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Okay, I tested this after DarkRyder gave me a heads up... works great on Milkyway, Albert@Home, Collatz, and Moo! Wrapper...

DarkRyder tested it on 3 machines and bal2wolf tested on several as well as my one HD6990 box.

No more having to free up 2 cores to run Moo! or Albert!!

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst121Previewdriver.aspx

Enjoy!

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yeah i figured i'd test and break my machines before i'd tell you guys to test a new driver lol
    
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the ones that have tried this new driver, what are your experiences with it so far?
    
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Does this include the 8.93 display driver, or is it still 8.92?

Edit: I'm currently using 8.93 with catalyst version 11.12.
Edited by MME1122 - 12/20/11 at 2:27pm
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Interesting. Roughly how much CPU is freed up?

I was having issues with BF3 since the most recent patch. I wonder if this might help out...
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It used to take 2 free cores to run the GPU's crunching BOINC... now it uses so little CPU's that I don't have to free up the 2 cores....

Have no idea how games may be affected...

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Interesting. Roughly how much CPU is freed up?
I was having issues with BF3 since the most recent patch. I wonder if this might help out...

The link Tex provided states that gamers should use the new driver. My CPU usage for my video cards has dropped. I am running another WCG thread and the video cards didn't even notice.
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Originally Posted by MME1122 View Post

Does this include the 8.93 display driver, or is it still 8.92?
Edit: I'm currently using 8.93 with catalyst version 11.12.
It is the 8.93 driver.
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i have seen an issue with boincing moowrapper with these new drivers, i'm getting tons of pending workunits as well as work workunits failing and getting no credit for them.
    
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I have 10 workunits with Completed, validation inconclusive for a status and the credit is pending on all of them?
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funny thing is, i uninstalled the 12.1 driver. and installed the 11.12, and the cpu usage is still at .05. nice!
    
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