Lately I upgraded my display card to Sapphire Radeon R9 285.
BOINC did NOT detect it as a GPU. I tried running Lunatics, no luck!
It seems that BOINC only cares about Nvidia CUDA....

Any other workarounds?

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Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty!
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Lately I upgraded my display card to Sapphire Radeon R9 285.
BOINC did NOT detect it as a GPU. I tried running Lunatics, no luck!
It seems that BOINC only cares about Nvidia CUDA....

Any other workarounds?

Please post your Boinc startup from the Event log.

Claggy

You recreated ABSOLUTELY the same thread here (3 minutes later):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76850

Are we supposed to answer in both??

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You recreated ABSOLUTELY the same thread here (3 minutes later):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76850

Are we supposed to answer in both??

Because I didn't know which forum to ask... :)

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Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty!
May the Force and farces be with you!

Lately I upgraded my display card to Sapphire Radeon R9 285.
BOINC did NOT detect it as a GPU. I tried running Lunatics, no luck!
It seems that BOINC only cares about Nvidia CUDA....

Any other workarounds?

Please post your Boinc startup from the Event log.

Claggy

03/02/15 18:20:35 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.4.36 for windows_x86_64
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Data directory: R:\BOINC
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running under account boinc_master
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | No usable GPUs found
03/02/15 18:21:01 | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Host name: manwai-pc
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c syscall nx lm avx svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce tbm topx page1gb rdtscp bmi1
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Professional x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Memory: 11.96 GB physical, 11.96 GB virtual
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Disk: 508.00 MB total, 258.00 MB free
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Local time is UTC +8 hours
03/02/15 18:21:01 | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7506152; resource share 100
03/02/15 18:21:01 | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 12-Apr-2008 19:51:59)
03/02/15 18:21:01 | SETI@home | Computer location: home
03/02/15 18:21:01 | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Reading preferences override file
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Preferences:
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | max memory usage when active: 6124.60MB
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | max memory usage when idle: 11024.28MB
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | max disk usage: 0.16GB
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | max CPUs used: 2
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Not using a proxy
03/02/15 18:21:05 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
03/02/15 18:21:05 | SETI@home | Reporting 8 completed tasks
03/02/15 18:21:05 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
03/02/15 18:21:07 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host

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Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty!
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03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon
There's your problem.
From GPU_computing:
"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."
Please reinstall BOINC, and do NOT choose Service Install mode.

OK... let me re-install...

Why isn't the log reminding us the same thing? :)

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Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty!
May the Force and farces be with you!

03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon
There's your problem.
From GPU_computing:
"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."
Please reinstall BOINC, and do NOT choose Service Install mode.

OK... let me re-install...

Why isn't the log reminding us the same thing? :)

The log you posted is saying "03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon", in the fifth line from the top. It was from there I took it.

Actually, I think it might be useful if the log entry read

03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon (GPUs not available)

or words to that effect.

Enhancement request submitted.

Of course, if you do not read the blurb on the actual setting in the installer, you're not going to read any lines in the messages either.

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Yes, but as I've just said in the email "The restriction is mentioned in the installer and in [the Wiki], but both of those are likely to be far distant in time and space in the user's mind when they discover the problem."

Especially in a case like this, when the GPU was added later - GPU computing may not even have been a twinkle in the user's eye when the installer was last run.

Actually, I think it might be useful if the log entry read

03/02/15 18:21:01 | | Running as a daemon (GPUs not available)

or words to that effect.

That's exactly what I was trying to say! Pardon my English. :)

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Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty!
May the Force and farces be with you!