9070XT and Bad WU

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9070XT and Bad WU

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I appear to be running in to a LOT of failed work units, failing roughly 32%. Digging through logs shows a similar message typically,

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09:47:44:I1:WU44:An exception occurred at step 150343: Particle coordinate is NaN.  For more information, see https://github.com/openmm/openmm/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#nan
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Max number of attempts to resume from last checkpoint (2) reached. Aborting.
09:47:44:I1:WU44:ERROR:114: Max number of attempts to resume from last checkpoint reached.
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Saving result file ..\logfile_01.txt
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Saving result file science.log
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Saving result file state.xml.bz2
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Saving result file xtcAtoms.csv.bz2
09:47:44:I1:WU44:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
09:47:44:E :WU44:Core returned BAD_WORK_UNIT (114)
I'm running two AMD gpu's. One 6700xt in a separate rig, which has yet to fail a unit. Then my 9070xt.. which at 32% failing rate feels like its just wasting power.
Card has never had any stability problems, running stock with an aggressive fan curve. Does not exceed 82C hotspot temp.

Is there anything I can do to improve my odds here?

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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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Those projects will be disabled for 9070xt.
In testing my 9070 on Linux did not see any issues, except with one WU. Probably something in Windows driver is triggering something with those projects
Thanks for the report
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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That was fast, thank you!
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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I cant seem to find new topic to bring this up. but my 9070xt has also been failing basicly everysingle project 5 seconds in. im a complete noob to this, my gpu has labeled itself gfx1201 on Fah client. im currently on linux mint 22.2 zara.
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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ApeAiden wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 2:24 pm I cant seem to find new topic to bring this up. but my 9070xt has also been failing basicly everysingle project 5 seconds in. im a complete noob to this, my gpu has labeled itself gfx1201 on Fah client. im currently on linux mint 22.2 zara.
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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thank you, I guess a restart was all i needed. as of now is there a way to controll how much of my gpu it uses? there used to be a FaH controll app but not anymore from what i can see. it uses 80% of my gpu and instead i would like to have it running in the backround while i do other things like a passive game
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:36 am thank you, I guess a restart was all i needed. as of now is there a way to controll how much of my gpu it uses? there used to be a FaH controll app but not anymore from what i can see. it uses 80% of my gpu and instead i would like to have it running in the backround while i do other things like a passive game
There is not way, and never was a way to control how much GPU you can use with FAH
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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muziqaz wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:27 am
ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:36 am thank you, I guess a restart was all i needed. as of now is there a way to controll how much of my gpu it uses? there used to be a FaH controll app but not anymore from what i can see. it uses 80% of my gpu and instead i would like to have it running in the backround while i do other things like a passive game
There is not way, and never was a way to control how much GPU you can use with FAH
to do that would i have to use something like MSI or other gpu editing stuff to limit it?
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:21 pm
muziqaz wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:27 am
ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:36 am thank you, I guess a restart was all i needed. as of now is there a way to controll how much of my gpu it uses? there used to be a FaH controll app but not anymore from what i can see. it uses 80% of my gpu and instead i would like to have it running in the backround while i do other things like a passive game
There is not way, and never was a way to control how much GPU you can use with FAH
to do that would i have to use something like MSI or other gpu editing stuff to limit it?
With AMD GPUs do not use any 3rd party tools, they will mess up your experience more than solve any issues. AMD has perfectly good Adrenalin driver suite, which comes with every driver, you can fiddle there a little bit to possibly achieve what you want.
In linux, nvidia has nvidia-smi, AMD probably has rocm-smi (they do, but I never used it in greater length)
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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muziqaz wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:10 pm
ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:21 pm
muziqaz wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:27 am

There is not way, and never was a way to control how much GPU you can use with FAH
to do that would i have to use something like MSI or other gpu editing stuff to limit it?
With AMD GPUs do not use any 3rd party tools, they will mess up your experience more than solve any issues. AMD has perfectly good Adrenalin driver suite, which comes with every driver, you can fiddle there a little bit to possibly achieve what you want.
In linux, nvidia has nvidia-smi, AMD probably has rocm-smi (they do, but I never used it in greater length)
Adrenaline App isnt available on linux from what i know, ive found some posts mention they find ways to make a profile for FaH that limits the powerdraw which keeps the intensity low if they dont want Fah to vaccuum everything. is there a way more feasible way i can go about this not using 3rd party tools like lact?
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Re: 9070XT and Bad WU

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ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 2:23 pm
muziqaz wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 1:10 pm
ApeAiden wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:21 pm

to do that would i have to use something like MSI or other gpu editing stuff to limit it?
With AMD GPUs do not use any 3rd party tools, they will mess up your experience more than solve any issues. AMD has perfectly good Adrenalin driver suite, which comes with every driver, you can fiddle there a little bit to possibly achieve what you want.
In linux, nvidia has nvidia-smi, AMD probably has rocm-smi (they do, but I never used it in greater length)
Adrenaline App isnt available on linux from what i know, ive found some posts mention they find ways to make a profile for FaH that limits the powerdraw which keeps the intensity low if they dont want Fah to vaccuum everything. is there a way more feasible way i can go about this not using 3rd party tools like lact?
check rocm-smi. Other than that, there is no way I know about
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