The ATI Memory Viewer at http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/tools/pages/tools.aspx does not work (constant un-updated reading) with 10.7 and perhaps other versions too. Is anyone aware of this problem and a possible fix?
Thanks.
can you provide more details, OS & graphics card?
Hi Byron,
The card was a HIS 5450 DDR3 1GB and tried on Windows VHP 32-bit and W7HP 64-bit. ATi catalyst 10.3 and 10-7, stream sdk 2.1. Two other users also said the memory reading was fixed when they tried the software on their systems whatever they were.
I also tried the OGL ATI_meminfo
VBO_FREE_MEMORY_ATI = 0x87FB
TEXTURE_FREE_MEMORY_ATI = 0x87FC
RENDERBUFFER_FREE_MEMORY_ATI = 0x87FD
and they returned the same unchanging reading ~34MB of used memory so maybe a driver problem. In fact all 4 returned values were fixed/unchanging regardless of load. I kind of gave up at that stage. If it gets fixed sometime I may give it another go but for now I've switched back to using nVidia.
the tool only works on Windows XP, Vista/Win7 have drastically different driver models (our gfx driver no longer does it's own memory allocation), so we currently do not have a comparable solution for Win7 at present.
As the tool uses the ATI_meminfo interface, the tool or other code based on this interface will not work with Win7
Great job your doing on the board and thanks for the answer, it's much appreciated.