Message boards : GPUs : No GPU Units, Did I Turn Them Off?
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Send message Joined: 22 Mar 09 Posts: 51 |
I am unable to get any GPU units and I cannot figure out why. Some background: I'm running a Mac Pro but booted natively on windows 7. It has a very low power nVidia 7300GT card, and then a very powerful AMD card. I forget the exact model, but it is a high end, 4 year old model. I run many projects at once. I used to get GPU units. Collatz and Seti would send them, plus at least one other project I run. I'm not sure which one but I'm thinking Milkyway? Here's a full list of all projects I'm running:
Einstein Seti Asteroids Climateprediction(disabled) Milyway NFS pogs LHC Cosmology Rosetta
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Send message Joined: 22 Mar 09 Posts: 51 |
Update: The event log was showing NO gpus! That makes no sense. I downloaded the latest AMD driver. Then I ran it. I ran that horrible, ridiculous, embarrassing excuse for an installer. I don't know if I upgraded or downgraded the drivers, I honestly couldn't tell. It was not clear at all. BUT whatever I did, BOINC immediately started getting GPU units again! So problem solved! One more related question. Is there an 'easy' way to turn of the GPU for all projects, at once? Rather than disabling it project by project? |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 |
You can select Suspend GPU in View -> Advanced View -> Activity. This stops computing on the GPU but you will still receive GPU tasks according to your cache settings. Another way is to set <exclude_gpu>, <ignore_X_dev>, <no_gpus> and/or <no_opencl> in cc_config.xml or start BOINC client with --no_gpus command line option. See Client configuration. |
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