New Beta Client v7! - ATI folders rejoice!

[MARSTG]

Update : the client shows the PPD estimate for my gpu and is 5636. Pretty good. I guess I will keep it in the family. can I put to work the cpu also so I could dedicate 2 cores for the work?

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by sswilson

What Nvidia drivers are folks using for multiple GPU folding under V7 Beta?

I just setup a dual GTS 450 rig, and while it recognised both cards, and configured both to run automatically, it doesn't seem to be able to run the 6XXX WUs. 1XXXXX WUs seem to run fine. Am I missing something here?

Originally Posted by chrisk

Humm...I was goong to suggest using flags to tell the clients what cards are running, but I am not sure about the v7 client...want to try adding the flags anyways?
How do I know what the client flags (-switches) are and what they do? - FaHWiki

There is a section to add flags, I just forget what its called as I only used v7 for a few weeks.

Also try disabling SLI.

Originally Posted by sswilson

I'm not sure flags would do anything for me as the clients recognise the cards as what they are, and are able to complete some of the WUs... keeps giving me a "running Unit 00, returned: UNKNOWN_ENUM (-1)" error on any 6XXX WUs. I did a quick search on the error, and didn't come up with anything that looked like a solution.

I may end up having to go back to the old method of running multiple GPU setups, but the setup for the V7 Beta is just so freaking easy, it'd be a sin if I wasn't able to run it for my current GPU farm, as well as my new SLI 560 ti build for both SMP and GPUX2.

More research I guess... main rig won't be ready for a few days anywise... did 3 complete tear downs, 1 partial Water Loop rebuild, 1 complete Water Loop rebuild, and 2 full builds this weekend... need a bit of a break from computer hardware.... ;)

Originally Posted by chrisk

A clean driver install then might work wonders if you are reformatting.

Originally Posted by sswilson

Looks like the newer drivers might not play nice with FAH specifically when paired with a GTS 450. I'll try some older drivers tomorrow.

Yep... looks like it was drivers. Installed the 267.59 drivers and started running 6XXX WUs immediately without any problems. Seems to be taking a lot of CPU cycles to run though.... not a problem with this build (it's an Athlon 250 dual core with no intention to run SMP), but I suspect I won't be running V7 beta for my main SLI'd 560 ti + 1090t SMP rig.

[lowfat]

Is there anyway to get HFM to monitor the V7 client?

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Is there anyway to get HFM to monitor the V7 client?

Not yet.

[MARSTG]

apparently the newest nVidia drivers are of no use when it comes to 6xxx WUs, the cards will stall and not process anything. At least for the 6800 project. 10.xxx range goes very fast

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by MARSTG

apparently the newest nVidia drivers are of no use when it comes to 6xxx WUs, the cards will stall and not process anything. At least for the 6800 project. 10.xxx range goes very fast

What drivers are you referring to? Using 275.33's right now and they are doing great so far.

[MARSTG]

i used the 275.33 and 275.50 at least with the gtx550. the gts 250 i keep it on 260.99

[lowfat]

I am getting uniprocessor WU's for my 2600k. Getting a whopping 11,000 ppd. Is that normal?

[PerryC]

Installed this client and up to about 35% complete. About 5h30min to 6h to finish a work unit, at about 3m25s for tpf. Not sure what the point production will be as it isn't showing anything yet. Will have to keep an eye on it.

The chart at OCN shows around 5.5k. If I get around the same that will be about double what I was getting with the gpu2 client.

[PerryC]

Update-- About 30% done wu 2 on this client, time per frame has dropped to about 3 minutes.. Still doesn't show any points estimates, but got 511 points for the first wu...same as what I was getting with the gpu2.