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Former Member
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so far all i see is the amd 7870 as the only one that does not studder while using windows. Hard to understand You may need to get out of the forest to see the trees.While high-end systems (high-end GPU-card + high-end CPU) would likely dismiss the video-lag issue by sheer power, there may be 'structural' concerns/constraints involved else an un-tuned HCC-GPUv6.56 WU. I have my hunches there but I'd like to hear the WCG-Techs fill us crunchers in regarding the details of the nature of what causes the video-lag or results to an 'unresponsive computer'. Until we understand the nature of the issue behind the symptom (video-lag/stutter), we have no basis in deciding what forest to look for -- to get us to the 'right' GPU-card vis-a-vis the 'right' system-settings for that card in particular, and for our machines in general.  ; |
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nanoprobe
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One thing on Win7 that can help the lag is to disable Aero if you're using it.
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Former Member
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andzgrid, you got all these fantastic, sometimes surreal comments and suggests how things could or should or would have to be [my opinion]. *Read!*, particularly the knreed posts when it pertains to GPU. He commented few days ago, that the time segment expressed in a *kernel* instance, is already the shortest possible squeezed out by the scientist software developers. This *cannot* be halted at random. *Nothing* I'm expecting there to be possible that can be done about. If that causes lag, set GPU to pause when it interferes. This is it!
----------------------------------------Similar with the retreats. Don't expect checkpoints to *ever* appear on these shorty single target HCC-GPU results, but maybe when coming out of the GPU phase. The 20 seconds, 40 seconds, 60 seconds for the 3 phases together is not even the 1st checkpoint on many of the regular CPU sciences **. This is it! Live with it. If you know how it's done better, roll up the sleeves, stead of making all these smart comments, collect all the smartness in a comprehensive post, and we'll put it in the Start Here forum [if they contain workable and repeatable solutions], same as the Exit code -1073741515(0xc0000135) error, if you read it Scribe, it's been the bottom entry of the Start Here FAQ index since March 2012 crediting Falconet for digging this out. edit: ** If the developers have progressed to package multiple HCC jobs in a task, then I'd see checkpointing to happen at end of each job. Five jobs in a task, 5 checkpoints and a zip up phase. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 14, 2012 12:41:23 PM] |
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Ingleside
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One thing on Win7 that can help the lag is to disable Aero if you're using it. Atleast at Folding@home they're always recommending users to turn-on Aero, since for some reason or other this gives better performance... Also, for anyone "waiting on WCG to fix the lagging", after over 6 years with GPU-crunching Folding@home still gives lagging, so in my opinion it's unrealistic to get anything except "work-arounds".  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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Former Member
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I am running a Gigabyte (Radeon) HD 5770 (passively cooled) GPU on an Intel E8400 and it is going through a unit about every 4 minutes and 30 to 45 seconds.
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Former Member
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As I noted an hour or so ago, knreed commented that the *kernel* steps are already shortest possible [this was worked hard to address the very lag issue when allowing GPU crunching during use]. Concur and I said it: Don't expect anything that can be done about this [application side].
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mikey
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6970 (MSI Lightning, Crossfire config), 2500K@4,4GHz, win7 64bit: I was a bit suprised, when I first realised, my precious gaming rig cannot playback an sd divx file smoothly any more:) Of course, it is absolutely acceptable price, I shut down the bionic client, when I use the PC for entertaintment (vids/gaming), and gladly devote it to compute these important task, when I don't need it's processing power personaly:) Both GPU is working at 100% utilization, but somehow it still remains quite cold, it can cool down between the data packs I guess, or it only uses a part of the GPU... I really welcome the opportunity to use the GPU's! I intend to add a passive HD 7750 in my htpc (always on:) soon... There is a way you can set Boinc to notice that you are playing a dvd and stop crunching if you'd like, then when the dvd is done Boinc will automatically start right back up again. All you need is the name of the file that starts the video or gaming process and you add or subtract those as the need arises. If you are using Boinc version 7 it is in the Boinc Manager, which is down by the clock. Otherwise a Windows Notepad simple file can be added to control Boinc.   |
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Former Member
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I have ordered a new xfx 7880. Should be here by end of week. Installing on my asus p8z68-V Pro /Gen 3 MB w-7 64 bit. I will continue to use my 560m laptop card for overnight crunching (no errors yet and complets in about 8-9 minutes).
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maeax
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The AMD Radeon HD6550D works without any Error. The WU needs about 10 Minutes (WIN7 x64 prof. Motherboard ASUS F1-A75 M-Pro with A8-3850 APU.
----------------------------------------The AMD FirePro 2270 get a lot of Status invalid at finish. But can't see any Error. The WU needs about 20 Minutes. The Points for the WU after finished invalid, are set to the half of a valid WU. Last day 170 WU finished for both graphic-Cards.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX 64-Cores/ AMD Radeon (TM) Pro W6600. OS Win11pro
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Former Member
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I solved my stuttering problem, but I doubt many will have a similar enough system to use this solution. Never-the-less a few people might find this useful.
My (Sandybridge) Intel Core i5-2500 quad-core computer only has a 300 W power supply, so I crunch with a very low end NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 69 ) While it works fine ( if you can call 13 min a WU fine ) on Einstein, SETI, and POEM, my computer's desktop stuttered a bit running HCC gpu WU's. I was about to give up when I remembered that I had Intel's integrated graphics on my motherboard. My BIOS allowed me to de-select the NVIDIA card and boot the VGA into the integrated graphics. It was either one or the other as far as my BIOS and Window 7 were concerned, but BOINC completely ignored the Intel graphics and happily crunched away on the GT 240. GPU-Z is able to see both graphic devices! |
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