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by Bullifreund
Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:08 pm
Forum: Problems with AMD/ATI drivers
Topic: GPU won't start folding
Replies: 5
Views: 2886

Re: GPU won't start folding

The Radeon HD 5850 GPU, introduced Sept 2009, uses the TeraScale 2 instruction set. No more Work Units seem to be available for TeraScale 2 or 3; only the Graphics Core Next instruction set is getting work on AMD GPUs. I do not believe there has been an official announcement that Terascale is EOL, ...
by Bullifreund
Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:02 pm
Forum: Problems with AMD/ATI drivers
Topic: GPU won't start folding
Replies: 5
Views: 2886

Re: GPU won't start folding

ProDigit wrote:hope you're not running on a mac.
An old core 2 duo would only get 2k PPD, so I would think an old c2q would get not more than 6kPPD, not 60k.
You're right. 60k is including a NVidia GTX660. This combination works pretty fine so far. ;-)
Reinhard
by Bullifreund
Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:13 am
Forum: Problems with AMD/ATI drivers
Topic: GPU won't start folding
Replies: 5
Views: 2886

GPU won't start folding

Hello there... There's a problem with starting my GPU folding, that I've had years and years before with different configurations using AMD-GPUs. Somehow I always managed to get the GPU running but now I don't remember how. Maybe you can help. I currently have a Biostar board with a A10-7850 APU - e...