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Though not sure why it says that GPU is not supported

If you are sticking to v8, download latest beta from foldingathome.org/beta
And pause the work before system reboot

Got beta going, looks like all that changed was the font



Additional info: Installed beta, paused (was no work to pause, though as I don't cpu fold), rebooted, then took screenshot

Suggestion for updating was because latest beta is vastly more feature rich than 8.3 version. And it fixes quite a few issues. And reboot thing is just a tip, since there is still one bug in Windows client, as it kills any running WUs when rebooting the system. I mean windows kills WUs, not client

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:51 pm Suggestion for updating was because latest beta is vastly more feature rich than 8.3 version. And it fixes quite a few issues. And reboot thing is just a tip, since there is still one bug in Windows client, as it kills any running WUs when rebooting the system. I mean windows kills WUs, not client

Gotcha. What determines whether it says true or false on supported?

I honestly don't know. It might be nothing, but it might be that client does not support the card, which again it shouldn't matter, since fahclient does not compute things, it just a tool to run the cores which compute things. I'll know more on Sunday, when I get my own card. I will be able to try folding, and see if that "False" means anything

Sounds good, hopefully the hardware is capable. Seems like it should be according to published specs. Would be nice to have Intel in the fold, so to speak. Thanks for the assistance, looking forward to seeing how it goes when your card arrives.

What exactly was entered into the GPUs.txt database? I just pulled the latest GPUs.txt file from - https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt - and do not see an entry for the B580 anywhere. May also have to check the gpus.json file that the v8 client downloads and uses instead of GPUs.txt.

json would have been updated when v8 client was installed and started, and it would have grabbed latest version from server

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:31 am json would have been updated when v8 client was installed and started, and it would have grabbed latest version from server

Server versions of GPUs.txt and gpus.json have not yet been updated, still no entry for PCI ID 0x8086:0xe20b. So until that propagates from the entry you made to the GPUs Editor, the v7 and v8 clients are not going to recognize the card. I guess it depends on when and how often Joseph has updates exported out to the active files on the servers. The most recently downloaded copy of the .json file on my systems is from just a few hours ago, it does not yet include the entry for the B580.

I thought whitelist edits were instant

The edits may have been instant at one time, but as far as I know that has not been the case for a while now.

Main problem I have is remembering to convert the hexadecimal ID to decimal before searching through the .json file. But still not there.

I just checked https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt is still not updated. Something is broken... I pinged Joe.
Changes to GPUs.txt on server must be instant, otherwise wtf are we doing here. Client side updates can be a bit less responsive, it's not a problem.

I received my GPU, but I cannot test it because things keep breaking at the wrong time

CaptainHalon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 8:16 pm

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 8:00 pm https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... ph-section
Apparently it is in their drivers already

Sounds good. If that's the case, then I have it installed.

Edit: Looking at system info again, I see a line that says "OpenCL Device 0 Platform: 0 Device: 0 Bus:NA Slot:NA Compute: 3.0 Driver: 32.0"

You're ready, as soon as we have a GPUs.txt update and project enabled for Intel ...

You can also try to run FAHBench on the GPU as it doesn't rely on GPUs.txt to allow you to use the GPU.

Once whitelisting issue is resolved, GPU will fold. Though nowhere near 4060 levels