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Catalyst 14.4 released any issues?
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
So they finally decided to release a new Catalyst in 2014. Have you braved 14.4 yet or are you going to hold onto 13.12 a bit longer? SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
cov_route Send message Joined: 13 Sep 12 Posts: 342 Credit: 10,270,618 RAC: 0 |
So they finally decided to release a new Catalyst in 2014. Have you braved 14.4 yet or are you going to hold onto 13.12 a bit longer? I'm using it. I benched one AP wu with AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_ATI_r2083.exe and it came in about 7% faster than 14.2 beta on my little 6670. I don't consider that enough data to say it's faster. It has processed a few dozen wu's without throwing any errors. |
Wes Kay Send message Joined: 12 Jul 04 Posts: 45 Credit: 3,125,395 RAC: 0 |
No problems here...zipping right along : ) |
dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
Running for a few days on 2 of 3 systems, no issues noticed yet. -Dave |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
Running for a few days on 2 of 3 systems, no issues noticed yet. Hmmm, looks like you have a typo in your override settings; WARNING: incorrect FFA thread block override value:819, using defaults It should be; FFA thread block override value:8192 FFA thread fetchblock override value:4096 Since the FFA thread fetch block is based on the incorrect FFA thread block, they are both listed as incorrect. I just updated my 7750 to 14.4, it had been running about an hour for a single unblanked task. Let's see how it does... |
dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
Thanks, just fixed it.... -Dave [Edit] BTW, that computer is still using Cat 13.12... |
chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 296 Credit: 55,183,482 RAC: 0 |
no issues as yet here .. running 14.4 on mach 9586 for about 6 days and mach 0084 for 2 days now |
Guy Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 69 Credit: 8,183,090 RAC: 0 |
14.4 all good with two HD6950's and a dual core Opteron! Hey! It's my 15th anniversary in two weeks! Yaaay! |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34365 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
„AMD has received feedback that some users are unable to install the Catalyst 14.4 driver on some motherboards with AMD chipsets. We have investigated the issue and have determined that it was caused by the AHCI driver component that was included with the driver package. Anyone affected here ? With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Wes Kay Send message Joined: 12 Jul 04 Posts: 45 Credit: 3,125,395 RAC: 0 |
I downloaded it on the 27th of April and always use the Installer provided, no hiccups here. I wonder if the problem pertained to a particular OS? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
„AMD has received feedback that some users are unable to install the Catalyst 14.4 driver on some motherboards with AMD chipsets. We have investigated the issue and have determined that it was caused by the AHCI driver component that was included with the driver package. Hopefully when they will list the effected chipsets. More importantly... Why would they be stuffing SATA drivers in with my video driver! SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34365 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Good question HAL. All i found out today spending all afternoon with this driver is that its crap again. First my 7970 downclocked after driver install then its much slower than 13.12. WU : PG0009_v7.wu MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2033.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 71.672 secs CPU 31.528 secs MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2170.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 96.616 secs, speedup: -34.80% ratio: 0.74x CPU 31.403 secs, speedup: 0.40% ratio: 1.00x WU : PG0395_v7.wu MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2033.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 52.564 secs CPU 28.486 secs MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2170.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 67.434 secs, speedup: -28.29% ratio: 0.78x CPU 29.578 secs, speedup: -3.83% ratio: 0.96x WU : PG0444_v7.wu MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2033.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 51.970 secs CPU 28.611 secs MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2170.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 67.194 secs, speedup: -29.29% ratio: 0.77x CPU 30.093 secs, speedup: -5.18% ratio: 0.95x WU : PG1327_v7.wu MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2033.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 57.805 secs CPU 23.728 secs MB7_win_x86_SSE_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r2170.exe -period_iterations_num 15 -sbs 256 : Elapsed 72.333 secs, speedup: -25.13% ratio: 0.80x CPU 24.789 secs, speedup: -4.47% ratio: 0.96x After unistall using the uninstall utility an reinstall of 13.12 Cat 14.4 is still shown. I had to delete a few files manually again to get 13.12 working again. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
Just checked my times over at Einstein and the systems with 14.4 are not doing as well as they were, reverted to 13.12 on the 2 systems I had 14.4 on... -Dave |
Ivailo Bonev Send message Joined: 26 Jun 00 Posts: 247 Credit: 35,864,461 RAC: 2 |
http://www.techpowerup.com/200535/amd-pulls-catalyst-14-4-whql-reposts-it-with-a-cautionary-note.html "AMD rebuilt the suite without the affected driver when it re-posted the suite later on Monday." |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
I'm noticing a large proportion of blanking in the AP tasks I've been receiving recently - could these be skewing people's expectations? I haven't done a thorough analysis, but I haven't noticed anything drastically bad with 14.4. My zero-blanked AP tasks are finishing faster... but that could just be due to being paired with a high-blanked task that has less demand on the GPU. Soli Deo Gloria |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34365 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I'm noticing a large proportion of blanking in the AP tasks I've been receiving recently - could these be skewing people's expectations? I haven't done a thorough analysis, but I haven't noticed anything drastically bad with 14.4. My zero-blanked AP tasks are finishing faster... but that could just be due to being paired with a high-blanked task that has less demand on the GPU. You are right here. Evenso running multiple tasks i guess you wont notice that much with AP`s With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
I'm not noticing any speed difference on my Windows 8.1 machine running AstroPulses, however.... I'm now having the Displays refusing to wake up. It's happened twice now since changing to 14.4 whereas it never did that with 13.12. The only thing I can do is hold the Power button down to shut it down. Not Good. |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I'm not noticing any speed difference on my Windows 8.1 machine running AstroPulses, however.... I'm now having the Displays refusing to wake up. It's happened twice now since changing to 14.4 whereas it never did that with 13.12. The only thing I can do is hold the Power button down to shut it down. Not Good. Usually (though subject to Windows configuration) a quick tap on the power button starts an orderly shut down - you can start again normally once all the lights are out. Press and hold causes a crash shutdown, without saving open files - sometimes necessary if a machine has stopped responding to all user input, but to be avoided if at all possible. |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
Mine is set to shutdown on tapping the Power button, it's the first thing I tried. Unfortunately that Doesn't Work in this case...twice. The first time it happened pressing the Power button generated HDD activity but NO shutdown. This morning pressing the Power button didn't even generate HDD activity. Both Monitors were blank. As others have said, pounding on the Keyboard and abusing the rat had no effect. If you look at the Results page, All tasks for computer 6796475, it would appear the system went dead for a few hours as no tasks were completed after 7:53:56 UTC. I just received another 7750 to add to that host. I'll give it one last chance with Two 7750s before I go back to 13.12. |
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