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Message 1648196 - Posted: 1 Mar 2015, 13:37:01 UTC

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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Message 1648245 - Posted: 1 Mar 2015, 17:54:27 UTC - in response to Message 1648196.  

BOINC definitely works with AMD GPUs. Two things to check:

1) Are you using a driver with OpenCL (note, not OpenGL)? If you're using the driver that came with the GPU in the box, you very likely do not have OpenCL installed. Download the driver directly from AMD and install that one instead.

2) Did you install BOINC as Service? BOINC cannot work with a graphics driver while it is running as a service. If you did, remove BOINC and be sure to uncheck the Service option.
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Message 1648342 - Posted: 2 Mar 2015, 1:10:47 UTC - in response to Message 1648196.  
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As you can see on your SETI@home preferences there are Settings:

Use ATI GPU
Use NVIDIA GPU
Use Intel GPU

So not only BOINC detects the 3 types of GPUs (provided the 'right' driver is used and BOINC is Not installed in service mode)
but SETI@home have apps for them:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php

Lunatics apps can't run unless BOINC starts them.
And BOINC will not start GPU apps until it can see the OpenCL or CUDA driver.
 
 


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Message 1650980 - Posted: 9 Mar 2015, 11:15:04 UTC - in response to Message 1648342.  
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As you can see on your SETI@home preferences there are Settings:

Use ATI GPU
Use NVIDIA GPU
Use Intel GPU

So not only BOINC detects the 3 types of GPUs (provided the 'right' driver is used and BOINC is Not installed in service mode)
but SETI@home have apps for them:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php

Lunatics apps can't run unless BOINC starts them.
And BOINC will not start GPU apps until it can see the OpenCL or CUDA driver.
 

Someone gave me another answer:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76849&postid=1648498#1648498

I am indeed running it as a daemon....
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Message 1651938 - Posted: 12 Mar 2015, 4:26:55 UTC - in response to Message 1650980.  

Someone gave me another answer:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76849&postid=1648498#1648498

I am indeed running it as a daemon....

It may be "another answer" but not a different answer.

Quotes from this thread "Did you install BOINC as Service?" / "running as a service" / "be sure to uncheck the Service option" / "provided ... BOINC is Not installed in service mode"
and "Service Install" as is on BOINC installation screen
means the same as "Running as a daemon" as printed in BOINC Event Log

So you already had the info needed.
 


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