK integrated in the driver? 2.8? And if yes, is it benefitial for a hd7870 BTC miner to downgrade to something like 2.6 SDK? Thanks!
Anyone with a 7950 getting good performance with 13.4?
Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen
Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2. from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?
from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1976247
OpenCL is now part of the drivers and no more a seperate package, this should be related.
Ahh, I did not know of this, I was wondering how opencl got installed when I installed 13.5 beta 2, cuz I did not see the sdk package at all in the driver package. I was clueless.
This is something to note. Thanks.
Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2.8) from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?
Has anyone tested these drivers on 5850's with cgminer using scrypt?
Headsup for 5k series users.
Ok. I've expressed uninstalled 13.2 Beta 7, ran driver sweeper in safe mode, rebooted back into safe mode, did a registry clean with registry clean expert, rebooted. I've installed 13.5 Beta 2 on my Windows7 x64 machine. I am guessing with supplied SDK, as GPU-z showed I have opencl enabled.
Mining on cgminer 3.0.1-windows scrypt.
I don't see any increase nor decrease in hash rate for litecoin mining with my two 5850's on 13.5 Beta 2 with cgminer 3.0.1-Windows scrypt.
So far, so good. This is good news for me so far, prior, anything over past 13.2 beta 7 drivers, I had sensor detect problems with hwinfo64, and overclock problems, these problems are solved with this latest AMD driver I am using now, also this driver is good for 7k series card I am guessing, so, if and when I get a 7950, I should have no problems, hopefully.
~Cheers
I really wish there was a sure-fire way of tweaking my scrypt hashing with my 7870. At this point it's mostly easter-egging and I hate it.
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