My Vega56 gpu is mining a bit faster than usual after the last reset. Not by a huge amount, but a little faster. Enough for it to be noticeable.

I don't wanna touch it. I just wanna let it sit there and happily chew away those hashes.

But I will have to touch it eventually, if I wanna turn my monitor off. If I wanna go to sleep.

Doing that will trigger a restart of the miner.
And I will never know if it will have that extra lil speed bump ever again.

Why is life so cruel

Why the fuck would turning the monitor off restart it?

@filthyranter because when you turn off or disconnect the monitor, the driver puts the Vega gpus into 'sleep' mode, slowing them down massively.

So to keep mining at full speed and turn off my monitor, this is what I have to do:
- disconnect my screen (causing the miner to slow down)
- plug an hdmi dongle (it's like a 'fake screen')
- have a watchdog script in the background that detects the slowdown and restarts the miner (which takes ~30s, and it will restart at full speed afterwards)

This is the kind of crap I have to deal with :( and you don't wanna know how bad the Vega FE has been so far

@endor Damn, my RX 480 didn't do that shit.

@filthyranter yeah, it's only Vegas with the blockchain drivers it seems, buggy af.

The Frontier Edition is even worse: you pretty much have to do a fresh install of two different drivers and hot-swap between the two to get it working. Need a reboot? Tough luck, start all over again.