ATI too high : where is the bug ?

[julien04]

Hi !

I'm french (so speak english very badly), and new to BarsWF.

I've try BarsWF on the system below :

Hardware :
Athlon II X2 240
4GB DDR2 (a few MB for intergrated graphic)
ATI Radeon HD3200 (integrated)
Windows 7 64b

Sofware :
ATI drivers 9.9
BarsWF 0.9, 64b AMD, with the 3 needed dll (in 64b version).

Here are my test with the hash 97624f203ffbd66a0dce754fb6978161, given in the "Request: A HARD MD5" post.

Two problems :
I don't understand why MHash/s are so high, I think this is a bug.
BarsWF use only 1 of the 2 CPU core (only CPU0, see screenshots), but in windows task manager, the 2 core are at 100%

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caracters : aA



caracters : aA0



caracters : aA0~


More than 100000 M Hashs/s

What do you think about it ?

Thx,

julien

[LordMike]

1. Go to the catalyst 8.12 drivers. It's been a common problem around here.

[julien04]

Thx for reply.

When the site spoke of drivers 8.12, I thought "from this version", but not "only this version".

Someone know why only 8.12 and if this will change with next BarsWF version ?
Because 8.12 are too old

[LordMike]

I believe it was because of some change ATI made, that's incompatible with BarsWF.

Simple as that, yet so destructive

[julien04]

@BarsMonster : do you know if you will change this in the next version ?

I've read you seems to wait for OnpenCL for a better ATI support ?
(or DirectX Compute Shaders ?)

Thx,

Julien

[BarsMonster]

@BarsMonster : do you know if you will change this in the next version ?

I've read you seems to wait for OnpenCL for a better ATI support ?
(or DirectX Compute Shaders ?)

Thx,

Julien

Well, currently I do not know what to do I already compiled BarsWF against latest SDK version, but performance dropped by a factor 2.5 :-S
Obviously we cannot use it in this state

[julien04]

I understand

And what do you think about BarsWF showing only CPU0 ?

(Windows task manager show CPU0 and CPU1 at 100%)

[BarsMonster]

I understand

And what do you think about BarsWF showing only CPU0 ?

(Windows task manager show CPU0 and CPU1 at 100%)

That is a documented feature.
One core is used to deal with GPU, and second CPU is free for computation.
It is possible now to implement it so that both CPU are used, but this needs latest SDK