12.10 - 12.11 beta drivers - BAD for folding!

Mike_cf · Post by **Mike_cf** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:23 am

Hi,

Recently I installed the new 12.11 beta drivers for my HD 7970 and my PPD on the GPU folding has dropped by quite a bit. It is now averaging on 2000 PPD whereas before, it was at around 8000 PPD. I am curious to know if this has happened to anyone else upgrading to these drivers and if so, has anyone by chance have a solution for this issue (short of rolling back drivers)?. My system specs are as follows

CPU: i5 2500k
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: HD 7970
OS: Windows 7
PS: Antec 750w

Thank you for your time.

k1wi · Post by **k1wi** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:33 am

Did you have any other settings that may have changed?

7im · Post by **7im** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:54 am

I guess they're called beta for a reason.

Evil Penguin · Post by **Evil Penguin** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:12 am

Mike_cf wrote:Hi,

Recently I installed the new 12.11 beta drivers for my HD 7970 and my PPD on the GPU folding has dropped by quite a bit. It is now averaging on 2000 PPD whereas before, it was at around 8000 PPD. I am curious to know if this has happened to anyone else upgrading to these drivers and if so, has anyone by chance have a solution for this issue (short of rolling back drivers)?. My system specs are as follows

CPU: i5 2500k
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: HD 7970
OS: Windows 7
PS: Antec 750w

Thank you for your time.

You're not alone.
Some other people have reported a drop in GPU usage.

There was a lot of tweaking with Catalyst 12.11 and the fahcore might have to be recompiled to improve performance (with newer drivers).
I'll look into it further.

FastFlyingVirginian · Post by **FastFlyingVirginian** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:05 pm

How did you install the new drivers - straight over the old ones, after an uninstall, or after uninstalling and using a driver cleaning utility? I had a similar issue with my 7970 after updating from the 12.9 beta with a simple uninstall. I uninstalled 12.11 beta and reinstalled the old version and still saw low PPD, so I uninstalled and then followed it up with running Driver Sweeper in Safe Mode. Rebooted and reinstalled 12.9 beta and my PPD were back to what I expected. I tried again, this time uninstalling and running Driver Sweeper before installing 12.10, and my PPD are still at the normal levels. I might try again with 12.11, but it seems like using Driver Sweeper in between installs is what made the difference for me.

- F.F.V.

Post by **bruce** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:32 am

I have no reason to believe the FAHCore or the FAHClient has caused any of these problems nor will it be something that can be fixed in a later client. There are many, many reports on this forum of issues with the HD 7970 and/or with the latest drivers AMD. and it seems likely that we'll have to wait until AMD/ATI resolves those issues. I saw one report where the GPU utilization was reported as 0% with GPU-Z and while it was reported as 44% on msi afterburner
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Mike_cf · Post by **Mike_cf** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:13 am

Thanks for the replies. Tried uninstalling and then install again with no success. It seems I will have to wait until AMD resolves this as mentioned above.

Krusher33 · Post by **Krusher33** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:06 am

Over at overclock.net we have a team competition that consists of categories. In the AMD GPU category, several of our members have installed 12.10 on their 5870, 6870, and 7970 GPU's. They started seeing 30-50% GPU usage when folding.

So they tried to do an uninstall, and do a clean re-install of 12.8 drivers... only to still see 50% usage!

1337LutZ · Post by **1337LutZ** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:32 am

I have got the same issue on my HD5870.

Installed 12.11 beta -> 37% usage
Cleaned all the drivers.
Installed -> 10.9 - 11.3 - 11.8 - 12.3 - 12.9

None of these work anymore.

Evil Penguin · Post by **Evil Penguin** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:14 am

Did you guys use Atiman Uninstaller to try to clear the drivers?

1337LutZ · Post by **1337LutZ** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:30 am

Thats the only uninstaller i didnt try yet.

FastFlyingVirginian · Post by **FastFlyingVirginian** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:07 pm

Re-tried 12.11 after an uninstall and cleaning with Treexy's Driver Fusion tool. PPD dropped again, MSI Afterburner reported about 40% GPU usage, GPU-Z reported zero. Uninstalled, ran Driver Fusion to clean things out again, reinstalled 12.10, and PPD are back to the normal range again - Afterburner reports 99% usage now, but GPU-Z still reports 0 (v0.5.8). As long as the PPD are where I'd expect them to be, I'm not worried about what GPU-Z reports though.

A few system specs:

Core i7-860
16GB RAM
Radeon 7970
Windows 8 x64

Krusher33 · Post by **Krusher33** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:54 pm

Atiman uninstaller did the trick. And a couple of guys at overclock.net has narrowed it down to it being related to OpenCL.

They posted some work arounds if you want: http://www.overclock.net/t/1323729/amd- ... ivers/0_50. I'm sticking with 12.8.

infected_ · Post by **infected_** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:24 am

I'm still stuck at 7x % and 8x % ... Done both steps, post #1 and post #2 on that link to overclock.net .... I'm with 12.8 + APP SDK Developer 2.7..... Can anyone help me?

Ikester · Post by **Ikester** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:25 pm

Jury still out WRT Atiman Uninstaller?. The last post was in August.....

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