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Title: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: 1337leet on March 23, 2016, 03:15:44 PM
Hey guys,

I just tried to mine ETH with my system. It has got 1 HD 6990 and 2 HD 6950. I use qtminer on windows 7 64 bit, catalyst 15.7.1

Start batch:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 95
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

qtminer.exe -s us1.ethpool.org:3333 -u 0x17C0Bea7c449Fa27e32D4cA9569EBA3d9B605CF2.rig1 -G


It creates the DAG but then says "clCreateBuffer(-61) GPU can't allocate the DAG in a single chunk"


Anyone got an explanation for this error?


Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: Charloz24 on March 23, 2016, 05:39:59 PM
How much memory your GC have? Must be at least 2GB, the DAG file is now above 1350MB.


Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: 1337leet on March 23, 2016, 06:06:33 PM
How much memory your GC have? Must be at least 2GB, the DAG file is now above 1350MB.

The 6990 has 2x2 GB the others 2 GB.



Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: Charloz24 on March 23, 2016, 07:50:05 PM
Check ethminer --list-devices
Look at CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE

What does it said? (for both device)


Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: Charloz24 on March 23, 2016, 08:51:03 PM
How much memory your GC have? Must be at least 2GB, the DAG file is now above 1350MB.

The 6990 has 2x2 GB the others 2 GB.



For the 2GB one, I added this in the bat file:

setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100


Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: 1337leet on March 23, 2016, 09:15:34 PM
How much memory your GC have? Must be at least 2GB, the DAG file is now above 1350MB.

The 6990 has 2x2 GB the others 2 GB.



For the 2GB one, I added this in the bat file:

setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

I did - but it doesn't work.

Someone I met told me it will only work with Catalyst 14.

But nevermind... I continue mining DCR - nearly the same profit with much less effort and problems.


Title: Re: ETH DAG allocation error
Post by: Jitmad on March 25, 2016, 07:53:02 AM
I did - but it doesn't work.

Someone I met told me it will only work with Catalyst 14.

But nevermind... I continue mining DCR - nearly the same profit with much less effort and problems.

For the 2GB cards, it is better to mine DCR.