catalyst 6.11

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do these work with folding?

my brothers got the x1900xt that was and still is giving me headaches, it refuses to fold any faster than 8mins-ish, i cant work out what it is and as he has it now the only thing i can do is get him to do software updates really
 
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ye i was pretty sure it wasnt running correctly, im not guna waste a thread on it anymore as ive already done that once anyway :p just want to know if these 6.11 drivers work with folding, if they do i'll get me bro to install them on the off chance they fix whatever is holding up folding on it
 
at 2d speeds it does each frame in 9mins, when its set to 675/800ish via driver level, ATT .955 or something, the recentest release before i had to give it to my bro, 1.4vcore/2.01vmem, it does them in 8mins, i dont know whats holding it back, the rest of the pc is;
DFI RDX200 mobo
opty144 @ 3.1ghz
1gig g.skill@275mhz
blahblah

it is using cat 6.10's

it may well be an issue with the rest of the pc or something i installed, i dont know, i cant mess with it now really as he has it for his uni work to do on it now, which is why i gave up asking stuff in other thread :) just thought on the offchance its some catalyst issue with the rest of my pc then if the 6.11's are folding compatible i'll get him to update to them just incase, which is why i still want to know if 6.11's are compatible! :p
 
Steves_pc said:
Might not be the thread for it but i'll try :)

trying the gpu folding malarky on a x19xt-x and getting 2.0 secs a frame :eek: well its a surprise to me seeing as others mentioned in here are 8mins-ish so wtf going on? using the 6.10 cats + sample_X1950_8-301-060926a-036790 foldy bit as per their site, mind you does seem to be doing some awful big wu's taking a good few hours to complete just 1.
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unless im wrong theres only one type of GPU WU at the moment, its 330 points, has the equivelant of 100 frames, and even with a highly OC'd GPU will take you hours to finish

are you by any chance using the graphical version and looking at each individual step? these will go that quick but there's literally like a million of them

if you just use the command line client it tells you each frame (100 frames per GPU WU) or monitor the graphical client via fahmon, it wont give you any project info or a completion time, but it will tell you how many frames youv'e finished and you can easily see in the log how long each one is taking

from personal experience at 8mins per frame it takes ~14 hours non-stop to complete a WU
 
assuming your using normal 2D settings, i am pretty sure the GPU client will still be folding faster than one of your cores will, by this i mean you will average a higher PPD, also dont forget you can fold on the second CPU core still, you just need to leave one core available for the GPU client to use (with the current beta GPU clients anyway) non-stop 24hr folding id say you can easily average ~650PPD on that system if you fold on the GPU@2D settings and also fold on the second CPU core :)

oh also i'd use the console version of the client, or always keep the GPU window minimised as i think you are doing anyway, having it open does actually slow down your folding :/
 
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