ATI Catalyst 9.3 Discussion

[Singulus]

New Catalyst is out, get it here:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

release notes:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ ... _notes.pdf

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

Have fun !

Dia

[klefreak]

i have now isntalled the New Catalyst 9.3 under Vista HP64

there are some good News, now my card is automatically switching into 3d mode !!

but: the New CAL files are called aticalc , do i have to rename them or is it working ??
i have coppied them into the GPU client folder.

greetings Klefreak

[ColonelCain]

i have now isntalled the New Catalyst 9.3 under Vista HP64

there are some good News, now my card is automatically switching into 3d mode !!

but: the New CAL files are called aticalc , do i have to rename them or is it working ??
i have coppied them into the GPU client folder.

greetings Klefreak

As far as I know, until Stanford releases an updated version of the GPU2 client, you do need to rename them.

I'm going to try these now.

[Jejking]

Still VPU Recovers all over the place. Only improvement here is that Cat 9.3's VPU Recovery works like a charm now, last times my screen just dropped out (XP SP3)

Trying the CAL-switchtrick now.

Edit:

Well... this is getting strange. The latest 6.23 with Cat 9.3 goes like: amdcalrt.dll cannot be found. It won't even start!

[ColonelCain]

Still VPU Recovers all over the place. Only improvement here is that Cat 9.3's VPU Recovery works like a charm now, last times my screen just dropped out (XP SP3)

Trying the CAL-switchtrick now.

Edit:

Well... this is getting strange. The latest 6.23 with Cat 9.3 goes like: amdcalrt.dll cannot be found. It won't even start!

Check the folder where you placed the 6.23 .exe. Do you see amdcalrt.dll and amdcalcl.dll in there?

If not, do a search of your C drive for aticalrt.dll and aticalcl.dll.
Copy these two into the folder where the 6.23 .exe resides.
RENAME the two to amdcalrt.dll and amdcalcl.dll.

Since 9.2, the driver team changed from amd.... .dll to ati..... .dll, and the client needs to be updated to handle the name change.

[RAH]

If you would read the forum, you would know that.

The new Cal/Brook does not work with XP correctly. They will have to patch it.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=9033

[ColonelCain]

Question for mhouston:
What did you guys change to bring about these claimed increases? Can you share other details please?

[mhouston]

There will be an updated core needed that is still in beta testing to see increases. There were changes to CAL that improve our latency in scheduling the hardware from the CPU when some optional flags are enabled. Once that is happy in the wild, we will work on some other ease of use improvements, and then go back to kernel tuning.

[ColonelCain]

There will be an updated core needed that is still in beta testing to see increases. There were changes to CAL that improve our latency in scheduling the hardware from the CPU when some optional flags are enabled. Once that is happy in the wild, we will work on some other ease of use improvements, and then go back to kernel tuning.

Core 12?

And by optional flags, are you referring to optional flags that the new core will use?

Lastly, will Flush_Interval set to 256 impact this at all?

[PoppaGeek]

Greetings all!

9.3 gave my 4850 on Vista 64 another 350 - 700 ppd it looks like so far. I never could get folding to work on the Win7 box but is now working just fine on a 2600XT at about 715 ppd on 4752.

Cheers!

[HurgyMcGurgyGurg]

So upgrading to 9.3 won't do didly squat until the new core version?

I'll stick with 8.12 which runs perfectly stable for me until then and not take the risk.

[deathstar64]

Does this 9.3 release brings the support of running only one client for the 4870X2 (which uses both cores) ?
Currently I'm running one F@H client / core.
I am at work now so I can't really test it (till this evening that is ).

[Jejking]

Still VPU Recovers all over the place. Only improvement here is that Cat 9.3's VPU Recovery works like a charm now, last times my screen just dropped out (XP SP3)

Trying the CAL-switchtrick now.

Edit:

Well... this is getting strange. The latest 6.23 with Cat 9.3 goes like: amdcalrt.dll cannot be found. It won't even start!

Check the folder where you placed the 6.23 .exe. Do you see amdcalrt.dll and amdcalcl.dll in there?

If not, do a search of your C drive for aticalrt.dll and aticalcl.dll.
Copy these two into the folder where the 6.23 .exe resides.
RENAME the two to amdcalrt.dll and amdcalcl.dll.

Since 9.2, the driver team changed from amd.... .dll to ati..... .dll, and the client needs to be updated to handle the name change.

Already tried the CAL-replacing trick, but now everytime the core runs into ''a serious error and needs to be closed''.

Well guys, I have had it with this unstable client. Within a very short period I am moving to Windows Vista 32-bit. Really, I DO hope that I can leave this mess behind.

[RAH]

Jejking, all you have to do is follow the guides, and read the forums. I have no problems running one or dual clients on
XP, Vista, 7.
For XP - 8.12 is the most stable, 9.3 will not work as yet, though I use 9.2 without problem.
For Vista/7 9.3 is doing fine.

[klefreak]

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# Windows GPU Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.23

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home\Folding@home-gpu
Arguments: -verbosity 9 -local

[22:45:54] - Ask before connecting: No
[22:45:54] - User name: Klefreak_gletscherfloh (Team 70335)
[22:45:54] - User ID: 73D4A8A765CF28CD
[22:45:54] - Machine ID: 2
[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] Loaded queue successfully.
[22:45:54] Initialization complete
[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] + Processing work unit
[22:45:54] - Autosending finished units... [March 18 22:45:54 UTC]
[22:45:54] Trying to send all finished work units
[22:45:54] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[22:45:54] - Autosend completed
[22:45:54] Core required: FahCore_11.exe
[22:45:54] Core found.
[22:45:54] Working on queue slot 03 [March 18 22:45:54 UTC]
[22:45:54] + Working ...
[22:45:54] - Calling '.\FahCore_11.exe -dir work/ -suffix 03 -priority 96 -checkpoint 6 -verbose -lifeline 4480 -version 623'

[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] *------------------------------*
[22:45:54] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[22:45:54] Version 1.22 (Mon Dec 8 12:57:56 PST 2008)
[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] Compiler  : Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 80x86
[22:45:54] Build host: amoeba
[22:45:54] Board Type: AMD
[22:45:54] Core      :
[22:45:54] Preparing to commence simulation
[22:45:54] - Looking at optimizations...
[22:45:54] - Files status OK
[22:45:54] - Expanded 98511 -> 492188 (decompressed 499.6 percent)
[22:45:54] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=98511 data_size=492188, decompressed_data_size=492188 diff=0
[22:45:54] - Digital signature verified
[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] Project: 5732 (Run 0, Clone 20, Gen 151)
[22:45:54]
[22:45:54] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[22:45:54] Entering M.D.
[22:46:00] Will resume from checkpoint file
[22:46:01] Working on Protein
[22:46:01] Client config found, loading data.
[22:46:01] Starting GUI Server
[22:46:04] Resuming from checkpoint
[22:46:04] Verified work/wudata_03.log
[22:46:04] Verified work/wudata_03.edr
[22:46:04] Verified work/wudata_03.xtc
[22:46:04] Completed 12%
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[22:58:38] Completed 14%
[23:03:27] Completed 15%
[23:08:16] Completed 16%
[23:11:12] Run: exception thrown during GuardedRun
[23:11:12] Run: exception thrown in GuardedRun -- Gromacs cannot continue further.
[23:11:12] Going to send back what have done -- stepsTotalG=10000000
[23:11:12] Work fraction=0.1618 steps=10000000.
[23:11:16] logfile size=20083 infoLength=20083 edr=0 trr=23
[23:11:16] - Writing 20619 bytes of core data to disk...
[23:11:16] Done: 20107 -> 5914 (compressed to 29.4 percent)
[23:11:16]   ... Done.
[23:11:16]
[23:11:16] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNSTABLE_MACHINE
[04:45:53] - Autosending finished units... [March 19 04:45:53 UTC]
[04:45:53] Trying to send all finished work units
[04:45:53] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[04:45:53] - Autosend completed
[04:45:53] + Working...
[06:58:10] CoreStatus = FF (255)
[06:58:10] Sending work to server
[06:58:10] Project: 5732 (Run 0, Clone 20, Gen 151)
[06:58:10] - Read packet limit of 540015616... Set to 524286976.


[06:58:10] + Attempting to send results [March 19 06:58:10 UTC]
[06:58:10] - Reading file work/wuresults_03.dat from core
[06:58:10]   (Read 6426 bytes from disk)
[06:58:10] Connecting to http://171.64.65.102:8080/
[06:58:11] Posted data.
[06:58:11] Initial: 0000; - Uploaded at ~7 kB/s
[06:58:11] - Averaged speed for that direction ~56 kB/s
[06:58:11] + Results successfully sent
[06:58:11] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[06:58:15] Trying to send all finished work units
[06:58:15] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[06:58:15] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:58:15] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:58:15] - Will indicate memory of 4094 MB
[06:58:15] - Detect CPU. Vendor: GenuineIntel, Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11
[06:58:15] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:58:15] Connecting to http://assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080/
[06:58:16] Posted data.
[06:58:16] Initial: 40AB; - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.102).
[06:58:16] + News From Folding@Home: GPU folding beta
[06:58:16] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:58:16] Connecting to http://171.64.65.102:8080/
[06:58:17] Posted data.
[06:58:17] Initial: 0000; - Receiving payload (expected size: 70688)
[06:58:18] - Downloaded at ~69 kB/s
[06:58:18] - Averaged speed for that direction ~45 kB/s
[06:58:18] + Received work.
[06:58:18] Trying to send all finished work units
[06:58:18] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[06:58:18] + Closed connections
[06:58:23]
[06:58:23] + Processing work unit
[06:58:23] Core required: FahCore_11.exe
[06:58:23] Core found.
[06:58:24] Working on queue slot 04 [March 19 06:58:24 UTC]
[06:58:24] + Working ...
[06:58:24] - Calling '.\FahCore_11.exe -dir work/ -suffix 04 -priority 96 -checkpoint 6 -verbose -lifeline 4480 -version 623'

[06:58:24]
[06:58:24] *------------------------------*
[06:58:24] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[06:58:24] Version 1.22 (Mon Dec 8 12:57:56 PST 2008)
[06:58:24]
[06:58:24] Compiler  : Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 80x86
[06:58:24] Build host: amoeba
[06:58:24] Board Type: AMD
[06:58:24] Core      :
[06:58:24] Preparing to commence simulation
[06:58:24] - Looking at optimizations...
[06:58:24] - Created dyn
[06:58:24] - Files status OK
[06:58:24] - Expanded 70176 -> 360060 (decompressed 513.0 percent)
[06:58:24] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=70176 data_size=360060, decompressed_data_size=360060 diff=0
[06:58:24] - Digital signature verified
[06:58:24]
[06:58:24] Project: 5740 (Run 1, Clone 55, Gen 16)
[06:58:24]
[06:58:24] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[06:58:24] Entering M.D.
[06:58:30] Working on Protein
[06:58:30] Client config found, loading data.
[06:58:31] Starting GUI Server
[07:02:13] Completed 1%
[07:02:45] ***** Got a SIGTERM signal (2)
[07:02:45] Killing all core threads

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [March 19 07:02:55 UTC]


# Windows GPU Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.23

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@Home\Folding@home-gpu
Arguments: -verbosity 9 -local

[07:02:55] - Ask before connecting: No
[07:02:55] - User name: Klefreak_gletscherfloh (Team 70335)
[07:02:55] - User ID: 73D4A8A765CF28CD
[07:02:55] - Machine ID: 2
[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] Loaded queue successfully.
[07:02:55] Initialization complete
[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] + Processing work unit
[07:02:55] Core required: FahCore_11.exe
[07:02:55] Core found.
[07:02:55] - Autosending finished units... [March 19 07:02:55 UTC]
[07:02:55] Trying to send all finished work units
[07:02:55] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[07:02:55] - Autosend completed
[07:02:55] Working on queue slot 04 [March 19 07:02:55 UTC]
[07:02:55] + Working ...
[07:02:55] - Calling '.\FahCore_11.exe -dir work/ -suffix 04 -priority 96 -checkpoint 6 -verbose -lifeline 5788 -version 623'

[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] *------------------------------*
[07:02:55] Folding@Home GPU Core - Beta
[07:02:55] Version 1.22 (Mon Dec 8 12:57:56 PST 2008)
[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] Compiler  : Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 80x86
[07:02:55] Build host: amoeba
[07:02:55] Board Type: AMD
[07:02:55] Core      :
[07:02:55] Preparing to commence simulation
[07:02:55] - Looking at optimizations...
[07:02:55] - Files status OK
[07:02:55] - Expanded 70176 -> 360060 (decompressed 513.0 percent)
[07:02:55] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=70176 data_size=360060, decompressed_data_size=360060 diff=0
[07:02:55] - Digital signature verified
[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] Project: 5740 (Run 1, Clone 55, Gen 16)
[07:02:55]
[07:02:55] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[07:02:55] Entering M.D.
[07:03:01] Will resume from checkpoint file
[07:03:01] Working on Protein
[07:03:02] Client config found, loading data.
[07:03:02] Starting GUI Server
[07:03:04] Resuming from checkpoint
[07:03:04] Verified work/wudata_04.log
[07:03:04] Verified work/wudata_04.edr
[07:03:04] Verified work/wudata_04.xtc
[07:03:04] Completed 1%
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[09:57:58] Run: exception thrown during GuardedRun
[09:57:58] Run: exception thrown in GuardedRun -- Gromacs cannot continue further.
[09:57:58] Going to send back what have done -- stepsTotalG=10000000
[09:57:58] Work fraction=0.6403 steps=10000000.
[09:58:02] logfile size=22085 infoLength=22085 edr=0 trr=23
[09:58:02] - Writing 22621 bytes of core data to disk...
[09:58:02] Done: 22109 -> 6215 (compressed to 28.1 percent)
[09:58:02]   ... Done.
[09:58:02]
[09:58:02] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNSTABLE_MACHINE
[13:02:54] - Autosending finished units... [March 19 13:02:54 UTC]
[13:02:54] Trying to send all finished work units
[13:02:54] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[13:02:54] - Autosend completed
[13:02:54] + Working...


i have renamed the new ATI.dll into AMD.dll but since im?m using this new one i'm getting alwas an unstable machine so Vista 64 is writing "application has to be closed.."

after restarting the client 2d/3d switch does not work porberly, and i have to reactivate Overdrive (for 2d/3d Funktion)
as i remember this "unstable machine" was first seen on my machine after renaming these CAL files!!
i'm now testing the old CAL files (catalyst9.1??) with new Catalyst 9.3
greetings klefreak
i don't know why my machine is getting instable now ;(

EDIT: 19.03.2009
i'm also getting some Driver hast to restart (VPU recover issues) errors when starting the client or some minutes after starting?? (unreproducible)
--> this all happens since update to 9.3 and or using the new CAL files
--> when using old CAL (9.1) with Catalyst 9.3 2d/3d funktion doesn't work but folding ist stable again ;(
--> changes in FLUSH interval doesn't effect the results (stable/nonstable); (now using 384 instead of 512)

i hope there's a solution in sight !

my system

Asus P5e (x38)
C2D E6850 @3,6ghz
4gb ddr800 cl4
Vista HP 64bit sp1

all is running fine except with new cal files ;(