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Message 2636 - Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | 12:42:27 UTC

nVidia just released new WHQL compatible drivers with CUDA support:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_178.13_whql.html

To bad I can't test them out as I currently only have Remote Desktop available to my system with nVidia card.

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Message 2647 - Posted: 27 Sep 2008 | 9:09:42 UTC - in response to Message 2636.

nVidia just released new WHQL compatible drivers with CUDA support:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_178.13_whql.html

To bad I can't test them out as I currently only have Remote Desktop available to my system with nVidia card.



Does this improve performance?
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Message 2648 - Posted: 27 Sep 2008 | 11:12:01 UTC

I'm taking it for a test-ride, but results will not be in before tomorrow.

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Message 2652 - Posted: 27 Sep 2008 | 22:12:00 UTC - in response to Message 2648.

I'm taking it for a test-ride, but results will not be in before tomorrow.

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Yeah... crunching with these 178.13 drivers since friday.

Everything looks fine on my GTX 260 AMP²... normally it takes about 8h to finish a WU.

Is that a realistic / normally duration of time? (I'm new to GPU crunching... since friday ;-)

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Message 2654 - Posted: 28 Sep 2008 | 0:26:13 UTC
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The 1st result is valid (75% with the new drivers), but I can not say anything useful about the crunching time, because the output cut after "time":
http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=66553

@Mehlano: that sounds about normal.

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Message 2657 - Posted: 28 Sep 2008 | 12:58:02 UTC

Next WU is in, this time purely 178.13. This time it was not suspended and reports the time correctly. It's 61.0 ms/step, which is on par with my usual 61 - 62.5 ms.

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