Topic: Something weird after installing Catalyst 11-6 (Read 1015 times)
i had a problem witg the new catalyst too, it "stole" 60Mh/s from my 6950 - simply went back to the previous driver version
Was having the same problem with a 4870 but not with a 5970 on the same machine, removed worksize from all the miners (including the 5970) and actually gained 10MH/s.
REINSTALL DRIVER. that is all
Tried a normal reinstall but not a full reinstall with clean uninstall. But, worksize 256 >= than worksize 64 on 11-5 catalyst so it's not a big deal yet.
REINSTALL DRIVER. that is all
I was on 11-5 with my 4850 and everything was running fine. I upgraded to 11-6 and the following weird things happened:
1. I used to run work size of 64. Now, any work size < 256 crashes the miner in MSVCR90.dll. Any gpu miner. This can be phoenix, diablo, poclbm, whatever. CPU mining is not affected.
2. However, the miner works ONCE without vectors and once with vectors regardless of work size. Even after rebooting it doesn't work. I ran it with poclbm at work size 64 with and without vectors and now I can't run them with work size < 256. Here's a phoenix example:
Above, I run with worksize 1024 (too large?) and get ~66MH/s. Then I run 64 with vectors. With vectors because I already ran it without vectors and that doesn't work anymore. I then abort it and run it again: crash. Work size of 256 still works.
3. There used to be a performance hit at work size 256 (and 128) but I'm not seeing that now. Don't have current numbers for work size 64 to show it though.
1. I used to run work size of 64. Now, any work size < 256 crashes the miner in MSVCR90.dll. Any gpu miner. This can be phoenix, diablo, poclbm, whatever. CPU mining is not affected.
Code:
Faulting application name: phoenix.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4918019b
Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.6161, time stamp: 0x4dace5b9
Exception code: 0x40000015
Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.6161, time stamp: 0x4dace5b9
Exception code: 0x40000015
2. However, the miner works ONCE without vectors and once with vectors regardless of work size. Even after rebooting it doesn't work. I ran it with poclbm at work size 64 with and without vectors and now I can't run them with work size < 256. Here's a phoenix example:
Code:
[18/06/2011 18:31:08] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[65.84 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://MxNbKXPBRqyw31ecG
2V5BNwqqrRLTWwWM3:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=1024 -k phatk
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Warning: Worksize exceeds the maximum of 256, using default.
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[64.25 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://user:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=64 VECTORS
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:37:30] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[60.94 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://user:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=64 VECTORS
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] New block (WorkQueue)
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://MxNbKXPBRqyw31ecG2V5BNwqqrRLTWwWM3:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=256
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[66.08 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:31:09] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[65.84 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://MxNbKXPBRqyw31ecG
2V5BNwqqrRLTWwWM3:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=1024 -k phatk
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Warning: Worksize exceeds the maximum of 256, using default.
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:31:40] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[64.25 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://user:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=64 VECTORS
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:37:29] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:37:30] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[60.94 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://user:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=64 VECTORS
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:37:53] New block (WorkQueue)
[0 Khash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC]
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
C:\Users\Michael Hsu\Desktop\guiminer>phoenix.exe -v -u http://MxNbKXPBRqyw31ecG2V5BNwqqrRLTWwWM3:[email protected]:9098 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=256
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Phoenix 1.50 starting...
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Connected to server
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] New block (WorkQueue)
[18/06/2011 18:38:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[66.08 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
Above, I run with worksize 1024 (too large?) and get ~66MH/s. Then I run 64 with vectors. With vectors because I already ran it without vectors and that doesn't work anymore. I then abort it and run it again: crash. Work size of 256 still works.
3. There used to be a performance hit at work size 256 (and 128) but I'm not seeing that now. Don't have current numbers for work size 64 to show it though.
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