For about 18 months I have been running two ati firepro V8700 workstation gpus. The last three major BOINC upgrades continually mis-identify them as being an ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.1607, 1024MB, 1200 GFLOPS peak).
It has never been a significant problem before, but now they are unable to process milkyway@home work units because of changes in programming. So we have gone from completing 480 work units per gpu per day to zero!
Would someone in development please take a look at this mis-identification issue and straighten things out?
Any work around would be helpful, one machine runs xp64-bit, the other win7 64-bit.

Thank you

BOINC reads the information about the GPU from a dynamic library provided by AMD/ATI, one that's included in your videocard drivers. I see that you report that the message you get is "Catalyst driver version is not okay for OpenCL application with this GPU."

OpenCL is a whole new method of doing the calculations, it has nothing to do with the GPU being single or double precision. Only for the previous CAL calculations at MW was this of importance.

Now, what that message tells you is that the videocard driver that you installed is incompatible with the OpenCL version of the project. You will have to upgrade or downgrade the driver to be in compliance.

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