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July 31, 2013, 08:13:54 PM |
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Does it do this all the time, consistently? Is there a severe overall system slow down?
Sometimes when I start cgminer, it chokes and my system grinds to an absolute halt. It takes what seems like minutes to switch windows (Windows 7). I've managed to resolve this by closing Firefox and anything else that uses GPU memory before starting it. That's my working theory: Cgminer needs more GPU memory than is free.
Since both the GPU and CPU are OpenCL devices, perhaps the OpenCL driver, for memory or whatever reason, decides to use the CPU.
I'm using a 6950 with only 1GB, which is a bit of an oddball. Most have more, so that my contribute to my problem. I have 8GB regular RAM with lots free, so that's not the problem.
Whatever the cause, killing Firefox and anything that uses a lot of video/graphics before starting CGMiner works. If there's something I can't close, I can switch to another user account (without logging off), let it finish starting the desktop, then log off that user and go back to my main account. If I start cgminer immediately, it runs normally.
There's a program called GPU Caps viewer from Geeks3D which can test OpenCL devices.
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