Folding Forum

Just wanted to update everyone, I just tried 13.2 beta 5 and it is running my gpu in the 84-98% range now. much better than the previous drivers. I hope the improvements make it into the final driver version. steps going from 13.1 are uninstall CAP drivers, uninstall 13.1 driver, reboot to safe mode...

The best driver for folding that I've found is 12.4 but once you load 12.11 beta the uninstaller seems to leave the components that folding utilizes behind so I had to use a custom tool called atiman to dig around after the uninstall to delete all the changes it makes. But i really am uncomfortable...

I was able to get the GPU usage and PPD back to normal on my 7970 with the 13.1 drivers by deselecting APP SDK during the install process and installing APP SDK 2.7 instead from a separate download. MSI Afterburner shows between 92-99 percent usage now, where before it never went above 30-40 percen...

I will try to manually uninstall the app sdk from my 13.1 install and then install ver 2.7 I too am suffering from the 50% gpu load issue ever since I went to 12.11 beta 11. The best driver for folding that I've found is 12.4 but once you load 12.11 beta the uninstaller seems to leave the components...