It seems that a lot of GPU problems revolve around specific versions of drivers. Though AMD has their own support structure, you can often learn from information reported by others who fold.
Hi, I'm back again, and have a new GPU. (Sapphire HD7870) I got my HD7770 working previously that I had trouble with, I tried the same steps but haven't had any luck. I read another thread with someone having trouble with a similar GPU. Here is my information:
Device ID: 1002-6818 (From GPU-Z)
From my last thread regarding an HD7770:
One way to get the PCI ID is to run "fahclient --lspci" from the fahclient directory. Then we'll open a support ticket to get that supported hardware on the Whitelist to enable it.
^ how do I do that? Is that from a command prompt?
Hardware configuration: Intel i7-4770K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR3-2133 Corsair Vengence (black/red), EVGA GTX 760 @ 1200 MHz, on an Asus Maximus VI Hero MB (black/red), in a blacked out Antec P280 Tower, with a Xigmatek Night Hawk (black) HSF, Seasonic 760w Platinum (black case, sleeves, wires), 4 SilenX 120mm Case fans with silicon fan gaskets and silicon mounts (all black), a 512GB Samsung SSD (black), and a 2TB Black Western Digital HD (silver/black).
Try putting the GPU.txt file in the Data Directory (Start->All Programs->FAHClient->Data Directory) and then restart the client so it will load the file. If that does not solve the problem then we need to do more detective work.
At that point you need to give us the output of fahclient -lspci regardless of what GPU-Z says the card is.
Run a cmd box (also called a DOS box) by start->search->cmd.exe and run the program (cmd.exe) that comes up and that will get you the DOS box. In the DOS box type fahclient -lspci <enter>. Rt. click the output and choose "select all" followed by a ctrl-c (to copy it) then paste (ctrl-v) what you copied into a post here.
Hardware configuration: Intel i7-4770K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR3-2133 Corsair Vengence (black/red), EVGA GTX 760 @ 1200 MHz, on an Asus Maximus VI Hero MB (black/red), in a blacked out Antec P280 Tower, with a Xigmatek Night Hawk (black) HSF, Seasonic 760w Platinum (black case, sleeves, wires), 4 SilenX 120mm Case fans with silicon fan gaskets and silicon mounts (all black), a 512GB Samsung SSD (black), and a 2TB Black Western Digital HD (silver/black).
I use 12.6. If I have to rollback that far then I guess I just wont fold with the GPU. 12.6 was a major improvement for this cards performance and 12.7 is supposed to be even more of a boost. I'll check back when 12.6 becomes folding friendly I suppose. Thanks for all your help.
Hardware configuration: Intel i7-4770K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR3-2133 Corsair Vengence (black/red), EVGA GTX 760 @ 1200 MHz, on an Asus Maximus VI Hero MB (black/red), in a blacked out Antec P280 Tower, with a Xigmatek Night Hawk (black) HSF, Seasonic 760w Platinum (black case, sleeves, wires), 4 SilenX 120mm Case fans with silicon fan gaskets and silicon mounts (all black), a 512GB Samsung SSD (black), and a 2TB Black Western Digital HD (silver/black).
12.1 was a request to see if it worked better with OpenCL. I know 12.4 had a problem, haven't heard yet if versions newer than 12.4 work any better yet.
Roger that, it's worth a shot. I get about 14K PPD with just the i5 @ 4.3GHz. Was hoping to get up a little more though. Ill post back with my results.
I dont know that 12.1 works with the HD7000 series. I swept all the drivers and installed 12.1 and didn't recognize my card. I'll try a different version.
Are you aware that your GPU will require a full CPU core to work ?
If you manage to make it work, you'll have to reconfigure your SMP slot to use only 3 cores of your i5 if you don't want to see awful performance from both you CPU and your GPU ...
And sometimes, the PPD boost from the GPU is not enough to balance the PPD loss on the CPU ...
Folding@Home beta tester since 2002. Folding Forum moderator since July 2008.
I bought a Sapphire 7750. With the included 12.4 driver and with the 12.6 beta driver, I got lockups. The company RMA'ed and replaced the card. When I got the new one, the 12.6 release driver worked.
Dunno if it was the card or the newer driver. However, from the VERY quick agreement to swap out the card, I have the feeling Sapphire has some hardware issues...
