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Nvidia GPU Viewer

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I let it run for a little while, just to check it out. Actually runs pretty good.
I did notice the "time to completion" took two steps forward, and three
steps back.
The performance calulated to 470+ ns/day. What does that come to as flops?

Also is there a page in the Wiki, for controls (F1, F2 etc)?


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There is no direct or easy correlation between ns/day and Flops. The size of the WU and the speed of the hardware make the variables too unrelated to calculate. Sorry.

No wiki info on the F buttons. Feel free to experiment and add it. ;)
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Another issue that I see is that the viewer and FahCore uses the same GPU so won't that make it an issue? If you can run the FahCore on 1 GPU and the viewer on another GPU than we might get some valid data.

BTW the experimentation caused my system to freeze. Thus have a result "Don't use it again" :lol:
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Unless things have recently changed, the viewer is also known as junk, and not recommended to be used for any reason.
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I don't know. Looks about like I would expect, for not being developed a lot.
Nvidia spinning in place, Ati floating around the earth.
Adds about 20 sec per frame on a GTS 450, with a GTS 250 folding also.

Not something you watch like TV. But I have seen people stare at their monitors, with less on them.
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The viewer is well known for causing the gpu client to crash is what I was alluding to. I don't know why it's even offered.
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Ravage7779 wrote:The viewer is well known for causing the gpu client to crash is what I was alluding to. I don't know why it's even offered.
A very good question, hence I ask it here (viewtopic.php?f=50&t=15727) and am hoping that I might get an answer soon :lol:
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Not so well known, and doesn't crash all GPUs.

v6 clients typically won't change pending the v7 release. (show stoppers like what v6.40 gpu fixed are a rare but notable exception)
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You guys should update your advice. There are two different viewers.

Both viewers waste (IMHO) a lot of processing time but (also IMHO) the one for nvidia doesn't crash. The older version of the viewer that was supposed to work on both ati and nvidia crashes a lot. Read the title of the topic and answer the questions regarding the special nvidia viewer.
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What do you think I was trying to do?

But thanks for spelling it out in more detail. ;)
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