Gpu Not detected or available

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leseckersley
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Gpu Not detected or available

Post by leseckersley »

due to ssd upgrade i did a fresh install of windows installed all latest drivers then visited folding at home for software (new version) ,on install i noticed Gpu was not available in the app , its an older gaming laptop with i5 6300q cpu and gtx 950m graphics . not exactly state of the art but would like to tickle through some data for you . fixed by installing older version for now from back up drive
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by PantherX »

Welcome to the F@H Forum leseckersley,

I would suggest that you manually download the GPUs.txt file from here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt (right-click save as GPUs.txt)
Exit the client
Copy the GPUs.txt file from the Downloads folder to %AppData%\FAHClient
Reboot your system
Start up the client and ensure that you can see your GPU in the log file
Add a GPU slot from FAHControl -> Configure -> Slots tab -> Add -> GPU -> OK -> Save

Let me know if that works or not :)
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

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thanks will do that and report when current running work units are complete in older client
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by JimboPalmer »

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/g ... 950m.c2642

It should be able to fold, it supports OpenCL 1.2 and has Double Precision floating point math.

You may wish to download GPU-Z and tell us the Name and Device ID of the GPU
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

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Today I moved my GTX1080 to another computer with a fresh Windows 10 x64 installation, downloaded and installed the Folding@home client and entered my credentials.

It started working on a CPU task right away but there was nog GPU slot available, couldn't add a GPU slot too.
MSI Afterburner does see the GPU so it must be installed...

Tried everything, adding GPUs.txt by hand, new Nvidia drivers, old drivers, reïnstalled Folding, etc.

Just found out the client I downloaded wasn't the old v7.5.1 one but the recent v7.6.9 and realised that's the only difference with my old configuration.

So I grabbed an USB-stick, put v7.5.1 on it, moved it to the computer I couldn't get to fold, installed it... and it worked right away... GPU folding away!!!

Not sure what the issue is but there must be some kind of bug in the v7.6.9 (???)
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by HaloJones »

If you can find 7.6.8, it works flawlessly. Quite why 7.6.9 is still available for download given all the problems it causes is beyond me.
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by TheFreshPrince »

On our own forum already 2 other users can't get their GPU's to work in v7.6.9

Luckily I was able to provide them with the v7.5.1 version.

Would still like to upgrade, so if anyone has a "fix" I would be glad to hear it :)
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by JimboPalmer »

TheFreshPrince wrote:Would still like to upgrade, so if anyone has a "fix" I would be glad to hear it :)
PantherX wrote the one that works. Second post in this thread.
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by ajm »

In my experience, the issue with 7.6.9 and GPUs appears only after a fresh installation. An upgrade from 7.5.1 can be done without problems.
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by NormalDiffusion »

ajm wrote:In my experience, the issue with 7.6.9 and GPUs appears only after a fresh installation. An upgrade from 7.5.1 can be done without problems.
On all my systems (6) I had to manually install the gpu slot after adding the gpu.txt. All were upgrade from 7.5.1...
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by TheFreshPrince »

JimboPalmer wrote:
TheFreshPrince wrote:Would still like to upgrade, so if anyone has a "fix" I would be glad to hear it :)
PantherX wrote the one that works. Second post in this thread.
As I stated, I tried that ;)
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by Knish »

give the beta release a shot? https://foldingathome.org/beta/
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Re: Gpu Not detected or available

Post by therealsummoner »

Hello,
I can also confirm that after a fresh Windows10 and 7.6.9client install the GPU was not detected and downloading the GPUs.txt manually solved the problem.
System is:
Windows10 2004-Release Preview
AMD R9 290x GPU
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