I have 2 questions regarding BOINC.

I have been using BOINC for a few years and I have just installed version 7.08 64 bit by updating my previous version of 6.12 64 bit which updated version 6.10.

After restarting the system, BOINC Manager states at the bottom of the window: "Connected to localhost (6.10.58)" even though I am running BOINC 7.08. Is this correct? BTW, Version 6.12 did the same thing, that is why I tried the BETA Version.

In one of my systems I have an NVidia 460 GTX video card in my system. I have selected "Use GPU" in the Preferences. How can I tell if the resources available on this video card are being utilized by BOINC? I have numerous machines running boinc and I want to make sure it is fully utilizing my equipment when I am not. And if I am not using the GPU, how can I enable it?

Thank you

Barry Kucher
[email protected]
TEAM 411Tech

BOINC Rankings:
31:166:08:30:43 (#1,616)
27,311,475 (#1,509)
78,545 (#952)

Would you please be so kind to tell us which operating system you are using and how you upgraded your BOINC version? When BOINC Manager states that it is connected to 6.10.58, you aren't using any newer version.

GPUs are used once you installed a driver for it, when in Windows one that wasn't installed by Windows. BOINC will show that it detected the videocard at BOINC start-up. It'll be used when under the Project preferences you have chosen to "Use Nvidia GPU".

In BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Tasks it'll show to be running as "Running (0.xx CPUs + 1 Nvidia GPUs)", where 0.xx is the amount of CPU it takes. Values can vary.

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