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Re: AMD driver update; guiminers broken; HELP!
by
Kruncha
on 26/04/2013, 00:07:54 UTC
This solved the same problem a guy had with the 6870:

This is your GPU returning invalid hashes from it's kernel. This is because new drivers are crap for older cards.

- Uninstall AMD APP SDK

- Uninstall AMD Catalyst Install manager: choose "uninstall all software", make sure you have only a VGA driver after restart.

- Manually remove these files not removed by the installer; any other obvious ATI files with the same file date:
  C:\Windows\System32\amdocl64.dll
  C:\Windows\System32\amdoclcl64.dll
  C:\Windows\System32\OpenCL.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\amdocl.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\amdoclcl.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OpenCL.dll

- Install just the Catalyst 11.11 driver package (no SDK is needed; the AMD APP runtime is included with driver)

- Mine just a bit slower on your 6870 than a 5830 would.

Better:
- use cgminer
- set phatk worksize to 256 and underclock GPU RAM to 300MHz for best power efficiency and higher hashrate


Here's the original post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177855.0

K.