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Radeon R9 285 not detected as a GPU
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Man-wai CHANG Send message Joined: 15 Jun 99 Posts: 69 Credit: 5,679,894 RAC: 5 |
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? Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
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. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
 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.   - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)  |
Man-wai CHANG Send message Joined: 15 Jun 99 Posts: 69 Credit: 5,679,894 RAC: 5 |
 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.... Might, Courage, Vision, Sincerity. Simplicity is beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Someone gave me another answer: 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. Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
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