Fermi + cpu folders

[riotcity76]

I may have found a fix for the cpu usage issues when using Fermi cards on some WUs.

Assuming that your GPUs are on the i7, you should try removing the affinity lock from both in the advanced options of -config and set the environment variable NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY to 255. This will spread the gpu load across all cores and avoid imbalancing the SMP threads. You might pick up a little speed.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=658656

I don't have Fermi so I can't try it...but the OP of that thread reported much better results on bigadv.

 

[AMD_PBz]

Oh how interesting great Find

Just made the adjustment now so we'll see what happens as all 3 of my cards seem to be playing nice and folding with smp set back up to 8 from 6

 

[riotcity76]

Be sure to report the results! This may be what we needed to get stepy back onto SMP

 

[thestepster]

i tried the smp the other day but it was messin with the gpu's using that gpu tracker

 

[AMD_PBz]

I think i will notice a difference maybe if I Run my 460's in SLI and 470 on its own because with smp -6 rather than -8 ppd's go back to the way they were whereas at -8 using all 8 cores ppd goes down 5-6k/ gpu which IMO is unacceptable unless i have to adjust my cpu core useage

 

[SnW]

Hey thanks for the heads Up mate,

going to read it after coffee and i hope to get some results out of this

Added what i needed to add now i am waiting for a good result

but i am getting the slow feeling this isn't going to work

 

[SnW]

Doesn't work

 

[riotcity76]

Bummer

 

[stevehat1]

Didn't seem to work too well for me either....but I left the cpulock in config off and we'll see what happens.

 

[stevehat1]

Didn't seem to work too well for me either....but I left the cpulock in config off and we'll see what happens.

That didn't seem to help, so set everything back to normal.

 

[kup]

Trying this out again. Dropping from 30k to 7k on my i7 is unacceptable (new GPU3 and no bigadv, just 6701)...

 

[AMD_PBz]

You know what else is unacceptable!

Project 11246 its a 912WU on my Asus 460 Top 7k ppd

glad its @ 67%

 

[thestepster]

im sure ive ran a few of them with no drop on ppd, if my ppd dropd less than usual and a restart of the client doesnt help i restart the pc

 

[AMD_PBz]

ok about to try that now thanks Step

 

[stevehat1]

You know what else is unacceptable!

Project 11246 its a 912WU on my Asus 460 Top 7k ppd

glad its @ 67%

If it's at 7K PPD it's throttled down M8! Restart as stepy said and re-adjust the OC

 

[AMD_PBz]

Yup adjusted my overclock all is back to normal thanks again guys!

 

[Blackwhite]

So you guys also having problem when gaming on Fermi Card and i7 CPU's, I thought that this is problem with my gfx card, but seems to be a problem with nvidia.I'm having stucks in games, usualy in Crysis - do you guys have the same?

 

[SnW]

So you guys also have problem when gaming on Fermi Card and i7 CPU's, I thought that this is problem with my gfx card, but seems to be a problem with nvidia.I'm having stucks in games, usualy in Crysis - do you guys have the same?

Nope this has to do with a specific WU we get on the Fermi