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error
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Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 08:36:41 PM
#33
Quote from: Bitcoin_Silver_Supply on July 19, 2011, 07:57:51 PM
Quote from: error on July 19, 2011, 06:54:47 PM
It happens to Linux users too. And it happens with NVIDIA cards. So it's a bit more complex than "Catalyst is doing this". I STILL suspect something weird in the OpenCL kernel or the way it's being executed.

Linux lovers will accuse you of great blasphemy and badspeak for this. I am constantly told of the Linux mining utopia.

I wish them good luck with accusing me of blasphemy when I've been using Linux as my primary OS longer than many of them have been alive. Grin
haydent
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 08:02:31 PM
#32
in win the only work around ive come to so far is under clocking and core affinity. if only you could throttle a core or process's usage to keep the heat & cpu fan down...
Bitcoin_Silver_Supply
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 07:57:51 PM
#31
Quote from: error on July 19, 2011, 06:54:47 PM
It happens to Linux users too. And it happens with NVIDIA cards. So it's a bit more complex than "Catalyst is doing this". I STILL suspect something weird in the OpenCL kernel or the way it's being executed.

Linux lovers will accuse you of great blasphemy and badspeak for this. I am constantly told of the Linux mining utopia.
error
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 06:54:47 PM
#30
It happens to Linux users too. And it happens with NVIDIA cards. So it's a bit more complex than "Catalyst is doing this". I STILL suspect something weird in the OpenCL kernel or the way it's being executed.
haydent
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 06:27:30 PM
#29
yes it is not specific to any drivers/sdk version, normally occurs with windows and >1 card/gpu
Bitcoin_Silver_Supply
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 06:17:37 PM
#28
Quote from: Furyan on July 19, 2011, 05:15:58 PM
Quote from: DrHaribo on July 19, 2011, 08:11:46 AM
Trying out the 11.7 preview drivers:

When I mine with 3 GPUs, I have 3 CPU cores running 100% and good hashrate.
When I mine with 4 GPUs, I have almost zero CPU-load and hashrate is 3-5% below normal.

Anyone else seeing this?
I'm on 64-bit Windows 7.


Sure that isn't a PSU issue?

Yes. It is happening to many Windows users regardless of PSU.
Furyan
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 05:15:58 PM
#27
Quote from: DrHaribo on July 19, 2011, 08:11:46 AM
Trying out the 11.7 preview drivers:

When I mine with 3 GPUs, I have 3 CPU cores running 100% and good hashrate.
When I mine with 4 GPUs, I have almost zero CPU-load and hashrate is 3-5% below normal.

Anyone else seeing this?
I'm on 64-bit Windows 7.


Sure that isn't a PSU issue?
Bitcoin_Silver_Supply
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 10:42:37 AM
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Quote from: DrHaribo on July 19, 2011, 08:11:46 AM
Trying out the 11.7 preview drivers:

When I mine with 3 GPUs, I have 3 CPU cores running 100% and good hashrate.
When I mine with 4 GPUs, I have almost zero CPU-load and hashrate is 3-5% below normal.

Anyone else seeing this?
I'm on 64-bit Windows 7.


Egh.. Sounds like the insanity will continue. Though I'd have to say I would buy an extra card and lose 3-5% hashrate for near-zero CPU-load right now.
DrHaribo
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 19, 2011, 08:11:46 AM
#25
Trying out the 11.7 preview drivers:

When I mine with 3 GPUs, I have 3 CPU cores running 100% and good hashrate.
When I mine with 4 GPUs, I have almost zero CPU-load and hashrate is 3-5% below normal.

Anyone else seeing this?
I'm on 64-bit Windows 7.
pennytrader
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 18, 2011, 01:24:11 AM
#24
100% CPU will cost you additional power bill so that's actually a reduction in mining profit (or mhs)
Vasili Sviridov
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 18, 2011, 01:00:54 AM
#23
If you stop your guiminer via remote desktop, it'll stop seeing opencl. Cannot restart mining because of that...

100% CPU is really annoying. Just added second card - now I have that... Tried using SDK 2.1 - hash rate was total shit and it was still using 100% CPU Sad
FreeJAC
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 17, 2011, 12:15:11 PM
#22
What do you mean remote desktop works?
pennytrader
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 16, 2011, 05:04:48 PM
#21
verified remote desktop works (although MSI afterburners still doesn't show up the card in a remote desktop session). 100% CPU is annoying. So downgrading it to Catalyst 11.6 + SDK 2.1
checkmate
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 16, 2011, 04:04:41 AM
#20
Despite the version of your driver, don't use CrossfireX - use those dummy plugs; those little bastards need to survive!

 Kiss
ssateneth
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 16, 2011, 03:17:12 AM
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I might be blind... I see 11.7 all over but I can't find a direct download link? I want to try to get some of this fabled performance increase.
Bitcoin_Silver_Supply
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 15, 2011, 01:17:24 PM
#18
Quote from: bcpokey on July 15, 2011, 12:53:07 PM
Hmm, interesting. I already have tons of dummy plugs but it'd be nice not to have to worry about such things in the future. I'll give 11.7 a whirl later today and report my findings Smiley

I look forward to that. Also, are you using the release candidate or am I somehow missing the full version download?
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 15, 2011, 12:53:07 PM
#17
Hmm, interesting. I already have tons of dummy plugs but it'd be nice not to have to worry about such things in the future. I'll give 11.7 a whirl later today and report my findings Smiley
pennytrader
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 15, 2011, 10:27:05 AM
#16
Does it solve the remote desktop issue?
pandemic
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 15, 2011, 09:03:48 AM
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Quote from: Bitcoin_Silver_Supply on July 15, 2011, 01:06:43 AM
Quote from: pandemic on July 14, 2011, 11:19:43 PM
I'm running 11.7. Runs fine minus the CPU issue with phoenix. Very stable and does eliminate the need for a dummy plug. Found out about 11.7 minutes after I ordered 20 resistors. Smiley

Ouch, at least they're cheap, I guess.

$2.50 for 20 68ohm resistors, shipped. Whatever. Smiley

Re: 11.6B, I've had issues with phoenix using 50% of my CPU PER GPU. The fix is to set affinity to just one core. It'll use 100% of it but that will minimize other cores being used.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28392.0
tysat
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Re: Catalyst 11.7
July 15, 2011, 01:31:45 AM
#14
Quote from: Bitcoin_Silver_Supply on July 15, 2011, 01:29:11 AM
Quote from: tysat on July 14, 2011, 10:43:44 PM
I believe 11.6b also does away with the needing dummy plugs...

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116bHotfix.aspx

Just tried 11.6B and now both OpenCL and Phoenix use 50+% of my CPU in GUIMiner. Previously only Phoenix had been eating up my CPU resources... I heard this is a common error.

Sadly I don't know anything about that, haven't had any issues so I had not read into solving it.
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