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Quote from: DarkMatter on March 09, 2011, 08:40:06 AM

Quote from: purpleeggguy on March 09, 2011, 12:30:21 AM

Quote from: true on March 08, 2011, 11:41:12 PM

The drivers aren't bad - why people still say that is likely because the installer looked like crap. It still looks bad, and there are plenty of issues installing drivers for older ATi hardware, but current AMD videocards tend to work well...though there are sometimes still installer problems Sad

People equate driver tweaking UI == driver

I always hear horror stories about people having to go through a long and pain-in-the-neck process just to get the drivers installed correctly, not to mention bugs such as the cursor corruption and having idle clocks so low the computer crashes. Not to mention the few times I've used computers with ATI cards there were huge problems with even simple things like video playback.

If none of this has happened to you then hey, congrats. Maybe those were just isolated incidents. I do think they put more effort into their cards than their software though.

2 days ago i got a Sapphire HD5770, 1GB. Downloaded latest Catalyst and Stream 2.1, installed both, reboot: that's all.
Everything is working: h264 acceleration, mining, gaming, multimonitor (the card is coupled with an nVidia 9400gt) without any issue at all.
Windows 7 x64 here.

What's your average hashrate? I've got the same setup, but with Stream 2.2, and I'm getting ~315 mhash/s (as opposed to ~300mhash/s with Stream 2.3)

EDIT: Mirror for Stream SDK 2.2 for Windows 7 x64: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E7FU5U2E

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Stop trying to steal my account, thanks.

Quote from: purpleeggguy on March 09, 2011, 12:30:21 AM

Quote from: true on March 08, 2011, 11:41:12 PM

The drivers aren't bad - why people still say that is likely because the installer looked like crap. It still looks bad, and there are plenty of issues installing drivers for older ATi hardware, but current AMD videocards tend to work well...though there are sometimes still installer problems Sad

People equate driver tweaking UI == driver

I always hear horror stories about people having to go through a long and pain-in-the-neck process just to get the drivers installed correctly, not to mention bugs such as the cursor corruption and having idle clocks so low the computer crashes. Not to mention the few times I've used computers with ATI cards there were huge problems with even simple things like video playback.

If none of this has happened to you then hey, congrats. Maybe those were just isolated incidents. I do think they put more effort into their cards than their software though.

2 days ago i got a Sapphire HD5770, 1GB. Downloaded latest Catalyst and Stream 2.1, installed both, reboot: that's all.
Everything is working: h264 acceleration, mining, gaming, multimonitor (the card is coupled with an nVidia 9400gt) without any issue at all.
Windows 7 x64 here.

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Quote from: true on March 08, 2011, 11:41:12 PM

The drivers aren't bad - why people still say that is likely because the installer looked like crap. It still looks bad, and there are plenty of issues installing drivers for older ATi hardware, but current AMD videocards tend to work well...though there are sometimes still installer problems Sad

People equate driver tweaking UI == driver

I always hear horror stories about people having to go through a long and pain-in-the-neck process just to get the drivers installed correctly, not to mention bugs such as the cursor corruption and having idle clocks so low the computer crashes. Not to mention the few times I've used computers with ATI cards there were huge problems with even simple things like video playback.

If none of this has happened to you then hey, congrats. Maybe those were just isolated incidents. I do think they put more effort into their cards than their software though.

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Quote from: Lardie on March 08, 2011, 11:24:03 PM

Turns out if the DPI is set over 100 = instant BSOD. Once I reduced it to 100 Catalyst and Stream SDK installed fine. After it's installed, if I set it over 100 Windows will only boot in safe mode. And 100 is too small for me. Embarrassed

I installed with and use 150 % DPI

something must be conflicting

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Quote from: Garrett Burgwardt on March 08, 2011, 11:31:33 PM

Quote from: purpleeggguy on March 08, 2011, 11:11:09 PM

AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.

I always hear this, but my experiences have been pretty awesome. Only one bug and it was fixed the next driver release.

The drivers aren't bad - why people still say that is likely because the installer looked like crap. It still looks bad, and there are plenty of issues installing drivers for older ATi hardware, but current AMD videocards tend to work well...though there are sometimes still installer problems Sad

People equate driver tweaking UI == driver

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Quote from: purpleeggguy on March 08, 2011, 11:11:09 PM

AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.

I always hear this, but my experiences have been pretty awesome. Only one bug and it was fixed the next driver release.

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Turns out if the DPI is set over 100 = instant BSOD. Once I reduced it to 100 Catalyst and Stream SDK installed fine. After it's installed, if I set it over 100 Windows will only boot in safe mode. And 100 is too small for me. Embarrassed

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AMD's drivers have always been notoriously bad, boot into safe mode before installing.

Lardie

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This is really aggravating... I got 2 BSOD's while installing Catalyst and it finally worked the third time. Now I'm trying to install Stream SDK another couple of BSOD's and now my computer doesn't boot. I get the "starting windows" with the balloons, then the fan on the video card spins up and the screen goes black. Huh

Looks like I'm going to have to install either Win7 x86 or Ubuntu 64-bit. Embarrassed

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Quote from: nster on March 08, 2011, 08:12:39 PM

Quote from: Lardie on March 08, 2011, 07:27:53 PM

Can someone please upload Stream SDK 2.2 somewhere like hotfile or rapidshare. The link on AMD's website to it is broken.

windows 7 32bit one here: http://www.downloadatoz.com/software-development_directory/ati-stream-sdk/downloading.html

I appreciate the effort but I'm using Windows 7 x64 which they don't seem to have. I sent a post to AMD to ask them to fix the link.

EDIT: Here's a link to the 64-bit version: http://www.downloadplex.com/Windows/Development/Other/ati-stream-sdk_276909.html

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Quote from: Lardie on March 08, 2011, 07:27:53 PM

Can someone please upload Stream SDK 2.2 somewhere like hotfile or rapidshare. The link on AMD's website to it is broken.

windows 7 32bit one here: http://www.downloadatoz.com/software-development_directory/ati-stream-sdk/downloading.html

(look for this image)

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Can someone please upload Stream SDK 2.2 somewhere like hotfile or rapidshare. The link on AMD's website to it is broken.

purpleeggguy

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I've been mining on two different computers with windows 7 just fine.
Use Neereus's link.

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Quote from: no to the gold cult on March 05, 2011, 08:31:48 AM

I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.
So, any help would be appreciated.

You can perfectly mine on Windows machine (with a compatible video card, of course). At least if you got no more than 4 GPUs in one PC.

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Fight fire with photos.

I'm trying GPU Caps Viewer, but it keeps closing with an error as soon as it starts. Anyone else had this problem or know what it might be?

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Quote from: nster on March 05, 2011, 10:04:37 AM

Quote from: no to the gold cult on March 05, 2011, 09:22:38 AM

Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.

CUDA is Nvidia only... ATI's cards support OpenCL only from the HD 4XXX series and later

Yup, no OpenCL either. Sad

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Quote from: no to the gold cult on March 05, 2011, 09:22:38 AM

Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.

CUDA is Nvidia only... ATI's cards support OpenCL only from the HD 4XXX series and later

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Thanks for answers people. According to the caps viewer I've not got CUDA support unfortunately. Maybe time to consider investing in new quipment. If I do I will definitely consider the Live CD too.

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Radeon 2600 doesn't support OpenCL AFAIK

LMGTFY

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There's also a GUI, which might simplify things.

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http://www.newslobster.com/random/how-to-get-started-using-your-gpu-to-mine-for-bitcoins-on-windows

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Quote from: no to the gold cult on March 05, 2011, 08:31:48 AM

I did a google but results seem to imply you can only GPU mine on a linux machine. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but I don't have a linux machine available.

I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.

So, any help would be appreciated.

Can't help with Windows, but there's a forum poster who's created a live CD for mining. It looks like the ATI side of things is still a work in progress, however. You could boot from the live CD for mining, then reboot sans-CD for regular Windows use.

Are you certain that the HD 2600 Pro has OpenCL? A cursory Google suggested it might not (but all the threads I saw were Mac-focussed, so YMMV...)

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I did a google but results seem to imply you can only GPU mine on a linux machine. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but I don't have a linux machine available.

I have a Windows XP machine with an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro on it. Dunno if this card is any good either but it'll probably be better than trying to mine with the CPU.

So, any help would be appreciated.

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