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Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
>coproc That's what I'm running under xp, ccc v8.12 and Cluster v2.0 with my 4870s. I read on the board and found from googling that there are no xp drivers for the 5870, which is why I got it with ccc v9.10 installed. So until someone decides to answer my message 32661 I've just detached from mw on that pc and am running cpdn on the cpu. Thanks again, Tombei. Cheers, PeterV . |
Send message Joined: 15 Jul 08 Posts: 383 Credit: 729,293,740 RAC: 0 |
Once ATI applications are fully integrated into BOINC then it is possible that the horror of a reduce towards zero credit scheme for GPUs will be unleashed. ATI apps are fully integrated, it's just that no one has updated the server side here. I wonder what is being proposed for credits? If DA has any say it will probably be inane. The BOINC benchmark system is a joke. His SETI project is a total mess and everyone has to lower their projects to the level of the most poorly run of course... |
Send message Joined: 18 Feb 09 Posts: 158 Credit: 110,699,054 RAC: 0 |
I honestly don't know which Catalyst my card came with, it wasn't exactly labeled on the disc. The driver itself is v8.651.0.0 if that helps at all. Edit: I just saw the bit in your message about having loaded the app_info 10b client... the 64 bit windows that stuff goes in a different folder. C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway on my machine. Mayhaps you didn't put them in the right spot? You are right, it should not even RUN the CPU app at all if you have the GPU app_info one in place. |
Send message Joined: 14 Sep 09 Posts: 7 Credit: 163,221,288 RAC: 0 |
@verstapp Catalyst 9.10 drivers for WinXP support the 58x0 series. Only the 57x0 cards are yet unsupported. But (at least me) i'm still suffering a lot of VPU recovery under WinXp with 4870 and 5870 - this does not happen under Vista32/64 or Win7 64. |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
Mine has win7 home premium/64. My builder delivered the boxed disc to me this afternoon, a sunday afternoon in between picking up his daughter from basketball and delivering her to fusball - dedicated. As a gamer he had automatically installed the latest [best??] driver from the net. I uninstalled 9.10, restarted, installed the boxed disc, restarted, resumed mw, 'downloading 'gpu' wus', but then proceeded to start crunching them on the cpu. It seems we have some way to go yet. Cheers, PeterV . |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
Update - And having had my 5870 sitting idle for a bit over two days I thought I'd try collatz, now that I'd installed the boxed driver. So I attached, and thought I'd go and d-l the opti apps. By the time I'd d-l'd the two 64bit apps, both ati and amd, t'be shure, t'be shure, the first wu was already finished. 4mins24sec - some projects are simpler than mw... Cheers, PeterV . |
Send message Joined: 6 Apr 08 Posts: 2018 Credit: 100,142,856 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 486 Credit: 576,523,636 RAC: 34,344 |
@verstapp The 9.10 Drivers may support the 5870's but you still get VPU Errors with them running Win XP Pro 64-Bit. I've tried the Beta 9.10's and the Regular 9.10's and still get VPU's with either version. Seems like I can get about 30-35 Minutes before the VPU occurs but occur it will, as long as I don't try to do anything with the Box it will run for awhile but eventually the VPU will happen. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 486 Credit: 576,523,636 RAC: 34,344 |
I just did have my Win XP 64-Bit Box with 2 5870's running the Milkyway Project for 90 Minutes before it had a VPU error. As long as I don't do anything else with the Box like open files or Web Browse the Cards seem to stay running. But as soon as I do something like I just did to incur the VPU Error it won't stay running the Wu's. The Wu's say their running but their not and I have to exit & restart BOINC to get the Wu's actually running again. |
Send message Joined: 18 Feb 09 Posts: 158 Credit: 110,699,054 RAC: 0 |
Update - And having had my 5870 sitting idle for a bit over two days I thought I'd try collatz, now that I'd installed the boxed driver. So I attached, and thought I'd go and d-l the opti apps. By the time I'd d-l'd the two 64bit apps, both ati and amd, t'be shure, t'be shure, the first wu was already finished. 4mins24sec - some projects are simpler than mw... This suggests even more to me that you maybe put the MW ATI app in the wrong folder on your 64 bit OS. If Collatz is working fine, and MW still crunches on the CPU, it really says to me that the optimized app was placed in the wrong folder. Check my above post to confirm you did place it in the correct directory? If not, I apologize and have nothing more to suggest. :( |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 24 Dec 07 Posts: 1947 Credit: 240,884,648 RAC: 0 |
Which is exactly what I asked for in my message 32661 - how to install mw for 5870. Still no replies... CP has said a lot on utilising a 64 bit file browser as the 32 bit one doesn't show the 64 bit directories - or something along those lines - and you need to put the files in the 64 bit directory. |
Send message Joined: 18 Feb 09 Posts: 158 Credit: 110,699,054 RAC: 0 |
I just saw the bit in your message about having loaded the app_info 20b client... the 64 bit windows that stuff goes in a different folder. C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway on my machine. Mayhaps you didn't put them in the right spot? You are right, it should not even RUN the CPU app at all if you have the GPU app_info one in place. By that I meant the files form the brilliantsite get unzipped into that folder, rather than the location it goes in a 32 bit Windows XP. Otherwise the process is the same. I just unzipped straight into the above folder and loaded up BOINC, no problems. |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 24 Dec 07 Posts: 1947 Credit: 240,884,648 RAC: 0 |
@GG No idea about 7, but I know for XP 64/Vista 64, CP has discussed it in some threads on this forum, you may have to search for the discussion. Since I'm still on XP 32bit I don't have the knowledge or the desire to find it until I do the magical upgrade..... |
Send message Joined: 18 Feb 09 Posts: 158 Credit: 110,699,054 RAC: 0 |
@GG By my experience, the folder required was visible by default in Win7. Are you even reading my posts? I am trying to help. |
Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 81 Credit: 60,360,858 RAC: 0 |
I just did have my Win XP 64-Bit Box with 2 5870's running the Milkyway Project for 90 Minutes before it had a VPU error. As long as I don't do anything else with the Box like open files or Web Browse the Cards seem to stay running. But as soon as I do something like I just did to incur the VPU Error it won't stay running the Wu's. The Wu's say their running but their not and I have to exit & restart BOINC to get the Wu's actually running again. Hey. Congrats on this success. I couldn't ever keep my VPU working for longer than just a couple ms after WU start. From your description, I'd guess that VPU hangs whenever there is a massive screen update. Could it be: system requests screen update, during which a part of MW code runs, suspending screen update, which in return does something to running drivers, ... Have you tried tweaking f, w and b command line parameters? I will try using f60 and/or w2.0 just to see if shorter work packages or giving more time between them has any effect at all. BR, |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 486 Credit: 576,523,636 RAC: 34,344 |
Yes, try to do anything like open Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer or even something as simple as opening up the Task manager can bring a VPU Recovery. Doing nothing can bring it too, with the 9.8 & 9.10 Beta Drivers I would get a VPU Error after 30-35 Minutes so it was an improvement with the 9.10 non-beta Drivers to keep runing the Wu's for 90 Minutes. I only got the VPU Error because I started opening things up to see it it would happen, the VPU Error that is. I don't know how long it would have stayed running if I wouldn't have done that. I haven't Tweaked anything because I really don't have any idea what the Tweaks are for so I'd just be flying blind if I started Tweaking. I run Collatz exclusively now where I don't have any VPU Errors and no Tweaking is required, at least not for my systems anyway ... :) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 07 Posts: 81 Credit: 60,360,858 RAC: 0 |
... You can read all about them in readme file that comes with ati optimized apps. So, if you are using those apps, you should have already read it ;D BR, |
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