Yeah, I'm thinking we do need to get in touch with Crunch3r somehow and ask him if he thinks he or someone can do some coding of the apps for the new GCN architecture. I'm sure in time it will be worth the money for the new AMD cards if they can maximize their potential.
I'm not sure but I thought that PG ATI was OpenCL. I haven't run the ATIs there in a VERY long time. POEM is OpenCL but the CPU and GPU loading really suck!
According to MW you can run the Nvidia OpenCL program on the ATIs and it works. Doing wu in about 60 seconds. Slower than a 5870 but better than collecting dust!
poem and albert work fine on the 7970, though albert is having issues with the validator, and its only validating 7970s against other 7970s... As mentioned above, yes, using the NVidia openCL app seems to be working for MW, I am completing a task in about 50 sec. I haven't tried other projects yet.
I finally picked up several VisionTek HD 7970's, trouble is the Drivers won't install for Windows XP 64-Bit, I tried the 12.1a Drivers for Win XP 64-Bit & Drivers directly from the VisionTek Site for Windows XP 64-Bit.
All that installs is the Install Manager as far as I can tell, looks like the Drivers are there but not in the System where they need to be ... Getting ready to pull the Card out for now ...
So lame...
Downloading some new WHQL Drivers released today, the other Drivers may not have even been for use ? but the ones from VisionTek should have been I would think ...
Last edited by STE\/E; 01-25-12 at 06:44 PM.
AMD seems to always have this problem with drivers and new gpu's.Originally Posted by STE\/E
Nope, same as the other Drivers Installs the Drivers never actually get installed just placed in the C:\AMD Directory but not in the System Directories ... I contacted VisionTek about it but won't hear from them for a day or 2 I suspect ... I may need to go to Windows 7 anyway eventually to see the full potential of the 7970's since their a 384 Bit Card & Windows XP 64-Bit is only a 256 Nit System, I think anyway, but wanted to try them in the XP System first, may not matter for just BOINC'ing ... ???
Well if you would like to test Win7 for 3 months before buying it, have a look at this post ---> http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...ll=1#post10870
I'll keep that in mind, want to try to get them to work with XP if at all possible 1'st ... Thanks
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