"An NVIDIA GPU is required to run tasks for this project"

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Hofikus Send message Joined: 28 May 09 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,370,245,676 RAC: 1,776,466 Level Scientific publications	Message 34134 - Posted: 6 Dec 2013 \| 6:58:00 UTC
	For some weeks i get this notice from the server : An NVIDIA GPU is required to run tasks for this project. I have Nvidia 660 Ti, newest version fo the client, newest Nvidia Drivers, Windows 7. Why the client does not identify my card ? Thanks ____________
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Dagorath Send message Joined: 16 Mar 11 Posts: 509 Credit: 179,005,236 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34135 - Posted: 6 Dec 2013 \| 7:50:36 UTC - in response to Message 34134.
	Try How to install NVIDIA drives on Windows from the FAQ section of the forum. It is more helpful if you state the version number of your drivers and BOINC rather than just saying "the latest". What you think is "the latest" might not be what everybody else thinks is the latest. Did you try rebooting your computer after installing the drivers? ____________ BOINC <<--- credit whores, pedants, alien hunters
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Damaraland Send message Joined: 7 Nov 09 Posts: 152 Credit: 16,181,924 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34139 - Posted: 6 Dec 2013 \| 13:00:40 UTC - in response to Message 34134.
	Why the client does not identify my card ? Did you check this? "Warning: On Windows do not install BOINC in Protected Access Execution (PAE) mode aka service mode (6.4.5 - 7.0.28) or Service Install mode (7.0.64 and above). If you do, BOINC will not be able to detect or use your GPU. " From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34147 - Posted: 7 Dec 2013 \| 11:08:56 UTC
	Service install or accessing the machine via remote desktop are the 2 top reasons for the GPU not being detected. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
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Hofikus Send message Joined: 28 May 09 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,370,245,676 RAC: 1,776,466 Level Scientific publications	Message 34173 - Posted: 9 Dec 2013 \| 18:10:15 UTC - in response to Message 34147.
	thank you all, i reinstalled the boinc client, switched off service install, and it works !
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Skeeters Send message Joined: 17 Jun 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 18,478,695 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34268 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 5:37:06 UTC - in response to Message 34147.
	Just a "me too" here. I have Win 8.1 with latest AMD beta drivers running on a XFX R9 290 GPU. I uninstalled to make sure I was not in "Service Mode" and I am not..No remote access that I know of... BOINC IS using my card (verified with GPU monitoring programs) and Einstein@home says it is using 1 ATI card. GPUGRID is the one the message is about... Anything I'm missing? Thanks! fwf
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flashawk Send message Joined: 18 Jun 12 Posts: 297 Credit: 3,572,627,986 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34269 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 5:43:47 UTC
	Can't use AMD cards, only NVidia cards can be used here.
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John C MacAlister Send message Joined: 17 Feb 13 Posts: 181 Credit: 144,871,276 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34272 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 9:27:17 UTC
	And that's a pity.....I could greatly increase my contribution to this research if AMD cards could be used. :(
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Dagorath Send message Joined: 16 Mar 11 Posts: 509 Credit: 179,005,236 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34276 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 11:44:02 UTC - in response to Message 34272.
	Pity AMD doesn't support CUDA. They would sell lots of their excellent, well priced cards to GPUgrid crunchers. ____________ BOINC <<--- credit whores, pedants, alien hunters
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Skeeters Send message Joined: 17 Jun 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 18,478,695 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34280 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 16:41:13 UTC - in response to Message 34269.
	Ahh. That explains it....I thunked I saw that AMD cards worked in the FAQ...must have been a different project.... Oh, well...off to find another project for the GPU...I take it there ARE some, yes? thanks again for the assist! ...
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TJ Send message Joined: 26 Jun 09 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,470,385,294 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34281 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 17:11:09 UTC - in response to Message 34280.
	Yes there are many, my AMD's run at Eintein@home. ____________ Greetings from TJ
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Jim1348 Send message Joined: 28 Jul 12 Posts: 819 Credit: 1,591,285,971 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34282 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 17:27:20 UTC - in response to Message 34268.
	Just a "me too" here. I have Win 8.1 with latest AMD beta drivers running on a XFX R9 290 GPU. That should work very well on Folding@home, if you want to do biomedical type research. https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=25262&start=15#p252194
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Dagorath Send message Joined: 16 Mar 11 Posts: 509 Credit: 179,005,236 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34284 - Posted: 13 Dec 2013 \| 19:13:44 UTC - in response to Message 34280.
	Skeeters, You might have read they were trying to port their application to OpenCL in a bid to support AMD but the port didn't work out. I believe the explanation was that after so many years their app has become sort of married to the way CUDA does things so it doesn't translate well to OpenCL. You can find projects that support AMD by going through the list of projects in Boinc manager's "Add project wizard". If you highlight a project you'll see a number of tiny icons that tell you which platforms it supports. There are icons for Windows, OSX, Linux, AMD, NVIDIA and I think ARM now too. ____________ BOINC <<--- credit whores, pedants, alien hunters
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 34301 - Posted: 14 Dec 2013 \| 13:31:43 UTC - in response to Message 34284.
	You might have read they were trying to port their application to OpenCL in a bid to support AMD but the port didn't work out. I believe the explanation was that after so many years their app has become sort of married to the way CUDA does things so it doesn't translate well to OpenCL. Kind of. It was more like "being slow and unstable". By now things have undoubtly improved, but it will again take significant effort to port the new app over and test & debug it (there will be new errors in OpenCL compared to CUDA, depending on GPU, driver and OS). And afterwards support 2 different code-paths, as the CUDA version will surely run better on nVidias. Well.. that's just like nVidia wants it, and until OpenCL gets more complex stuff handled (e.g. the simple Collatz program is fine) I don't see this changing. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
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