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Message 1566241 - Posted: 2 Sep 2014, 21:27:09 UTC
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Warning to users of Mac OS X and (older) 32bit BOINC clients.

If you're using your Nvidia GPU on this project or other projects and you have updated to the CUDA 6.5 driver/toolkit, you will have found that BOINC no longer detects your CUDA GPU.

This isn't something BOINC did, but a change in policy by Nvidia. From CUDA 6.5 onwards they dropped CUDA support for 32bit applications.
Berkeley has released BOINC 7.4.19 to fix that, however this is a 64bit application only. It will not work on 32bit Mac OS X, you do require an Intel 64bit CPU and OS X 10.5 now to run BOINC.

If you have any problems with the 7.4.19 BOINC let us know via this thread, or via the BOINC forums (separate registration required).
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