Discussion of Invalid Host Messaging

I got a rather unusual reply from 1 person via PM today, rob99999_2 ID 129322, the owner of Computer 6797265, which produces nothing but errors from its GT 650M but here's his reply.

i am not going to make a thread when i am not going to check it. I have downloaded ths lastest software and the lastest drivers so if there is any issues SETI needs to get their shit straight.

Not a very nice attitude IMO. :(

Cheers.

I got a rather unusual reply from 1 person via PM today, rob99999_2 ID 129322, the owner of Computer 6797265, which produces nothing but errors from its GT 650M but here's his reply.

i am not going to make a thread when i am not going to check it. I have downloaded ths lastest software and the lastest drivers so if there is any issues SETI needs to get their shit straight.

Not a very nice attitude IMO. :(

Cheers.

SETI needs to get their shit straight.

I always care if my computers are generating garbage data or not.
However I don't really need anyone whining to me about their tasks not getting validated if I have a machine that decides to trash it's whole cache of work.

When I get a PM from someone about one of my machines generating invalid results it is normally several days or weeks after I have already corrected the machine. So I just add them to the ignore filter & go on my merry way.

It seems people get far to wound up about things that was far outside of their control.
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Texas - One thing that has struck me looking at your computer setup is that you are NOT running a "CUDA compatible" GPU, but you appear to have the CUDA drivers loaded. It could be that your computer is confused!
Frist, make sure you don't have any Nvidia or CUDA drivers installed, and that you only have the drivers for your ATI card installed and running. This may help, but getting rid of unused drivers is always a "good idea", and sadly Windows is not very good at its house keeping when it comes to redundant drivers.
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To a degree I agree with rob99999_2. It's obvious the stock app definitely has a problem dealing with the later cards and drivers and is badly in need of an overhaul.

Remember, V6.10 was a bit of a kludge to begin with. It was hurriedly cobbled together when it was found that V6.09 didn't work with the then new Fermi cards and now history is repeating. The app is now 2 generations of GPU's out of date

As someone gently reminded us in another thread BOINC and SAH are supposed to be "set and forget" programs and the the stock GPU app no longer fits this description. As those of us who have V6.10 running wingmen with insane numbers of invalid tasks are finding out.

The stock app doesn't have to be the fastest but it does have to be robust and reliable.

T.A.

To a degree I agree with rob99999_2. It's obvious the stock app definitely has a problem dealing with the later cards and drivers and is badly in need of an overhaul.

Remember, V6.10 was a bit of a kludge to begin with. It was hurriedly cobbled together when it was found that V6.09 didn't work with the then new Fermi cards and now history is repeating. The app is now 2 generations of GPU's out of date

As someone gently reminded us in another thread BOINC and SAH are supposed to be "set and forget" programs and the the stock GPU app no longer fits this description. As those of us who have V6.10 running wingmen with insane numbers of invalid tasks are finding out.

The stock app doesn't have to be the fastest but it does have to be robust and reliable.

T.A.

To a degree I agree with rob99999_2. It's obvious the stock app definitely has a problem dealing with the later cards and drivers and is badly in need of an overhaul.

Remember, V6.10 was a bit of a kludge to begin with. It was hurriedly cobbled together when it was found that V6.09 didn't work with the then new Fermi cards and now history is repeating. The app is now 2 generations of GPU's out of date

As someone gently reminded us in another thread BOINC and SAH are supposed to be "set and forget" programs and the the stock GPU app no longer fits this description. As those of us who have V6.10 running wingmen with insane numbers of invalid tasks are finding out.

The stock app doesn't have to be the fastest but it does have to be robust and reliable.

T.A.

+1

Whilst I might not have used rob99999_2's phrasing he should not have to jump through hoops just to get the basic app to run.

One reason I have put my crunching to other uses.

Texas - glad you've managed to track down the cause of your problems. I hope you can find another internet TV tool that won't crash S@H, so you can enjoy both TV and S@H.
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remember that it is always your choice to use the 'sometimes unstable' GPU in order to boost your RAC.

You can find that info implied here Rules And Policys

In a windows initialization , is the default setting to "use GPU" ?