AMD Catalyst 13.4 and 13.5 Beta Released

[Dark3nedFaith]

I sure most of you know already, but I wanted to let others that don't already know that AMD released Catalyst 13.4 drivers and 13.5 Beta drivers yesterday. So far I've noticed that I'm getting the appropriate hashrates from my 7870 (Stock, getting ~280kh/s scrypt mining) as apposed to when I was on 13.2 and 13.3 Beta only getting ~220kh/s

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Hopefully if anyone else was getting lower that expected hashrates like I was, this will give you a boost

Happy mining 

[branflan]

no change in hash on 2 7970s between 13.3beta and 13.4, still getting 730mhash a piece

[pekv2]

Has anyone tested these drivers on 5850's with cgminer using scrypt?

[a2706r]

I'm just happy I got the drivers working on linux, think I'm on 13.2, I want to update I just know that something will go wrong and I'll spend hours trying to restore the drivers.

[pekv2]

I'm just happy I got the drivers working on linux, think I'm on 13.2, I want to update I just know that something will go wrong and I'll spend hours trying to restore the drivers.

Just do an image backup of your partitions. That way, if something screws up on these new drivers, you can just reimage your hdd/ssd, and be reverted to your original setup.

[someminerdude]

I sure most of you know already, but I wanted to let others that don't already know that AMD released Catalyst 13.4 drivers and 13.5 Beta drivers yesterday. 

cool wouldn't have known that - thanks for the info

[Sek0n]

Saw these when they were leased, but haven't upgraded from 13.3b yet.

Max I've ever gotten on my ref 7970 is 680ish mh/s. Will try these out and see how they do. Not expecting a change, though would be nice.

[stannum]

My 2 7870s seem to be a hair hotter, but still maintaining about 800 MH/s together.  It also seems like dynamic intensity is more prone to drop to a lower hashrate with 13.4 over 13.3.  No changes observed at all on the 2 6870s, but they are watercooled and in an unused computer.

[tropico]

No problems for me either with these drivers

[redphlegm]

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.

[pekv2]

Has anyone tested these drivers on 5850's with cgminer using scrypt?

Headsup for 5k series users.

Ok. I've expressed uninstalled 13.2 Beta 7, ran driver sweeper in safe mode, rebooted back into safe mode, did a registry clean with registry clean expert, rebooted. I've installed 13.5 Beta 2 on my Windows7 x64 machine. I am guessing with supplied SDK, as GPU-z showed I have opencl enabled.

Mining on cgminer 3.0.1-windows scrypt.

I don't see any increase nor decrease in hash rate for litecoin mining with my two 5850's on 13.5 Beta 2 with cgminer 3.0.1-Windows scrypt.

So far, so good. This is good news for me so far, prior, anything over past 13.2 beta 7 drivers, I had sensor detect problems with hwinfo64, and overclock problems, these problems are solved with this latest AMD driver I am using now, also this driver is good for 7k series card I am guessing, so, if and when I get a 7950, I should have no problems, hopefully.

~Cheers

[glon]

Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2.8) from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?

[pekv2]

Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2. from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=190917.msg1976247#msg1976247

OpenCL is now part of the drivers and no more a seperate package, this should be related.

Ahh, I did not know of this, I was wondering how opencl got installed when I installed 13.5 beta 2, cuz I did not see the sdk package at all in the driver package. I was clueless.

This is something to note. Thanks.

[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

[Etheric]

Anyone with a 7950 getting good performance with 13.4?

[glon]

Is it just me or did AMD just up and completely removed Stream SDK (2. from 13.4 Cats?? If you do a clean install you will notice it just doesn't give you the option to install the SDK and you have to add it manually by installing a previous version of Catalyst. WTF?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=190917.msg1976247#msg1976247

OpenCL is now part of the drivers and no more a seperate package, this should be related.

Ahh, I did not know of this, I was wondering how opencl got installed when I installed 13.5 beta 2, cuz I did not see the sdk package at all in the driver package. I was clueless.

This is something to note. Thanks.

Ah, thanks a bunch! So 13.4 has which version of the SDK integrated in the driver? 2.8? And if yes, is it benefitial for a hd7870 BTC miner to downgrade to something like 2.6 SDK? Thanks!

[pekv2]

Ah, thanks a bunch! So 13.4 has which version of the SDK integrated in the driver? 2.8? And if yes, is it benefitial for a hd7870 BTC miner to downgrade to something like 2.6 SDK? Thanks!

This where I am stumped, and have no real source on how to see which sdk is installed. I am in the same boat as you are, beats me which sdk comes with 13.4 & 13.5 beta 2.

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

Sorry, can't say I've tried.

[Fiyasko]

Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!

I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!

[ducttape]

I tried catalyst 13.4 and for some reason I get a black screen when using tightvnc. Went back to 13.3 and everything's ok again.

[pekv2]

Well, I just tried the new drivers while gaming, CRASHES CGMINER EVERY FUCKING TIME after some time of running.
Im STILL fucking stuck on 12.8!!!!

I REALLY fucking want some new drivers, What The Fuck!

What cards are you mining/gaming with?