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Message 13308 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 17:36:05 UTC

heya,

my GTX285 is running slower on Windows 7 64bit!

on XP i had 30-40 ms per step and now i got 45-over50 ms per step!

what could be the reason of this?

just AERO ???

thanks in advance

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Message 13309 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 17:41:50 UTC - in response to Message 13308.

Are you sure that you are comparing workunits with the same name?
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Message 13310 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 17:50:35 UTC

I just did that and i compared two GIANNI-BIND(?) WUs on Xp i had 35ms/step and on win7 46ms/step :|

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Message 13311 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 18:50:08 UTC - in response to Message 13310.
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their are certain background effects in windows 7 that eat up just a little bit of the resources of the card...

my computer, system properties, advance system settings, advance, performance, choose what you want to see and not see under visual effects.

this may help.

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Message 13312 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 20:12:33 UTC

zpm, ty for ur reply, but I dont really get what u want me to change !? :D

could u explain it more detailed please?

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Message 13313 - Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | 21:38:37 UTC - in response to Message 13312.

the visual effects in windows has the option to be put on custom, performance, and quality, it's most likely set to quality. try performance to see if the time steps go up.

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Message 13314 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | 3:07:00 UTC - in response to Message 13313.
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oh, Ive found it, well lets see what it changes..

for now it looks like XP cuz i turned off everything :o

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Message 13315 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | 11:40:36 UTC - in response to Message 13314.

Actually nothing changed, completed another GIANNI-BIND WU and still 47ms/step :|

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Message 13317 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | 18:22:56 UTC - in response to Message 13315.

Actually nothing changed, completed another GIANNI-BIND WU and still 47ms/step :|



specify the differences between the 2 systems.

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Message 13318 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | 20:41:04 UTC - in response to Message 13317.

no difference its same system just before it was win XP SP3 32bit and now its W7 64 bit

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Message 13319 - Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | 20:53:55 UTC - in response to Message 13318.

in task manager, bump the priority up to high. idk, it could be a number of things,

client version, to many programs running, something could be slowing it,...

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Message 13325 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 6:36:33 UTC - in response to Message 13310.

I just did that and i compared two GIANNI-BIND(?) WUs on Xp i had 35ms/step and on win7 46ms/step :|

Because of your post I checked my results and see something similar happening. On my GTX 260 the GIANNI-BIND WUs went from 42ms/step to 46ms/step when I switched from XP-64 to W7-64, compute time went up from 27k to 30k per WU. My Win 7 has Aero turned off, 4GB ram, set to performance instead of appearance. All other projects that I've checked (except this one) show comparable performance in XP-64 and W7-64. Collatz, MilkyWay, NFS, Virtual Prairie, PrimeGrid 321 Sieve, Docking, and Leiden are the ones I've checked and they all show no slowdown. Wonder what's going on?

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Message 13326 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 7:10:06 UTC - in response to Message 13325.

zpm, i tested my old Xp boinc 6.5.0 and this now 29.10.2009 04:17:30 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.38 for windows_x86_64

booth the same no difference.

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Message 13327 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 8:32:40 UTC - in response to Message 13326.
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zpm, i tested my old Xp boinc 6.5.0 and this now 29.10.2009 04:17:30 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.38 for windows_x86_64

booth the same no difference.

Here's your XP-32 machine with a GTX 285:

# Time per step: 44.423 ms
# Approximate elapsed time for entire WU: 28874.760 s

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=1393869


Here's your Win7-64 machine with a GTX 285:

# Time per step: 46.260 ms
# Approximate elapsed time for entire WU: 30068.907 s

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=1441435

Looks like the XP-32 machine was probably using an older driver too (not specified for some reason).
Not as big a difference as we're seeing though...

Edit: Your Win7 machine also used 2.5 times the CPU time.

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Message 13328 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 8:44:02 UTC - in response to Message 13325.

I just did that and i compared two GIANNI-BIND(?) WUs on Xp i had 35ms/step and on win7 46ms/step :|

Because of your post I checked my results and see something similar happening. On my GTX 260 the GIANNI-BIND WUs went from 42ms/step to 46ms/step when I switched from XP-64 to W7-64, compute time went up from 27k to 30k per WU. My Win 7 has Aero turned off, 4GB ram, set to performance instead of appearance. All other projects that I've checked (except this one) show comparable performance in XP-64 and W7-64. Collatz, MilkyWay, NFS, Virtual Prairie, PrimeGrid 321 Sieve, Docking, and Leiden are the ones I've checked and they all show no slowdown. Wonder what's going on?

Edit: The CPU usage is also consistently double in Win 7 compared to what it was in XP for the same type WUs.

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Message 13330 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 12:08:56 UTC - in response to Message 13328.

so all in all W7 seems to be bad for boinc? :<

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Message 13333 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 14:15:11 UTC - in response to Message 13330.
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so all in all W7 seems to be bad for boinc? :<

As stated above, GPUGRID is the only project of the ones I've checked (Collatz, MilkyWay, NFS, Virtual Prairie, PrimeGrid 321 Sieve, Docking, and Leiden) that shows this slowdown in Win 7. What we'd like to find out is why and how it can be corrected.

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Message 13335 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 17:49:51 UTC - in response to Message 13333.

So lets hope some GPUGRID Staff member see's this and forwards this problem of W7!

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Message 13337 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 18:04:25 UTC - in response to Message 13335.

So lets hope some GPUGRID Staff member see's this and forwards this problem of W7!

If this slowdown only happens in GPUGRID maybe it's not a Win 7 problem, but a project app programming or compiling problem?

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Message 13342 - Posted: 31 Oct 2009 | 23:41:01 UTC - in response to Message 13337.

Well I dont know, all I can say if there wont be any solution all I can do is switch to another project then =)

had to do the same with my GTX260 was like the 1st here that started to error out all WUs when thoose 2.0(?) WUs came and it once had 18k RAC R.I.P :-D

well lets see what happends and if something will be done

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Message 13354 - Posted: 1 Nov 2009 | 21:20:14 UTC - in response to Message 13342.
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hmm looks like GPUGRID Stuff aint lookin into this problem

Ill go for 2kk credits and prolly switch to another project then :(

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Message 13366 - Posted: 3 Nov 2009 | 17:46:36 UTC - in response to Message 13354.

Now all of a sudden my GTX285 starts giving out Computing errors...

Ill have a look how seti works -.-

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Message 13367 - Posted: 3 Nov 2009 | 19:07:45 UTC - in response to Message 13366.
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Now all of a sudden my GTX285 starts giving out Computing errors...

Ill have a look how seti works -.-


if you're switching projects, collatz is a good option as seti is out of work and are trying to bring some more work up.

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Message 13371 - Posted: 4 Nov 2009 | 4:16:36 UTC - in response to Message 13367.

ah ok thank you for that info, after rebooting my system it seems to work normally again lol

seems like gpugrid has a few problems here and there with w7 o,o

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Message 13391 - Posted: 6 Nov 2009 | 20:52:28 UTC

Most likely the drivers aren't as mature.

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Message 13485 - Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | 11:59:49 UTC

Don't think it's a problem with the driver because performance in other applications (games, benchmarks etc.) isn't worse...

I can image it is a problem with the GPUGRID-application...

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Message 13790 - Posted: 5 Dec 2009 | 6:52:15 UTC

I think it may be a driver problem. I was also experiencing a string of errors with upgrade to win7-64bit on my GTX260, sometimes had to reboot, Wu taking too long and not using full ability of card, etc. With the 195.62 WHQL release this seems to have rectified itself, thankfully. :)

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