The bad, when solo mining when BTCG is down, I'm only getting ~400khash/s when I typically get the same 85-90Mhash/s per card for both BTCG mining and solo mining, with the old version.
Did something get changed with solo mining, where it is ignoring my card choice, and is CPU mining instead?
I had the same problem. If I uncheck one of cores from cpu affinity on solo mining hashrate drops about 30% with -f 1 and goes into khashes/second with -f 60.
And poclbm.exe eats up about 60-70% of the CPU either way.