Hello,

I am running an Intel i5 Core 2500k which has the Intel Graphics 3000 (secondary) onboard and a dedicated Nvidia GTX 260 216 GPU (primary).

Boinc Client 6.12.34 (x64)

I am getting the No Usable GPU Found message. Is there a way for the Boinc Client to use either or both of these GPU's?

3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Running as a daemon
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Running under account boinc_master
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Disk: 465.66 GB total, 363.74 GB free
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Local time is UTC -6 hours
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | No usable GPUs found

I am doing work for Seti@Home, World Community Grid, Einstein@Home and Climateprediction.net

Thank you for your time...

Will

I am doing work for Seti@Home, World Community Grid, Einstein@Home and Climateprediction.net

You've got BOINC installed as a service (Protected application execution) which disables the GPU detection under Windows 7 and Vista. This is due to Microsoft believing that drivers and services should run in a different sessions. The service isn't able to see where the driver lives.

So you'll have to uninstall BOINC and reinstall it, then in the third installer screen click Advanced and uncheck the Protected Application Execution option before continuing the installation.

3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Running as a daemon
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | Running under account boinc_master
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3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM | | No usable GPUs found

By the way, you will also need to install videocard drivers from the GPU manufacturer's web site. The drivers included in Windows will have key things such as OpenGL, CUDA and OpenCL disabled, because these are direct competitors to what Microsoft themselves are running/distributing.

The Intel HD Graphics aren't being detected yet as Intel hasn't released any API yet on how to do so. It has OpenCL capability, they say, but no drivers that enable that.

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By the way, you will also need to install videocard drivers from the GPU manufacturer's web site.

For your NVidia GTX 260, use something like GeForce 285.62 Driver from the beta/archive download search.

NVidia have acknowledged a major bug in the more recent drivers - they have promised the Einstein project that it will be fixed before the next release.

Awesome... Thank you for the information.

For the service, I guess I can disable it and run boinc at startup as a non protected program?

Thank you again.... :-)

Will

I was using the correct driver for my GPU - Thank you again.

I reinstlled boinc disabling the Protected Application Option and it works just fine...

Thank you again..

3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Running under account Will
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Disk: 465.66 GB total, 365.01 GB free
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Local time is UTC -6 hours
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 29573, CUDA version 4020, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 537 GFLOPS peak)
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1204267; resource share 100
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4816521; resource share 100
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6462036; resource share 100
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1919783; resource share 100
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 14-Mar-2012 09:19:18)
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Reading preferences override file
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Preferences:
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | max memory usage when active: 3846.56MB
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 6923.81MB
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | max disk usage: 15.00GB
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM | | Not using a proxy


Will

I was using the correct driver for my GPU - Thank you again.

"driver version 29573" may be correct according to the documentation, but you will find that one of your chosen projects - Einstein@home - will not allow you to process any of their work until you downgrade it - it's one of the buggy ones.

Please read Einstein's Technical News.

I am noticing the GPU Missing errors when boinc restarts after a reboot. I will try the downgrade.

thank you

I was using the correct driver for my GPU - Thank you again.

"driver version 29573" may be correct according to the documentation, but you will find that one of your chosen projects - Einstein@home - will not allow you to process any of their work until you downgrade it - it's one of the buggy ones.

Please read Einstein's Technical News.

Decided to try the Beta Client and 28562 - So far so good....

3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.20 for windows_x86_64
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Running under account Will
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Disk: 465.66 GB total, 359.69 GB free
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Local time is UTC -6 hours
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 285.62, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 784MB available, 805 GFLOPS peak)
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 285.62, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 784MB available)
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1204267; resource share 100
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4816521; resource share 100
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6462036; resource share 100
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1919783; resource share 100
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 14-Mar-2012 09:19:18)
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Reading preferences override file
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Preferences:
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | max memory usage when active: 3846.56MB
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 6923.81MB
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | max disk usage: 15.00GB
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | don't use GPU while active
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM | | Not using a proxy
3/17/2012 12:38:47 PM | | Suspending computation - initial delay