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Message 1655130 - Posted: 20 Mar 2015, 21:07:33 UTC

Hey folks, I finally got around to swapping out my insanely outdated GC for a new one. Is there anything I need to do to optimize it's use for S@H? All I've done is update the drivers and downloaded some WU's.

I am getting this error message in the event log, but other than that it doesn't look like there's any problems:

3/20/2015 4:46:25 PM | SETI@home | Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v7.

Seems to be crunching two WU's at a time just as with the old one....and for the same duration. I thought this bad boy would be tearing through the stuff. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Message 1655300 - Posted: 21 Mar 2015, 7:10:34 UTC - in response to Message 1655130.  

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3/20/2015 4:46:25 PM | SETI@home | Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a usable version of AstroPulse v7

This means you have enabled AstroPulse in your SETI@home preferences but didn't selected any AstroPulse app during Lunatics Install

Lunatics Installer v0.43a (get it if you used older)
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71867&postid=1596404#1596404

Now you use CUDA 4.20 app, for GeForce GTX 780 Ti better select CUDA 5.0
 


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Message 1655502 - Posted: 21 Mar 2015, 19:57:59 UTC - in response to Message 1655300.  

Thank you for your guidance. Should I wait to clear out all of my tasks and make the changes then, or can I do it now without messing up my current stash of tasks?
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Message 1655719 - Posted: 22 Mar 2015, 11:20:21 UTC - in response to Message 1655502.  
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Changing CUDA app version will/should not lose tasks (if done by Lunatics Installer as it have carefully made .aistub files)
Only if you have non-standard manual edits in app_info.xml on things like <version_num>NNN</version_num> or <plan_class>PPPPP</plan_class>
or forget to select any CUDA app may you lose tasks.

The old tasks will still show as CUDA 4.2 in BOINC Manager but will be done by CUDA 5.0 app (as you can check in Windows Task Manager)
The new Downloads will be shown as CUDA 5.0 in BOINC Manager

Just be careful to also select all the other apps (e.g. SETI@home v7 on CPU) you use now.
You may check in your current app_info.xml which apps you use now
'Apps' means not the particular .exe files but <name>setiathome_v7</name> on CPU and/or GPU and <name>astropulse_v7</name> on CPU and/or GPU
 


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