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is it possible to reduce the process priority of the mining client so i can play games?
i did a few hours seti before, but this wasnt processed by the gpu
thx for any help :)

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yeah, you could play minesweeper if you reduce your intensity ;)

I game (BO2, Planetside) while my second 5870 is mining.  Works fine.

well sure, if you have two or more GPUs then it's probably ok, but with one i doubt it, maybe on really low intensity

Usually people use cards only for mining, and when playing you can stop mining.

Generally you can play at lower intensity of mining, but usually it's not worth it.
I recommend either getting  a second card for mining and keep your current card for playing or stop mining when you play

This...

only offline card games  ;)

i have read sth about this, so i know lowering the intensity isnt worth anything.
but what i wanted to know is if i can lower the process priority, so my miner only uses whats free to use.
this wont be much but it would regulate it self. i know it is possible with a cpu

I would not game while mining.

Yes you can play while you mine.. even gpu intensive 3d games. Set lower intensity, agression or whatever term your mining software of choise uses. If you see a crash try even lower, and remove overclocking.

I'll have to try this

I've tried it, it's not really worth it, at least with the cards I had (5830s and 5850s) mining speed was so slow that it would have been better to CPU mine on another PC

I've found that I can mine TRC pretty effectively while gaming, but BTC/LTC/etc aren't possible unless the intensity is way down, and it's not worth it at that point

I play game with Guiminer running and have no problem even on max setting, although my hash rate drop to 350 while playing lol (w/ 7950)

If you mentioned which miner you're using it would be easier to tell you what you can do.

With most you have control over the number of gpu threads, I suggest lowering it until you're able to game. Chances are you won't have acceptable gaming OR mining performance, unless you really have a beast of a card.

i have the guiminer
i think the command for lowering the gpu usage would -f(x)
of course i can try to find the right x for every game
isnt it possible to reduce the priority of guiminer in the gpu like it is possible to reduce the priority of cpu processes with the taskmanager

If i set my intensity to like 4, i can play tf2 with like 70fps, while still doing around 350mh/s on my 7950 :)

I´m just tested play WOW with GUIMiner running and have no problem. I default settings. I have a 6750 GPU  :)

Only Solitaire.  :'(

depending what miner you use if you use GUIminer then use the -f60 this allows GUIminer to give 60% to the system i use -f30 and can play most games on medium quality or just pause the 1st gpu and play games on that while the 2nd gpu mines away in the background

After some tests I've noticed BFGMiner seems to slow down if I'm gaming, it doesn't seem to impact game performance significantly.

You can use one card for mining while one for gaming without any problems?