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    GPU always active after AMD Catalyst 13.4

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by wingman4ever, Apr 27, 2013.

  1. wingman4ever

    wingman4ever Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    Today I installed the new drivers from AMD 13.4.
    Everything works great except that my GPU is always on now.
    Before when I had 13.1 installed the GPU will be automatically turned off if I don't have any games running in the background.

    My laptop is a P150EM with 7970m.

    Anyone else with this problem?
     
    wingman4ever, Apr 27, 2013
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  2. TheBlackIdentity

    TheBlackIdentity Notebook Evangelist

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    You should be happy about that. At least you won't get any performance draw back from Enduro.
     
    TheBlackIdentity, Apr 27, 2013
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    cravenhorst Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you know that the GPU is on?
     
    cravenhorst, Apr 27, 2013
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  4. Ingvarr

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    Enduro gets performance problems because of badly implemented data transfer from dGPU to iGPU (which outputs to display then).
    You won't eliminate this by always keeping dGPU on.
     
    Ingvarr, Apr 27, 2013
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    From my understanding you mean , when your laptop is idle(no playing games , just browsing , writing) there is a gpu usage ?. I just gpu usage by monitoring using programs while idling and it seems fine less <2% is being used(only 1 program showed that) and 0% for others. So its safe to assume that its not being used.
     
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  6. Zymphad

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    I think you mean the fan is always on. Run a program that monitors your GPU temps and fan should go off and idle normally. I use MSI Kombuster. I found the newer versions bit buggy, I just use the that comes with Afterburner listed on MSI Afterburner's website, version 2.5.0 works best for me.

    Zero Core is buggy and broken, AMD can't release drivers that work yet. There is always something broken.
     
    Zymphad, Apr 27, 2013
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  7. M3ezu

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    At least what I recall from my old lappy which had custom forged optimus drivers... You could check if the gpu switch worked okay by going into device manager. Dgpu should disappear from the device manager when running on igpu. If enduro works similarly i'd guess that's how op checked that dgpu is not turning off?
     
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  8. Zymphad

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    Nope Nope Nope
     
    Zymphad, Apr 27, 2013
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    Before the 13.4 drivers my temp measurement software like Hw-monitor and afterburner never showed GPU temps when idle only when I am running a game.
    But after the new drivers they always showed up around 40c to 50c. Afterburner does show 0% GPU usage though. And sometimes the fan does spin up.

    I think Zymphad is right. Zero Core is broken in this version at least on my laptop...

    I don't mind if it's always active but I think it will drain my battery life faster. And that's something I don't want.
     
    wingman4ever, Apr 27, 2013
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