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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: Blackasaurus on February 23, 2012, 04:14:15 AM



Title: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: Blackasaurus on February 23, 2012, 04:14:15 AM
So I'm trying to play some games and mine at the same time on my 7970, currently using -v 1 -w 256 -f 60 But my main issue is that its causing a huge drop in mining speed. (a much larger drop than what I used to see on my 6850. Does anyone know how to fix this?


EDIT:fixed it. (won't let me just delete post...)


Title: Re: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: Elmojo on February 24, 2012, 02:06:14 AM
Share your fix with us gamer miners!  8)


Title: Re: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: waterboyserver on February 24, 2012, 11:32:54 PM
I encountered the exact same issue with the same cards, how did you fix it? I was under the impression the 7970 distributes its power over graphics-demanding applications, the more opened while mining, the lesser the hash rate; on the other hand my 6850 just ran choppy graphic programs without losing much hash rate.


Title: Re: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: Blackasaurus on March 05, 2012, 03:17:17 PM
this, -v 1 -w 256 -f 60, is what I'm using and it has caused me no issues so far. I have one profile I use for when I'm gaming and one for when I am afk (just removed the -f 60 at the end).


Title: Re: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: Elmojo on March 05, 2012, 03:35:08 PM
Excellent, thanks!
FYI, on my rig, changing -w 256 to 128 made no difference in my hashrate.
I'll try the -f 60 and see if that helps the lag a bit.


Title: Re: Mining while gaming on 7970
Post by: fabrizziop on March 06, 2012, 03:07:28 PM
I can play some games and it works perfect while mining, but I've found that games like BIT.TRIP.RUNNER cause the rig to hang completely if you were mining on ANY card. I experienced that with 11.6, not sure if they fixed it in 12.1.