Latest drivers (NVidia and ATI)

[Claggy]

Catalyst 11.6 was released yesterday,

Claggy

[_heinz]

new Nvidia driver 275.33 for laptop released.
Verde 275.33 Driver

heinz

[Mike]

Catalyst 11.6 was released yesterday,

Claggy

New release notes for APP as well.

[Pizzadude]

Mmmm is this a anything to do with Nvidia or Cuda  

Catalyst 11.6 was released yesterday,

Claggy

New release notes for APP as well.

[Richard Haselgrove]

Mmmm is this a anything to do with Nvidia or Cuda  

Maybe not, but this thread was started almost two years ago, in the early days of CUDA development, and before ATI work had really got underway. Now we're working on both platforms in parallel, it makes sense (to me at least) to have a shared reference point for things like this. Maybe a mod could change the title to reflect the changed development circumstances ("Latest nVIDIA and ATI driver releases"?).

[Pizzadude]

Title change sounds like a good solution 

Mmmm is this a anything to do with Nvidia or Cuda  

Maybe not, but this thread was started almost two years ago, in the early days of CUDA development, and before ATI work had really got underway. Now we're working on both platforms in parallel, it makes sense (to me at least) to have a shared reference point for things like this. Maybe a mod could change the title to reflect the changed development circumstances ("Latest nVIDIA and ATI driver releases"?).

[Ghost0210]

Nvidia 275.5 BETA drivers have been released, with support for CUDA 4.1

[Pizzadude]

Nvidia 275.5 BETA drivers have been released, with support for CUDA 4.1

Anybody got any positive or negative  experience with this release ??

[Morten]

AMD has finally fixed the problem with HD 69xx series causing host to hang when running OpenCL + Video. Unfortunately it will be available in Catalyst 11.8, not 11.7.

[Mike]

Like i mentioned at seti.
It will be released with SDK 2.5.

[skildude]

won't make much of a difference unless they stop the CPU fallback.  Otherwise, the best performance for GPU is still the 11.2 drivers. 
|'ve found it easier to set my BOINC to not crunch GPU while the computer is in use.  This eliminates the need to remember to snooze the GPU when I watch videos or play games

[Jason G]

Nvidia 275.5 BETA drivers have been released, with support for CUDA 4.1

Anybody got any positive or negative  experience with this release ??

So far all has been going swimmingly with these drivers here, with GTX480 & GTX 260 running test builds.  I did go through the firefox 5 & IE9 settings to stop them pinching my GPU resources, and I think both crunching & web browsing function better together this way, though I suppose that would be system specific

[Pizzadude]

So far all has been going swimmingly with these drivers here, with GTX480 & GTX 260 running test builds.  I did go through the firefox 5 & IE9 settings to stop them pinching my GPU resources, and I think both crunching & web browsing function better together this way, though I suppose that would be system specific

I am running 2 X GTX460 and also use Firefox 5.  I enabled the GPU support for about a week before disabling again and to be honest could not tell any difference from a browsing point of view.

[k6xt]

I've used the new 0.38 installer on an Nvidia machine GTX275. Plus the latest Nvidia 275.33 installer. Seems all to be working very well. I was having some "Error while computing" results, these have stopped. In a few I'm off to install on an ATI 4870 equipped PC.

Question: Is rescheduling still necessary? Some posts imply changes at SETI have reduced the need. Others refer to Fred's reschedule 2.0 but Search Site didn't find me a link.

[Claggy]

Question: Is rescheduling still necessary? Some posts imply changes at SETI have reduced the need. Others refer to Fred's reschedule 2.0 but Search Site didn't find me a link.

See the CPU <-> GPU rebranding thread for a link to Fred's tool.

I never reschedule tasks anymore, NewCredit is determined by how long a device takes to run a task, rescheduling swaps tasks across devices without telling the server,
if your cache is set to a reasonable level, so GPU work fetch stops because it's full, then CPU will fill up too,
(you can also disable Nvidia GPU work fetch in your preferences until your CPU fills up, then re-enable Nvidia GPU work fetch)
and of course VLAR's aren't sent to Nvidia GPU's anymore,

Claggy