Hey guys,

how do you manage to mine using the new 17.12.2 AMD drivers?
I currently use the driver from July (if I'm not wrong), the one someone published on this or another forum with the tag "dag_fix_beta" and which you have to install via device manager.

I was looking for informations about new AMD drivers and how they perform with mining.
Here I read that people have 30+ MH/s using the new release and that you need Claymore 10.3, so I got both, installed 17.12.2 and applied the atikmdag-patcher 1.4.6.
I've edited the BIOS of each of my mining RX580 cards, which probably many miners here did.

After rebooting and starting Clay 10.3 (downloaded it on Thursday), the 1st thing I noticed: the video card numbering is different to Clay 10.0 and 10.2.
I have 4 cards in the mining PC and use 3 of them for mining. Using the same batch file to start Claymore, it suddenly wants to mine with the 4th card, so I guess the clock and voltage values are applied to the wrong cards, too.
With older Claymore releases it works as it should and uses the correct cards.

the 2nd thing I saw: the temperature and fan information is still missing, though Claymore 10.3 was said to be updated to fix this

I mine using Win7 x64.

But the main problem I have is: The cards only mine with about 18 MH/s and with too much power, core temperature also is too high. Wattman shows options for voltage and core frequency settings which don't appear using the older Claymore versions, so I guess 10.3 does not apply the correct values to the cards? I think it doesn't apply ANY values to the cards because the clock/voltage values I use don't differ that much from card to card.

Having 17.12.2 installed I can't use older Claymore releases and 18 MH/s are no option for me, so I went back to the manually installed mentioned dag_fix_beta driver above. I cannot start Wattman anymore because it crashes with this driver installed, but I can mine again at 30+ MH/s and older Claymore miner.

How did you manage to use the new AMD driver and mine at 30+ with undervolting (and edited BIOS)?

BTW: I also see no option to set the cards to compute/mining mode in the AMD Radeon settings, so I added the KMD_EnableInternalLargePage(2) line to every card in the registry which had no effect at all.

NikWing

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