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by bruce
Mon May 24, 2021 5:45 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: OpenCL 1.2 finally in Mesa - please test
Replies: 24
Views: 34233

Re: OpenCL 1.2 finally in Mesa - please test

I do understand your frustration, but unfortunately, drivers are the responsibility company that supports your hardware. Mesa support must be obtained from AMD.com. FAH does not support any GPU drivers. All we can do is t tell you to get the proprietary drivers and refer you to AMD .com or NVIdia.co...
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 5:55 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: F@H Discord Server
Replies: 8
Views: 40807

Re: F@H Discord Server

FAH is partly open-source and partly closed-source. As such, developer activities are somewhat limited. We are a support forum for FAH so I don't really recommend our site for developers of something other than the open-source parts of FAH. The same is true for the FAH_Discord. If you want to call t...
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 5:51 pm
Forum: New GPUs (whitelist)
Topic: nvidia geforce gt555 m, please
Replies: 15
Views: 18509

Re: nvidia geforce gt555 m, please

The smaller card will work up to its limits on any protein. The larger card won't run into it's internal limitations by a smaller protein but it'll still work better than the smaller card. If you happen to get the most powerful card available, you'll be spending money on capabilities that might be u...
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 5:45 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: F@H Causing Black Screen Crash on GPU Activation
Replies: 9
Views: 7135

Re: F@H Causing Black Screen Crash on GPU Activation

I can run it now, which is good. Tried leaving it on overnight and woke up to my monitor not recognizing that it was plugged into the GPU and having to hard reset the pc. Something must've happened overnight, but no idea. Did you try with Bus at value 1 or 12? Did you get any points? If you did the...
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 5:42 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?
Replies: 39
Views: 34498

Re: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?

... and if you can accept a slow card that is going to get less than its full performance level, the 1x will work but might also be limited by the number of threads your CPU has.
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 5:27 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: F@H Causing Black Screen Crash on GPU Activation
Replies: 9
Views: 7135

Re: F@H Causing Black Screen Crash on GPU Activation

Is this a laptop with a feature called Optimus? That feaure is designed to save power for a laptop that's used for "normal" activities. (and that FAH is excluded from what they characterize as normal.) If your using it to browse the web or edit documents, the GPU processing is handled by a...
by bruce
Fri May 21, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: New GPUs (whitelist)
Topic: nvidia geforce gt555 m, please
Replies: 15
Views: 18509

Re: nvidia geforce gt555 m, please

gtw, what is actually the best graphicscard for mining / folding? The best card for FAH is the one that you have. ;) Actually, that's not the right question. The best card for folding is not the same as the best card for mining and it's not the same as the best card for gaming. Any relatively new c...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 7:01 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: How do I create a new FAHClient/HideConsole shortcut?
Replies: 4
Views: 5881

Re: How do I create a new FAHClient/HideConsole shortcut?

Do the programs listed on the target correct? I have an old installation but it doesn't specify " (x64) " I don't know if the newer version of WIndows changed anything. Is FAHClient running in the background? You should NOT see anything open on the desktop and if FAHClient is already runni...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 6:43 pm
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Expiration of proj 13448 is too short for a Radeon R7 M370
Replies: 7
Views: 8839

Re: Expiration of project 13448 is too short.

Project 13448 are intentionally complex, designed for wide GPUs (NVIDIA GPUSpecies >5; AMD GPUSpecies >=5) Project 13449 are much simpler, designed for narrow GPUs (NVIDIA GPUSpecies <=5; AMD GPUSpecies <5; Intel GPUSpecies <5) Those species limitations are supposed to allow everybody to finish the ...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 6:18 pm
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: Kepler based GPU's and Project 17804
Replies: 14
Views: 18353

Re: Kepler based GPU's and Project 17804

FAH's points are highly dependent on the speed at which you return the completed results. For the smallest projects (with relatively few atoms) the 1x limitation will make very little difference. For larger proteins, it will become a more severe limitation. Apparently folks who have been mining cybe...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 6:07 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?
Replies: 39
Views: 34498

Re: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?

[I am just a user like you, I have never had a PC with 8 GPUs. this is rumor] F@H attempts to reserve a CPU thread for each GPU to move data for it across the PCI-E bus, so ideally you would have a 8 threaded CPU. Your CPU only has 2 threads, so is overwhelmed by 8 GPUs. A 'faster' CPU will not hel...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 5:59 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?
Replies: 39
Views: 34498

Re: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?

The GT 730 4 GB is a Fermi device which means it only supports OpenCL 1.1 That will be an additional limitation as it probably only supports OpenCL and not CUDA. (CUDA is somewhat faster depending on the project.) What projects are being assigned and what PPD are you getting. Are you using a passkey?
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 5:52 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?
Replies: 39
Views: 34498

Re: Does the CPU affect the speed of the GPU?

I must do something wrong. I use a PCIe riser with PCIe 2.0 x1->x16 (x16 only mechanical), and have no performance penalties on a GTX1050Ti. For a very small protein, the performance penalty of 1x will be small enough that you probably won't notice. For a larger protein (with more atoms) the GTX105...
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 5:28 pm
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Expiration of proj 13448 is too short for a Radeon R7 M370
Replies: 7
Views: 8839

Re: Expiration of project 13448 is too short.

please post the log per the instructions below:
by bruce
Thu May 20, 2021 5:26 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: F@H failes to open up. It tries to connect but never connect
Replies: 5
Views: 4899

Re: F@H failes to open up. It tries to connect but never con

The FAHClient runs in the background (as a service) and if it fails to start or it does start but is blocked by your firewall, there will be no progress. Post the log per the instructions below.