Quote from: someone703 on February 24, 2012, 10:39:45 PM

Read somewhere that you can game while using Diablo miner in the background.

Do games run smoothly as if you weren't actually mining (ie. only using spare clock cycles on mining or something to that effect)? Or will there be some noticeable degradation in gaming performance?

Also, apparently all optimizations are for SDK2.6 only now. Will I be getting the kind of hash rates using Diablo + SDK2.6 that I would with CGMiner + SDK2.1?

From OP:

Quote from: DiabloD3 on November 09, 2010, 07:27:42 PM

SDK 2.4 supports everything 2.1 does, plus:
Any 6xxx-like VLIW5 (aka Barts): 6790, 68xx, 69xxM
Any 6xxx-like VLIW4 (aka Caicos, Turks, Cayman): 64xx, 65xx, 66xx, 69xx, 64xxM, 66xxM, 67xxM
Any Fusion APU VLIW5 (aka Wrestler, WinterPark): 62xx, 63xx, 64xx

SDK 2.6 supports everything 2.4 does, plus:
79xx GCN

You shouldn't mine in the background, drivers still do not have any sort of priority system. Even setting like -f 1000 will still cause slower games and destroy your hashrate in the process.

cgminer now ships with my kernel, so if you're using my kernel on cgminer (it supports several) you should still use 2.6. My old kernel on 2.1 vs my new kernel on 2.6 is basically tied for speed on VLIW5, faster vs 2.5 on VLIW5 and VLIW6, and faster on GCN.