I need help with Boinc

[alextheaverage]

Alright so I've been having an issue with Boinc, namely the Prime grid project.  The project doesn't utilize my R9 290 for gpu compute and I was hoping that someone here could help me fix that.

 

Is there a way to get it to work or maybe another project that would use it instead?

 

My Specs

 

I5 6500 processor

MSI 170-A Motherboard

8 GB G.Skill 2400MHz Ram

Sapphire Tri-X R9 290

GTX 650

EVGA 850 G2 Powersupply

 

I put the 290 wasn't working in primegrid well before the 650 was in my machine.

[Imakuni]

1 hour ago, alextheaverage said:

Alright so I've been having an issue with Boinc, namely the Prime grid project.  The project doesn't utilize my R9 290 for gpu compute and I was hoping that someone here could help me fix that.

 

Is there a way to get it to work or maybe another project that would use it instead?

 

My Specs

 

I5 6500 processor

MSI 170-A Motherboard

8 GB G.Skill 2400MHz Ram

Sapphire Tri-X R9 290

GTX 650

EVGA 850 G2 Powersupply

 

I put the 290 wasn't working in primegrid well before the 650 was in my machine.

Honestly, you are better off asking for help in PG's own forum. Due to the way things were coded, newer AMD GPUs have some troubles running PG, and each time the source is different. Come over here and some other top dogs (primarely Michael) will be able to better help you.

 

In the meantime, have a read at this topic, it might help you out: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6452

[alextheaverage]

1 hour ago, Imakuni said:

Honestly, you are better off asking for help in PG's own forum. Due to the way things were coded, newer AMD GPUs have some troubles running PG, and each time the source is different. Come over here and some other top dogs (primarely Michael) will be able to better help you.

 

In the meantime, have a read at this topic, it might help you out: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=6452

Thanks, figured I'd ask here first in case it was a simple fix.

[RagnarokDel]

On 20/3/2016 at 10:19 PM, alextheaverage said:

Alright so I've been having an issue with Boinc, namely the Prime grid project.  The project doesn't utilize my R9 290 for gpu compute and I was hoping that someone here could help me fix that.

 

Is there a way to get it to work or maybe another project that would use it instead?

 

My Specs

 

I5 6500 processor

MSI 170-A Motherboard

8 GB G.Skill 2400MHz Ram

Sapphire Tri-X R9 290

GTX 650

EVGA 850 G2 Powersupply

 

I put the 290 wasn't working in primegrid well before the 650 was in my machine.

Unless you insist on doing primegrid, maybe you should do milkyway@home. It requires FP64 which the 290x isnt too bad at as you can see here.

 

It also runs much cooler then primegrid does for me. Primegrid is very good apparently for Nvidia GPUs.

 

As for the reason it doesnt work, go to the project page and make sure that in primegrid computing preferences, ATI cards is selected

[alextheaverage]

From what I've found out the problem seems to be that AMD changed how newer cards are identified and the backbone hasn't been completely updated yet, though from what I can see there is some actual progress being made.  There are work arounds to get Hawaii and Fiji gpus to work though they dont work for everybody, and I'm sure having an Nvidia card in the mix isn't helping me.  I've actually been trying the fixes but they never seem to work for me so I'm just going to wait.

 

Anyone with a similar issue I'd recommend that you use your cards on other projects or you wait since the hassle can be pretty great.

[alextheaverage]

9 minutes ago, RagnarokDel said:

Unless you insist on doing primegrid, maybe you should do milkyway@home. It requires FP64 which the 290x isnt too bad at as you can see here.

 

It also runs much cooler then primegrid does for me. Primegrid is very good apparently for Nvidia GPUs.

 

As for the reason it doesnt work, go to the project page and make sure that in primegrid computing preferences, ATI cards is selected

I'll check out milkyway@home until the codebase is updated for primegrid.  Thanks for the tip!

[Imakuni]

9 hours ago, RagnarokDel said:

Primegrid is very good apparently for Nvidia GPUs.

That's GPUGrid, not PrimeGrid.

 

Take, for example, the R9 280x at the n=21 and 22 subprojects: it does things faster than a Gtx 970. But the 970 just crushes the 280x in PPS Sieve.

 

9 hours ago, RagnarokDel said:

As for the reason it doesnt work, go to the project page and make sure that in primegrid computing preferences, ATI cards is selected

Read my post above.

[RagnarokDel]

10 hours ago, Imakuni said:

That's GPUGrid, not PrimeGrid.

 

Take, for example, the R9 280x at the n=21 and 22 subprojects: it does things faster than a Gtx 970. But the 970 just crushes the 280x in PPS Sieve.

 

Read my post above.

not sure why you're answering to me??