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Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2762 Credit: 8,391,398 RAC: 23,836	Message 1207442 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 13:14:03 UTC
	Can we please have a "Use ATI GPU" box on the pref page? It's a choice on Beta's pref page, but not here. Nag, nag, nag. LOL ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3510 Credit: 26,371,977 RAC: 17,474	Message 1207448 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 13:22:54 UTC - in response to Message 1207442. Last modified: 18 Mar 2012, 13:28:15 UTC
	Can we please have a "Use ATI GPU" box on the pref page? It's a choice on Beta's pref page, but not here. Nag, nag, nag. LOL That's because there's an ATI application listed on Beta's application page, but there isn't one here. Oh yea, +1 here too. Claggy
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Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2762 Credit: 8,391,398 RAC: 23,836	Message 1207449 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 13:29:05 UTC - in response to Message 1207448.
	Can we please have a "Use ATI GPU" box on the pref page? It's a choice on Beta's pref page, but not here. Nag, nag, nag. LOL That's because there's an ATI application listed on Beta's application page, but there isn't one here. Claggy Windows/x86 5.05 (ati13ati), yeah, but 505 is obsolete now. I take it the box will disappear then on Beta too. ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19785 Credit: 21,937,225 RAC: 30,128	Message 1207453 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 13:45:59 UTC
	Agreed, would be much easier for us ATI guys. ____________
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 23353 Credit: 4,632,424 RAC: 3,975	Message 1207458 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 13:53:07 UTC
	I have ATI cards that I'm prepared to consider using. But I'm staying on the sidelines for the immediate future. Too many unknowns yet for me to dip my toe.
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,499,071 RAC: 59,924	Message 1207525 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 17:20:24 UTC - in response to Message 1207448.
	Can we please have a "Use ATI GPU" box on the pref page? It's a choice on Beta's pref page, but not here. Nag, nag, nag. LOL That's because there's an ATI application listed on Beta's application page, but there isn't one here. Oh yea, +1 here too. Claggy I was thinking the other day when they added the "SETI@home v7:" option last week that they should have added the ATI GPU option as well. As the logic of "no options unless there is a stock app" isn't being applied any longer. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 3969 Credit: 937,691 RAC: 158	Message 1207716 - Posted: 19 Mar 2012, 2:38:36 UTC - in response to Message 1207525.
	I was thinking the other day when they added the "SETI@home v7:" option last week that they should have added the ATI GPU option as well. As the logic of "no options unless there is a stock app" isn't being applied any longer. Unfortunately it's a completely different situation. SETI@home v7 is just an empty holder. To get the ATI GPU option on the BOINC global preferences there must be an app_version with an ATI plan_class. It could be done, but would be messy. They could add another app called e.g. Ectoplasm and then install in it a do-nothing app_version called BustTheGhost v1 with an ATI plan_class. Then the ATI GPU option would show, but also Ectoplasm would be splashed around the same places SETI@home v7 is now showing. As long as they never created any work for that app, no harm would be done (though they might possibly need to have a dummy assimilator program too). Joe
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,499,071 RAC: 59,924	Message 1207890 - Posted: 19 Mar 2012, 16:53:28 UTC - in response to Message 1207716.
	I was thinking the other day when they added the "SETI@home v7:" option last week that they should have added the ATI GPU option as well. As the logic of "no options unless there is a stock app" isn't being applied any longer. Unfortunately it's a completely different situation. SETI@home v7 is just an empty holder. To get the ATI GPU option on the BOINC global preferences there must be an app_version with an ATI plan_class. It could be done, but would be messy. They could add another app called e.g. Ectoplasm and then install in it a do-nothing app_version called BustTheGhost v1 with an ATI plan_class. Then the ATI GPU option would show, but also Ectoplasm would be splashed around the same places SETI@home v7 is now showing. As long as they never created any work for that app, no harm would be done (though they might possibly need to have a dummy assimilator program too). Joe Wow I didn't think they had to do all of that since it has existed at beta for a while. In that they had already created everything, but just needed to turn it on. I had figured the apps were just a sub-component of the larger type, like SETI@home Enhanced or Astropulse. That plan class bit throws me off all the time. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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