The way to keep it from trying to put a new driver version back in is to go to device manager, go to display adapters, find yours, and then ROLL BACK to the previous driver version. It won't update the driver again until there is a new version of Windows(going to Windows 10 or 11 22H1 for example). My other question though, is why PhoenixMiner just breaks with new AMD driver versions. If you intentionally install anything newer than Radeon Software 21.11.3 for RDNA 2 cards(including my Radeon 6800), the thing comes back with the unknown version issue and it won't mine without -clkernel 0. So, is that a hardcoded "look for driver version" and then break as a result, because it should TRY to use the proper code path for these newer drivers, but it seems to be doing a fallback if it doesn't recognize the driver version.
Thanks for the idea to Roll back driver. So far it works well.
PM has a slightly higher hashrate compared to other mines because it uses optimized kernels for all GPUs connected to the driver. For the older versions of PM looks like was made to switch with a generic kernel when it can't find a driver from the list, but I have no idea why they made the last few versions crash when the driver is unknown. When they released 5.9d they promised a completely new miner next month, but a few months after we did not get anything.
I'm back to mining after stopping for over 2 years, but I only getting max 14Mh/s hash tried modded bios and stock bios. Is this normal?
Edit: Sorry forgot to say it's Rx570 4GB mining ETC
Is compute mode on?
I have a potato Asus PCIe2.0 with a RX580 8g (I7 12g ram) (driver fixed)
I'm finally using W10 after 7 was only giving me 1/3 hash I should have for a year (yes, I'm stubborn)
now, I'm getting the 28+hash I should have had instead of 8-9 at least, but...
I'm on 5.9d AND 21.11.3, but still have to use ckernal 0 to get it to work and that gives me abt 7-10% stales!
Is this normal? Even with the low hash before I never had this high a stale rate, and didnt have to use the ck0 until recently (on my old miner version with no NEW win 7 updates or drivers this started happening out of the blue)
Thanks for any ideas or help!!
For RX 580 I would recommend you to use driver version 21.3.2 or older.