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Bitcoin Mining and Gaming

I use to be able to bitcoin mine and game on low intensity np now days it works fine for like max 10mins and my video card drivers crash if I am gaming and mining is there any way I can game and mine on the same card at the same time

setup is 2x7970s not in crossfire

atm i just tern one off and game on that one but when you game for 12hrs+ perday it will be cutting in to my profits  any ideas?

When did it start crashing? Have you changed your drivers/SDK recently? What OS are you using?

windows 7 64bit

and I did upgrade my gfx cards from 2x6990s to 2x7970s

and I am useing the most up to date drivers tryed all of the 14.** even the betas same thing

the thing that bugs me is the game plays good nice FPS mining speed wile playing is fine and then out of no where the catalist drivers stop working

Are your cards overclocked? A stable OC for mining is not necessarily stable for gaming.

Ya I always had to stop my mining when I started gaming, too, but only on the newer drivers.

My solution: downgrade your drivers. I could mine and game on 12.8, but not on 13.1 or 13.4.

Why would you mine and game simultaneously?

Option A) Shut off my mining while I game.

Option B) Set it to a low Intensity, and play my game at full FPS while still getting 400MH/s.

When I still used to mine, for this purpose I had one of my GPUs run on slightly more gaming-stable voltage/clocks, with the exception of the VRAM frequency that I changed every time I wanted to play games.

yea useing old drivers let me play with out it crashing