Wow thank you very much. We can expect it in the next version? Can you give me some advice for fine tuning my r7 370-s and rx 470s for all cryptonight versions, because on all types of algos, my desktop is little freezing, even on default settings, or even a much smaller intensity.
Nothing really can help that without the kernels that are executed. This also happens on any other gpu miner as well right?
For everyone:
I'll explain a bit about OpenCL and how the "kernels" work a bit.. The kernel or "payload/work" is sent to the video card and is kind of like a singular pipe, okay that analogy sucked, but imagine with all the "CU" Compute Units available.. the work from these kernels are sort of like threads on a miniature scale and they all work according to the OpenCL standard (Hopefully) But it's like a faucet.. turn it on or off.. also you may need to turn down intensity even more until you have a freeze free desktop which costs all the extra hashing power you would have had. Remember on SRBMiner you can use decimals so don't forget that ex: "intensity 20.3" or what have you.
I've left an earlier comment on a "low intensity" mode that is about splitting up one big time job to do work into much smaller timed jobs and if done right, it really shouldn't have any negative impact on hashing speed, or at least any notable impacts on it so that could be maybe be a modulation of 100ms or 1/10th a second per command queue or even smoother by doing it roughly ~16.67ms for 1/60th a second, but I'm getting a bit to technical trying to explain it.. Anywho, a good way to perhaps implement this would be to take an argument for say --desktop_mode
Thanks for the insightful post!
I have a couple of questions:
1) Has doktor83 released the source code of SRBminer?
IMHO, it's crucial to have the source code of any possible improvements, so that we don't end up with a Claymore v9.7 situation (the author has even refused BTC/ETH donations to release the source code to the community).
2) How is it possible that Claymore v9.7 can use the entire memory with 15.7.1 Catalyst driver, but other miners cannot do the same? Is there any OpenCL hack that makes 14.4 drivers redundant?
I don't even know if it's possible to copy/paste the OpenCL dll file from 14.4 to 15.7.1 or something like that to detect the memory properly...
1.) Nope, and don't think he's going to, but never know later on.
Far as claymore 9.7 goes.. probably some shady coding he doesn't want anyone to know, or just wants to keep it away from everyone for fee's possibly, never know.
2.) I did notice on 14.4 drivers that my vram was more around 1GB and switching over to 15.7.1 it has 2047MB for some reason detected on all the other miners, but claymore did find 2047 on both drivers.. so determining how it gets the m1 and m2 should be an easy fix, I know for a fact I only have 512MB dedicated, which is also shown in m2.. I'll have a look at which way xmrig/stak is polling the memory. iirc this has been an issue with those for quite awhile.. I've never been able to get any miner to work without dying except for claymore on 15.7.1, and believe me I am trying to find a workaround that doesn't involve switching and mangling drivers around to make something work.
How much memory does 14.4 show you compared to 15.7.1?