*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[thebluebumblebee]

Uninstall AMD drivers?

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Man, 240k with a 290X? My 290 (like 40k PPD) got me fewer points than my 7970m in my laptop and I never got it fixed.

Anyway, I recently got a GTX970 because my 290 took a shit and when I got everything going F@H refuses to see my 970. Uninstalled/Reinstalled the latest F@H client and still nothing. only the CPU. I also can't manually add the GPU. Is there a better client than F@H's own or a way to make it see my GPU?

In the client preferences, (under expert) add the argument "gpu true". This will force the client to recognize the gpu if proper drivers are loaded.

 

[Lopez0101]

Uninstall AMD drivers?

Come on now. I've been around for just a few years, lol.

In the client preferences, (under expert) add the argument "gpu true". This will force the client to recognize the gpu if proper drivers are loaded.

Alright, I'll give it a shot when I get home. Know what the average PPD of a 970 is off the top of your head?

 

[hertz9753]

I'm still running the 344.48 drivers on my 970's. If you have an outdated driver F@H will not see the card.

 

[Lopez0101]

I'm still running the 344.48 drivers on my 970's. If you have an outdated driver F@H will not see the card.

I've got the latest drivers through GFE.

 

[hertz9753]

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

I was only posting what drivers I am using.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Alright, I'll give it a shot when I get home. Know what the average PPD of a 970 is off the top of your head?

Under windows, you're looking at 260K+ PPD with core clocked at 1500Mhz. Under Linux, you would see 300K+PPD with the same clocks. This is assuming you were folding P9012/Core 17 WU's (Linux has only P9012/Core 17).

 

[mstenholm]

Under windows, you're looking at 260K+ PPD with core clocked at 1500Mhz. Under Linux, you would see 300K+PPD with the same clocks. This is assuming you were folding P9012/Core 17 WU's (Linux has only P9012/Core 17).

But if you get a core_15 that number will drop to 70-75k PPD.

 

[Lopez0101]

I tried adding the argument twice and then manually shutting down the client and restarting F@H and each time the argument was gone. Do I need to let the client stay open and figure itself out? Or should I look into using a 3rd party folding app?

 

[mstenholm]

I tried adding the argument twice and then manually shutting down the client and restarting F@H and each time the argument was gone. Do I need to let the client stay open and figure itself out? Or should I look into using a 3rd party folding app?

Have you tried this - https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=26208

 

[Lopez0101]

The GPUs.txt was empty before, now it's populated. Still no dice. I searched the file and found a GTX 970, but the Device ID doesn't match the one GPU-Z is reporting for my card. Could it be that the Asus Strix 970 has a different ID, so F@H isn't recognizing it?

GPUs.txt:
[GeForce GTX 970]
0x10de:0x13d7

GPU-Z: 10DC:13C2

I don't have a forum account, if somebody here wants to report it to F@H for me. I attached the log file per the instructions on the forum.

 

[Athlonite]

have you tried adding it to the GPU's.txt file to see if that works

 

[Lopez0101]

Just tried that. Now the client shows my system has a GPU. Got a slot added. I was doing it wrong before (idiot), so not sure if it would have worked without modifying the GPUs.txt, but it seems to be now.

WU is 9201/Core 17. PPD is only 60k, so hopefully that goes up...

 

[BUCK NASTY]

WU is 9201/Core 17. PPD is only 60k, so hopefully that goes up...

What are your GPU clocks? Both my Strix 970's run fine at 1503Mhz with F@H. Fans at 60% for 52C temps.

Are you crunching or running F@H on the CPU?

 

[Lopez0101]

I've got a cpu slot running on 3 cores. It's a measly 1500 PPD, if deleting that slot will improve the GPU's rate, then I'll do it. I've got mine at 1491Mhz.

 

[Athlonite]

It wont make a difference if you stop the CPU slot as for the PPD of your 970 strix remember they now have bonus points for quick return

what is the TPF for the WU

also which core is it using ie: core_15 or core_17

http://linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php

put you TPF into that select the WU ie: in your case it will be 9201 and that should give you a rough idea of how many points you'll get per day

 

[BUCK NASTY]

@Lopez0101 .......^^^ what @Athlonite said. What "Time per frame" are you getting? Are you using a passkey to get the "quick return bonus"?

 

[Athlonite]

thanks buck forgot to ask that

 

[Lopez0101]

It wont make a difference if you stop the CPU slot as for the PPD of your 970 strix remember they now have bonus points for quick return

what is the TPF for the WU

also which core is it using ie: core_15 or core_17

http://linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php

put you TPF into that select the WU ie: in your case it will be 9201 and that should give you a rough idea of how many points you'll get per day

The Project it's doing right now isn't listed on the website. The first project was Core_17 and now it's doing a Core_15. The TPF for this project 7623 is 2min43sec.

I didn't have a passkey before because the site would never send me an email, but I just tried it and it worked for once. So now that is done. I use the same passkey on each computer, correct?

 

[Athlonite]

Yes correct same pass key on each device

the points for the WU for your tpf is 14093 it is not an QRB (quick return bonus) WU doing these should net you an PPD of roughly 74700

all the core_17 WU are QRB these get you bigger points the faster you return them

 

[Lopez0101]

Huh, I didn't see it when I looked. Just went from 75xx to 77xx. Anyway, is there a way to keep the client on Core_17 WUs?

 

[Athlonite]

No unfortunately you get what you get and that's it I'm afraid but once you do 10 WU you should pretty much only get core_17 WU's from then on they only drop down to core_15 WU's when getting low on 17's

as for finding the WU it's simple just click Load All Projects on the bottom right

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Huh, I didn't see it when I looked. Just went from 75xx to 77xx. Anyway, is there a way to keep the client on Core_17 WUs?

Yes, switch to Linux. Nothing but Core_17.

 

[Lopez0101]

Meh, I'm far too lazy for that. Getting the expected PPD now though!

 

[Irony]

I'm having some trouble with my 780, I started folding again a couple weeks ago and it was going fine but then a few days ago the screen wouldn't wake up. Have to reset it. Everytime I leave it for more than an hour or so the screen wont come back on and the fan is still spooled up on the 780 but the air blowing out isn't hot like when it's folding. Thought it was overclock issue, downclocked CPU/RAM, everything to stock. Same thing. Tried killing everything unimportant with task manager except the folding client, same results. Perhaps my google fu is weak, but I couldn't find this same problem anywhere. I think I might swap out memory next and see if that helps