Latest drivers (NVidia and ATI)

[Claggy]

And... What is the verdict? Is the CUDA bug fixed, or still there?

I'm very tempted to install it, but since I use DVI, and blank my screen, I will probably very susceptible to the bug occurring (and ruining Seti work at the same time).

Regards, Patrick.

Yes, it is fixed, i even downgraded to 295.73 to double check, now crunching on 301.24 again, it did a few Einstein BRP4Cuda tasks this morning no problem,
and has done ~40 odd Seti Cuda tasks late this afternoon with the monitor asleep no problem,

Claggy

[PatrickV2]

And... What is the verdict? Is the CUDA bug fixed, or still there?

I'm very tempted to install it, but since I use DVI, and blank my screen, I will probably very susceptible to the bug occurring (and ruining Seti work at the same time).

Regards, Patrick.

Yes, it is fixed, i even downgraded to 295.73 to double check, now crunching on 301.24 again, it did a few Einstein BRP4Cuda tasks this morning no problem,
and has done ~40 odd Seti Cuda tasks late this afternoon with the monitor asleep no problem,

Claggy

Thank you very much! Going to install it now. Will report back here too.

Regards, Patrick.

[glennaxl]

Same here no more CUDA sleep bug.

[PatrickV2]

Installed them, let the machine blank the screen a few times while monitoring BOINC remotely, and all seems ok.

However, since I never ran drivers which had this bug, cannot compare behaviour to that; only these drivers behave the same as the old ones.

Ciao, Patrick.

[TouchuvGrey]

Any improvement in performance ?

[glennaxl]

Any improvement in performance ?

Not good here. On a 3 GPU rig, the 3rd always down clock. Overall its about 2mins slower. I've reverted back 296.35.

anyone else?

[msattler]

LOL...great work, NV.
I'm not budging from 290.53.....

[Mike]

ATI drivers 12.4. released.

[arkayn]

Since I am already using them, I think I will stay put for the time being.

[SubSpace]

I downloaded them as a beta version, when set OpenCL 1.2. Think that, there is no sense to reinstall them.

[corsair]

what are the improvements of 12. version? today going on shore leaves and downloaded in hotel wifi but can see so much.

[corsair]

when arrived home just updated to the latest official NVidida (296.10 x64) driver and really a nightmare no work could be done to the end in Collatz and Primegrid all CUDA work was ruined I revert to (285.62 x64) and work is running smoothly on a GTX460.

[Claggy]

when arrived home just updated to the latest official NVidida (296.10 x64) driver and really a nightmare no work could be done to the end in Collatz and Primegrid all CUDA work was ruined I revert to (285.62 x64) and work is running smoothly on a GTX460.

As has mentioned repeatilily across various forums, 295.xx and 296.xx drivers have a Monitor Sleep Bug, if a monitor connected to the DVI or HDMI ports goes to sleep the cuda device becomes unavailable,
eithier set the monitor to never sleep, and physically turn it off, or revert to 290.xx or earlier drivers, or 301.xx or later drivers.

Claggy

[msattler]

I am starting to see a few users in 'top computers' on Seti using 301.10, 301.24, and 301.32....
Has anybody had the time to run any valid speed comparisons against 290.53, which has been my trusty standby so far?

[Richard Haselgrove]

I am starting to see a few users in 'top computers' on Seti using 301.10, 301.24, and 301.32....
Has anybody had the time to run any valid speed comparisons against 290.53, which has been my trusty standby so far?

No. Be our guest.