AMD Catalyst 13.4 and 13.5 Beta Released

[Fiyasko]

I only game a few hours a week, and I don't feel comfortable mining and gaming at the same time (way too many crashes on a 7850 before), so I just have a batch script that lets me pause mining while I game, and then I re-enable it when I'm done:

Code:

:top
start /wait /i /affinity 0x02 DiabloMiner-Windows.exe --args ...
goto top

Put into the Startup folder this creates two CLI windows - one of the miner itself (DiabloMiner is CLI) that I can close anytime, and then another that asks me if I want to resume mining (batch script).

I mine and work all the time though across 12.3 - 13.3+ drivers. Video works fine too. I have to turn off hardware acceleration on Firefox though.

I appreciate your post, But im really looking to use 100% of my GPU, Rather than have 30% core power just sitting there idling...
Has ANYONE with a GCN card played a videogame without flaws while mining on 13.5?

[loueradun]

I only game a few hours a week, and I don't feel comfortable mining and gaming at the same time (way too many crashes on a 7850 before), so I just have a batch script that lets me pause mining while I game, and then I re-enable it when I'm done:

Code:

:top
start /wait /i /affinity 0x02 DiabloMiner-Windows.exe --args ...
goto top

Put into the Startup folder this creates two CLI windows - one of the miner itself (DiabloMiner is CLI) that I can close anytime, and then another that asks me if I want to resume mining (batch script).

I mine and work all the time though across 12.3 - 13.3+ drivers. Video works fine too. I have to turn off hardware acceleration on Firefox though.

I appreciate your post, But im really looking to use 100% of my GPU, Rather than have 30% core power just sitting there idling...
Has ANYONE with a GCN card played a videogame without flaws while mining on 13.5?

JackRabiit, what are your settings in CGMiner?  I can Play World of Tanks at 1080p Max settings at 40 FPS using "-I 12 -g 1" using my 7970 (and still get 450 Kh/s or so).  Usually I mine with "-g2", but running that during games totally screws my frame rate, even with lower intensity.  FYI, I am running the 13.4 drivers on a Sapphire Radeon 7970 OC Boost edition.

[gym]

Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen

that sounds like a terrible idea from the get-go

[pekv2]

Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen

that sounds like a terrible idea from the get-go

Really, it's not. The game uses what it needs, the rest goes to the mining. It's like sharing.

[Fiyasko]

Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen

that sounds like a terrible idea from the get-go

Really, it's not. The game uses what it needs, the rest goes to the mining. It's like sharing.

Exactly, and in this thread i further stress the point of why its not a terrible idea considering that if i play BF3, I CANNOT max out my GPU usage due to ineffecient drivers, Wich leaves me with roughly 30% of my gpu Unused and sitting there idling, doing nothing.

Here in this thread im Paying for working drivers https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203119.0

[pekv2]

Any reports on how well the Mining While Gaming works?
On 13.2 my hashrates went to SHIT when i ran a game, on 12.8 that just didnt happen

that sounds like a terrible idea from the get-go

Really, it's not. The game uses what it needs, the rest goes to the mining. It's like sharing.

Exactly, and in this thread i further stress the point of why its not a terrible idea considering that if i play BF3, I CANNOT max out my GPU usage due to ineffecient drivers, Wich leaves me with roughly 30% of my gpu Unused and sitting there idling, doing nothing.

Here in this thread im Paying for working drivers https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203119.0

Weird.

And ouch, had to put up a bounty.

[Fiyasko]

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I appreciate your post, But im really looking to use 100% of my GPU, Rather than have 30% core power just sitting there idling...
Has ANYONE with a GCN card played a videogame without flaws while mining on 13.5?

JackRabiit, what are your settings in CGMiner?  I can Play World of Tanks at 1080p Max settings at 40 FPS using "-I 12 -g 1" using my 7970 (and still get 450 Kh/s or so).  Usually I mine with "-g2", but running that during games totally screws my frame rate, even with lower intensity.  FYI, I am running the 13.4 drivers on a Sapphire Radeon 7970 OC Boost edition.

are you scrypt mining an alt coin? Why do you have a " -g " argument with the intensity at 12 and getting 450Kh/s? my 7950 gets 560MH/s
Im trying to mine bitcoins while gaming... Thanks anyways! Im sure your post is still very helpful!
Here is my CGMiner.conf file (with some things censored)

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "--------",
		"user" : "---------",
		"pass" : "------"
	},
	{
		"url" : "-----",
		"user" : "------",
		"pass" : "----"
	}
]
,
"intensity" : "2",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "diablo",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Also, That is the most valuble First Post i have ever seen (that isnt from a mod/admin)
Edit: OHHH, the -G command is you setting it to One GPU thread
Edit2: Is there a way to change the number of threads via a shortcut argument or an In Program way to change it? I tried adding -g 1 at the end, but that did nothing, I also tried --gpu-threads 1 and that didnt work either, Leading me to believe that Im messing it up
"C:\cgminer\cgminer-3.1.0-windows\cgminer-3.1.0-windows\cgminer.exe --gpu-threads 1" is what i tried, aswell as
"C:\cgminer\cgminer-3.1.0-windows\cgminer-3.1.0-windows\cgminer.exe -g 1"

[nullspot]

I really wish there was a sure-fire way of tweaking my scrypt hashing with my 7870. At this point it's mostly easter-egging and I hate it.

got a bunch of 7870s I was going to move to scrypt - figure anything out yet?

[demigo]

for some reason, 13.4 gives teamviewer black screen. haven't tried 13.5

I have this problem after remote catalyst update.
how to solve it?