AMD Catalyst 13.4 and 13.5 Beta Released

[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!

What cards are you mining/gaming with?

7950

[pekv2]

7950

Weird, the way amd drivers are, I wouldn't doubt the trouble, I had major amd goofup troubles with anything between 13.2 beta 7 & 13.4/13.5beta2 for my 5850's. No sensor readings on second card, overclock on second card failed, weird shit. I just stopped updating for a long time, and decided it was time to try 13.5beta2, and what ever they did, it solved the issues I was having. Maybe skip a few months again for your issue and see if the problem gets resolved down the road. ionno, bud.

[Fiyasko]

I know!, Thats what i keep doing!, I've been stuck on these 12.8 drivers for a fucking Year, Every damn other driver pack i try Shits all over my computer
Right now League of Legends shows graphic erros when i play while mining, BUT IT WORKS.
All other games run flawlessly (bf3 for example)

But Any Fucking time i upgrade my drivers, I cant even mine with intensity 1, Everything lags, then eventually CGminer stops functioning

[SolidSnke]

interesting... mining and gaming at the same time.

[Fiyasko]

interesting... mining and gaming at the same time.

Well its not intresting atall IMO really, When i run BF3 with nearly maxed graphics (AAx2, SSAO, High shadows) i get 40fps, and 120mhs with my 7950 Intensity 2
Turn off BF3 and i get 550mh/s
Play BF3 without mining, 60fps, and only 70% gpu usage, so i clearly have room to spare

[Steiner11]

I can play WoW while mining on a Gigabyte 7970.  I do have to lower my intensity to somewhere around 2, sometimes less if I'm doing heavy graphics stuff.  Skyrim is another matter, will crash the driver every single time if I try to run it and cgminer at the same time. 

I'm currently running the 13.3 beta driver.

[sinergy]

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?

7950

I tested 13.4 but my bitcoin hashrate dropped from 630 MH/s to 560 MH/s. Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed. Using Sapphire 7950 boost OC @925 MHz stock version (of course my GPUs are overclocked over these values).

I do not know how is on Linux but if you have similar setup, just do not bother with 13.4.

[pekv2]

Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed.

People need to learn how to image backup their OS before messing with drivers. I've seen quite a few people already reinstalled their OS, because of a driver failure of some sort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image

Few softwares that can do it, clonezilla, acronis true image. Probably a lot more. But those two are the main two.

[lopheaded]

Did everyone see a decrease in performance? Would like to hear win7 32/64 cgminer 3.1 experiences. 

[pekv2]

Did everyone see a decrease in performance? Would like to hear win7 32/64 cgminer 3.1 experiences. 

Why post this here when there is a cgminer thread? But anywho, nope, I didn't see an increase nor a decrease with my setup.

[Spotter]

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?

7950

I tested 13.4 but my bitcoin hashrate dropped from 630 MH/s to 560 MH/s. Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed. Using Sapphire 7950 boost OC @925 MHz stock version (of course my GPUs are overclocked over these values).

I do not know how is on Linux but if you have similar setup, just do not bother with 13.4.

Hi, If you uninstall ATI/AMD drivers use this tutorial. It helped me.
http://www.overclock.net/t/988215/how-to-properly-uninstall-ati-amd-software-drivers-for-graphics-cards

[sinergy]

Thank you guys

@pekv2 Yes, I know for imaging but I just didn't have imaging software around and decided not to bother downloading. Anyway Windows 7 reinstall with drivers + miner, gpu-z etc took me ~30 minutes I lost quite some time however trying to debug why can't properly downgrade to 13.1 and also searching what changed so the MHash/s speed in 13.4 got down. Failed on both fronts and just reinstalled

@Spotter Thank you, it seems like a good guide and I bookmarked it for future reference.

[Fiyasko]

Did everyone see a decrease in performance? Would like to hear win7 32/64 cgminer 3.1 experiences.  

I lost nothing but the ability to game and mine at the same time, Win7 64bit, CGminer 3.0

I tested 13.4 but my bitcoin hashrate dropped from 630 MH/s to 560 MH/s. Also after that I was unable to uninstall the drivers and revert back to 13.1 (even with driver sweaper). Cgminer was also crashing upon startup. I had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit to get all fixed. Using Sapphire 7950 boost OC @925 MHz stock version (of course my GPUs are overclocked over these values).

I do not know how is on Linux but if you have similar setup, just do not bother with 13.4.

You should have really read about the AMD Cleanup Utility, Clears everything for me Every time i try to mess with my drivers, Never a hassle when i use it

[jameela]

hi guys i have problem cant mining  " Verification Failed, Check Hardware " what should i do ?

[manywelps]

13.4 was a crashfest, 13.5 is fine, 13.3 is still the fastest for me (7970)

[Narken]

13.4 was a crashfest, 13.5 is fine, 13.3 is still the fastest for me (7970)

Same with 5780 cards it seems.

Staying on the old one

[mr_right]

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

[96redformula]

I had to revert back to 13.1, dual cards and 13.5 did not get along at all.

[Fiyasko]

13.4 was a crashfest, 13.5 is fine, 13.3 is still the fastest for me (7970)

13.5 works for you? Could you please attempt to run a videogame while mining? (something that takes atleast 20% gpu)
I tried the 13.5beta and got Shit.

You say that 13.3 is the "fastest" (obviously for mining) Can you run a game while mining? (again, something that takes more than 20% gpu)
I would PAY, for the information of WHAT (new) FUCKING DRIVERS WILL ALLOW MY 7950 TO MINE AND GAME AT THE SAME TIME
I am SICK of 12.8

[soundasleep]

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.