Topic: [Tool] AMD-Compute-Switcher for switch automatically to compute mode (Read 17435 times)

Hey! I wanted to configure taskscheduler to automatically turn on the switcher when the computer is idle along with the miner, but I don’t understand what argument to add to confirm the launch of switching video cards and hidden launch without windows.

Thanks I though it was not useful for the latest driver, It bring headache the manual configuration, you can wait morethan 10 minutes in every each card that you manually set to compute in AMD software, I will try it again. Thanks for the heads up!

I've used this tool after every driver install/update and it's worked on each one I've tried including 20.4.2. Just gotta remember to reboot after you use it.

You can set compute by pressing Y in Claymore and PhoenixMiner. Maybe other mining SW also has this ability. If not just download Claymore and use it to switch all GPUs to compute.

I saw that i have a comment in this thread wayback 2018 in the high demand of mining, but i tried this one as of this moment with the latest radeon driver, seems it's good because the tools pop up and says that it was successful, but when i run the miner nothing changes, the 3 cards that i\ve been set to compute mode manually work well and increase the hashrate, while the others remain 10MH, I am using rx 570 4gb cards, does the dev of this tools have a latest update?

I used Revo uninstaller (free shareware)
to uninstall all the AMD software. (that includes the Branding thingy) and kept the drivers installed.
Alternatively you can manually install/upgrade/downgrade the drivers via devmgmt.msc (you can put it on your desktop, really useful to do so)

My rigs run a lot more stable, probably because less software conflicts, especially Wattman.
And, I noticed a tiny power draw drop at the wall even. Negligible for one rig. but If you run a small farm it might be worthit.

Hence I was looking for a tool like this to make sure I'm running compute mode
imo it's worth a try only installing the AMD drivers if you use things like Afterburner, overdriveNtool, etc. Or even simply having the miner control the fans.

All I just recently created a tool to do basically the same thing.  It can be found on GIT.

https://github.com/gr0d/AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle/tree/master/AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle/bin/Release

Some key features are

• Run in list mode to determine all Radeon cards and whether or not compute mode is enabled/disabled
• Enable/disable all Radeon cards at once
• Enable/disable specific cards via index

Usage:

AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle [/L] [/M:0/1] [/A:1,2,4,5] [/R]

/L      List all AMD Devices and its configuration
/M      Enable or Disable Compute Mode.  0 Disable, 1 Enable
/A      Specify devices to modify.  Devices mnust be separated by commas.
/R      Reboot device after change is  made, default is not to reboot.

Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /L Lists all AMD devcies and their current compute mode setting.  /L Can only be used by itself.
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:0 - Disable compute mode for all AMD devices.  /M Can only be used with /A /R
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:1 - Enable compute mode for all AMD devices.  /M Can only be used with /A /R
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:0 /R - Disable compute mode for all AMD devices and reboot.  /M Can only be used with /A /R
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:1 /R - Enable compute mode for all AMD devices. and reboot. /M Can only be used with /A /R
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:1 /A:1,3,6,7 /R - Enable compute mode for AMD devices number 1, 3, 6, 7 and reboot.  /M Can only be used with /A /R
Example: AMD.Compute.Mode.Toggle /M:0 /A:1,3,6,7 /R - Disable compute mode for AMD devices number 1, 3, 6, 7 and reboot.  /M Can only be used with /A /R

Here is an alternative for that:

https://gist.github.com/hobbsh/b3737dfa1515bfc3c8483c67f63a74ee

If you have, for example, 6 cards, edit .ps1 and add them in $cards = ("0000", "0001", "0002", "0003", "0004", "0005")

I wonder can you make one for disabling crossfire/ulps.

Thank you for the tool. Saves hours of waiting. It was easy to see which card was not on compute by launching Phoenix miner and watching the output. But that AMD settings BS was sooooooo sloooow it drove me nuts.

How i didn't saw this erlier. I never install crappy wattman. Tnx!

Hey I just wanted to say thanks! I've been trying to get compute working on something other than Blockchain drivers on my mixed 570/580 rig. The AMD drivers never gives an option to switch the 570's to compute and also it incorrectly displays them as 580's. Your tool lets me write compute values for all cards, however it doesn't actually switch the 570's to compute. But, after using your tool, the compute option becomes available within AMD driver settings, and it works! Just figured I'd leave that here in case someone has a similar situation to troubleshoot.

Because this question was two times not answered:
No.

It will (maybe) write your registry entries, but those will stay unused even after a reboot.
There is a driver for windows 7 I guess which will bring you more benefits on mining, but it is not official / stable.

Anyways. The update to Win10 is still free with a Win7 COA.
But dont go with a Win7Home to a Win10Home. Go with Pro, only. (many reasons ...)

The new Linux kernel is bringing some of the -windows benefits- (almost like Wattman) on mining.

Have fun and good mining.

Great tool, thank you.

Hello boys my rig a since 2 weeks problems.

It crashes after 2 days and then i have to cut the power off.

Problem was on 11.6 so i stepped down to 11.5 this helped me allot but now its also happening here on 11.5.

What do you think boys

Does the newest drivers give anymore of a hashrate than the blockchain beta drivers just wondering because when I installed them on one rig I turned on compute than I started mining and either my miner crashed or I had some issue so I ran DD reinstalled the beta is was fine again so I haven't bothered to try them on any other rig

I have no machines where this would be useful.  However it looks like everything is being done in the same area of the registry and people are asking for other options so here is an idea. 

set everything the way you want with the standard tools
launch regedit.exe
Go to  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Right click at that level and select 'Export' from the context menu
Save that somewhere

Now if you want to implement the changes you should be able to right click the .reg file you saved from the steps above and select 'Merge'

If you want to script it in a batch file you should be able to do it like this: regedit.exe /s "C:\Users\\Documents\.reg"

Someone else will have to test this though, as I say I have no machines where this would matter.

Please add support for parameters, something like "-compute" or "-on", so that I can make a .bat file to be executed on boot and make sure all cards are in compute mode (autonomous actions always help).

Thanks for this! Works great for me on windows 10, 2x rigs with 8 and 9 cards each.

I just tried it and it does nothing. It completes with "success" but Im guessing it doesnt turn on anything because windows 7 doesnt have those registry values.