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gibbcorp
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Gaming Problems

Hi. I hope someone here can help me. I have just started crunching on my ATI 6870 and everything seemed fine. I installed the latest version of boinc and the latest drivers and installed the latest AMD SDK. However, now when i try to play a game it just freezes. I have tried different games but all have the same problem. The only was i have found around this is when i want to play a game i have to uninstall the drivers and install them again without the SDK. Obviously this means i cannot crunch so i have to install the SDK and repeat the process. Has anyone had a similar issue or can anyone suggest a work around?

I'm on Catalyst 12.8 and Windows 7 64 bit

Thank you.
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Re: Gaming Problems

Have you tried setting prefs to not use GPU when computer in use? That woks for me.
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Re: Gaming Problems

You can use the method Scribe mentioned, by stopping GPU-crunching every time you uses the computer.

Another method is to use <exclusive_gpu_app> on your games. If you uses the computer frequently for other things than games and the GPU-crunching doesn't interfere too much with these other uses, only suspending on the games is an advantage. The disadvantage is you'll need to know the name of the executable for all the games, and you must manually add these to cc_config.xml

cc_config.xml is located in your BOINC data-directory, if it's not present you'll need to make the file. Use Notepad to edit the file. Here's an example-file stopping GPU-crunching on Half-Life 2 & Portal 2:
<cc_config>
<options>
<exclusive_gpu_app>portal2.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
<exclusive_gpu_app>hl2.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
</options>
</cc_config>

Just add more lines with <exclusive_gpu_app> to suspend on other games.

Oh, and in case you've got a game or other program there cpu-usage also interfere with usage, use <exclusive_app> on these.
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gibbcorp
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Re: Gaming Problems

Thanks Scribe and Ingleside. I've got it working now. For some reason it wasn't set to suspend in my preferences in boinc but was on my wcg profile. Thank you so much for your help.
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