Donate never ending jobs

[EmSti]

Frinken GPUS. Too much work lately. I think I found a combination of cards in the pcs that makes Donate stable in 2 of the 3 machines (well as stable as it seem you can get Donate). Turns out the one problem is the MSI r7970 lightning card. It been impossible to get it to work along side of any of the other cards without cutting the output of one of the other 7970 cards by half. Runs fine by itself. Maybe a Bios level difference issues (it is different from the rest). 12.3 or 12.4 Catalyst didn't matter. It is currently in Hydra6 with a disbled 6970. It will not crunch a Donate WU all the way through with the 6970 card enabled (non-crossfire of course). I didn't have any issues when a GigaBtye 7970 was in there. <sigh>

Also, I have not confirmed, but I highly suspect some of the issues are related to MSI Afterburner or Setting EnableUlps and EnableUlps_NA to 0, which allows MSI AfterBurner to monitor the GPU temp on the second GPU. When I removed Afterburner, stomped on Catalyst (remove, boot driver sweeper, boot, you know the drill), I finally got the GPUs in the 2 machines to run at their full potential. The reason I suspect those 2 items is I finally got FireDragonto work full out, when I remembered I didn't reboot since I installed Afterburn and made the regex changes. Did the reboot and 2nd GPU started to dog. Did the whole, strip and replace bit without those 2 items and its been good since even with reboots. I have no desire at the moment to figure out if its one or both.

I swear I feel like I have reinstalled Catalyst 100 times today, trying different combos of things. Wasted an entire day working on this.