gaming while mining?

[Badewahn]

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

[jamh]

Bump

[mkmen]

yeah, you could play minesweeper if you reduce your intensity

[kendle]

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

[mkmen]

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

[antekh]

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

[nebulus]

it's not worth it.

This...

[sabbah]

only offline card games 

[Badewahn]

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

[Kennji]

I would not game while mining.

[Isokivi]

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.

[neversummer89]

I'll have to try this

[Valalvax]

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

[khimaira]

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

[c0ikws]

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)

[TheSixthDependency]

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.

[Badewahn]

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

[Brewins]

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

[roybitcoin]

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

[bitcoingenerat0r]

Only Solitaire.